Linode Nanode (1 GB) vs. UpCloud Balanced (1 GB)

Updated Daily — Last generated on May 21, 2025

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Overview

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked	Wed, 21 May 2025 09:00:24 GMT	Wed, 21 May 2025 09:00:46 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	6.8.0-53-generic	6.8.0-31-generic
MySQL Version	8.0.42-0ubuntu0.24.04.1	8.0.42-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
Redis Version	7.0.15	7.0.15
Location	Newark, NJ	New York, NY
Monthly Price	$5.00	€7.00
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)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vendor	AuthenticAMD	AuthenticAMD
Model Name	AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor	AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,000.00	2,894.56
CPU Cache Size (KB)	512.00	512.00
BogoMips	3,999.99	5,789.12
Events per Second	1,689.37	1,516.75
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.28	0.6
Average Latency (ms)	0.59	0.66
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.21	18.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.07	0.72

Memory

Memory Read

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Operations per second	4,681,060.97	5,125,857.86
Mebibytes per second	4,571.35	5,005.72
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.94	0.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Operations per second	5,286,583.82	5,117,919.14
Mebibytes per second	5,162.68	4,997.97
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.05	0.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Reads per Second	2,727.60	2,126.78
Writes per Second	1,818.40	1,417.85
Fsyncs per Second	5,827.07	4,537.52
Read Mebibytes per Second	42.62	33.23
Written Mebibytes per Second	28.41	22.15
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.1	0.12
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.16	52.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.21	0.37

Mutex

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,733.11	1,745.06
Average Latency (ms)	1,744.86	1,758.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,754.33	1,766.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,739.68	1,771.29

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	6,532.00	5,623.00
Queries per second	65,320.00	56,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.21	1.28
Average Latency (ms)	1.53	1.78
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.91	43.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.89	2.43

MySQL Write-only

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	4,537.00	2,858.00
Queries per second	45,370.00	28,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.21	1.78
Average Latency (ms)	2.2	3.5
Maximum Latency (ms)	14.61	28.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.75	5.99

MySQL Read/Write

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	2,076.00	1,429.00
Queries per second	20,760.00	14,290.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.95	3.58
Average Latency (ms)	4.81	6.99
Maximum Latency (ms)	23.38	108.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	8.13	11.45

MySQL INSERT

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	8,323.00	4,656.00
Queries per second	83,230.00	46,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.65	1
Average Latency (ms)	1.2	2.14
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.22	39.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.67	3.13

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	1,375,842.00	1,084,592.00
Queries per second	13,758,420.00	10,845,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	351.59	517.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	144,325.00	107,819.00
Queries per second	1,443,250.00	1,078,190.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.05
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.09
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.22	27.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.11	0.23

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	1,994.00	141.00
Queries per second	19,940.00	1,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.63	27.86
Average Latency (ms)	5.01	71.23
Maximum Latency (ms)	22.42	305.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	6.91	137.35

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	7,079.00	5,000.00
Queries per second	70,790.00	50,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.35	0.37
Average Latency (ms)	1.41	2
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.22	18.6
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.79	2.57

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	6,116.00	2,931.00
Queries per second	61,160.00	29,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.69	1.37
Average Latency (ms)	1.63	3.41
Maximum Latency (ms)	19.49	1996.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.02	4.49

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	8,115.00	3,825.00
Queries per second	81,150.00	38,250.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.68	1.31
Average Latency (ms)	1.23	2.61
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.99	2036.89
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.73	3.07

MySQL DELETE

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	11,696.00	5,421.00
Queries per second	116,960.00	54,210.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.05
Average Latency (ms)	0.85	1.84
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.76	73.64
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.64	3.19

Redis

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second	44,822.95	30,120.48
PING_MBULK per Second	46,425.25	42,844.90
SET per Second	45,516.61	42,194.09
GET per Second	45,126.35	41,425.02
INCR per Second	44,843.05	42,158.52
LPUSH per Second	45,351.48	33,534.54
RPUSH per Second	45,808.52	41,981.53
LPOP per Second	45,495.91	36,062.03
RPOP per Second	44,642.86	41,305.25
SADD per Second	43,103.45	41,597.34
HSET per Second	44,662.79	42,771.60
SPOP per Second	45,620.44	42,716.79
ZADD per Second	43,478.26	41,407.87
ZPOPMIN per Second	45,850.53	42,808.22
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	30,543.68	27,005.13
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	16,832.18	14,725.37
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	11,832.92	10,192.64
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	10,559.66	8,893.63
MSET (10 keys) per Second	42,301.18	39,138.94

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
PING_INLINE	0.76	0.83
PING_MBULK	0.74	0.80
SET	0.76	0.82
GET	0.77	0.82
INCR	0.78	0.81
LPUSH	0.76	1.00
RPUSH	0.76	0.81
LPOP	0.76	0.97
RPOP	0.78	0.83
SADD	0.79	0.83
HSET	0.77	0.81
SPOP	0.75	0.80
ZADD	0.79	0.83
ZPOPMIN	0.75	0.80
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	1.14	1.31
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	2.06	2.48
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	2.88	3.53
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	3.23	4.05
MSET (10 keys)	0.82	0.90

Conclusion

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