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

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Same showdown, different day. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Linode and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:00:52 GMT Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 6.8.0-71-generic 6.8.0-107-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 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 7713 64-Core Processor Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,000.00 2,400.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 3,999.99 4,799.99
Events per Second 1,620.95 820.77
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.28 1
Average Latency (ms) 0.61 1.22
Maximum Latency (ms) 16.58 3.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.97 1.32

Memory

Memory Read

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second 2,785,205.91 4,183,460.82
Mebibytes per second 2,719.93 4,085.41
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.98 0.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second 5,247,741.79 4,091,149.16
Mebibytes per second 5,124.75 3,995.26
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.41 0.91
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Reads per Second 2,319.13 2,036.96
Writes per Second 1,546.08 1,357.97
Fsyncs per Second 4,957.36 4,346.01
Read Mebibytes per Second 36.24 31.83
Written Mebibytes per Second 24.16 21.22
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.11 0.13
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.17 4.89
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.25 0.3

Mutex

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,349.38 1,927.10
Average Latency (ms) 2,390.79 1,939.45
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,412.13 1,950.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,405.65 1,938.16

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,608.00 5,023.00
Queries per second 66,080.00 50,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.28 1.72
Average Latency (ms) 1.51 1.99
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.96 6.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.79 2.18

MySQL Write-only

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 4,539.00 3,626.00
Queries per second 45,390.00 36,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.33 1.75
Average Latency (ms) 2.2 2.76
Maximum Latency (ms) 18.39 26.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.25 4.41

MySQL Read/Write

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,306.00 1,959.00
Queries per second 23,060.00 19,590.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.11 4.12
Average Latency (ms) 4.33 5.1
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.82 10.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.67 6.21

MySQL INSERT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,556.00 6,524.00
Queries per second 75,560.00 65,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.83 1.08
Average Latency (ms) 1.32 1.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.91 15.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.82 2.03

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,171,967.00 996,869.00
Queries per second 11,719,670.00 9,968,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 511.73 477.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 127,249.00 104,020.00
Queries per second 1,272,490.00 1,040,200.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.07
Average Latency (ms) 0.08 0.1
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.66 2.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.11 0.14

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 8,151.00 5,526.00
Queries per second 81,510.00 55,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.39 0.63
Average Latency (ms) 1.22 1.81
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.53 6.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.7 2.35

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 9,239.00 6,273.00
Queries per second 92,390.00 62,730.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.33 0.5
Average Latency (ms) 1.08 1.59
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.4 3.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.42 2.07

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,280.00 6,371.00
Queries per second 72,800.00 63,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.71 1.03
Average Latency (ms) 1.37 1.57
Maximum Latency (ms) 23.45 7.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.03 2.14

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,428.00 6,541.00
Queries per second 74,280.00 65,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.72 0.91
Average Latency (ms) 1.34 1.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.56 24.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.86 1.96

MySQL DELETE

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 54,792.00 43,573.00
Queries per second 547,920.00 435,730.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.07
Average Latency (ms) 0.18 0.23
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.29 7.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.14 1.42

Redis

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 28,910.09 35,050.82
PING_MBULK per Second 34,328.87 33,534.54
SET per Second 33,178.50 36,010.08
GET per Second 33,670.04 35,149.38
INCR per Second 34,650.04 36,523.01
LPUSH per Second 32,992.41 37,369.21
RPUSH per Second 32,992.41 38,774.72
LPOP per Second 33,068.79 36,982.25
RPOP per Second 33,388.98 36,724.20
SADD per Second 33,014.20 36,563.07
HSET per Second 33,967.39 32,701.11
SPOP per Second 35,549.23 36,205.65
ZADD per Second 34,071.55 37,467.22
ZPOPMIN per Second 34,364.26 37,495.31
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 20,876.83 24,801.59
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 13,976.24 13,208.29
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 10,399.33 9,684.29
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 8,848.77 7,718.43
MSET (10 keys) per Second 31,240.24 33,602.15

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE1.110.93
PING_MBULK0.970.96
SET0.990.91
GET0.970.92
INCR0.950.90
LPUSH0.990.88
RPUSH0.990.85
LPOP1.000.89
RPOP0.980.90
SADD0.980.89
HSET0.961.01
SPOP0.930.89
ZADD0.960.88
ZPOPMIN0.940.87
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.611.35
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.392.57
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)3.263.54
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)3.834.41
MSET (10 keys)1.081.02

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Linode Nanode instance and the Vultr Cloud Compute instance both offer 1 CPU core and 1 GB of RAM, but their benchmark results vary significantly across different metrics. The Vultr instance generally outperforms the Linode instance in terms of Redis operations, achieving higher requests per second with lower average latencies across most commands. The Vultr instance also demonstrates superior file I/O performance with higher throughput and lower latencies. However, the Linode instance has more competitive results in MySQL OLTP operations and slightly better memory read/write latencies and operations. Given these benchmarks, the Vultr instance is better suited for workloads that benefit from high I/O performance and Redis operations, while the Linode instance might be more appropriate for workloads where MySQL performance and lower memory latencies are priorities.

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