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Linode Linode (2 GB) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB)

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Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I spun up fresh instances from Linode and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created 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)
Last Benchmarked Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:32:06 GMT Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:36:36 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 $12.00
RAM (GB) 2 2
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 50 64
Storage Type SSD NVMe
Transfer (TB) 2 2

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

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

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) takes 6 of 6 categories.

CPU

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (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 3,792.05
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 3,999.99 7,584.10
Events per Second 1,405.31 1,466.74
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.3 0.67
Average Latency (ms) 0.71 0.68
Maximum Latency (ms) 29.07 3.3
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.43 0.72

Memory

Memory Read

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 1,801,279.78 7,681,495.84
Mebibytes per second 1,759.06 7,501.46
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 33.18 0.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 2,032,533.72 7,602,534.50
Mebibytes per second 1,984.90 7,424.35
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.09 0.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second 1,746.86 4,496.60
Writes per Second 1,164.57 2,997.70
Fsyncs per Second 3,731.74 9,593.60
Read Mebibytes per Second 27.29 70.26
Written Mebibytes per Second 18.20 46.84
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.15 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.78 2.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.35 0.18

Mutex

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,445.00 1,184.90
Average Latency (ms) 2,468.58 1,190.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,493.44 1,196.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,493.86 1,191.92

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,764.00 9,469.00
Queries per second 47,640.00 94,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.44 0.89
Average Latency (ms) 2.1 1.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.79 5.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.57 2.03

MySQL Write-only

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,157.00 10,900.00
Queries per second 41,570.00 109,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.43 0.63
Average Latency (ms) 2.4 0.92
Maximum Latency (ms) 15.8 8.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.19 1.18

MySQL Read/Write

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,872.00 4,779.00
Queries per second 18,720.00 47,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.41 1.69
Average Latency (ms) 5.34 2.09
Maximum Latency (ms) 22.82 7.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 7.04 2.52

MySQL INSERT

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,268.00 19,198.00
Queries per second 62,680.00 191,980.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.94 0.37
Average Latency (ms) 1.59 0.52
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.65 4.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.14 0.65

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 636,443.00 2,016,592.00
Queries per second 6,364,430.00 20,165,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.02 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 796.96 230.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 97,280.00 218,879.00
Queries per second 972,800.00 2,188,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.06 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.1 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.79 2
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.14 0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,406.00 7,852.00
Queries per second 44,060.00 78,520.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 2.27 1.27
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.03 3.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.3 1.7

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,651.00 11,560.00
Queries per second 56,510.00 115,600.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.57 0.29
Average Latency (ms) 1.77 0.86
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.22 3.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.52 1.12

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 3,320.00 18,734.00
Queries per second 33,200.00 187,340.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.89 0.38
Average Latency (ms) 3.01 0.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 35.11 4.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 9.39 0.72

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,391.00 18,579.00
Queries per second 73,910.00 185,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.84 0.37
Average Latency (ms) 1.35 0.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.35 12.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.89 0.69

MySQL DELETE

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 39,858.00 154,977.00
Queries per second 398,580.00 1,549,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.06 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.25 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.4 4.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.47 0.09

Redis

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 18,789.93 54,734.54
PING_MBULK per Second 23,607.18 53,475.94
SET per Second 22,988.51 54,288.82
GET per Second 25,387.15 54,914.88
INCR per Second 24,073.18 55,401.66
LPUSH per Second 24,313.15 53,792.36
RPUSH per Second 24,912.80 54,525.63
LPOP per Second 25,859.84 53,078.56
RPOP per Second 24,654.83 52,631.58
SADD per Second 27,027.03 54,436.58
HSET per Second 25,419.42 53,619.30
SPOP per Second 26,082.42 54,734.54
ZADD per Second 24,931.44 52,659.29
ZPOPMIN per Second 23,963.58 53,561.86
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 18,135.65 36,845.98
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 8,966.20 22,696.32
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 5,910.17 15,885.62
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 5,628.10 13,700.51
MSET (10 keys) per Second 23,877.74 50,968.40

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE1.630.56
PING_MBULK1.270.57
SET1.340.57
GET1.200.56
INCR1.270.56
LPUSH1.270.58
RPUSH1.240.57
LPOP1.200.59
RPOP1.250.59
SADD1.130.57
HSET1.210.58
SPOP1.160.56
ZADD1.240.59
ZPOPMIN1.260.57
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.670.84
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)3.161.44
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)4.672.04
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)4.852.35
MSET (10 keys)1.370.64

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB) instance outperforms the Linode (2 GB) in overall benchmark results, notably in Redis benchmarks with higher requests per second and lower latencies. For instance, the Redis SET command achieves 54,288.82 requests per second on Vultr versus 22,988.51 on Linode. The Vultr instance also excels in MySQL bulk inserts, reaching 199,596.07 transactions per second compared to Linode's 61,293.28. Therefore, Vultr is better suited for CPU-intensive and memory-bound tasks requiring high throughput and low latency.

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