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

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Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I've got brand new instances from Linode and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. Each instance was running Ubuntu 26.04 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)
Last Benchmarked Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:01:32 GMT Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:09:02 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 $12.00
RAM (GB) 1 2
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 25 64
Storage Type SSD NVMe
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)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Linode – Nanode (1 GB)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) takes 4 of 6 categories.

CPU

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 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 3,792.05
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 4,000.00 7,584.10
Events per Second 1,548.52 1,433.50
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.3 0.67
Average Latency (ms) 0.64 0.7
Maximum Latency (ms) 21.85 3.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.13 0.73

Memory

Memory Read

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 4,152,415.63 6,381,196.95
Mebibytes per second 4,055.09 6,231.64
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.82 0.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 5,085,089.33 7,590,256.83
Mebibytes per second 4,965.91 7,412.36
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.02 0.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second 2,243.85 4,797.61
Writes per Second 1,495.90 3,198.41
Fsyncs per Second 4,795.18 10,240.61
Read Mebibytes per Second 35.06 74.96
Written Mebibytes per Second 23.37 49.98
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.12 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.58 19.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.29 0.15

Mutex

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,091.27 1,120.95
Average Latency (ms) 2,118.60 1,127.36
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,135.24 1,132.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,120.76 1,129.24

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,863.00 10,238.00
Queries per second 58,630.00 102,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.27 0.9
Average Latency (ms) 1.7 0.98
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.4 2.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.14 1.06

MySQL Write-only

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,483.00 12,564.00
Queries per second 54,830.00 125,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.12 0.65
Average Latency (ms) 1.82 0.79
Maximum Latency (ms) 17.77 8.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.3 0.97

MySQL Read/Write

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 2,888.00 5,279.00
Queries per second 28,880.00 52,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.56 1.64
Average Latency (ms) 3.46 1.89
Maximum Latency (ms) 14.47 4.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.25 2.22

MySQL INSERT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 9,681.00 22,126.00
Queries per second 96,810.00 221,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.37
Average Latency (ms) 1.03 0.45
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.33 2.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.39 0.53

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,142,842.00 1,958,342.00
Queries per second 11,428,420.00 19,583,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 503.09 207.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 129,495.00 216,335.00
Queries per second 1,294,950.00 2,163,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.06 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.08 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.67 1.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.11 0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,337.00 8,316.00
Queries per second 63,370.00 83,160.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.41 0.4
Average Latency (ms) 1.58 1.2
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.87 3.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.26 1.55

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,456.00 11,393.00
Queries per second 74,560.00 113,930.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.49 0.24
Average Latency (ms) 1.34 0.88
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.59 2.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.11 1.12

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,797.00 20,610.00
Queries per second 67,970.00 206,100.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.65 0.36
Average Latency (ms) 1.47 0.48
Maximum Latency (ms) 65.69 4.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.3 0.65

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 9,777.00 22,150.00
Queries per second 97,770.00 221,500.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.37
Average Latency (ms) 1.02 0.45
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.79 9.44
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.34 0.54

MySQL DELETE

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 48,437.00 162,113.00
Queries per second 484,370.00 1,621,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.21 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 39.37 4.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.92 0.09

Redis

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 32,669.06 50,327.12
PING_MBULK per Second 33,738.19 52,002.08
SET per Second 15,948.96 52,966.10
GET per Second 31,675.64 53,022.27
INCR per Second 34,387.89 53,219.80
LPUSH per Second 34,650.04 52,273.91
RPUSH per Second 31,705.77 52,056.22
LPOP per Second 32,478.08 51,679.59
RPOP per Second 30,883.26 50,890.59
SADD per Second 33,046.93 49,603.17
HSET per Second 31,357.79 51,466.80
SPOP per Second 30,395.14 53,134.96
ZADD per Second 32,894.74 51,948.05
ZPOPMIN per Second 33,456.00 52,742.62
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 25,271.67 36,832.41
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 12,495.31 22,041.00
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 10,815.49 15,622.56
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 9,273.00 13,980.15
MSET (10 keys) per Second 30,066.15 50,025.02

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.940.61
PING_MBULK0.900.58
SET2.120.59
GET1.000.58
INCR0.900.59
LPUSH0.900.60
RPUSH0.970.60
LPOP0.960.60
RPOP1.010.61
SADD0.930.62
HSET0.990.60
SPOP1.010.58
ZADD0.950.60
ZPOPMIN0.920.59
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.290.85
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.481.48
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.832.02
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)3.282.37
MSET (10 keys)1.090.66

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Based on the benchmark results, the Vultr High Frequency Intel instance with 1 CPU core and 2 GB RAM outperforms the Linode Nanode with the same configuration in most metrics, especially in Redis SET and GET operations with higher requests per second (rps) and lower latencies. While both instances show similar CPU and memory performance, Vultr's CPU core shows slightly better execution times. For use cases favoring CPU-intensive or high I/O operations, Vultr's instance would generally be the better choice due to its higher benchmark scores in critical metrics.

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