Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB) vs. Linode Nanode (1 GB)

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Same showdown, different day. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Linode and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:00:52 GMT Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 6.8.0-107-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 Newark, NJ Newark, NJ
Monthly Price $5.00 $5.00
RAM (GB) 1 1
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 25 25
Storage Type SSD SSD
Transfer (TB) 1 1

CPU

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel AuthenticAMD
Model Name Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX, IBRS) AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,400.00 2,000.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 512.00
BogoMips 4,799.99 3,999.99
Events per Second 820.77 1,620.95
Minimum Latency (ms) 1 0.28
Average Latency (ms) 1.22 0.61
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.71 16.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.32 2.97

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Operations per second 4,183,460.82 2,785,205.91
Mebibytes per second 4,085.41 2,719.93
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.32 3.98
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Operations per second 4,091,149.16 5,247,741.79
Mebibytes per second 3,995.26 5,124.75
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.91 4.41
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Reads per Second 2,036.96 2,319.13
Writes per Second 1,357.97 1,546.08
Fsyncs per Second 4,346.01 4,957.36
Read Mebibytes per Second 31.83 36.24
Written Mebibytes per Second 21.22 24.16
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.13 0.11
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.89 8.17
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.3 0.25

Mutex

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,927.10 2,349.38
Average Latency (ms) 1,939.45 2,390.79
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,950.93 2,412.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,938.16 2,405.65

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,023.00 6,608.00
Queries per second 50,230.00 66,080.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.72 1.28
Average Latency (ms) 1.99 1.51
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.42 8.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.18 1.79

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,626.00 4,539.00
Queries per second 36,260.00 45,390.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.75 1.33
Average Latency (ms) 2.76 2.2
Maximum Latency (ms) 26.81 18.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.41 3.25

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,959.00 2,306.00
Queries per second 19,590.00 23,060.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 4.12 3.11
Average Latency (ms) 5.1 4.33
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.97 10.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 6.21 5.67

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,524.00 7,556.00
Queries per second 65,240.00 75,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.08 0.83
Average Latency (ms) 1.53 1.32
Maximum Latency (ms) 15.83 8.91
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.03 1.82

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 996,869.00 1,171,967.00
Queries per second 9,968,690.00 11,719,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 477.16 511.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 104,020.00 127,249.00
Queries per second 1,040,200.00 1,272,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.07 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 0.1 0.08
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.02 7.66
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.14 0.11

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,526.00 8,151.00
Queries per second 55,260.00 81,510.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.63 0.39
Average Latency (ms) 1.81 1.22
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.77 5.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.35 1.7

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,273.00 9,239.00
Queries per second 62,730.00 92,390.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.5 0.33
Average Latency (ms) 1.59 1.08
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.53 8.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.07 1.42

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,371.00 7,280.00
Queries per second 63,710.00 72,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.03 0.71
Average Latency (ms) 1.57 1.37
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.68 23.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.14 2.03

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,541.00 7,428.00
Queries per second 65,410.00 74,280.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.91 0.72
Average Latency (ms) 1.53 1.34
Maximum Latency (ms) 24.84 6.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.96 1.86

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 43,573.00 54,792.00
Queries per second 435,730.00 547,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.07 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 0.23 0.18
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.55 11.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.42 1.14

Redis

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 35,050.82 28,910.09
PING_MBULK per Second 33,534.54 34,328.87
SET per Second 36,010.08 33,178.50
GET per Second 35,149.38 33,670.04
INCR per Second 36,523.01 34,650.04
LPUSH per Second 37,369.21 32,992.41
RPUSH per Second 38,774.72 32,992.41
LPOP per Second 36,982.25 33,068.79
RPOP per Second 36,724.20 33,388.98
SADD per Second 36,563.07 33,014.20
HSET per Second 32,701.11 33,967.39
SPOP per Second 36,205.65 35,549.23
ZADD per Second 37,467.22 34,071.55
ZPOPMIN per Second 37,495.31 34,364.26
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 24,801.59 20,876.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 13,208.29 13,976.24
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 9,684.29 10,399.33
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 7,718.43 8,848.77
MSET (10 keys) per Second 33,602.15 31,240.24

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.931.11
PING_MBULK0.960.97
SET0.910.99
GET0.920.97
INCR0.900.95
LPUSH0.880.99
RPUSH0.850.99
LPOP0.891.00
RPOP0.900.98
SADD0.890.98
HSET1.010.96
SPOP0.890.93
ZADD0.880.96
ZPOPMIN0.870.94
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.351.61
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.572.39
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)3.543.26
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)4.413.83
MSET (10 keys)1.021.08

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Linode Nanode instance and the Vultr Cloud Compute instance both offer 1 CPU core and 1 GB of RAM, but their benchmark results vary significantly across different metrics. The Vultr instance generally outperforms the Linode instance in terms of Redis operations, achieving higher requests per second with lower average latencies across most commands. The Vultr instance also demonstrates superior file I/O performance with higher throughput and lower latencies. However, the Linode instance has more competitive results in MySQL OLTP operations and slightly better memory read/write latencies and operations. Given these benchmarks, the Vultr instance is better suited for workloads that benefit from high I/O performance and Redis operations, while the Linode instance might be more appropriate for workloads where MySQL performance and lower memory latencies are priorities.

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