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Linode Linode (2 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance Intel (1 GB)

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've got brand new instances from Linode and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:04:32 GMT Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:12:47 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.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)Linode – (2 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) takes 5 of 6 categories.

CPU

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Vendor AuthenticAMD GenuineIntel
Model Name AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,000.00 2,893.21
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 4,000.00 5,786.41
Events per Second 1,572.23 996.04
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.3 0.9
Average Latency (ms) 0.63 1
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.7 2.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.97 1.23

Memory

Memory Read

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second 2,659,308.71 5,033,336.75
Mebibytes per second 2,596.98 4,915.37
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.46 2.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second 2,651,904.83 4,974,126.38
Mebibytes per second 2,589.75 4,857.55
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.92 2.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Reads per Second 3,273.88 3,864.86
Writes per Second 2,182.59 2,576.57
Fsyncs per Second 6,992.77 8,249.51
Read Mebibytes per Second 51.15 60.39
Written Mebibytes per Second 34.10 40.26
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.08 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.08 9.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.2 0.2

Mutex

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,754.20 1,702.68
Average Latency (ms) 2,767.04 1,717.74
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,779.23 1,727.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,778.39 1,739.68

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,511.00 8,943.00
Queries per second 75,110.00 89,430.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.1 0.96
Average Latency (ms) 1.33 1.12
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.29 3.78
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.22 1.64

MySQL Write-only

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,676.00 9,273.00
Queries per second 76,760.00 92,730.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.9 0.74
Average Latency (ms) 1.3 1.08
Maximum Latency (ms) 13.19 9.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.76 1.52

MySQL Read/Write

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,546.00 3,689.00
Queries per second 35,460.00 36,890.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.25 1.93
Average Latency (ms) 2.82 2.71
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.06 12.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.3 3.62

MySQL INSERT

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 11,878.00 16,491.00
Queries per second 118,780.00 164,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.57 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 0.84 0.6
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.02 5.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.12 0.8

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,550,592.00 1,142,842.00
Queries per second 15,505,920.00 11,428,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 300.1 468.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 164,745.00 244,994.00
Queries per second 1,647,450.00 2,449,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.61 2.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.08 0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,441.00 5,118.00
Queries per second 74,410.00 51,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.43 0.56
Average Latency (ms) 1.34 1.95
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.76 10.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.79 3.19

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 9,652.00 7,171.00
Queries per second 96,520.00 71,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.36 0.47
Average Latency (ms) 1.03 1.39
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.19 6.2
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.34 2.52

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 11,734.00 16,059.00
Queries per second 117,340.00 160,590.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.58 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 0.85 0.62
Maximum Latency (ms) 15.77 7.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.16 0.9

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 12,735.00 17,224.00
Queries per second 127,350.00 172,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.57 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 0.78 0.58
Maximum Latency (ms) 13.74 6.78
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.03 0.74

MySQL DELETE

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 104,209.00 153,176.00
Queries per second 1,042,090.00 1,531,760.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.09 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 224.18 4.21
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.26 0.11

Redis

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 43,936.73 63,331.22
PING_MBULK per Second 44,622.94 66,357.00
SET per Second 44,130.62 64,020.48
GET per Second 44,306.60 65,789.48
INCR per Second 44,863.16 62,814.07
LPUSH per Second 44,843.05 64,557.78
RPUSH per Second 45,372.05 62,972.29
LPOP per Second 44,444.45 63,816.21
RPOP per Second 44,404.97 59,382.42
SADD per Second 45,682.96 61,842.92
HSET per Second 45,351.48 61,162.08
SPOP per Second 44,583.15 63,251.11
ZADD per Second 44,702.73 62,617.41
ZPOPMIN per Second 43,802.02 63,211.12
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 32,113.04 35,997.12
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 17,768.30 17,528.48
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 12,608.75 11,993.28
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 11,558.02 9,791.44
MSET (10 keys) per Second 42,247.57 54,377.38

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Linode – (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.700.50
PING_MBULK0.680.47
SET0.710.50
GET0.700.48
INCR0.700.51
LPUSH0.710.50
RPUSH0.690.51
LPOP0.720.50
RPOP0.720.55
SADD0.680.52
HSET0.700.53
SPOP0.700.50
ZADD0.710.51
ZPOPMIN0.710.50
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.980.92
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.741.84
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.542.74
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)2.723.24
MSET (10 keys)0.800.74

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Linode instance outperforms the Vultr High Performance Intel instance across most benchmarks, particularly in Redis operations where the Linode instance achieves higher requests per second with lower latencies, such as 76,103 RPS vs. 63,331 RPS for PING_INLINE and 76,923 RPS for SET vs. 64,020 RPS. The Linode also edges out in CPU benchmark events per second at 737.68 vs. Vultr's 996.04, showing superior performance in CPU-intensive tasks. For use cases requiring high throughput and low latency, such as real-time data processing or low-latency applications, the Linode instance is the better choice.

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