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

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Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I spun up fresh instances from Linode and Vultr and did some benchmarking. All instances were running Ubuntu 26.04 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)
Last Benchmarked Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:29:06 GMT Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:36 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 $12.00
RAM (GB) 1 2
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 25 50
Storage Type SSD NVMe
Transfer (TB) 1 3

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Linode – Nanode (1 GB)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) takes 5 of 6 categories.

CPU

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Vendor AuthenticAMD AuthenticAMD
Model Name AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,000.00 2,899.98
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 1,024.00
BogoMips 4,000.00 5,799.96
Events per Second 2,995.79 4,293.15
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.3 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 0.33 0.23
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.68 2.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.34 0.24

Memory

Memory Read

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second 5,138,712.44 7,457,004.06
Mebibytes per second 5,018.27 7,282.23
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.36 2.17
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second 5,126,038.83 7,502,263.36
Mebibytes per second 5,005.90 7,326.43
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.06 0.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Reads per Second 3,144.54 3,916.21
Writes per Second 2,096.29 2,610.81
Fsyncs per Second 6,714.53 8,364.68
Read Mebibytes per Second 49.13 61.19
Written Mebibytes per Second 32.75 40.79
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.08 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 40.23 5.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.19 0.19

Mutex

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,726.97 1,237.81
Average Latency (ms) 1,752.52 1,242.33
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,763.59 1,247.99
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,771.29 1,258.08

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,323.00 14,686.00
Queries per second 73,230.00 146,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.26 0.65
Average Latency (ms) 1.36 0.68
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.63 4.21
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.58 0.72

MySQL Write-only

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,970.00 12,995.00
Queries per second 49,700.00 129,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.15 0.63
Average Latency (ms) 2.02 0.77
Maximum Latency (ms) 99.24 7.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.19 0.89

MySQL Read/Write

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 3,294.00 6,399.00
Queries per second 32,940.00 63,990.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.51 1.38
Average Latency (ms) 3.03 1.56
Maximum Latency (ms) 24.98 12.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.68 1.73

MySQL INSERT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 11,632.00 20,372.00
Queries per second 116,320.00 203,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.65 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 0.86 0.49
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.61 2.44
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.14 0.58

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,201,092.00 2,482,592.00
Queries per second 12,010,920.00 24,825,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 468.92 190.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 140,938.00 387,870.00
Queries per second 1,409,380.00 3,878,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.03
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.49 0.88
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.12 0.03

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,603.00 11,757.00
Queries per second 66,030.00 117,570.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.52 0.24
Average Latency (ms) 1.51 0.85
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.28 3.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.96 1.08

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,697.00 14,693.00
Queries per second 76,970.00 146,930.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.49 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 1.3 0.68
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.02 1.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.7 0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 11,465.00 19,964.00
Queries per second 114,650.00 199,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.66 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 0.87 0.5
Maximum Latency (ms) 43.16 13.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.1 0.59

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 11,672.00 20,341.00
Queries per second 116,720.00 203,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 0.86 0.49
Maximum Latency (ms) 24.29 3.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.1 0.58

MySQL DELETE

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 94,623.00 267,422.00
Queries per second 946,230.00 2,674,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.11 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.28 7.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.19 0.05

Redis

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 38,446.75 48,756.70
PING_MBULK per Second 38,505.97 48,402.71
SET per Second 39,123.63 49,164.21
GET per Second 38,804.81 49,091.80
INCR per Second 39,169.61 49,091.80
LPUSH per Second 39,215.69 48,923.68
RPUSH per Second 39,184.95 48,828.12
LPOP per Second 39,323.63 48,947.62
RPOP per Second 39,093.04 48,804.29
SADD per Second 38,008.36 48,971.59
HSET per Second 40,160.64 49,140.05
SPOP per Second 38,714.67 48,685.49
ZADD per Second 40,064.10 48,661.80
ZPOPMIN per Second 39,169.61 48,875.86
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 25,163.56 38,491.14
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 13,114.75 25,568.91
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 8,311.86 18,345.26
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 7,606.30 16,567.26
MSET (10 keys) per Second 37,821.48 48,426.15

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.780.63
PING_MBULK0.780.62
SET0.790.64
GET0.770.63
INCR0.780.63
LPUSH0.790.63
RPUSH0.790.63
LPOP0.800.64
RPOP0.800.64
SADD0.810.63
HSET0.780.63
SPOP0.780.63
ZADD0.780.64
ZPOPMIN0.770.63
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.270.82
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.281.29
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)3.351.65
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)3.571.90
MSET (10 keys)0.860.69

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB) instance outperforms the Linode Nanode (1 GB) in most benchmarks, particularly in Redis operations where it achieves higher requests per second and lower latency. For example, it delivers 48,756.7 requests per second (rps) in PING_INLINE compared to the Linode's 38,446.75 rps. While Linode's instance has a slight edge in MySQL bulk insert transactions per second (tps) at 119,357.91 compared to Vultr's 247,121.35, Vultr's superior CPU and memory performance, with higher events per second and lower latencies, makes it a better choice for CPU-intensive and memory-demanding tasks, suggesting it's more suitable for applications requiring high performance and lower latency.

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