Linode Nanode (1 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB)

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Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Linode and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:00:52 GMT Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:00:51 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 6.8.0-71-generic 6.8.0-79-generic
MySQL Version 8.0.43-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 8.0.43-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
Redis Version 7.0.15 7.0.15
Location Newark, NJ Newark, NJ
Monthly Price $5.00 $5.00
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) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vendor AuthenticAMD GenuineIntel
Model Name AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core Processor Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,200.00 2,394.45
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 4,399.99 4,788.90
Events per Second 626.39 615.53
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.88
Average Latency (ms) 1.6 1.62
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.53 5.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.25 2.61

Memory

Memory Read

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second 1,992,468.11 3,650,861.12
Mebibytes per second 1,945.77 3,565.29
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.79 0.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second 2,048,078.98 3,964,071.36
Mebibytes per second 2,000.08 3,871.16
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.36 0.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Reads per Second 1,569.23 1,335.03
Writes per Second 1,046.16 890.02
Fsyncs per Second 3,352.99 2,849.25
Read Mebibytes per Second 24.52 20.86
Written Mebibytes per Second 16.35 13.91
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0.01
Average Latency (ms) 0.17 0.2
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.62 12
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.4 0.51

Mutex

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,118.43 2,016.43
Average Latency (ms) 2,136.64 2,026.59
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,147.24 2,036.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,159.29 2,045.74

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 4,513.00 4,681.00
Queries per second 45,130.00 46,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.69 1.57
Average Latency (ms) 2.21 2.13
Maximum Latency (ms) 14.39 22.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.48 3.75

MySQL Write-only

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,583.00 2,680.00
Queries per second 35,830.00 26,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.87 1.66
Average Latency (ms) 2.79 3.73
Maximum Latency (ms) 27.89 34.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.03 6.67

MySQL Read/Write

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,726.00 1,752.00
Queries per second 17,260.00 17,520.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 4.55 4.22
Average Latency (ms) 5.8 5.71
Maximum Latency (ms) 20.42 16.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 7.04 8.28

MySQL INSERT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,224.00 4,351.00
Queries per second 62,240.00 43,510.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.13 1.34
Average Latency (ms) 1.6 2.29
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.35 26.21
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.03 3.36

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 734,741.00 865,805.00
Queries per second 7,347,410.00 8,658,050.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 693.48 955.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 96,019.00 105,481.00
Queries per second 960,190.00 1,054,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.07 0.06
Average Latency (ms) 0.1 0.09
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.17 9.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.14 0.16

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,082.00 3,665.00
Queries per second 50,820.00 36,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.71 0.5
Average Latency (ms) 1.97 2.73
Maximum Latency (ms) 13.24 13.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.61 5

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,444.00 5,236.00
Queries per second 54,440.00 52,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.49 0.72
Average Latency (ms) 1.84 1.91
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.22 10.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.57 2.76

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,363.00 4,511.00
Queries per second 53,630.00 45,110.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.08 1.26
Average Latency (ms) 1.86 2.21
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.65 14.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.86 3.55

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,025.00 5,148.00
Queries per second 60,250.00 51,480.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.23 1.25
Average Latency (ms) 1.66 1.94
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.39 19.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.22 2.81

MySQL DELETE

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 32,847.00 19,636.00
Queries per second 328,470.00 196,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.07 0.08
Average Latency (ms) 0.3 0.51
Maximum Latency (ms) 13.38 33.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.64 2.48

Redis

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 31,162.36 34,270.05
PING_MBULK per Second 32,414.91 34,638.03
SET per Second 32,488.63 35,211.27
GET per Second 31,979.53 34,977.27
INCR per Second 32,082.13 34,965.04
LPUSH per Second 31,847.13 36,443.15
RPUSH per Second 32,195.75 33,898.30
LPOP per Second 31,959.09 35,855.14
RPOP per Second 31,426.78 34,831.07
SADD per Second 32,030.75 35,829.45
HSET per Second 31,585.60 34,977.27
SPOP per Second 32,123.36 34,423.41
ZADD per Second 31,347.96 35,174.11
ZPOPMIN per Second 32,061.56 35,410.77
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 19,459.04 23,364.48
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 10,030.09 12,325.90
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 6,825.94 8,369.60
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 5,909.47 7,555.15
MSET (10 keys) per Second 29,931.16 33,123.55

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE1.050.96
PING_MBULK1.000.92
SET1.020.93
GET1.020.94
INCR1.020.92
LPUSH1.030.92
RPUSH1.020.95
LPOP1.040.93
RPOP1.050.93
SADD1.020.92
HSET1.040.93
SPOP1.010.94
ZADD1.050.93
ZPOPMIN1.010.92
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.701.43
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)3.222.77
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)4.674.07
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)5.254.48
MSET (10 keys)1.161.03

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

After analyzing the benchmark results for both Linode's Nanode (1 GB) and Vultr's Cloud Compute (1 GB), it's clear that Vultr's instance outperforms Linode's in most metrics, particularly in Redis operations where it achieves higher requests per second and lower latencies across various commands. Vultr's CPU also shows better performance with slightly higher BogoMIPS and a more substantial cache. However, Linode's instance excels in handling file I/O operations, with higher throughput and lower latency. For workloads that prioritize high Redis performance and CPU efficiency, Vultr's Cloud Compute (1 GB) is the better choice, while Linode's Nanode (1 GB) is more suitable for tasks that demand superior file I/O performance.

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