New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up brand new instance from Linode and UpCloud to run some benchmarks on. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.
Overview
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:00:52 GMT
Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:00:58 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
6.8.0-111-generic
6.8.0-111-generic
MySQL Version
8.0.46-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
8.0.46-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
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 9575F 64-Core Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,000.00
3,295.46
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
512.00
BogoMips
4,000.00
6,590.91
Events per Second
1,605.64
5,705.40
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.28
0.16
Average Latency (ms)
0.61
0.18
Maximum Latency (ms)
15.02
1.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.86
0.19
Memory
Memory Read
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Operations per second
2,578,716.87
8,056,617.47
Mebibytes per second
2,518.28
7,867.79
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
8.61
0.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Operations per second
5,134,212.89
7,635,465.92
Mebibytes per second
5,013.88
7,456.51
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.28
0.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Reads per Second
2,103.79
4,880.21
Writes per Second
1,402.53
3,253.44
Fsyncs per Second
4,497.88
10,411.32
Read Mebibytes per Second
32.87
76.25
Written Mebibytes per Second
21.91
50.83
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.12
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
9.57
25.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.3
0.19
Mutex
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,611.09
1,094.52
Average Latency (ms)
2,623.26
1,098.99
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,632.60
1,105.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,632.28
1,109.09
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,182.00
27,863.00
Queries per second
71,820.00
278,630.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.22
0.28
Average Latency (ms)
1.39
0.36
Maximum Latency (ms)
8.56
4.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.64
0.5
MySQL Write-only
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
5,215.00
8,234.00
Queries per second
52,150.00
82,340.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.25
0.51
Average Latency (ms)
1.91
1.21
Maximum Latency (ms)
9.94
109.78
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.71
1.7
MySQL Read/Write
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,358.00
5,658.00
Queries per second
23,580.00
56,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.86
1.02
Average Latency (ms)
4.24
1.77
Maximum Latency (ms)
16.4
29.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.91
2.43
MySQL INSERT
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,570.00
10,677.00
Queries per second
75,700.00
106,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.75
0.4
Average Latency (ms)
1.32
0.93
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.85
51.91
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.89
1.32
MySQL Bulk INSERT
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,201,092.00
3,065,346.00
Queries per second
12,010,920.00
30,653,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
577.85
175.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
152,163.00
904,699.00
Queries per second
1,521,630.00
9,046,990.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.01
Average Latency (ms)
0.07
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.75
1.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.09
0.02
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
9,119.00
18,275.00
Queries per second
91,190.00
182,750.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.37
0.16
Average Latency (ms)
1.09
0.55
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.43
4.14
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.44
0.81
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
8,501.00
18,836.00
Queries per second
85,010.00
188,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.35
0.15
Average Latency (ms)
1.17
0.53
Maximum Latency (ms)
8.45
1.6
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.22
0.77
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,551.00
9,429.00
Queries per second
75,510.00
94,290.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.7
0.41
Average Latency (ms)
1.32
1.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
10.76
70.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2
1.52
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,901.00
10,777.00
Queries per second
79,010.00
107,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.7
0.4
Average Latency (ms)
1.26
0.93
Maximum Latency (ms)
10.46
41.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.79
1.37
MySQL DELETE
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
60,656.00
318,714.00
Queries per second
606,560.00
3,187,140.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.01
Average Latency (ms)
0.16
0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.78
74.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.12
0.03
Redis
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
37,467.22
174,216.03
PING_MBULK per Second
37,664.79
171,232.88
SET per Second
37,160.91
170,357.75
GET per Second
37,608.12
179,856.11
INCR per Second
37,271.71
180,180.17
LPUSH per Second
37,037.04
168,634.06
RPUSH per Second
35,997.12
174,216.03
LPOP per Second
35,511.36
171,526.58
RPOP per Second
34,542.32
170,940.17
SADD per Second
36,913.99
166,666.66
HSET per Second
37,230.08
166,666.66
SPOP per Second
37,821.48
168,634.06
ZADD per Second
37,936.27
171,232.88
ZPOPMIN per Second
37,551.63
175,746.92
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
26,910.66
89,206.06
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
15,573.90
42,444.82
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
11,301.99
25,866.53
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
9,987.02
21,070.38
MSET (10 keys) per Second
34,867.50
145,137.88
Redis Average Latency (ms)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.88
0.19
PING_MBULK
0.88
0.19
SET
0.89
0.20
GET
0.87
0.18
INCR
0.87
0.19
LPUSH
0.88
0.20
RPUSH
0.90
0.19
LPOP
0.92
0.20
RPOP
0.94
0.20
SADD
0.88
0.20
HSET
0.88
0.20
SPOP
0.87
0.20
ZADD
0.87
0.20
ZPOPMIN
0.88
0.19
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.25
0.40
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
2.18
0.83
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
2.95
1.38
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
3.39
1.71
MSET (10 keys)
0.96
0.25
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The UpCloud Balanced instance with its higher clock speed AMD EPYC 9575F processor shows superior performance in Redis benchmarks with higher RPS rates and lower latencies, indicating faster processing speeds, especially in set and get operations, whereas the Linode Nanode instance provides more stable latency and fairness across all metrics but falls behind in throughput rates. In CPU benchmarks, UpCloud also outperforms with more events per second and lower latencies, and has better file IO performance with higher throughput and lower average latencies. Memory benchmarks suggest UpCloud excels in both read and write operations with higher operation rates and throughput, while Linode's mutex and thread benchmarks demonstrate more consistent thread fairness and lower max latencies. For users prioritizing higher throughput and lower latency for database operations and file IO, the UpCloud Balanced instance is more suitable, while Linode’s Nanode might be preferable for workloads requiring more predictable thread performance and less maximum latency spikes.
From the friendly human:
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