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 Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $18.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB NVMe of storage, and 4 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 Performance AMD 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I've spun up brand new instance from Linode and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. All instances were spun up with 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 – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Fri, 29 May 2026 15:00:53 GMT	Wed, 27 May 2026 23:00:52 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	60
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	1	4

CPU

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	AuthenticAMD	AuthenticAMD
Model Name	AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core Processor	AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,300.00	2,900.01
CPU Cache Size (KB)	512.00	1,024.00
BogoMips	4,599.99	5,800.01
Events per Second	1,022.23	4,531.75
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.61	0.2
Average Latency (ms)	0.98	0.22
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.4	4.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.39	0.23

Memory Read

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	5,296,233.64	7,526,193.99
Mebibytes per second	5,172.10	7,349.80
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.05	0.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	5,154,651.90	7,515,933.99
Mebibytes per second	5,033.84	7,339.78
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.06	0.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	2,055.76	5,073.38
Writes per Second	1,370.51	3,382.26
Fsyncs per Second	4,389.22	10,832.31
Read Mebibytes per Second	32.12	79.27
Written Mebibytes per Second	21.41	52.85
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.13	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.79	3.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.35	0.12

Mutex

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,633.32	635.59
Average Latency (ms)	1,644.62	650.26
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,653.29	664.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,648.20	669.89

MySQL Read-only

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,575.00	9,857.00
Queries per second	75,750.00	98,570.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.22	0.73
Average Latency (ms)	1.32	1.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.67	1.9
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.42	1.08

MySQL Write-only

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,800.00	9,491.00
Queries per second	58,000.00	94,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.15	0.69
Average Latency (ms)	1.72	1.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.35	2.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.39	1.37

MySQL Read/Write

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,955.00	4,708.00
Queries per second	29,550.00	47,080.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.64	1.6
Average Latency (ms)	3.38	2.12
Maximum Latency (ms)	22.69	11.21
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.41	2.52

MySQL INSERT

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,921.00	15,807.00
Queries per second	89,210.00	158,070.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.65	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	1.12	0.63
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.92	2.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.42	0.77

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,288,467.00	3,006,842.00
Queries per second	12,884,670.00	30,068,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	398.24	198
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	170,179.00	221,059.00
Queries per second	1,701,790.00	2,210,590.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	7.27	0.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.08	0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,819.00	14,575.00
Queries per second	78,190.00	145,750.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.42	0.24
Average Latency (ms)	1.28	0.69
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.03	2.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.64	0.87

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,328.00	14,201.00
Queries per second	73,280.00	142,010.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.3	0.24
Average Latency (ms)	1.36	0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.97	1.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.76	0.9

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,603.00	14,732.00
Queries per second	86,030.00	147,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.69	0.47
Average Latency (ms)	1.16	0.68
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.97	12.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.7	0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,719.00	15,620.00
Queries per second	77,190.00	156,200.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.65	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	1.29	0.64
Maximum Latency (ms)	54.76	1.9
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.73	0.81

MySQL DELETE

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	80,451.00	151,102.00
Queries per second	804,510.00	1,511,020.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.12	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	16.14	1.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.42	0.09

Redis

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	44,052.86	55,959.71
PING_MBULK per Second	44,563.28	58,411.21
SET per Second	44,072.28	58,072.01
GET per Second	44,345.89	58,479.53
INCR per Second	42,535.09	58,241.12
LPUSH per Second	41,545.49	56,689.34
RPUSH per Second	37,299.52	58,241.12
LPOP per Second	43,327.55	58,207.21
RPOP per Second	43,103.45	57,471.27
SADD per Second	43,994.72	57,803.47
HSET per Second	43,956.04	57,703.40
SPOP per Second	44,130.62	58,038.30
ZADD per Second	42,390.84	58,241.12
ZPOPMIN per Second	43,159.26	57,903.88
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	28,843.38	50,301.81
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	15,153.81	33,863.87
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	10,595.47	26,041.67
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	9,122.42	23,820.87
MSET (10 keys) per Second	40,112.31	58,207.21

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Linode – Nanode (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.78	0.48
PING_MBULK	0.77	0.44
SET	0.78	0.44
GET	0.77	0.44
INCR	0.80	0.44
LPUSH	0.82	0.45
RPUSH	0.90	0.44
LPOP	0.80	0.44
RPOP	0.80	0.45
SADD	0.78	0.45
HSET	0.79	0.45
SPOP	0.77	0.44
ZADD	0.81	0.44
ZPOPMIN	0.79	0.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	1.23	0.52
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	2.38	0.76
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	3.44	0.98
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	3.96	1.07
MSET (10 keys)	0.88	0.44

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Upon comparing the benchmark performance of the Linode Nanode (1 GB) and Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores), it's clear that the Vultr instance offers significantly better performance in most metrics due to its higher CPU power, more RAM, and NVMe storage. The Vultr instance shows higher RPS rates for Redis operations, better CPU event handling, faster file I/O operations, and higher throughput for memory operations, indicating superior overall performance. For users requiring a balance of cost and performance with limited CPU demands, the Linode Nanode can be adequate, but for those needing higher CPU power, RAM, and I/O performance for more demanding applications like high-traffic web services or database workloads, the Vultr High Performance AMD is the better choice.

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Linode Nanode (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)