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

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've got brand new instances from Linode and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:01:32 GMT Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:06:02 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 7.0.0-34-generic 7.0.0-29-generic
MySQL Version 8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1 8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
Redis Version 8.0.5 8.0.5
Location Newark, NJ Newark, NJ
Monthly Price $5.00 $10.00
RAM (GB) 1 2
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 25 50
Storage Type SSD SSD
Transfer (TB) 1 2

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
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 (2 GB)
Vendor AuthenticAMD GenuineIntel
Model Name AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,000.00 2,593.90
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 4,000.00 5,187.80
Events per Second 1,548.52 811.02
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.3 0.96
Average Latency (ms) 0.64 1.23
Maximum Latency (ms) 21.85 5.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.13 1.61

Memory

Memory Read

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Operations per second 4,152,415.63 2,932,814.92
Mebibytes per second 4,055.09 2,864.08
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.82 2.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Operations per second 5,085,089.33 3,012,810.64
Mebibytes per second 4,965.91 2,942.20
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.02 2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Reads per Second 2,243.85 1,720.67
Writes per Second 1,495.90 1,147.11
Fsyncs per Second 4,795.18 3,681.86
Read Mebibytes per Second 35.06 26.89
Written Mebibytes per Second 23.37 17.92
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.12 0.15
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.58 13.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.29 0.55

Mutex

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,091.27 2,497.94
Average Latency (ms) 2,118.60 2,514.76
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,135.24 2,531.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,120.76 2,539.17

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,863.00 4,434.00
Queries per second 58,630.00 44,340.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.27 1.67
Average Latency (ms) 1.7 2.25
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.4 6.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.14 2.81

MySQL Write-only

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,483.00 3,735.00
Queries per second 54,830.00 37,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.12 1.39
Average Latency (ms) 1.82 2.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 17.77 23.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.3 3.68

MySQL Read/Write

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 2,888.00 1,945.00
Queries per second 28,880.00 19,450.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.56 3.65
Average Latency (ms) 3.46 5.13
Maximum Latency (ms) 14.47 12.99
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.25 6.79

MySQL INSERT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 9,681.00 7,066.00
Queries per second 96,810.00 70,660.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.79
Average Latency (ms) 1.03 1.41
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.33 11.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.39 1.96

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,142,842.00 669,209.00
Queries per second 11,428,420.00 6,692,090.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.02
Maximum Latency (ms) 503.09 671.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 129,495.00 122,191.00
Queries per second 1,294,950.00 1,221,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.06 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 0.08 0.08
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.67 2.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.11 0.12

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,337.00 2,672.00
Queries per second 63,370.00 26,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.41 1.31
Average Latency (ms) 1.58 3.74
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.87 9.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.26 5.09

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,456.00 2,421.00
Queries per second 74,560.00 24,210.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.49 1.47
Average Latency (ms) 1.34 4.13
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.59 8.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.11 5.88

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,797.00 6,495.00
Queries per second 67,970.00 64,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.65 0.8
Average Latency (ms) 1.47 1.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 65.69 18.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.3 2.22

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 9,777.00 6,851.00
Queries per second 97,770.00 68,510.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.75
Average Latency (ms) 1.02 1.46
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.79 14.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.34 2.03

MySQL DELETE

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 48,437.00 45,040.00
Queries per second 484,370.00 450,400.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 0.21 0.22
Maximum Latency (ms) 39.37 16.88
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.92 1.34

Redis

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 32,669.06 27,419.80
PING_MBULK per Second 33,738.19 29,069.77
SET per Second 15,948.96 26,476.04
GET per Second 31,675.64 22,988.51
INCR per Second 34,387.89 23,618.33
LPUSH per Second 34,650.04 24,201.36
RPUSH per Second 31,705.77 25,252.53
LPOP per Second 32,478.08 25,568.91
RPOP per Second 30,883.26 25,227.04
SADD per Second 33,046.93 27,472.53
HSET per Second 31,357.79 25,207.96
SPOP per Second 30,395.14 28,320.59
ZADD per Second 32,894.74 26,838.43
ZPOPMIN per Second 33,456.00 27,824.15
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 25,271.67 14,322.54
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 12,495.31 7,071.64
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 10,815.49 4,639.51
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 9,273.00 4,115.40
MSET (10 keys) per Second 30,066.15 23,402.76

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.941.11
PING_MBULK0.901.04
SET2.121.16
GET1.001.32
INCR0.901.28
LPUSH0.901.27
RPUSH0.971.21
LPOP0.961.21
RPOP1.011.23
SADD0.931.12
HSET0.991.22
SPOP1.011.09
ZADD0.951.16
ZPOPMIN0.921.10
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.292.14
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.484.07
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.836.04
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)3.286.75
MSET (10 keys)1.091.58

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Linode's Nanode (1 GB) instance outperforms Vultr's Cloud Compute (2 GB) instance in overall performance, particularly in Redis benchmarks where the Nanode sustains significantly higher requests per second (rps) for various operations like LRANGE_100 with 44782.8 rps compared to Vultr's 14322.54 rps, and in CPU and MySQL benchmarks where Nanode shows better throughput and lower latency. For budget-conscious users requiring high CPU and memory performance, the Nanode is the better choice.

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