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

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Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've got brand new instances from Linode and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:04:32 GMT Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:06:02 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 7.0.0-34-generic 7.0.0-29-generic
MySQL Version 8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1 8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
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)Linode – (2 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Linode – (2 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Linode – (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)Linode – (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Linode – (2 GB)

Linode – (2 GB) takes 5 of 6 categories.

CPU

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Vendor AuthenticAMD GenuineIntel
Model Name AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,000.00 2,593.90
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 4,000.00 5,187.80
Events per Second 1,572.23 811.02
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.3 0.96
Average Latency (ms) 0.63 1.23
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.7 5.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.97 1.61

Memory

Memory Read

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Operations per second 2,659,308.71 2,932,814.92
Mebibytes per second 2,596.98 2,864.08
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.46 2.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Operations per second 2,651,904.83 3,012,810.64
Mebibytes per second 2,589.75 2,942.20
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.92 2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Reads per Second 3,273.88 1,720.67
Writes per Second 2,182.59 1,147.11
Fsyncs per Second 6,992.77 3,681.86
Read Mebibytes per Second 51.15 26.89
Written Mebibytes per Second 34.10 17.92
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.08 0.15
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.08 13.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.2 0.55

Mutex

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,754.20 2,497.94
Average Latency (ms) 2,767.04 2,514.76
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,779.23 2,531.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,778.39 2,539.17

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,511.00 4,434.00
Queries per second 75,110.00 44,340.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.1 1.67
Average Latency (ms) 1.33 2.25
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.29 6.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.22 2.81

MySQL Write-only

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,676.00 3,735.00
Queries per second 76,760.00 37,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.9 1.39
Average Latency (ms) 1.3 2.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 13.19 23.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.76 3.68

MySQL Read/Write

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 3,546.00 1,945.00
Queries per second 35,460.00 19,450.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.25 3.65
Average Latency (ms) 2.82 5.13
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.06 12.99
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.3 6.79

MySQL INSERT

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 11,878.00 7,066.00
Queries per second 118,780.00 70,660.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.57 0.79
Average Latency (ms) 0.84 1.41
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.02 11.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.12 1.96

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,550,592.00 669,209.00
Queries per second 15,505,920.00 6,692,090.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.02
Maximum Latency (ms) 300.1 671.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 164,745.00 122,191.00
Queries per second 1,647,450.00 1,221,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.08
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.61 2.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.08 0.12

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,441.00 2,672.00
Queries per second 74,410.00 26,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.43 1.31
Average Latency (ms) 1.34 3.74
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.76 9.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.79 5.09

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 9,652.00 2,421.00
Queries per second 96,520.00 24,210.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.36 1.47
Average Latency (ms) 1.03 4.13
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.19 8.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.34 5.88

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 11,734.00 6,495.00
Queries per second 117,340.00 64,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.58 0.8
Average Latency (ms) 0.85 1.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 15.77 18.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.16 2.22

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 12,735.00 6,851.00
Queries per second 127,350.00 68,510.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.57 0.75
Average Latency (ms) 0.78 1.46
Maximum Latency (ms) 13.74 14.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.03 2.03

MySQL DELETE

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 104,209.00 45,040.00
Queries per second 1,042,090.00 450,400.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 0.09 0.22
Maximum Latency (ms) 224.18 16.88
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.26 1.34

Redis

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 43,936.73 27,419.80
PING_MBULK per Second 44,622.94 29,069.77
SET per Second 44,130.62 26,476.04
GET per Second 44,306.60 22,988.51
INCR per Second 44,863.16 23,618.33
LPUSH per Second 44,843.05 24,201.36
RPUSH per Second 45,372.05 25,252.53
LPOP per Second 44,444.45 25,568.91
RPOP per Second 44,404.97 25,227.04
SADD per Second 45,682.96 27,472.53
HSET per Second 45,351.48 25,207.96
SPOP per Second 44,583.15 28,320.59
ZADD per Second 44,702.73 26,838.43
ZPOPMIN per Second 43,802.02 27,824.15
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 32,113.04 14,322.54
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 17,768.30 7,071.64
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 12,608.75 4,639.51
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 11,558.02 4,115.40
MSET (10 keys) per Second 42,247.57 23,402.76

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.701.11
PING_MBULK0.681.04
SET0.711.16
GET0.701.32
INCR0.701.28
LPUSH0.711.27
RPUSH0.691.21
LPOP0.721.21
RPOP0.721.23
SADD0.681.12
HSET0.701.22
SPOP0.701.09
ZADD0.711.16
ZPOPMIN0.711.10
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.982.14
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.744.07
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.546.04
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)2.726.75
MSET (10 keys)0.801.58

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Linode's g6-standard-1 instance outperforms Vultr's vc2-1c-2gb in both CPU and memory benchmarks, as seen in the higher Redis operation rates per second (Linode 76,923 vs Vultr 26,476) and MySQL bulk insert transactions per second (Linode 127,606 vs Vultr 64,435). Consequently, Linode's instance is better suited for CPU-intensive or memory-demanding applications, providing a smoother performance profile across a range of benchmarks.

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