Linode Nanode (1 GB) vs. DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB)
New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Linode to run some benchmarks on. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.
Overview
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:00:52 GMT
Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:00:53 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
6.8.0-71-generic
6.8.0-71-generic
MySQL Version
8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
Redis Version
7.0.15
7.0.15
Location
Newark, NJ
New York, NY
Monthly Price
$5.00
$6.00
RAM (GB)
1
1
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
25
25
Storage Type
SSD
SSD
Transfer (TB)
1
1
CPU
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
GenuineIntel
Model Name
AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
DO-Regular
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,000.00
2,294.61
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
4,096.00
BogoMips
3,999.99
4,589.21
Events per Second
1,620.95
413.49
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.28
0.98
Average Latency (ms)
0.61
2.41
Maximum Latency (ms)
16.58
6.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.97
3.96
Memory
Memory Read
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Operations per second
2,785,205.91
2,931,810.57
Mebibytes per second
2,719.93
2,863.10
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.98
3.41
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Operations per second
5,247,741.79
3,364,154.34
Mebibytes per second
5,124.75
3,285.31
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.41
1.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Reads per Second
2,319.13
1,031.43
Writes per Second
1,546.08
687.62
Fsyncs per Second
4,957.36
2,211.89
Read Mebibytes per Second
36.24
16.12
Written Mebibytes per Second
24.16
10.74
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.11
0.25
Maximum Latency (ms)
8.17
124.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.25
0.64
Mutex
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,349.38
2,085.64
Average Latency (ms)
2,390.79
2,117.30
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,412.13
2,126.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,405.65
2,120.76
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
6,608.00
4,188.00
Queries per second
66,080.00
41,880.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.28
1.34
Average Latency (ms)
1.51
2.38
Maximum Latency (ms)
8.96
13.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.79
2.76
MySQL Write-only
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,539.00
898.00
Queries per second
45,390.00
8,980.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.33
3.87
Average Latency (ms)
2.2
11.12
Maximum Latency (ms)
18.39
199.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.25
22.28
MySQL Read/Write
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,306.00
977.00
Queries per second
23,060.00
9,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.11
6.44
Average Latency (ms)
4.33
10.23
Maximum Latency (ms)
10.82
46.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5.67
15.27
MySQL INSERT
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,556.00
2,413.00
Queries per second
75,560.00
24,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.83
2.28
Average Latency (ms)
1.32
4.14
Maximum Latency (ms)
8.91
161.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.82
6.79
MySQL Bulk INSERT
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,171,967.00
767,507.00
Queries per second
11,719,670.00
7,675,070.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
511.73
701.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
127,249.00
129,998.00
Queries per second
1,272,490.00
1,299,980.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.08
0.08
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.66
2.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.11
0.11
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
8,151.00
2,875.00
Queries per second
81,510.00
28,750.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.39
1.27
Average Latency (ms)
1.22
3.47
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.53
24.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.7
4.74
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
9,239.00
2,894.00
Queries per second
92,390.00
28,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.33
1.12
Average Latency (ms)
1.08
3.45
Maximum Latency (ms)
8.4
12.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.42
4.91
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,280.00
1,665.00
Queries per second
72,800.00
16,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.71
2.62
Average Latency (ms)
1.37
6
Maximum Latency (ms)
23.45
45.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.03
11.65
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,428.00
1,754.00
Queries per second
74,280.00
17,540.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.72
2.21
Average Latency (ms)
1.34
5.7
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.56
163.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.86
11.04
MySQL DELETE
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
54,792.00
15,267.00
Queries per second
547,920.00
152,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.18
0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.29
31.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.14
3.62
Redis
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
28,910.09
29,577.05
PING_MBULK per Second
34,328.87
36,496.35
SET per Second
33,178.50
32,164.68
GET per Second
33,670.04
36,589.83
INCR per Second
34,650.04
36,390.10
LPUSH per Second
32,992.41
35,001.75
RPUSH per Second
32,992.41
32,552.08
LPOP per Second
33,068.79
34,470.87
RPOP per Second
33,388.98
31,575.62
SADD per Second
33,014.20
28,546.96
HSET per Second
33,967.39
29,673.59
SPOP per Second
35,549.23
31,705.77
ZADD per Second
34,071.55
31,585.60
ZPOPMIN per Second
34,364.26
33,255.74
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
20,876.83
13,048.02
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
13,976.24
6,657.35
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
10,399.33
4,256.59
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
8,848.77
3,682.29
MSET (10 keys) per Second
31,240.24
19,047.62
Redis Average Latency (ms)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
1.11
1.10
PING_MBULK
0.97
0.90
SET
0.99
1.03
GET
0.97
0.91
INCR
0.95
0.91
LPUSH
0.99
0.95
RPUSH
0.99
1.01
LPOP
1.00
0.98
RPOP
0.98
1.06
SADD
0.98
1.13
HSET
0.96
1.09
SPOP
0.93
1.03
ZADD
0.96
1.04
ZPOPMIN
0.94
0.98
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.61
2.76
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
2.39
5.26
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
3.26
8.10
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
3.83
9.21
MSET (10 keys)
1.08
2.01
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
After analyzing the benchmarks for both DigitalOcean's Regular (1 GB) instance and Linode's Nanode (1 GB) instance, it is evident that Linode's Nanode outperforms DigitalOcean's Regular in most metrics, particularly in CPU and memory throughput where Nanode demonstrates significantly higher requests per second and lower latencies across Redis commands and MySQL operations. The Linode instance shows superior file I/O performance with lower average latencies and higher throughput rates, which reflects in the lower latencies for Redis LRANGE commands despite lower read and write operations per second compared to DigitalOcean. For developers and sysadmins seeking a balance of cost and performance, DigitalOcean's Regular might suffice for simple tasks, but for more demanding CPU-intensive or I/O-heavy workloads, Linode's Nanode provides a clear advantage due to its higher benchmark scores and better overall performance.
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