My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up brand new instance from Linode and UpCloud and did some benchmarking. 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
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:00:52 GMT
Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
6.8.0-106-generic
6.8.0-71-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
New York, NY
Newark, NJ
Monthly Price
€7.00
$5.00
RAM (GB)
1
1
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
25
25
Storage Type
SSD
SSD
Transfer (TB)
1
1
CPU
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
AuthenticAMD
Model Name
AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core Processor
AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)
3,295.48
2,000.00
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
512.00
BogoMips
6,590.95
3,999.99
Events per Second
5,498.48
1,620.95
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.16
0.28
Average Latency (ms)
0.18
0.61
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.19
16.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.2
2.97
Memory
Memory Read
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Operations per second
7,536,293.91
2,785,205.91
Mebibytes per second
7,359.66
2,719.93
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.25
3.98
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Operations per second
7,610,312.91
5,247,741.79
Mebibytes per second
7,431.95
5,124.75
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.18
4.41
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Reads per Second
4,958.78
2,319.13
Writes per Second
3,305.85
1,546.08
Fsyncs per Second
10,581.62
4,957.36
Read Mebibytes per Second
77.48
36.24
Written Mebibytes per Second
51.65
24.16
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.05
0.11
Maximum Latency (ms)
23.72
8.17
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.2
0.25
Mutex
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,200.46
2,349.38
Average Latency (ms)
1,205.89
2,390.79
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,209.97
2,412.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,213.57
2,405.65
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
23,913.00
6,608.00
Queries per second
239,130.00
66,080.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.29
1.28
Average Latency (ms)
0.42
1.51
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.69
8.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.55
1.79
MySQL Write-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,390.00
4,539.00
Queries per second
73,900.00
45,390.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.59
1.33
Average Latency (ms)
1.35
2.2
Maximum Latency (ms)
151.26
18.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.18
3.25
MySQL Read/Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
5,643.00
2,306.00
Queries per second
56,430.00
23,060.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.07
3.11
Average Latency (ms)
1.77
4.33
Maximum Latency (ms)
18.59
10.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.39
5.67
MySQL INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
10,691.00
7,556.00
Queries per second
106,910.00
75,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.4
0.83
Average Latency (ms)
0.93
1.32
Maximum Latency (ms)
28.16
8.91
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.52
1.82
MySQL Bulk INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,861,217.00
1,171,967.00
Queries per second
28,612,170.00
11,719,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
190.34
511.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
797,057.00
127,249.00
Queries per second
7,970,570.00
1,272,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.01
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.08
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.08
7.66
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.02
0.11
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
14,716.00
8,151.00
Queries per second
147,160.00
81,510.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.19
0.39
Average Latency (ms)
0.68
1.22
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.31
5.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.01
1.7
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
18,683.00
9,239.00
Queries per second
186,830.00
92,390.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.15
0.33
Average Latency (ms)
0.53
1.08
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.69
8.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.77
1.42
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
11,777.00
7,280.00
Queries per second
117,770.00
72,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.39
0.71
Average Latency (ms)
0.85
1.37
Maximum Latency (ms)
16.28
23.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.23
2.03
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
11,468.00
7,428.00
Queries per second
114,680.00
74,280.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.35
0.72
Average Latency (ms)
0.87
1.34
Maximum Latency (ms)
15.13
6.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.23
1.86
MySQL DELETE
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
397,047.00
54,792.00
Queries per second
3,970,470.00
547,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.01
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.02
0.18
Maximum Latency (ms)
12.77
11.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.03
1.14
Redis
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
163,132.14
28,910.09
PING_MBULK per Second
146,412.88
34,328.87
SET per Second
168,067.22
33,178.50
GET per Second
163,666.12
33,670.04
INCR per Second
168,067.22
34,650.04
LPUSH per Second
158,730.16
32,992.41
RPUSH per Second
166,666.66
32,992.41
LPOP per Second
157,232.70
33,068.79
RPOP per Second
157,232.70
33,388.98
SADD per Second
161,030.59
33,014.20
HSET per Second
157,977.88
33,967.39
SPOP per Second
165,562.92
35,549.23
ZADD per Second
158,730.16
34,071.55
ZPOPMIN per Second
167,785.23
34,364.26
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
89,285.71
20,876.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
42,354.93
13,976.24
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
28,042.62
10,399.33
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
23,635.07
8,848.77
MSET (10 keys) per Second
140,845.08
31,240.24
Redis Average Latency (ms)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.21
1.11
PING_MBULK
0.22
0.97
SET
0.20
0.99
GET
0.20
0.97
INCR
0.20
0.95
LPUSH
0.21
0.99
RPUSH
0.20
0.99
LPOP
0.22
1.00
RPOP
0.22
0.98
SADD
0.21
0.98
HSET
0.21
0.96
SPOP
0.20
0.93
ZADD
0.21
0.96
ZPOPMIN
0.20
0.94
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.40
1.61
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
0.84
2.39
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
1.26
3.26
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
1.52
3.83
MSET (10 keys)
0.26
1.08
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The UpCloud Balanced instance significantly outperforms the Linode Nanode in most benchmarks. While the Linode instance shows reasonable Redis performance with high request rates and low latencies, it struggles with larger data range operations in Redis. The UpCloud instance excels in overall Redis request rates and latency, making it ideal for high-throughput caching and data operations. Both instances have similar CPU performance metrics, but UpCloud slightly edges out with higher CPU events per second. The UpCloud instance also demonstrates superior file I/O throughput and latency, making it preferable for workloads involving intensive file read/write operations. Given these results, the UpCloud Balanced instance is highly recommended for applications requiring high Redis performance, high CPU utilization, and intensive file I/O, while the Linode Nanode may be more suitable for less demanding tasks or where cost is a primary consideration.
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