Linode Nanode (1 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)

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Same showdown, different day. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Linode and Vultr and did some benchmarking. All instances were running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked Mon, 11 May 2026 08:00:52 GMT Mon, 11 May 2026 04:00:52 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 8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
Redis Version 7.0.15 7.0.15
Location Newark, NJ Newark, NJ
Monthly Price $5.00 $15.00
RAM (GB) 1 2
CPU Cores 1 2
Storage (TB) 25 65
Storage Type SSD SSD
Transfer (TB) 1 3

CPU

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor AuthenticAMD GenuineIntel
Model Name AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core Processor Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,300.00 3,792.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 4,599.99 7,583.99
Events per Second 775.25 1,481.60
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.6 0.63
Average Latency (ms) 1.27 0.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 13.19 1.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.43 0.77

Memory

Memory Read

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 4,816,011.71 6,401,389.08
Mebibytes per second 4,703.14 6,251.36
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.65 0.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 5,028,052.52 6,411,085.35
Mebibytes per second 4,910.21 6,260.83
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.65 0.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second 1,745.08 4,345.71
Writes per Second 1,163.32 2,897.07
Fsyncs per Second 3,734.14 9,273.19
Read Mebibytes per Second 27.27 67.90
Written Mebibytes per Second 18.18 45.27
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.15 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 111.66 2.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.42 0.17

Mutex

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,765.15 214.63
Average Latency (ms) 1,776.48 569.72
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,784.54 636.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,771.29 634.66

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 6,475.00 8,015.00
Queries per second 64,750.00 80,150.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.35 0.92
Average Latency (ms) 1.54 1.25
Maximum Latency (ms) 16.82 5.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.89 1.86

MySQL Write-only

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 4,612.00 8,497.00
Queries per second 46,120.00 84,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.31 0.76
Average Latency (ms) 2.17 1.17
Maximum Latency (ms) 25.08 3.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.25 1.55

MySQL Read/Write

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 2,257.00 3,726.00
Queries per second 22,570.00 37,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.94 1.78
Average Latency (ms) 4.43 2.68
Maximum Latency (ms) 284.62 5.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.57 3.43

MySQL INSERT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 8,257.00 15,028.00
Queries per second 82,570.00 150,280.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.68 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 1.21 0.66
Maximum Latency (ms) 18.06 2.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.64 0.86

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 996,869.00 1,696,217.00
Queries per second 9,968,690.00 16,962,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 636.05 283.37
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 131,656.00 201,989.00
Queries per second 1,316,560.00 2,019,890.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.08 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 16.69 0.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.11 0.07

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 6,583.00 8,025.00
Queries per second 65,830.00 80,250.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.58 0.35
Average Latency (ms) 1.52 1.24
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.35 3.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.14 2.07

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 6,958.00 8,336.00
Queries per second 69,580.00 83,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.52 0.4
Average Latency (ms) 1.44 1.2
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.88 4.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.96 2.22

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 7,379.00 13,858.00
Queries per second 73,790.00 138,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.72 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 1.35 0.72
Maximum Latency (ms) 54.41 6.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.03 0.95

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 7,578.00 14,587.00
Queries per second 75,780.00 145,870.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.73 0.4
Average Latency (ms) 1.32 0.68
Maximum Latency (ms) 163.64 11.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.86 0.9

MySQL DELETE

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 56,096.00 129,013.00
Queries per second 560,960.00 1,290,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.18 0.08
Maximum Latency (ms) 15.75 2.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.1 0.09

Redis

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second 38,037.28 78,247.26
PING_MBULK per Second 39,077.77 74,738.41
SET per Second 38,520.80 77,041.60
GET per Second 39,888.31 83,333.33
INCR per Second 35,663.34 80,971.66
LPUSH per Second 37,878.79 79,113.92
RPUSH per Second 38,446.75 77,160.49
LPOP per Second 38,138.82 81,499.59
RPOP per Second 38,314.18 82,440.23
SADD per Second 39,047.25 80,192.46
HSET per Second 37,664.79 83,612.04
SPOP per Second 39,169.61 85,034.02
ZADD per Second 38,328.86 83,263.95
ZPOPMIN per Second 38,284.84 82,987.55
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 25,886.62 55,555.56
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 14,273.48 28,851.70
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 10,143.02 19,391.12
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 8,834.70 17,211.71
MSET (10 keys) per Second 37,009.62 80,256.82

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE0.900.34
PING_MBULK0.860.35
SET0.880.34
GET0.840.32
INCR0.960.32
LPUSH0.900.34
RPUSH0.890.34
LPOP0.900.32
RPOP0.890.32
SADD0.860.32
HSET0.880.31
SPOP0.850.30
ZADD0.880.31
ZPOPMIN0.890.31
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.340.54
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.541.11
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)3.551.62
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)4.071.84
MSET (10 keys)0.950.38

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

After analyzing the benchmark performance, the Vultr Cloud Compute instance shows higher overall throughput and better latency for most Redis operations, indicating it can handle higher request rates with lower average and peak latencies compared to the Linode Nanode instance. The Vultr instance also boasts superior CPU performance, with higher events per second and lower average latency, and provides better file I/O performance, with higher read and write throughput. However, the Linode instance shows better thread fairness and lower thread latencies. For CPU-intensive, I/O-heavy workloads, or applications that require high concurrency and throughput, the Vultr Cloud Compute instance is more suitable due to its better overall performance metrics. Meanwhile, the Linode Nanode instance might be more appropriate for less demanding tasks where lower cost and simpler setup are prioritized.

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