How much does Linode (4 GB) cost per month?

Linode (4 GB) is $24.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD of storage, and 4 TB of transfer.

How much does Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $18.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe of storage, and 3 TB of transfer.

What are the specs of Linode (4 GB)?

Linode (4 GB) has 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD of storage, and 4 TB of monthly transfer for $24.00/mo.

Linode 4 GB ($24/mo) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

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. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:52 GMT	Sun, 31 May 2026 13:00:55 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	$18.00
RAM (GB)	4	2
CPU Cores	2	2
Storage (TB)	80	80
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	4	3

CPU

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	AuthenticAMD	GenuineIntel
Model Name	AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,000.00	3,791.98
CPU Cache Size (KB)	512.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	3,999.99	7,583.95
Events per Second	3,444.02	1,552.05
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.28	0.62
Average Latency (ms)	0.29	0.64
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.83	4.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.3	0.69

Memory Read

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	5,349,213.60	7,875,668.83
Mebibytes per second	5,223.84	7,691.08
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.16	0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	5,332,401.09	7,729,812.11
Mebibytes per second	5,207.42	7,548.64
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.25	0.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	3,325.24	4,671.85
Writes per Second	2,216.89	3,114.56
Fsyncs per Second	7,095.98	9,976.90
Read Mebibytes per Second	51.96	73.00
Written Mebibytes per Second	34.64	48.67
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.08	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	13.12	2.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.22	0.17

Mutex

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	864.93	543.27
Average Latency (ms)	931.61	554.74
Maximum Latency (ms)	968.34	563.70
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	960.30	559.50

MySQL Read-only

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,919.00	10,621.00
Queries per second	59,190.00	106,210.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.29	0.86
Average Latency (ms)	1.69	0.94
Maximum Latency (ms)	8	2.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.03	1.03

MySQL Write-only

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,152.00	10,229.00
Queries per second	51,520.00	102,290.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.22	0.64
Average Latency (ms)	1.94	0.98
Maximum Latency (ms)	24.88	2.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.52	1.23

MySQL Read/Write

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,609.00	5,072.00
Queries per second	26,090.00	50,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.83	1.59
Average Latency (ms)	3.83	1.97
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.83	3.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.74	2.39

MySQL INSERT

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,493.00	16,038.00
Queries per second	74,930.00	160,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.73	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	1.33	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	15.06	13.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.86	0.8

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,754,467.00	2,424,342.00
Queries per second	17,544,670.00	24,243,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	418.75	205.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	130,180.00	241,313.00
Queries per second	1,301,800.00	2,413,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.08	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.63	0.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.1	0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,212.00	12,080.00
Queries per second	82,120.00	120,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.33	0.21
Average Latency (ms)	1.22	0.83
Maximum Latency (ms)	11.27	3.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.3	1.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,956.00	10,527.00
Queries per second	89,560.00	105,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.42	0.16
Average Latency (ms)	1.12	0.95
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.66	3.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.44	1.23

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,381.00	17,123.00
Queries per second	73,810.00	171,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.81	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	1.35	0.58
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.43	2
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.76	0.78

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,379.00	16,979.00
Queries per second	73,790.00	169,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.82	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	1.35	0.59
Maximum Latency (ms)	7.2	4.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.73	0.8

MySQL DELETE

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	58,502.00	156,424.00
Queries per second	585,020.00	1,564,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.17	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.26	4.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.14	0.07

Redis

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	44,444.45	88,652.48
PING_MBULK per Second	42,158.52	89,605.73
SET per Second	43,725.41	90,171.33
GET per Second	43,084.88	90,579.71
INCR per Second	43,917.44	90,744.10
LPUSH per Second	44,169.61	90,497.73
RPUSH per Second	42,918.46	90,415.91
LPOP per Second	43,630.02	90,909.09
RPOP per Second	42,900.04	90,661.83
SADD per Second	43,066.32	90,252.70
HSET per Second	42,826.55	90,415.91
SPOP per Second	43,821.21	89,928.05
ZADD per Second	43,706.29	90,415.91
ZPOPMIN per Second	46,554.93	90,009.01
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	30,084.24	66,533.60
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	21,141.65	36,179.45
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	17,825.31	26,239.83
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	15,969.34	22,547.91
MSET (10 keys) per Second	45,578.85	88,105.73

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.58	0.30
PING_MBULK	0.61	0.29
SET	0.59	0.29
GET	0.60	0.29
INCR	0.59	0.28
LPUSH	0.58	0.29
RPUSH	0.60	0.29
LPOP	0.59	0.28
RPOP	0.60	0.28
SADD	0.60	0.29
HSET	0.60	0.29
SPOP	0.59	0.29
ZADD	0.59	0.29
ZPOPMIN	0.55	0.29
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.89	0.39
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.25	0.71
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	1.50	0.97
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	1.59	1.14
MSET (10 keys)	0.57	0.30

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

After analyzing the benchmark data for the Linode (4 GB) and Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) instances, it's clear that both providers deliver strong performance tailored to different needs. The Linode instance shows superior performance in memory operations, with high read and write operations per second and lower latencies, making it ideal for memory-intensive workloads. The Vultr instance, however, excels in Redis benchmarks with significantly higher requests per second and lower latencies, suggesting it's better for cache-heavy or Redis-specific applications. Additionally, the Vultr instance provides competitive CPU and file I/O performance, which is beneficial for general-purpose tasks and workloads that require good I/O throughput. Given these strengths, the Linode instance is ideal for applications requiring heavy memory usage, while the Vultr instance is more suitable for Redis-driven applications and workloads that benefit from higher throughput and lower latencies in simple tasks.

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