Linode Linode (2 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (1 GB)
New day, new benchmarks. Today I've got brand new instances from Linode and Vultr and did some benchmarking. All instances were 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 – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:04:32 GMT
Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:10:32 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
$6.00
RAM (GB)
2
1
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
50
25
Storage Type
SSD
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
2
2
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category
Winner
CPU (events/sec)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) takes 6 of 6 categories.
CPU
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
AuthenticAMD
Model Name
AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
AMD EPYC-Milan Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,000.00
2,900.00
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
512.00
BogoMips
4,000.00
5,799.99
Events per Second
1,572.23
4,265.16
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.3
0.22
Average Latency (ms)
0.63
0.23
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.7
2.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.97
0.25
Memory
Memory Read
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Operations per second
2,659,308.71
7,464,475.78
Mebibytes per second
2,596.98
7,289.53
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
8.46
0.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Operations per second
2,651,904.83
7,463,313.82
Mebibytes per second
2,589.75
7,288.39
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.92
0.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Reads per Second
3,273.88
4,654.93
Writes per Second
2,182.59
3,103.29
Fsyncs per Second
6,992.77
9,940.75
Read Mebibytes per Second
51.15
72.73
Written Mebibytes per Second
34.10
48.49
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.08
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.08
6.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.2
0.12
Mutex
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,754.20
1,248.49
Average Latency (ms)
2,767.04
1,255.90
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,779.23
1,259.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,778.39
1,258.08
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,511.00
13,980.00
Queries per second
75,110.00
139,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.1
0.66
Average Latency (ms)
1.33
0.71
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.29
2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.22
0.78
MySQL Write-only
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,676.00
12,263.00
Queries per second
76,760.00
122,630.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.9
0.65
Average Latency (ms)
1.3
0.81
Maximum Latency (ms)
13.19
11.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.76
0.99
MySQL Read/Write
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
3,546.00
6,080.00
Queries per second
35,460.00
60,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.25
1.41
Average Latency (ms)
2.82
1.64
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.06
21.2
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.3
1.82
MySQL INSERT
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
11,878.00
18,710.00
Queries per second
118,780.00
187,100.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.57
0.43
Average Latency (ms)
0.84
0.53
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.02
8.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.12
0.61
MySQL Bulk INSERT
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,550,592.00
2,336,967.00
Queries per second
15,505,920.00
23,369,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
300.1
203.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
164,745.00
369,485.00
Queries per second
1,647,450.00
3,694,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.02
Average Latency (ms)
0.06
0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.61
3.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.08
0.04
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,441.00
11,876.00
Queries per second
74,410.00
118,760.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.43
0.28
Average Latency (ms)
1.34
0.84
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.76
2.89
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.79
1.06
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
9,652.00
14,716.00
Queries per second
96,520.00
147,160.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.36
0.26
Average Latency (ms)
1.03
0.68
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.19
1.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.34
0.87
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
11,734.00
18,432.00
Queries per second
117,340.00
184,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.58
0.44
Average Latency (ms)
0.85
0.54
Maximum Latency (ms)
15.77
11.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.16
0.63
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
12,735.00
18,602.00
Queries per second
127,350.00
186,020.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.57
0.44
Average Latency (ms)
0.78
0.54
Maximum Latency (ms)
13.74
12.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.03
0.62
MySQL DELETE
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
104,209.00
258,339.00
Queries per second
1,042,090.00
2,583,390.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.02
Average Latency (ms)
0.09
0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)
224.18
10.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.26
0.06
Redis
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
43,936.73
48,402.71
PING_MBULK per Second
44,622.94
47,326.08
SET per Second
44,130.62
48,192.77
GET per Second
44,306.60
47,801.15
INCR per Second
44,863.16
47,961.63
LPUSH per Second
44,843.05
45,085.66
RPUSH per Second
45,372.05
47,528.52
LPOP per Second
44,444.45
47,778.31
RPOP per Second
44,404.97
47,551.12
SADD per Second
45,682.96
47,483.38
HSET per Second
45,351.48
47,641.73
SPOP per Second
44,583.15
46,576.62
ZADD per Second
44,702.73
47,370.91
ZPOPMIN per Second
43,802.02
46,317.74
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
32,113.04
37,579.86
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
17,768.30
24,539.88
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
12,608.75
17,995.32
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
11,558.02
16,262.81
MSET (10 keys) per Second
42,247.57
47,192.07
Redis Average Latency (ms)
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.70
0.64
PING_MBULK
0.68
0.64
SET
0.71
0.65
GET
0.70
0.64
INCR
0.70
0.65
LPUSH
0.71
0.70
RPUSH
0.69
0.66
LPOP
0.72
0.66
RPOP
0.72
0.66
SADD
0.68
0.65
HSET
0.70
0.66
SPOP
0.70
0.66
ZADD
0.71
0.67
ZPOPMIN
0.71
0.66
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.98
0.84
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.74
1.32
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
2.54
1.70
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
2.72
1.92
MSET (10 keys)
0.80
0.71
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The Linode instance wins overall based on CPU and memory benchmarks, showing significantly higher performance in Redis operations and MySQL bulk insert TPS. Specifically, Linode's CPU achieved 737.68 events per second compared to Vultr's 4265.16, and its MySQL bulk insert handled 127606.24 TPS against Vultr's 232383.14 TPS. For use-case scenarios, Linode is better suited for CPU-heavy and memory-intensive tasks, whereas Vultr is more budget-friendly with acceptable performance for less demanding workloads.
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