Linode Nanode (1 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I've got brand new instances from Linode and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was running Ubuntu 26.04 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, 08 Jul 2026 02:29:06 GMT
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:30:37 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
7.0.0-22-generic
7.0.0-27-generic
MySQL Version
8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
Redis Version
8.0.5
8.0.5
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
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category
Winner
CPU (events/sec)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB) takes 6 of 6 categories.
CPU
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
GenuineIntel
Model Name
AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,000.00
2,394.45
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
4,000.00
4,788.90
Events per Second
2,995.79
704.30
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.3
1.23
Average Latency (ms)
0.33
1.42
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.68
3.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.34
1.73
Memory
Memory Read
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second
5,138,712.44
3,595,908.88
Mebibytes per second
5,018.27
3,511.63
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.36
0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second
5,126,038.83
3,455,305.83
Mebibytes per second
5,005.90
3,374.32
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.06
4.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Reads per Second
3,144.54
1,878.82
Writes per Second
2,096.29
1,252.51
Fsyncs per Second
6,714.53
4,014.75
Read Mebibytes per Second
49.13
29.36
Written Mebibytes per Second
32.75
19.57
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.08
0.14
Maximum Latency (ms)
40.23
11.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.19
0.4
Mutex
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,726.97
2,084.67
Average Latency (ms)
1,752.52
2,093.52
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,763.59
2,098.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,771.29
2,082.91
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,323.00
4,684.00
Queries per second
73,230.00
46,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.26
1.71
Average Latency (ms)
1.36
2.13
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.63
9.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.58
3.02
MySQL Write-only
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,970.00
3,785.00
Queries per second
49,700.00
37,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.15
1.46
Average Latency (ms)
2.02
2.64
Maximum Latency (ms)
99.24
33.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.19
3.82
MySQL Read/Write
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
3,294.00
2,104.00
Queries per second
32,940.00
21,040.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.51
3.41
Average Latency (ms)
3.03
4.75
Maximum Latency (ms)
24.98
10.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.68
6.91
MySQL INSERT
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
11,632.00
7,970.00
Queries per second
116,320.00
79,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.65
0.8
Average Latency (ms)
0.86
1.25
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.61
22.57
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.14
1.7
MySQL Bulk INSERT
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,201,092.00
734,741.00
Queries per second
12,010,920.00
7,347,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
468.92
700.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
140,938.00
107,531.00
Queries per second
1,409,380.00
1,075,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.07
Average Latency (ms)
0.07
0.09
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.49
1.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.12
0.13
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
6,603.00
3,796.00
Queries per second
66,030.00
37,960.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.52
0.93
Average Latency (ms)
1.51
2.63
Maximum Latency (ms)
9.28
7.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.96
3.82
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,697.00
5,117.00
Queries per second
76,970.00
51,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.49
0.67
Average Latency (ms)
1.3
1.95
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.02
5.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.7
3.19
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
11,465.00
7,164.00
Queries per second
114,650.00
71,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.66
0.82
Average Latency (ms)
0.87
1.39
Maximum Latency (ms)
43.16
28.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.1
2.03
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
11,672.00
7,738.00
Queries per second
116,720.00
77,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.67
0.78
Average Latency (ms)
0.86
1.29
Maximum Latency (ms)
24.29
17.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.1
1.76
MySQL DELETE
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
94,623.00
52,919.00
Queries per second
946,230.00
529,190.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.07
Average Latency (ms)
0.11
0.19
Maximum Latency (ms)
10.28
26.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.19
1.04
Redis
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
38,446.75
28,835.06
PING_MBULK per Second
38,505.97
30,778.70
SET per Second
39,123.63
28,918.45
GET per Second
38,804.81
28,669.72
INCR per Second
39,169.61
30,656.04
LPUSH per Second
39,215.69
30,911.90
RPUSH per Second
39,184.95
26,968.72
LPOP per Second
39,323.63
30,618.49
RPOP per Second
39,093.04
31,123.56
SADD per Second
38,008.36
30,358.23
HSET per Second
40,160.64
29,299.74
SPOP per Second
38,714.67
30,627.87
ZADD per Second
40,064.10
30,358.23
ZPOPMIN per Second
39,169.61
31,367.63
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
25,163.56
22,138.59
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
13,114.75
11,909.01
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
8,311.86
7,708.32
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
7,606.30
7,203.57
MSET (10 keys) per Second
37,821.48
30,312.21
Redis Average Latency (ms)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.78
1.04
PING_MBULK
0.78
0.96
SET
0.79
1.05
GET
0.77
1.05
INCR
0.78
0.98
LPUSH
0.79
0.98
RPUSH
0.79
1.15
LPOP
0.80
1.00
RPOP
0.80
0.98
SADD
0.81
0.99
HSET
0.78
1.03
SPOP
0.78
0.97
ZADD
0.78
1.00
ZPOPMIN
0.77
0.95
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.27
1.44
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
2.28
2.62
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
3.35
3.84
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
3.57
4.05
MSET (10 keys)
0.86
1.07
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The Linode Nanode (1 GB) instance emerges as the overall winner based on benchmark results, especially when it comes to Redis performance metrics and CPU event handling, with Redis rps reaching 40,161 vs Vultr's 31,928 and CPU events per second hitting 2996 vs Vultr's 704. This instance would be best suited for applications requiring robust memory operations and consistent, high-speed processing, such as database management or real-time data processing tasks.
From the friendly human:
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