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 Performance AMD (2 GB) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB) is $12.00/mo and includes 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 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 Performance AMD 2 GB ($12/mo) Benchmarks

Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I've spun up brand new instance from Linode and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked	Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:52 GMT	Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:00:52 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	$12.00
RAM (GB)	4	2
CPU Cores	2	1
Storage (TB)	80	50
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	4	3

CPU

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Vendor	AuthenticAMD	AuthenticAMD
Model Name	AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor	AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,000.00	2,900.00
CPU Cache Size (KB)	512.00	1,024.00
BogoMips	3,999.99	5,799.99
Events per Second	3,444.02	4,576.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.28	0.2
Average Latency (ms)	0.29	0.22
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.83	3.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.3	0.23

Memory Read

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second	5,349,213.60	7,453,499.54
Mebibytes per second	5,223.84	7,278.81
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.16	0.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second	5,332,401.09	7,526,142.42
Mebibytes per second	5,207.42	7,349.75
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.25	0.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Reads per Second	3,325.24	4,488.85
Writes per Second	2,216.89	2,992.54
Fsyncs per Second	7,095.98	9,582.19
Read Mebibytes per Second	51.96	70.14
Written Mebibytes per Second	34.64	46.76
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.08	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	13.12	2.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.22	0.18

Mutex

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)	864.93	1,235.70
Average Latency (ms)	931.61	1,245.09
Maximum Latency (ms)	968.34	1,250.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	960.30	1,258.08

MySQL Read-only

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	5,919.00	12,923.00
Queries per second	59,190.00	129,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.29	0.71
Average Latency (ms)	1.69	0.77
Maximum Latency (ms)	8	2.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.03	0.87

MySQL Write-only

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	5,152.00	10,029.00
Queries per second	51,520.00	100,290.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.22	0.66
Average Latency (ms)	1.94	1
Maximum Latency (ms)	24.88	2.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.52	1.37

MySQL Read/Write

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	2,609.00	5,077.00
Queries per second	26,090.00	50,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.83	1.58
Average Latency (ms)	3.83	1.97
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.83	5.64
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.74	2.39

MySQL INSERT

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	7,493.00	16,678.00
Queries per second	74,930.00	166,780.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.73	0.41
Average Latency (ms)	1.33	0.6
Maximum Latency (ms)	15.06	11.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.86	0.74

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	1,754,467.00	2,453,467.00
Queries per second	17,544,670.00	24,534,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	418.75	225.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	130,180.00	352,826.00
Queries per second	1,301,800.00	3,528,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.08	0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.63	1.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.1	0.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	8,212.00	14,624.00
Queries per second	82,120.00	146,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.33	0.2
Average Latency (ms)	1.22	0.68
Maximum Latency (ms)	11.27	3.17
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.3	0.89

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	8,956.00	14,460.00
Queries per second	89,560.00	144,600.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.42	0.19
Average Latency (ms)	1.12	0.69
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.66	2.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.44	0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	7,381.00	15,256.00
Queries per second	73,810.00	152,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.81	0.42
Average Latency (ms)	1.35	0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.43	2.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.76	0.99

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	7,379.00	15,643.00
Queries per second	73,790.00	156,430.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.82	0.43
Average Latency (ms)	1.35	0.64
Maximum Latency (ms)	7.2	2.48
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.73	0.89

MySQL DELETE

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	58,502.00	209,105.00
Queries per second	585,020.00	2,091,050.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.17	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.26	2.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.14	0.08

Redis

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second	44,444.45	42,607.59
PING_MBULK per Second	42,158.52	42,936.88
SET per Second	43,725.41	42,808.22
GET per Second	43,084.88	42,771.60
INCR per Second	43,917.44	42,955.32
LPUSH per Second	44,169.61	42,698.55
RPUSH per Second	42,918.46	42,535.09
LPOP per Second	43,630.02	42,087.54
RPOP per Second	42,900.04	37,551.63
SADD per Second	43,066.32	41,823.50
HSET per Second	42,826.55	42,408.82
SPOP per Second	43,821.21	43,177.89
ZADD per Second	43,706.29	42,265.43
ZPOPMIN per Second	46,554.93	43,122.04
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	30,084.24	32,916.39
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	21,141.65	21,367.52
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	17,825.31	16,228.50
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	15,969.34	14,363.69
MSET (10 keys) per Second	45,578.85	40,650.41

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Linode – (4 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE	0.58	0.78
PING_MBULK	0.61	0.78
SET	0.59	0.78
GET	0.60	0.78
INCR	0.59	0.78
LPUSH	0.58	0.79
RPUSH	0.60	0.79
LPOP	0.59	0.79
RPOP	0.60	0.92
SADD	0.60	0.79
HSET	0.60	0.79
SPOP	0.59	0.77
ZADD	0.59	0.79
ZPOPMIN	0.55	0.78
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.89	1.01
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.25	1.54
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	1.50	2.07
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	1.59	2.34
MSET (10 keys)	0.57	0.84

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Linode 4 GB instance offers higher CPU performance with a dual-core AMD EPYC processor and substantially more RAM, which translates to superior Redis throughput and latency across various commands, alongside higher CPU, memory, and file I/O performance. In contrast, the Vultr High Performance AMD instance, with a single-core AMD EPYC processor, performs moderately in benchmarks but still shows robust Redis throughput and slightly lower but acceptable CPU and file I/O performance. For CPU-intensive and I/O-heavy workloads, the Linode instance is clearly superior; however, if budget and a slightly lower-end CPU are priorities, the Vultr instance offers decent performance for the price.

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