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UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) vs. Linode Nanode (1 GB)

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I spun up fresh instances from Linode and UpCloud to run some benchmarks on. All instances were running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and all resided 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 Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:42:22 GMT Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:29:06 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 7.0.0-14-generic 7.0.0-22-generic
MySQL Version 8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1 8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
Redis Version 8.0.5 8.0.5
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

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) takes 5 of 5 categories.

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) 3,295.46 2,000.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 512.00
BogoMips 6,590.91 4,000.00
Events per Second 5,281.40 2,995.79
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.17 0.3
Average Latency (ms) 0.19 0.33
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.63 3.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.21 0.34

Memory

Memory Read

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Operations per second 7,916,721.84 5,138,712.44
Mebibytes per second 7,731.17 5,018.27
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.56 0.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Operations per second 7,831,276.08 5,126,038.83
Mebibytes per second 7,647.73 5,005.90
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.33 2.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Reads per Second 3,918.58 3,144.54
Writes per Second 2,612.35 2,096.29
Fsyncs per Second 8,362.41 6,714.53
Read Mebibytes per Second 61.23 49.13
Written Mebibytes per Second 40.82 32.75
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.08
Maximum Latency (ms) 56.19 40.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.2 0.19

Mutex

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,149.76 1,726.97
Average Latency (ms) 1,155.73 1,752.52
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,166.28 1,763.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,170.65 1,771.29

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 7,323.00
Queries per second 0.00 73,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 1.26
Average Latency (ms) 0 1.36
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 3.63
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 1.58

MySQL Write-only

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 4,970.00
Queries per second 0.00 49,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 1.15
Average Latency (ms) 0 2.02
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 99.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 3.19

MySQL Read/Write

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 3,294.00
Queries per second 0.00 32,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 2.51
Average Latency (ms) 0 3.03
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 24.98
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 3.68

MySQL INSERT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 11,632.00
Queries per second 0.00 116,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0.65
Average Latency (ms) 0 0.86
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 6.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 1.14

MySQL Bulk INSERT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 1,201,092.00
Queries per second 0.00 12,010,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 468.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 140,938.00
Queries per second 0.00 1,409,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 0 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 1.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0.12

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 6,603.00
Queries per second 0.00 66,030.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0.52
Average Latency (ms) 0 1.51
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 9.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 1.96

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 7,697.00
Queries per second 0.00 76,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0.49
Average Latency (ms) 0 1.3
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 4.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 1.7

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 11,465.00
Queries per second 0.00 114,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0.66
Average Latency (ms) 0 0.87
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 43.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 1.1

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 11,672.00
Queries per second 0.00 116,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0.67
Average Latency (ms) 0 0.86
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 24.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 1.1

MySQL DELETE

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 94,623.00
Queries per second 0.00 946,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 0 0.11
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 10.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0.19

Redis

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 45,871.56 38,446.75
PING_MBULK per Second 57,870.37 38,505.97
SET per Second 60,096.15 39,123.63
GET per Second 59,347.18 38,804.81
INCR per Second 58,997.05 39,169.61
LPUSH per Second 60,024.01 39,215.69
RPUSH per Second 59,206.63 39,184.95
LPOP per Second 59,952.04 39,323.63
RPOP per Second 59,206.63 39,093.04
SADD per Second 58,754.41 38,008.36
HSET per Second 58,275.06 40,160.64
SPOP per Second 59,559.26 38,714.67
ZADD per Second 61,312.08 40,064.10
ZPOPMIN per Second 61,050.06 39,169.61
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 45,392.64 25,163.56
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 25,859.84 13,114.75
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 16,854.88 8,311.86
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 17,455.05 7,606.30
MSET (10 keys) per Second 49,578.58 37,821.48

Redis Average Latency (ms)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.730.78
PING_MBULK0.510.78
SET0.510.79
GET0.510.77
INCR0.520.78
LPUSH0.520.79
RPUSH0.520.79
LPOP0.520.80
RPOP0.530.80
SADD0.520.81
HSET0.530.78
SPOP0.500.78
ZADD0.510.78
ZPOPMIN0.500.77
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.721.27
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.242.28
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)1.893.35
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)1.793.57
MSET (10 keys)0.710.86

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The UpCloud Balanced instance outperforms the Linode Nanode in most benchmarks, particularly in Redis operations where it handles PING_INLINE requests at 45872 RPS compared to the Linode Nanode's 38447 RPS. UpCloud also demonstrates superior CPU performance with 5281.4 events per second versus Linode's 2995.8. The higher benchmark scores for UpCloud indicate it is better suited for CPU-intensive and memory-heavy workloads, while Linode's Nanode offers more modest performance that could be preferable for lower-demand applications where cost-efficiency is prioritized.

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