Linode Linode (2 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. 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. Enough talk. Here's the data.
Overview
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:04:32 GMT
Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:12:47 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
7.0.0-22-generic
7.0.0-28-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
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 Intel (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)
Tie
Disk I/O (MiB/s)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
Linode – (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) takes 4 of 6 categories.
CPU
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
GenuineIntel
Model Name
AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core Processor
Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,300.00
2,992.91
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
4,600.00
5,985.82
Events per Second
737.68
1,085.49
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.66
0.87
Average Latency (ms)
1.35
0.92
Maximum Latency (ms)
10.12
1.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.52
1.04
Memory
Memory Read
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second
5,317,370.64
5,287,233.83
Mebibytes per second
5,192.74
5,163.31
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.57
0.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second
5,086,007.31
5,446,064.29
Mebibytes per second
4,966.80
5,318.42
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.07
0.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Reads per Second
1,006.42
3,945.14
Writes per Second
670.92
2,630.10
Fsyncs per Second
2,147.89
8,418.81
Read Mebibytes per Second
15.73
61.64
Written Mebibytes per Second
10.48
41.10
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.26
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
138.62
2.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.56
0.2
Mutex
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,559.26
1,674.69
Average Latency (ms)
1,564.38
1,689.62
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,570.82
1,697.70
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,561.52
1,708.63
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
8,336.00
9,332.00
Queries per second
83,360.00
93,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.15
0.93
Average Latency (ms)
1.2
1.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.16
15.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.32
1.32
MySQL Write-only
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,039.00
11,031.00
Queries per second
70,390.00
110,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.01
0.69
Average Latency (ms)
1.42
0.9
Maximum Latency (ms)
150.2
11.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.76
1.23
MySQL Read/Write
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
3,717.00
4,749.00
Queries per second
37,170.00
47,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.29
1.79
Average Latency (ms)
2.69
2.1
Maximum Latency (ms)
26.26
7.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.19
2.57
MySQL INSERT
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
11,835.00
18,923.00
Queries per second
118,350.00
189,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.61
0.39
Average Latency (ms)
0.84
0.53
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.31
10.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.12
0.68
MySQL Bulk INSERT
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,288,467.00
1,375,842.00
Queries per second
12,884,670.00
13,758,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
393.46
345.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
179,147.00
263,886.00
Queries per second
1,791,470.00
2,638,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.03
Average Latency (ms)
0.06
0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.33
2.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.07
0.05
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
6,122.00
6,167.00
Queries per second
61,220.00
61,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.55
0.53
Average Latency (ms)
1.63
1.62
Maximum Latency (ms)
8.04
6.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.52
2.11
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,561.00
8,650.00
Queries per second
75,610.00
86,500.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.5
0.43
Average Latency (ms)
1.32
1.15
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.3
3.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.73
1.52
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
11,379.00
18,825.00
Queries per second
113,790.00
188,250.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.62
0.4
Average Latency (ms)
0.88
0.53
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.5
5.88
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.14
0.69
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
12,535.00
19,241.00
Queries per second
125,350.00
192,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.59
0.39
Average Latency (ms)
0.8
0.52
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.91
4.64
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.99
0.65
MySQL DELETE
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
93,260.00
200,203.00
Queries per second
932,600.00
2,002,030.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.03
Average Latency (ms)
0.11
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
106.79
3.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.17
0.08
Redis
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
76,103.50
70,472.16
PING_MBULK per Second
75,930.14
75,187.97
SET per Second
76,923.08
73,909.83
GET per Second
77,579.52
69,156.30
INCR per Second
77,639.75
59,952.04
LPUSH per Second
77,459.34
52,576.24
RPUSH per Second
76,569.68
68,634.18
LPOP per Second
76,103.50
59,171.59
RPOP per Second
77,220.08
53,219.80
SADD per Second
78,554.59
67,430.88
HSET per Second
78,369.91
63,734.86
SPOP per Second
78,864.35
43,859.65
ZADD per Second
75,244.55
43,365.13
ZPOPMIN per Second
72,621.64
49,285.36
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
41,017.23
36,982.25
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
19,712.20
19,992.00
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
12,941.63
12,827.09
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
11,352.03
10,901.56
MSET (10 keys) per Second
65,104.17
64,350.06
Redis Average Latency (ms)
Linode – (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.42
0.45
PING_MBULK
0.41
0.42
SET
0.42
0.44
GET
0.41
0.46
INCR
0.41
0.53
LPUSH
0.42
0.61
RPUSH
0.42
0.47
LPOP
0.43
0.55
RPOP
0.42
0.62
SADD
0.41
0.47
HSET
0.41
0.51
SPOP
0.40
0.72
ZADD
0.43
0.75
ZPOPMIN
0.43
0.64
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.87
0.90
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.70
1.61
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
2.66
2.58
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
2.98
2.88
MSET (10 keys)
0.64
0.61
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The Linode instance (2 GB) outperforms the Vultr High Performance Intel (1 GB) instance in most benchmarks. The Linode instance shows higher rates per second in Redis commands like GET (77579.52 rps vs. 69156.3 rps) and better average latencies, as well as superior MySQL OLTP performance, such as read-only transactions (17910.76 tps vs. 26383.54 tps). In summary, the Linode instance excels in CPU-intensive and database operations, making it a better choice for CPU-heavy and I/O-intensive applications.
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