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Linode Linode (2 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB)

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've got brand new instances from Linode and Vultr and did some benchmarking. Each instance was spun up with 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 – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:32:06 GMT Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:33:36 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 $12.00 $10.00
RAM (GB) 2 2
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 50 50
Storage Type SSD SSD
Transfer (TB) 2 2

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) takes 6 of 6 categories.

CPU

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (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 3,791.94
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 3,999.99 7,583.88
Events per Second 1,405.31 1,435.42
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.3 0.67
Average Latency (ms) 0.71 0.7
Maximum Latency (ms) 29.07 4.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.43 0.74

Memory

Memory Read

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Operations per second 1,801,279.78 7,568,455.18
Mebibytes per second 1,759.06 7,391.07
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 33.18 0.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Operations per second 2,032,533.72 7,598,419.58
Mebibytes per second 1,984.90 7,420.33
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.09 0.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Reads per Second 1,746.86 4,001.75
Writes per Second 1,164.57 2,667.80
Fsyncs per Second 3,731.74 8,546.24
Read Mebibytes per Second 27.29 62.53
Written Mebibytes per Second 18.20 41.68
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.15 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.78 24.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.35 0.2

Mutex

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,445.00 1,145.72
Average Latency (ms) 2,468.58 1,154.58
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,493.44 1,160.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,493.86 1,170.65

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,764.00 9,706.00
Queries per second 47,640.00 97,060.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.44 0.91
Average Latency (ms) 2.1 1.03
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.79 2.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.57 1.18

MySQL Write-only

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,157.00 7,666.00
Queries per second 41,570.00 76,660.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.43 0.67
Average Latency (ms) 2.4 1.3
Maximum Latency (ms) 15.8 158.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.19 1.42

MySQL Read/Write

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,872.00 3,938.00
Queries per second 18,720.00 39,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.41 1.82
Average Latency (ms) 5.34 2.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 22.82 51.37
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 7.04 3.13

MySQL INSERT

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,268.00 18,012.00
Queries per second 62,680.00 180,120.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.94 0.39
Average Latency (ms) 1.59 0.55
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.65 44.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.14 0.73

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 636,443.00 1,870,967.00
Queries per second 6,364,430.00 18,709,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.02 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 796.96 225.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 97,280.00 213,062.00
Queries per second 972,800.00 2,130,620.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.06 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.1 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.79 1.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.14 0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,406.00 7,351.00
Queries per second 44,060.00 73,510.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 2.27 1.36
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.03 5.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.3 2.14

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,651.00 9,954.00
Queries per second 56,510.00 99,540.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.57 0.27
Average Latency (ms) 1.77 1
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.22 4.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.52 1.58

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 3,320.00 16,749.00
Queries per second 33,200.00 167,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.89 0.38
Average Latency (ms) 3.01 0.6
Maximum Latency (ms) 35.11 83.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 9.39 0.8

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,391.00 17,638.00
Queries per second 73,910.00 176,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.84 0.38
Average Latency (ms) 1.35 0.57
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.35 77.2
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.89 0.75

MySQL DELETE

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 39,858.00 145,888.00
Queries per second 398,580.00 1,458,880.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.06 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.25 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.4 4.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.47 0.1

Redis

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 18,789.93 50,838.84
PING_MBULK per Second 23,607.18 50,761.42
SET per Second 22,988.51 52,192.07
GET per Second 25,387.15 52,383.45
INCR per Second 24,073.18 52,938.06
LPUSH per Second 24,313.15 51,813.47
RPUSH per Second 24,912.80 51,572.98
LPOP per Second 25,859.84 50,968.40
RPOP per Second 24,654.83 50,479.56
SADD per Second 27,027.03 51,308.36
HSET per Second 25,419.42 49,925.11
SPOP per Second 26,082.42 50,890.59
ZADD per Second 24,931.44 50,505.05
ZPOPMIN per Second 23,963.58 50,968.40
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 18,135.65 34,399.72
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 8,966.20 20,016.01
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 5,910.17 14,332.81
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 5,628.10 12,966.80
MSET (10 keys) per Second 23,877.74 49,603.17

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
PING_INLINE1.630.61
PING_MBULK1.270.60
SET1.340.59
GET1.200.59
INCR1.270.59
LPUSH1.270.60
RPUSH1.240.60
LPOP1.200.61
RPOP1.250.61
SADD1.130.60
HSET1.210.62
SPOP1.160.60
ZADD1.240.61
ZPOPMIN1.260.60
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.670.91
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)3.161.61
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)4.672.25
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)4.852.52
MSET (10 keys)1.370.67

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Vultr Cloud Compute instance outperforms the Linode (2 GB) in almost all benchmarks, particularly in Redis benchmarks where it achieves significantly higher requests per second with lower latency, such as 50,838.84 RPS with 0.605 ms average latency compared to Linode's 18,789.93 RPS with 1.625 ms average latency. For CPU operations, Vultr also leads with 1,435.42 events per second versus Linode's 1,405.31, though both show low latencies. Vultr excels in throughput metrics, particularly in memory operations with 7,568,455 operations per second for reads and 7,598,419 for writes. For use-cases, Vultr is better suited for CPU and memory-intensive tasks due to its higher performance in these benchmarks.

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