How much does Linode Nanode (1 GB) cost per month?

Linode Nanode (1 GB) is $5.00/mo and includes 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD of storage, and 1 TB of transfer.

How much does Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $18.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe of storage, and 3 TB of transfer.

What are the specs of Linode Nanode (1 GB)?

Linode Nanode (1 GB) has 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD of storage, and 1 TB of monthly transfer for $5.00/mo.

Linode Nanode 1 GB ($5/mo) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Linode and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Fri, 29 May 2026 15:00:53 GMT	Thu, 28 May 2026 12:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	6.8.0-111-generic	6.8.0-117-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	$18.00
RAM (GB)	1	2
CPU Cores	1	2
Storage (TB)	25	80
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	1	3

CPU

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (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	3,791.97
CPU Cache Size (KB)	512.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	4,599.99	7,583.94
Events per Second	1,022.23	1,620.67
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.61	0.6
Average Latency (ms)	0.98	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.4	2.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.39	0.65

Memory Read

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	5,296,233.64	8,063,058.47
Mebibytes per second	5,172.10	7,874.08
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.05	0.17
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	5,154,651.90	8,051,875.89
Mebibytes per second	5,033.84	7,863.16
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.06	0.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	2,055.76	4,504.72
Writes per Second	1,370.51	3,003.08
Fsyncs per Second	4,389.22	9,619.45
Read Mebibytes per Second	32.12	70.39
Written Mebibytes per Second	21.41	46.92
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.13	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.79	2.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.35	0.19

Mutex

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,633.32	491.88
Average Latency (ms)	1,644.62	531.71
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,653.29	553.44
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,648.20	549.52

MySQL Read-only

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,575.00	10,761.00
Queries per second	75,750.00	107,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.22	0.86
Average Latency (ms)	1.32	0.93
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.67	2.78
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.42	0.99

MySQL Write-only

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,800.00	10,581.00
Queries per second	58,000.00	105,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.15	0.65
Average Latency (ms)	1.72	0.94
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.35	2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.39	1.16

MySQL Read/Write

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,955.00	5,226.00
Queries per second	29,550.00	52,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.64	1.58
Average Latency (ms)	3.38	1.91
Maximum Latency (ms)	22.69	3.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.41	2.18

MySQL INSERT

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,921.00	17,000.00
Queries per second	89,210.00	170,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.65	0.37
Average Latency (ms)	1.12	0.59
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.92	11.6
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.42	0.75

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,288,467.00	2,569,967.00
Queries per second	12,884,670.00	25,699,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	398.24	200.07
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	170,179.00	242,396.00
Queries per second	1,701,790.00	2,423,960.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	7.27	1.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.08	0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,819.00	12,257.00
Queries per second	78,190.00	122,570.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.42	0.29
Average Latency (ms)	1.28	0.82
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.03	3.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.64	1.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,328.00	10,662.00
Queries per second	73,280.00	106,620.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.3	0.37
Average Latency (ms)	1.36	0.94
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.97	3.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.76	1.21

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,603.00	17,977.00
Queries per second	86,030.00	179,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.69	0.39
Average Latency (ms)	1.16	0.56
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.97	1.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.7	0.72

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,719.00	17,717.00
Queries per second	77,190.00	177,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.65	0.37
Average Latency (ms)	1.29	0.56
Maximum Latency (ms)	54.76	11.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.73	0.73

MySQL DELETE

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	80,451.00	160,036.00
Queries per second	804,510.00	1,600,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.12	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	16.14	7.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.42	0.06

Redis

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	44,052.86	90,991.81
PING_MBULK per Second	44,563.28	90,579.71
SET per Second	44,072.28	91,407.68
GET per Second	44,345.89	91,491.30
INCR per Second	42,535.09	91,157.70
LPUSH per Second	41,545.49	92,421.44
RPUSH per Second	37,299.52	90,497.73
LPOP per Second	43,327.55	91,743.12
RPOP per Second	43,103.45	91,407.68
SADD per Second	43,994.72	91,407.68
HSET per Second	43,956.04	93,283.58
SPOP per Second	44,130.62	91,911.76
ZADD per Second	42,390.84	92,678.41
ZPOPMIN per Second	43,159.26	92,506.94
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	28,843.38	69,108.50
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	15,153.81	38,124.29
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	10,595.47	26,824.04
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	9,122.42	24,044.24
MSET (10 keys) per Second	40,112.31	93,984.96

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.78	0.29
PING_MBULK	0.77	0.28
SET	0.78	0.28
GET	0.77	0.28
INCR	0.80	0.28
LPUSH	0.82	0.28
RPUSH	0.90	0.28
LPOP	0.80	0.28
RPOP	0.80	0.28
SADD	0.78	0.28
HSET	0.79	0.28
SPOP	0.77	0.28
ZADD	0.81	0.28
ZPOPMIN	0.79	0.28
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	1.23	0.37
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	2.38	0.67
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	3.44	0.96
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	3.96	1.06
MSET (10 keys)	0.88	0.28

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Linode Nanode (1 GB) instance shows impressive throughput for Redis commands, particularly in high request per second (rps) metrics and low latency, though its performance declines significantly when handling larger data sets for commands like LRANGE. It also has excellent file I/O performance with high throughput rates for both read and write operations. However, its CPU and memory benchmarks, despite strong performance metrics, lack the raw multi-core processing power found in other instances. On the other hand, the Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) instance provides stellar Redis performance with significantly higher rps metrics and lower latencies across a variety of operations, and it handles bulk insert and point select operations with ease. While its file I/O and memory benchmarks also show strong performance, its multi-threading capabilities and overall CPU performance are slightly less impressive than the Linode instance when it comes to multi-threading fairness and lower thread execution times. In summary, the Linode Nanode is ideal for applications requiring high I/O performance and moderate multi-core processing, while the Vultr High Frequency Intel excels in scenarios that demand high concurrency and multi-core processing efficiency.

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Linode Nanode (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)