VPS Leaderboard
Best CPU
Ranked by sysbench CPU throughput (events per second, single-threaded). Higher is faster.
| # | Instance | events/sec | $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) | 5,281 events/sec | $7 |
| 🥈 | UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB) | 4,736 events/sec | $13 |
| 🥉 | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | 4,290 events/sec | $12 |
| 4 | Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) | 4,234 events/sec | $6 |
| 5 | DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | 2,014 events/sec | $8 |
| 6 | Linode – Nanode (1 GB) | 1,479 events/sec | $5 |
| 7 | Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) | 1,429 events/sec | $12 |
| 8 | Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) | 1,419 events/sec | $6 |
| 9 | DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | 1,324 events/sec | $7 |
| 10 | Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) | 1,085 events/sec | $6 |
| 11 | Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB) | 1,000 events/sec | $12 |
| 12 | Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) | 929 events/sec | $10 |
| 13 | DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) | 816 events/sec | $6 |
| 14 | Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) | 763 events/sec | $5 |
| 15 | Linode – Linode (2 GB) | 738 events/sec | $12 |
| 16 | DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) | 726 events/sec | $14 |
| 17 | DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) | 599 events/sec | $16 |
| 18 | DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) | 337 events/sec | $12 |
Every instance runs the same benchmark suite on the same OS — numbers are from the latest monthly run. How we test →