Linode Linode (4 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up 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. Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked Thu, 28 May 2026 23:00:52 GMT Sun, 31 May 2026 07:00:52 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 $18.00
RAM (GB) 4 2
CPU Cores 2 2
Storage (TB) 80 60
Storage Type SSD NVMe
Transfer (TB) 4 4

CPU

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor AuthenticAMD AuthenticAMD
Model Name AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core Processor AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,300.00 2,899.99
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 1,024.00
BogoMips 4,600.00 5,799.98
Events per Second 1,557.67 4,648.14
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.61 0.2
Average Latency (ms) 0.64 0.21
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.61 1.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.67 0.23

Memory

Memory Read

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 5,147,970.79 7,548,502.85
Mebibytes per second 5,027.32 7,371.58
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.84 0.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 4,976,437.85 7,544,807.09
Mebibytes per second 4,859.80 7,367.98
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.92 0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second 2,963.98 5,114.79
Writes per Second 1,975.95 3,409.86
Fsyncs per Second 6,329.11 10,914.44
Read Mebibytes per Second 46.31 79.92
Written Mebibytes per Second 30.87 53.28
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.09 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 19.78 3.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.33 0.12

Mutex

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms) 847.81 574.03
Average Latency (ms) 883.84 637.47
Maximum Latency (ms) 896.52 663.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 893.56 657.93

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 6,345.00 9,622.00
Queries per second 63,450.00 96,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.23 0.73
Average Latency (ms) 1.57 1.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.25 2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.93 1.12

MySQL Write-only

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 5,995.00 9,585.00
Queries per second 59,950.00 95,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.05 0.8
Average Latency (ms) 1.67 1.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.84 2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.26 1.32

MySQL Read/Write

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 2,908.00 4,686.00
Queries per second 29,080.00 46,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.44 1.57
Average Latency (ms) 3.44 2.13
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.34 4.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.33 2.52

MySQL INSERT

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 8,155.00 15,965.00
Queries per second 81,550.00 159,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.78 0.45
Average Latency (ms) 1.22 0.62
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.34 2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.61 0.74

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 1,375,842.00 3,065,092.00
Queries per second 13,758,420.00 30,650,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 418.92 208.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 143,849.00 217,035.00
Queries per second 1,438,490.00 2,170,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.67 0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.09 0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 7,984.00 14,818.00
Queries per second 79,840.00 148,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.33 0.24
Average Latency (ms) 1.25 0.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.29 1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.67 0.86

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 6,576.00 14,341.00
Queries per second 65,760.00 143,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.52 0.27
Average Latency (ms) 1.52 0.7
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.93 1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.22 0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 7,993.00 14,864.00
Queries per second 79,930.00 148,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.72 0.47
Average Latency (ms) 1.25 0.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.84 2.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.67 0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 8,351.00 15,284.00
Queries per second 83,510.00 152,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.75 0.46
Average Latency (ms) 1.2 0.65
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.88 1.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.52 0.83

MySQL DELETE

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 70,358.00 151,536.00
Queries per second 703,580.00 1,515,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.14 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.97 4.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.95 0.08

Redis

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second 54,525.63 55,991.04
PING_MBULK per Second 55,897.15 57,903.88
SET per Second 53,619.30 57,703.40
GET per Second 55,157.20 57,703.40
INCR per Second 55,401.66 57,372.34
LPUSH per Second 54,466.23 57,836.90
RPUSH per Second 52,659.29 58,173.36
LPOP per Second 54,555.38 58,343.06
RPOP per Second 54,436.58 58,343.06
SADD per Second 54,406.96 58,241.12
HSET per Second 55,157.20 58,858.15
SPOP per Second 55,309.73 58,892.82
ZADD per Second 56,753.69 57,504.31
ZPOPMIN per Second 54,054.05 57,870.37
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 43,084.88 49,236.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 25,799.79 34,818.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 18,583.91 26,766.60
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 15,290.52 24,207.21
MSET (10 keys) per Second 57,736.72 58,548.01

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE0.480.48
PING_MBULK0.460.44
SET0.490.45
GET0.470.45
INCR0.470.45
LPUSH0.480.44
RPUSH0.500.44
LPOP0.480.44
RPOP0.480.44
SADD0.480.44
HSET0.470.44
SPOP0.470.44
ZADD0.460.45
ZPOPMIN0.480.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.610.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.020.74
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)1.390.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)1.801.05
MSET (10 keys)0.460.44

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Comparing the benchmark performance of Linode's 4 GB instance against Vultr's High Performance AMD 2 GB instance, it's clear that Linode excels in handling larger memory-intensive workloads, with significantly higher Redis performance metrics such as higher requests per second and lower latencies across various operations, alongside impressive CPU and file I/O benchmarks. Vultr, however, shows competitive CPU performance metrics, faster memory read latencies, and comparable file I/O throughputs. Linode's configuration is ideal for CPU-intensive and high-memory applications, while Vultr's slightly lower cost and competitive performance make it suitable for less demanding workloads or when budget constraints are a priority.

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