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

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Same showdown, different day. Today I've spun up brand new instance from Linode and Vultr and did some benchmarking. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:52 GMT Sun, 31 May 2026 20:00:51 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 Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor AuthenticAMD GenuineIntel
Model Name AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,000.00 2,893.17
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 3,999.99 5,786.33
Events per Second 3,444.02 1,140.16
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.28 0.83
Average Latency (ms) 0.29 0.88
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.83 5.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.3 0.95

Memory

Memory Read

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 5,349,213.60 5,101,642.66
Mebibytes per second 5,223.84 4,982.07
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.16 0.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 5,332,401.09 5,260,565.97
Mebibytes per second 5,207.42 5,137.27
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.25 1.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second 3,325.24 4,398.81
Writes per Second 2,216.89 2,932.54
Fsyncs per Second 7,095.98 9,388.60
Read Mebibytes per Second 51.96 68.73
Written Mebibytes per Second 34.64 45.82
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.08 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 13.12 3.17
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.22 0.18

Mutex

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms) 864.93 749.20
Average Latency (ms) 931.61 793.98
Maximum Latency (ms) 968.34 843.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 960.30 846.57

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 5,919.00 7,145.00
Queries per second 59,190.00 71,450.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.29 1.12
Average Latency (ms) 1.69 1.4
Maximum Latency (ms) 8 3.41
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.03 1.79

MySQL Write-only

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 5,152.00 8,110.00
Queries per second 51,520.00 81,100.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.22 0.77
Average Latency (ms) 1.94 1.23
Maximum Latency (ms) 24.88 3.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.52 1.67

MySQL Read/Write

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 2,609.00 3,631.00
Queries per second 26,090.00 36,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.83 2.09
Average Latency (ms) 3.83 2.75
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.83 6.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.74 3.55

MySQL INSERT

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 7,493.00 14,582.00
Queries per second 74,930.00 145,820.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.73 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 1.33 0.68
Maximum Latency (ms) 15.06 11.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.86 0.92

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 1,754,467.00 1,492,342.00
Queries per second 17,544,670.00 14,923,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 418.75 314.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 130,180.00 197,860.00
Queries per second 1,301,800.00 1,978,600.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.08 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.63 0.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.1 0.07

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 8,212.00 6,871.00
Queries per second 82,120.00 68,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.33 0.57
Average Latency (ms) 1.22 1.45
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.27 4.9
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.3 1.96

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 8,956.00 7,407.00
Queries per second 89,560.00 74,070.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.42 0.53
Average Latency (ms) 1.12 1.35
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.66 3.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.44 1.82

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 7,381.00 13,481.00
Queries per second 73,810.00 134,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.81 0.45
Average Latency (ms) 1.35 0.74
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.43 3.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.76 1.03

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 7,379.00 14,448.00
Queries per second 73,790.00 144,480.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.82 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 1.35 0.69
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.2 3.44
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.73 0.92

MySQL DELETE

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 58,502.00 121,404.00
Queries per second 585,020.00 1,214,040.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.17 0.08
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.26 4.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.14 0.12

Redis

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second 44,444.45 62,189.05
PING_MBULK per Second 42,158.52 60,606.06
SET per Second 43,725.41 62,034.74
GET per Second 43,084.88 62,344.14
INCR per Second 43,917.44 61,349.70
LPUSH per Second 44,169.61 61,274.51
RPUSH per Second 42,918.46 63,816.21
LPOP per Second 43,630.02 63,291.14
RPOP per Second 42,900.04 62,814.07
SADD per Second 43,066.32 62,073.25
HSET per Second 42,826.55 59,559.26
SPOP per Second 43,821.21 60,496.07
ZADD per Second 43,706.29 62,150.41
ZPOPMIN per Second 46,554.93 62,539.09
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 30,084.24 47,125.36
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 21,141.65 26,143.79
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 17,825.31 17,905.10
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 15,969.34 15,535.19
MSET (10 keys) per Second 45,578.85 61,576.36

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Linode – (4 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE0.580.42
PING_MBULK0.610.42
SET0.590.42
GET0.600.41
INCR0.590.42
LPUSH0.580.42
RPUSH0.600.40
LPOP0.590.41
RPOP0.600.41
SADD0.600.42
HSET0.600.45
SPOP0.590.43
ZADD0.590.43
ZPOPMIN0.550.41
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.890.57
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.251.04
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)1.501.47
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)1.591.72
MSET (10 keys)0.570.44

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

After analyzing the benchmark results, it is clear that the Vultr High Performance Intel instance exhibits superior performance in most metrics compared to the Linode 4 GB instance, particularly in Redis operations where it achieves higher requests per second (rps) and lower latency across various commands. The Vultr instance also performs better in CPU metrics, file I/O operations, and memory operations, showcasing faster reads and writes per second along with higher throughput. However, Linode shows a slight edge in thread fairness for file I/O and memory operations. Based on these metrics, the Vultr instance would be more suitable for CPU-intensive, I/O-heavy workloads that require high throughput and low latency, whereas the Linode instance might be better for balanced workloads needing moderate performance across various metrics.

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