Linode Nanode (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Same showdown, different day. Today I spun up fresh instances from Linode and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Time to see who showed up today.
Overview
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:29:06 GMT
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:21 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
25
Storage Type
SSD
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
1
2
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category
Winner
CPU (events/sec)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) takes 4 of 6 categories.
CPU
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
GenuineIntel
Model Name
AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,000.00
2,893.20
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
4,000.00
5,786.40
Events per Second
2,995.79
1,049.60
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.3
0.9
Average Latency (ms)
0.33
0.95
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.68
4.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.34
1.12
Memory
Memory Read
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second
5,138,712.44
5,247,794.58
Mebibytes per second
5,018.27
5,124.80
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.36
2.07
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second
5,126,038.83
5,230,407.37
Mebibytes per second
5,005.90
5,107.82
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.06
1.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Reads per Second
3,144.54
4,064.54
Writes per Second
2,096.29
2,709.66
Fsyncs per Second
6,714.53
8,672.51
Read Mebibytes per Second
49.13
63.51
Written Mebibytes per Second
32.75
42.34
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.08
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
40.23
6.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.19
0.19
Mutex
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,726.97
1,611.76
Average Latency (ms)
1,752.52
1,623.75
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,763.59
1,635.20
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,771.29
1,648.20
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,323.00
8,324.00
Queries per second
73,230.00
83,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.26
1.06
Average Latency (ms)
1.36
1.2
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.63
5.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.58
1.5
MySQL Write-only
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,970.00
9,781.00
Queries per second
49,700.00
97,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.15
0.77
Average Latency (ms)
2.02
1.02
Maximum Latency (ms)
99.24
10.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.19
1.39
MySQL Read/Write
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
3,294.00
4,006.00
Queries per second
32,940.00
40,060.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.51
2.02
Average Latency (ms)
3.03
2.49
Maximum Latency (ms)
24.98
8.48
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.68
3.13
MySQL INSERT
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
11,632.00
17,670.00
Queries per second
116,320.00
176,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.65
0.42
Average Latency (ms)
0.86
0.56
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.61
8.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.14
0.72
MySQL Bulk INSERT
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,201,092.00
1,317,592.00
Queries per second
12,010,920.00
13,175,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
468.92
320.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
140,938.00
214,470.00
Queries per second
1,409,380.00
2,144,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.07
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.49
3.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.12
0.07
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
6,603.00
5,913.00
Queries per second
66,030.00
59,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.52
0.53
Average Latency (ms)
1.51
1.69
Maximum Latency (ms)
9.28
6.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.96
2.22
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,697.00
8,048.00
Queries per second
76,970.00
80,480.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.49
0.5
Average Latency (ms)
1.3
1.24
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.02
3.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.7
1.7
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
11,465.00
17,291.00
Queries per second
114,650.00
172,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.66
0.44
Average Latency (ms)
0.87
0.58
Maximum Latency (ms)
43.16
7.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.1
0.75
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
11,672.00
18,069.00
Queries per second
116,720.00
180,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.67
0.41
Average Latency (ms)
0.86
0.55
Maximum Latency (ms)
24.29
5.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.1
0.7
MySQL DELETE
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
94,623.00
154,947.00
Queries per second
946,230.00
1,549,470.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.11
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
10.28
9.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.19
0.11
Redis
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
38,446.75
45,766.59
PING_MBULK per Second
38,505.97
44,424.70
SET per Second
39,123.63
45,045.04
GET per Second
38,804.81
45,065.34
INCR per Second
39,169.61
46,663.56
LPUSH per Second
39,215.69
44,603.03
RPUSH per Second
39,184.95
46,146.75
LPOP per Second
39,323.63
44,903.46
RPOP per Second
39,093.04
44,523.60
SADD per Second
38,008.36
45,392.64
HSET per Second
40,160.64
46,468.40
SPOP per Second
38,714.67
47,036.69
ZADD per Second
40,064.10
45,682.96
ZPOPMIN per Second
39,169.61
45,871.56
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
25,163.56
31,387.32
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
13,114.75
17,470.30
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
8,311.86
12,192.15
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
7,606.30
10,672.36
MSET (10 keys) per Second
37,821.48
44,503.79
Redis Average Latency (ms)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.78
0.67
PING_MBULK
0.78
0.67
SET
0.79
0.68
GET
0.77
0.68
INCR
0.78
0.66
LPUSH
0.79
0.69
RPUSH
0.79
0.67
LPOP
0.80
0.69
RPOP
0.80
0.70
SADD
0.81
0.68
HSET
0.78
0.67
SPOP
0.78
0.65
ZADD
0.78
0.68
ZPOPMIN
0.77
0.67
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.27
0.99
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
2.28
1.78
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
3.35
2.68
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
3.57
2.99
MSET (10 keys)
0.86
0.75
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The Vultr High Performance Intel (1 GB) instance outpaces the Linode Nanode (1 GB) in most benchmarks, notably excelling in Redis operations with higher requests per second (rps) and lower latencies. The Vultr instance also outperforms in CPU benchmarks, showing higher events per second and better thread fairness. For workloads that demand high throughput and low latency, such as Redis-heavy applications, the Vultr instance provides superior performance at a slightly higher price point.
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