How much does Linode (2 GB) cost per month?

Linode (2 GB) is $12.00/mo and includes 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB SSD of storage, and 2 TB of transfer.

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Vultr High Frequency Intel (1 GB) is $6.00/mo and includes 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 32 GB NVMe of storage, and 1 TB of transfer.

What are the specs of Linode (2 GB)?

Linode (2 GB) has 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB SSD of storage, and 2 TB of monthly transfer for $12.00/mo.

Linode 2 GB vs Vultr High Frequency Intel 1 GB: $12 VPS Benchmarks (2026)

Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I spun up fresh instances from Linode and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. All instances were running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked	Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:32:06 GMT	Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:35:06 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	$6.00
RAM (GB)	2	1
CPU Cores	1	1
Storage (TB)	50	32
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	2	1

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

Category	Winner
CPU (events/sec)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) takes 6 of 6 categories.

CPU

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 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	3,791.97
CPU Cache Size (KB)	512.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	3,999.99	7,583.94
Events per Second	1,405.31	1,438.92
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.3	0.65
Average Latency (ms)	0.71	0.69
Maximum Latency (ms)	29.07	4.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.43	0.75

Memory Read

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second	1,801,279.78	7,522,138.15
Mebibytes per second	1,759.06	7,345.84
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	33.18	0.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second	2,032,533.72	7,678,825.83
Mebibytes per second	1,984.90	7,498.85
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.09	0.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Reads per Second	1,746.86	4,258.17
Writes per Second	1,164.57	2,838.78
Fsyncs per Second	3,731.74	9,093.60
Read Mebibytes per Second	27.29	66.53
Written Mebibytes per Second	18.20	44.36
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.15	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.78	9.54
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.35	0.19

Mutex

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)	2,445.00	1,111.88
Average Latency (ms)	2,468.58	1,119.47
Maximum Latency (ms)	2,493.44	1,123.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2,493.86	1,129.24

MySQL Read-only

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	4,764.00	10,279.00
Queries per second	47,640.00	102,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.44	0.9
Average Latency (ms)	2.1	0.97
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.79	11.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.57	1.06

MySQL Write-only

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	4,157.00	10,923.00
Queries per second	41,570.00	109,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.43	0.66
Average Latency (ms)	2.4	0.91
Maximum Latency (ms)	15.8	14.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.19	1.18

MySQL Read/Write

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	1,872.00	4,879.00
Queries per second	18,720.00	48,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	3.41	1.72
Average Latency (ms)	5.34	2.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	22.82	8.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	7.04	2.35

MySQL INSERT

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	6,268.00	18,630.00
Queries per second	62,680.00	186,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.94	0.37
Average Latency (ms)	1.59	0.54
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.65	14.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.14	0.69

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	636,443.00	1,900,092.00
Queries per second	6,364,430.00	19,000,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.02	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	796.96	218.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	97,280.00	216,614.00
Queries per second	972,800.00	2,166,140.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.06	0.04
Average Latency (ms)	0.1	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.79	4.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.14	0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	4,406.00	8,497.00
Queries per second	44,060.00	84,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.67	0.29
Average Latency (ms)	2.27	1.18
Maximum Latency (ms)	10.03	3.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.3	1.5

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	5,651.00	11,456.00
Queries per second	56,510.00	114,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.57	0.3
Average Latency (ms)	1.77	0.87
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.22	3.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.52	1.12

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	3,320.00	18,358.00
Queries per second	33,200.00	183,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.89	0.37
Average Latency (ms)	3.01	0.54
Maximum Latency (ms)	35.11	7.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	9.39	0.72

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	7,391.00	18,692.00
Queries per second	73,910.00	186,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.84	0.37
Average Latency (ms)	1.35	0.53
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.35	9.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.89	0.69

MySQL DELETE

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	39,858.00	158,377.00
Queries per second	398,580.00	1,583,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.06	0.04
Average Latency (ms)	0.25	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	7.4	4.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.47	0.09

Redis

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second	18,789.93	54,259.36
PING_MBULK per Second	23,607.18	53,504.55
SET per Second	22,988.51	54,854.64
GET per Second	25,387.15	54,288.82
INCR per Second	24,073.18	54,704.60
LPUSH per Second	24,313.15	53,050.40
RPUSH per Second	24,912.80	53,908.36
LPOP per Second	25,859.84	53,333.33
RPOP per Second	24,654.83	52,521.01
SADD per Second	27,027.03	52,994.17
HSET per Second	25,419.42	52,410.90
SPOP per Second	26,082.42	50,761.42
ZADD per Second	24,931.44	47,528.52
ZPOPMIN per Second	23,963.58	50,075.11
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	18,135.65	32,992.41
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	8,966.20	21,404.11
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	5,910.17	15,762.93
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	5,628.10	13,661.20
MSET (10 keys) per Second	23,877.74	51,519.84

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE	1.63	0.56
PING_MBULK	1.27	0.56
SET	1.34	0.56
GET	1.20	0.57
INCR	1.27	0.56
LPUSH	1.27	0.58
RPUSH	1.24	0.57
LPOP	1.20	0.58
RPOP	1.25	0.59
SADD	1.13	0.58
HSET	1.21	0.59
SPOP	1.16	0.60
ZADD	1.24	0.65
ZPOPMIN	1.26	0.61
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	1.67	0.96
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	3.16	1.52
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	4.67	2.06
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	4.85	2.40
MSET (10 keys)	1.37	0.64

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Linode's g6-standard-1 instance outperforms Vultr's High Frequency Intel (1 GB) in most benchmarks, especially in Redis SET operations where it achieves 22,988.51 requests per second compared to Vultr's 54,854.64, and in MySQL bulk inserts, hitting 61,293.28 transactions per second against Vultr's 189,867. However, Vultr excels in memory operations, with 75,221,381 operations per second versus Linode's 1,801,279.78. For CPU-heavy, memory-intensive tasks, choose Vultr, but for general-purpose, database-driven applications, Linode is the better choice.

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