New day, new benchmarks. Today I've got brand new instances from Linode and UpCloud to run some benchmarks on. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 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
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:02:17 GMT
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:01:32 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
7.0.0-29-generic
7.0.0-34-generic
MySQL Version
8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
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.
Category
Winner
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)
3,295.42
2,000.00
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
512.00
BogoMips
6,590.84
4,000.00
Events per Second
4,771.17
1,548.52
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.19
0.3
Average Latency (ms)
0.21
0.64
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.26
21.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.23
3.13
Memory
Memory Read
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Operations per second
6,936,402.22
4,152,415.63
Mebibytes per second
6,773.83
4,055.09
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.35
3.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Operations per second
6,762,728.29
5,085,089.33
Mebibytes per second
6,604.23
4,965.91
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.65
3.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Reads per Second
2,763.16
2,243.85
Writes per Second
1,842.11
1,495.90
Fsyncs per Second
5,897.24
4,795.18
Read Mebibytes per Second
43.17
35.06
Written Mebibytes per Second
28.78
23.37
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.09
0.12
Maximum Latency (ms)
44.23
10.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.3
0.29
Mutex
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,275.54
2,091.27
Average Latency (ms)
1,282.62
2,118.60
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,289.72
2,135.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,280.93
2,120.76
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
5,863.00
Queries per second
0.00
58,630.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
1.27
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.7
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
8.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
2.14
MySQL Write-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
5,483.00
Queries per second
0.00
54,830.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
1.12
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.82
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
17.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
2.3
MySQL Read/Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
2,888.00
Queries per second
0.00
28,880.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
2.56
Average Latency (ms)
0
3.46
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
14.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
4.25
MySQL INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
9,681.00
Queries per second
0.00
96,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.67
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.03
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
10.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
1.39
MySQL Bulk INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
1,142,842.00
Queries per second
0.00
11,428,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
503.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
129,495.00
Queries per second
0.00
1,294,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.06
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.08
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
6.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.11
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
6,337.00
Queries per second
0.00
63,370.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.41
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.58
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
8.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
2.26
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
7,456.00
Queries per second
0.00
74,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.49
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.34
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
8.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
2.11
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
6,797.00
Queries per second
0.00
67,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.65
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.47
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
65.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
3.3
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
9,777.00
Queries per second
0.00
97,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.67
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.02
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
8.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
1.34
MySQL DELETE
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
48,437.00
Queries per second
0.00
484,370.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
39.37
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.92
Redis
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
36,218.76
32,669.06
PING_MBULK per Second
45,454.54
33,738.19
SET per Second
48,449.61
15,948.96
GET per Second
48,685.49
31,675.64
INCR per Second
48,449.61
34,387.89
LPUSH per Second
50,175.61
34,650.04
RPUSH per Second
48,828.12
31,705.77
LPOP per Second
50,942.43
32,478.08
RPOP per Second
49,603.17
30,883.26
SADD per Second
47,438.33
33,046.93
HSET per Second
48,685.49
31,357.79
SPOP per Second
46,403.71
30,395.14
ZADD per Second
47,687.18
32,894.74
ZPOPMIN per Second
47,103.16
33,456.00
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
36,114.12
25,271.67
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
23,266.64
12,495.31
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
15,227.65
10,815.49
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
11,837.12
9,273.00
MSET (10 keys) per Second
44,964.03
30,066.15
Redis Average Latency (ms)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.88
0.94
PING_MBULK
0.64
0.90
SET
0.63
2.12
GET
0.61
1.00
INCR
0.62
0.90
LPUSH
0.61
0.90
RPUSH
0.62
0.97
LPOP
0.61
0.96
RPOP
0.62
1.01
SADD
0.63
0.93
HSET
0.62
0.99
SPOP
0.64
1.01
ZADD
0.65
0.95
ZPOPMIN
0.63
0.92
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.87
1.29
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.38
2.48
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
2.08
2.83
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
2.62
3.28
MSET (10 keys)
0.76
1.09
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
Based on the benchmark results, the UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) instance outperforms the Linode Nanode (1 GB) in most metrics, especially in Redis performance where the UpCloud instance shows notably higher request rates per second (rps) and lower latencies across various Redis commands. The UpCloud instance also performs better in CPU and memory benchmarks, indicating faster processing times and higher throughput rates. For users who prioritize high throughput, low latency, and overall processing power, the UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) instance would be the better choice.
From the friendly human:
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