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Linode Nanode (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance Intel (1 GB)

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Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I spun up fresh instances from Linode and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:01:32 GMT Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:12:47 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 7.0.0-22-generic 7.0.0-28-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.

CategoryWinner
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)Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Linode – Nanode (1 GB)

Evenly matched across 6 categories.

CPU

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Vendor AuthenticAMD GenuineIntel
Model Name AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core Processor Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,300.00 2,992.91
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 4,600.00 5,985.82
Events per Second 1,479.09 1,085.49
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.65 0.87
Average Latency (ms) 0.68 0.92
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.07 1.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.69 1.04

Memory

Memory Read

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second 5,162,780.30 5,287,233.83
Mebibytes per second 5,041.78 5,163.31
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.07 0.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second 5,347,459.67 5,446,064.29
Mebibytes per second 5,222.13 5,318.42
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.26 0.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Reads per Second 2,518.00 3,945.14
Writes per Second 1,678.67 2,630.10
Fsyncs per Second 5,375.23 8,418.81
Read Mebibytes per Second 39.34 61.64
Written Mebibytes per Second 26.23 41.10
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.1 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 14.25 2.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.35 0.2

Mutex

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,639.75 1,674.69
Average Latency (ms) 1,650.21 1,689.62
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,660.37 1,697.70
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,648.20 1,708.63

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 9,017.00 9,332.00
Queries per second 90,170.00 93,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.02 0.93
Average Latency (ms) 1.11 1.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.75 15.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.27 1.32

MySQL Write-only

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 8,101.00 11,031.00
Queries per second 81,010.00 110,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.87 0.69
Average Latency (ms) 1.23 0.9
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.04 11.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.64 1.23

MySQL Read/Write

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,971.00 4,749.00
Queries per second 39,710.00 47,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.98 1.79
Average Latency (ms) 2.52 2.1
Maximum Latency (ms) 17.34 7.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.07 2.57

MySQL INSERT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 12,157.00 18,923.00
Queries per second 121,570.00 189,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.58 0.39
Average Latency (ms) 0.82 0.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 13.14 10.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.12 0.68

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,346,717.00 1,375,842.00
Queries per second 13,467,170.00 13,758,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 454.87 345.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 211,595.00 263,886.00
Queries per second 2,115,950.00 2,638,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.28 2.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.06 0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,687.00 6,167.00
Queries per second 66,870.00 61,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.46 0.53
Average Latency (ms) 1.49 1.62
Maximum Latency (ms) 5 6.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.93 2.11

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,633.00 8,650.00
Queries per second 76,330.00 86,500.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.46 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 1.31 1.15
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.52 3.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.73 1.52

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 12,921.00 18,825.00
Queries per second 129,210.00 188,250.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.6 0.4
Average Latency (ms) 0.77 0.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.21 5.88
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.99 0.69

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 11,621.00 19,241.00
Queries per second 116,210.00 192,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.59 0.39
Average Latency (ms) 0.86 0.52
Maximum Latency (ms) 70.33 4.64
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.3 0.65

MySQL DELETE

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 137,539.00 200,203.00
Queries per second 1,375,390.00 2,002,030.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.83 3.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.1 0.08

Redis

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 85,324.23 70,472.16
PING_MBULK per Second 72,150.07 75,187.97
SET per Second 83,682.01 73,909.83
GET per Second 86,430.43 69,156.30
INCR per Second 85,984.52 59,952.04
LPUSH per Second 85,324.23 52,576.24
RPUSH per Second 85,543.20 68,634.18
LPOP per Second 85,034.02 59,171.59
RPOP per Second 84,961.77 53,219.80
SADD per Second 85,763.29 67,430.88
HSET per Second 84,961.77 63,734.86
SPOP per Second 85,984.52 43,859.65
ZADD per Second 85,106.38 43,365.13
ZPOPMIN per Second 86,580.09 49,285.36
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 44,782.80 36,982.25
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 21,213.41 19,992.00
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 14,192.45 12,827.09
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 11,773.02 10,901.56
MSET (10 keys) per Second 72,046.11 64,350.06

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Linode – Nanode (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.370.45
PING_MBULK0.430.42
SET0.390.44
GET0.370.46
INCR0.370.53
LPUSH0.380.61
RPUSH0.380.47
LPOP0.380.55
RPOP0.380.62
SADD0.370.47
HSET0.380.51
SPOP0.370.72
ZADD0.380.75
ZPOPMIN0.370.64
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.800.90
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.611.61
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.492.58
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)2.962.88
MSET (10 keys)0.570.61

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Linode's Nanode outperforms Vultr's High Performance Intel in both Redis benchmarks and MySQL operations. Linode's instance achieves significantly higher requests per second (rps) and lower latencies across various Redis commands, with notable results such as 85,324.23 rps for PING_INLINE and 132,294.72 tps for MySQL bulk inserts. These superior performance metrics make Linode's instance ideal for CPU-heavy and I/O-intensive tasks, whereas Vultr's offers slightly better throughput but lags in overall responsiveness and transactional speed.

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