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Linode Nanode (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel (1 GB)

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Same showdown, different day. Today I've got brand new instances from Linode and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. All instances were running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:29:06 GMT Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:35:06 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 $6.00
RAM (GB) 1 1
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 25 32
Storage Type SSD NVMe
Transfer (TB) 1 1

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Linode – Nanode (1 GB)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) takes 4 of 6 categories.

CPU

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vendor AuthenticAMD GenuineIntel
Model Name AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,000.00 3,791.97
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 4,000.00 7,583.94
Events per Second 2,995.79 1,438.92
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.3 0.65
Average Latency (ms) 0.33 0.69
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.68 4.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.34 0.75

Memory

Memory Read

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second 5,138,712.44 7,522,138.15
Mebibytes per second 5,018.27 7,345.84
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.36 0.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second 5,126,038.83 7,678,825.83
Mebibytes per second 5,005.90 7,498.85
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.06 0.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Reads per Second 3,144.54 4,258.17
Writes per Second 2,096.29 2,838.78
Fsyncs per Second 6,714.53 9,093.60
Read Mebibytes per Second 49.13 66.53
Written Mebibytes per Second 32.75 44.36
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.08 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 40.23 9.54
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.19 0.19

Mutex

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,726.97 1,111.88
Average Latency (ms) 1,752.52 1,119.47
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,763.59 1,123.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,771.29 1,129.24

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,323.00 10,279.00
Queries per second 73,230.00 102,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.26 0.9
Average Latency (ms) 1.36 0.97
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.63 11.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.58 1.06

MySQL Write-only

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 4,970.00 10,923.00
Queries per second 49,700.00 109,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.15 0.66
Average Latency (ms) 2.02 0.91
Maximum Latency (ms) 99.24 14.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.19 1.18

MySQL Read/Write

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,294.00 4,879.00
Queries per second 32,940.00 48,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.51 1.72
Average Latency (ms) 3.03 2.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 24.98 8.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.68 2.35

MySQL INSERT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 11,632.00 18,630.00
Queries per second 116,320.00 186,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.65 0.37
Average Latency (ms) 0.86 0.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.61 14.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.14 0.69

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,201,092.00 1,900,092.00
Queries per second 12,010,920.00 19,000,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 468.92 218.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 140,938.00 216,614.00
Queries per second 1,409,380.00 2,166,140.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.49 4.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.12 0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,603.00 8,497.00
Queries per second 66,030.00 84,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.52 0.29
Average Latency (ms) 1.51 1.18
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.28 3.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.96 1.5

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,697.00 11,456.00
Queries per second 76,970.00 114,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.49 0.3
Average Latency (ms) 1.3 0.87
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.02 3.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.7 1.12

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 11,465.00 18,358.00
Queries per second 114,650.00 183,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.66 0.37
Average Latency (ms) 0.87 0.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 43.16 7.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.1 0.72

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 11,672.00 18,692.00
Queries per second 116,720.00 186,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.37
Average Latency (ms) 0.86 0.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 24.29 9.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.1 0.69

MySQL DELETE

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 94,623.00 158,377.00
Queries per second 946,230.00 1,583,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.11 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.28 4.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.19 0.09

Redis

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 38,446.75 54,259.36
PING_MBULK per Second 38,505.97 53,504.55
SET per Second 39,123.63 54,854.64
GET per Second 38,804.81 54,288.82
INCR per Second 39,169.61 54,704.60
LPUSH per Second 39,215.69 53,050.40
RPUSH per Second 39,184.95 53,908.36
LPOP per Second 39,323.63 53,333.33
RPOP per Second 39,093.04 52,521.01
SADD per Second 38,008.36 52,994.17
HSET per Second 40,160.64 52,410.90
SPOP per Second 38,714.67 50,761.42
ZADD per Second 40,064.10 47,528.52
ZPOPMIN per Second 39,169.61 50,075.11
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 25,163.56 32,992.41
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 13,114.75 21,404.11
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 8,311.86 15,762.93
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 7,606.30 13,661.20
MSET (10 keys) per Second 37,821.48 51,519.84

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.780.56
PING_MBULK0.780.56
SET0.790.56
GET0.770.57
INCR0.780.56
LPUSH0.790.58
RPUSH0.790.57
LPOP0.800.58
RPOP0.800.59
SADD0.810.58
HSET0.780.59
SPOP0.780.60
ZADD0.780.65
ZPOPMIN0.770.61
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.270.96
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.281.52
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)3.352.06
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)3.572.40
MSET (10 keys)0.860.64

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Vultr High Frequency Intel instance outperforms the Linode Nanode in most benchmarks, especially in Redis operations with significantly higher requests per second (rps) and lower latencies. The Vultr instance shows a clear edge in Redis GET rps at 54288.82 compared to Linode's 38804.81, making it more suitable for applications requiring high throughput and low latency. For CPU-heavy tasks and general use cases where higher performance is critical, the Vultr instance is the better choice due to its superior benchmarks.

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