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.

How much does Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $18.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe of storage, and 3 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 ($12/mo) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Linode and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 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 – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:00:52 GMT	Sun, 31 May 2026 13:00:55 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	6.8.0-111-generic	6.8.0-117-generic
MySQL Version	8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1	8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
Redis Version	7.0.15	7.0.15
Location	Newark, NJ	Newark, NJ
Monthly Price	$12.00	$18.00
RAM (GB)	2	2
CPU Cores	1	2
Storage (TB)	50	80
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	2	3

CPU

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	AuthenticAMD	GenuineIntel
Model Name	AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,000.00	3,791.98
CPU Cache Size (KB)	512.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	4,000.00	7,583.95
Events per Second	1,678.52	1,552.05
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.28	0.62
Average Latency (ms)	0.59	0.64
Maximum Latency (ms)	9.24	4.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.81	0.69

Memory Read

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	2,645,654.09	7,875,668.83
Mebibytes per second	2,583.65	7,691.08
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.1	0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	2,626,766.86	7,729,812.11
Mebibytes per second	2,565.20	7,548.64
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.15	0.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	2,287.26	4,671.85
Writes per Second	1,524.77	3,114.56
Fsyncs per Second	4,881.82	9,976.90
Read Mebibytes per Second	35.74	73.00
Written Mebibytes per Second	23.82	48.67
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.11	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.87	2.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.34	0.17

Mutex

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,654.99	543.27
Average Latency (ms)	1,663.47	554.74
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,670.46	563.70
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,678.14	559.50

MySQL Read-only

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,825.00	10,621.00
Queries per second	78,250.00	106,210.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.14	0.86
Average Latency (ms)	1.28	0.94
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.27	2.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.5	1.03

MySQL Write-only

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,536.00	10,229.00
Queries per second	55,360.00	102,290.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.14	0.64
Average Latency (ms)	1.8	0.98
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.57	2.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.39	1.23

MySQL Read/Write

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,901.00	5,072.00
Queries per second	29,010.00	50,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.49	1.59
Average Latency (ms)	3.44	1.97
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.33	3.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.25	2.39

MySQL INSERT

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,340.00	16,038.00
Queries per second	83,400.00	160,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.67	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	1.2	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.42	13.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.55	0.8

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,434,092.00	2,424,342.00
Queries per second	14,340,920.00	24,243,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	351.06	205.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	174,599.00	241,313.00
Queries per second	1,745,990.00	2,413,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.6	0.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.07	0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	9,155.00	12,080.00
Queries per second	91,550.00	120,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.36	0.21
Average Latency (ms)	1.09	0.83
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.69	3.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.44	1.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,799.00	10,527.00
Queries per second	87,990.00	105,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.3	0.16
Average Latency (ms)	1.13	0.95
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.2	3.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.26	1.23

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	6,915.00	17,123.00
Queries per second	69,150.00	171,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.69	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	1.44	0.58
Maximum Latency (ms)	38.35	2
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.14	0.78

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,030.00	16,979.00
Queries per second	80,300.00	169,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.68	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	1.24	0.59
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.88	4.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.64	0.8

MySQL DELETE

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	75,134.00	156,424.00
Queries per second	751,340.00	1,564,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.13	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.6	4.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.77	0.07

Redis

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	37,369.21	88,652.48
PING_MBULK per Second	37,921.88	89,605.73
SET per Second	37,936.27	90,171.33
GET per Second	37,693.18	90,579.71
INCR per Second	37,523.45	90,744.10
LPUSH per Second	37,921.88	90,497.73
RPUSH per Second	36,075.04	90,415.91
LPOP per Second	37,285.61	90,909.09
RPOP per Second	37,993.92	90,661.83
SADD per Second	37,664.79	90,252.70
HSET per Second	37,565.74	90,415.91
SPOP per Second	38,182.51	89,928.05
ZADD per Second	37,750.09	90,415.91
ZPOPMIN per Second	37,299.52	90,009.01
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	26,048.45	66,533.60
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	15,156.11	36,179.45
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	10,071.51	26,239.83
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	9,412.65	22,547.91
MSET (10 keys) per Second	34,317.09	88,105.73

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Linode – (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.87	0.30
PING_MBULK	0.86	0.29
SET	0.87	0.29
GET	0.87	0.29
INCR	0.88	0.28
LPUSH	0.88	0.29
RPUSH	0.94	0.29
LPOP	0.90	0.28
RPOP	0.89	0.28
SADD	0.89	0.29
HSET	0.90	0.29
SPOP	0.88	0.29
ZADD	0.89	0.29
ZPOPMIN	0.90	0.29
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	1.30	0.39
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	2.19	0.71
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	3.30	0.97
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	3.57	1.14
MSET (10 keys)	0.98	0.30

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Upon analyzing the provided benchmark results for both Linode and Vultr instances, it is clear that Vultr's High Frequency Intel configuration outperforms Linode's AMD EPYC instance, particularly in terms of raw throughput for Redis operations, with higher requests per second and lower average latencies observed in most benchmarks. This suggests that for workloads that heavily rely on fast data access and manipulation, such as caching or real-time data processing, the Vultr instance would be more suitable. However, Linode offers slightly better file I/O performance and more consistent thread fairness in its benchmarks, indicating it might be preferred for applications requiring robust file operations or that benefit from high I/O throughput. Additionally, Linode's lower cost per month for a similar configuration could make it a more economical choice for budget-conscious users. Thus, the best choice between these instances depends on the specific performance needs, with Vultr excelling in high-throughput data processing tasks and Linode providing a more balanced performance and cost-effectiveness for a range of general-purpose workloads.

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