Linode Linode (4 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB)

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Linode and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:52 GMT Sun, 31 May 2026 04:00:52 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 $24.00 $5.00
RAM (GB) 4 1
CPU Cores 2 1
Storage (TB) 80 25
Storage Type SSD SSD
Transfer (TB) 4 1

CPU

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vendor AuthenticAMD GenuineIntel
Model Name AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,000.00 2,394.45
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 3,999.99 4,788.90
Events per Second 3,444.02 855.89
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.28 1.14
Average Latency (ms) 0.29 1.17
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.83 3.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.3 1.23

Memory

Memory Read

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second 5,349,213.60 4,208,440.85
Mebibytes per second 5,223.84 4,109.81
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.16 0.66
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second 5,332,401.09 4,198,602.47
Mebibytes per second 5,207.42 4,100.20
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.25 0.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Reads per Second 3,325.24 2,511.60
Writes per Second 2,216.89 1,674.40
Fsyncs per Second 7,095.98 5,361.38
Read Mebibytes per Second 51.96 39.24
Written Mebibytes per Second 34.64 26.16
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.08 0.1
Maximum Latency (ms) 13.12 2.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.22 0.3

Mutex

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 864.93 1,985.30
Average Latency (ms) 931.61 1,990.99
Maximum Latency (ms) 968.34 1,996.19
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 960.30 2,009.23

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,919.00 5,210.00
Queries per second 59,190.00 52,100.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.29 1.74
Average Latency (ms) 1.69 1.92
Maximum Latency (ms) 8 13.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.03 2

MySQL Write-only

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,152.00 5,112.00
Queries per second 51,520.00 51,120.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.22 1.46
Average Latency (ms) 1.94 1.95
Maximum Latency (ms) 24.88 7.48
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.52 2.48

MySQL Read/Write

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,609.00 2,334.00
Queries per second 26,090.00 23,340.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.83 3.59
Average Latency (ms) 3.83 4.28
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.83 13.2
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.74 5.09

MySQL INSERT

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,493.00 9,427.00
Queries per second 74,930.00 94,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.73 0.71
Average Latency (ms) 1.33 1.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 15.06 5.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.86 1.3

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,754,467.00 1,026,342.00
Queries per second 17,544,670.00 10,263,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 418.75 502.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 130,180.00 117,078.00
Queries per second 1,301,800.00 1,170,780.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.07
Average Latency (ms) 0.08 0.08
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.63 7.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.1 0.12

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 8,212.00 5,768.00
Queries per second 82,120.00 57,680.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.33 0.58
Average Latency (ms) 1.22 1.73
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.27 5.37
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.3 2.22

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 8,956.00 6,308.00
Queries per second 89,560.00 63,080.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.42 0.36
Average Latency (ms) 1.12 1.58
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.66 3.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.44 2.03

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,381.00 8,507.00
Queries per second 73,810.00 85,070.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.81 0.75
Average Latency (ms) 1.35 1.17
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.43 17.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.76 1.64

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,379.00 9,044.00
Queries per second 73,790.00 90,440.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.82 0.7
Average Latency (ms) 1.35 1.1
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.2 11.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.73 1.34

MySQL DELETE

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 58,502.00 62,368.00
Queries per second 585,020.00 623,680.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.07
Average Latency (ms) 0.17 0.16
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.26 8.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.14 0.97

Redis

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 44,444.45 34,916.20
PING_MBULK per Second 42,158.52 34,626.04
SET per Second 43,725.41 34,904.02
GET per Second 43,084.88 35,460.99
INCR per Second 43,917.44 36,603.22
LPUSH per Second 44,169.61 35,855.14
RPUSH per Second 42,918.46 35,997.12
LPOP per Second 43,630.02 35,587.19
RPOP per Second 42,900.04 36,075.04
SADD per Second 43,066.32 33,818.06
HSET per Second 42,826.55 36,127.17
SPOP per Second 43,821.21 36,363.64
ZADD per Second 43,706.29 35,842.29
ZPOPMIN per Second 46,554.93 36,509.68
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 30,084.24 24,348.67
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 21,141.65 13,199.58
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 17,825.31 9,087.60
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 15,969.34 8,021.18
MSET (10 keys) per Second 45,578.85 33,875.34

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.580.93
PING_MBULK0.610.94
SET0.590.94
GET0.600.92
INCR0.590.90
LPUSH0.580.92
RPUSH0.600.91
LPOP0.590.93
RPOP0.600.92
SADD0.600.99
HSET0.600.91
SPOP0.590.90
ZADD0.590.92
ZPOPMIN0.550.90
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.891.38
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.252.55
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)1.503.78
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)1.594.25
MSET (10 keys)0.571.02

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Linode instance outperforms the Vultr instance in almost every benchmark category, demonstrating superior CPU performance, memory operations, Redis commands, and MySQL operations, likely due to its higher CPU count and more robust RAM. Linode's instances also excel in file I/O operations, which indicates a faster and more consistent read/write throughput. While Vultr's instance has lower benchmark scores overall, it still provides acceptable performance for less demanding applications. Linode's higher specification and better performance metrics make it ideal for CPU-intensive, I/O-heavy workloads, or applications requiring high throughput and low latency, whereas Vultr's instance would be more suitable for simpler, less resource-intensive tasks given its lower cost and resource limits.

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