Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB) vs. Linode Nanode (1 GB)
Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I've got brand new instances from Linode and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Time to see who showed up today.
Overview
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:30:37 GMT
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:29:06 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
7.0.0-27-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
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
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category
Winner
CPU (events/sec)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB) takes 6 of 6 categories.
CPU
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vendor
GenuineIntel
AuthenticAMD
Model Name
Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS)
AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,394.45
2,000.00
CPU Cache Size (KB)
16,384.00
512.00
BogoMips
4,788.90
4,000.00
Events per Second
704.30
2,995.79
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.23
0.3
Average Latency (ms)
1.42
0.33
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.04
3.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.73
0.34
Memory
Memory Read
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Operations per second
3,595,908.88
5,138,712.44
Mebibytes per second
3,511.63
5,018.27
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.61
0.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Operations per second
3,455,305.83
5,126,038.83
Mebibytes per second
3,374.32
5,005.90
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.29
2.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Reads per Second
1,878.82
3,144.54
Writes per Second
1,252.51
2,096.29
Fsyncs per Second
4,014.75
6,714.53
Read Mebibytes per Second
29.36
49.13
Written Mebibytes per Second
19.57
32.75
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.14
0.08
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.08
40.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.4
0.19
Mutex
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,084.67
1,726.97
Average Latency (ms)
2,093.52
1,752.52
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,098.38
1,763.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,082.91
1,771.29
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,684.00
7,323.00
Queries per second
46,840.00
73,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.71
1.26
Average Latency (ms)
2.13
1.36
Maximum Latency (ms)
9.23
3.63
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.02
1.58
MySQL Write-only
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
3,785.00
4,970.00
Queries per second
37,850.00
49,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.46
1.15
Average Latency (ms)
2.64
2.02
Maximum Latency (ms)
33.7
99.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.82
3.19
MySQL Read/Write
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,104.00
3,294.00
Queries per second
21,040.00
32,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.41
2.51
Average Latency (ms)
4.75
3.03
Maximum Latency (ms)
10.72
24.98
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.91
3.68
MySQL INSERT
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,970.00
11,632.00
Queries per second
79,700.00
116,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.8
0.65
Average Latency (ms)
1.25
0.86
Maximum Latency (ms)
22.57
6.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.7
1.14
MySQL Bulk INSERT
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
734,741.00
1,201,092.00
Queries per second
7,347,410.00
12,010,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
700.22
468.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
107,531.00
140,938.00
Queries per second
1,075,310.00
1,409,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.07
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.09
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.82
1.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.13
0.12
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
3,796.00
6,603.00
Queries per second
37,960.00
66,030.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.93
0.52
Average Latency (ms)
2.63
1.51
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.47
9.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.82
1.96
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
5,117.00
7,697.00
Queries per second
51,170.00
76,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.67
0.49
Average Latency (ms)
1.95
1.3
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.04
4.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.19
1.7
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,164.00
11,465.00
Queries per second
71,640.00
114,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.82
0.66
Average Latency (ms)
1.39
0.87
Maximum Latency (ms)
28.24
43.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.03
1.1
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,738.00
11,672.00
Queries per second
77,380.00
116,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.78
0.67
Average Latency (ms)
1.29
0.86
Maximum Latency (ms)
17.75
24.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.76
1.1
MySQL DELETE
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
52,919.00
94,623.00
Queries per second
529,190.00
946,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.07
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.19
0.11
Maximum Latency (ms)
26.33
10.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.04
0.19
Redis
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
28,835.06
38,446.75
PING_MBULK per Second
30,778.70
38,505.97
SET per Second
28,918.45
39,123.63
GET per Second
28,669.72
38,804.81
INCR per Second
30,656.04
39,169.61
LPUSH per Second
30,911.90
39,215.69
RPUSH per Second
26,968.72
39,184.95
LPOP per Second
30,618.49
39,323.63
RPOP per Second
31,123.56
39,093.04
SADD per Second
30,358.23
38,008.36
HSET per Second
29,299.74
40,160.64
SPOP per Second
30,627.87
38,714.67
ZADD per Second
30,358.23
40,064.10
ZPOPMIN per Second
31,367.63
39,169.61
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
22,138.59
25,163.56
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
11,909.01
13,114.75
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
7,708.32
8,311.86
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
7,203.57
7,606.30
MSET (10 keys) per Second
30,312.21
37,821.48
Redis Average Latency (ms)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
1.04
0.78
PING_MBULK
0.96
0.78
SET
1.05
0.79
GET
1.05
0.77
INCR
0.98
0.78
LPUSH
0.98
0.79
RPUSH
1.15
0.79
LPOP
1.00
0.80
RPOP
0.98
0.80
SADD
0.99
0.81
HSET
1.03
0.78
SPOP
0.97
0.78
ZADD
1.00
0.78
ZPOPMIN
0.95
0.77
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.44
1.27
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
2.62
2.28
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
3.84
3.35
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
4.05
3.57
MSET (10 keys)
1.07
0.86
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The Linode Nanode (1 GB) instance emerges as the overall winner based on benchmark results, especially when it comes to Redis performance metrics and CPU event handling, with Redis rps reaching 40,161 vs Vultr's 31,928 and CPU events per second hitting 2996 vs Vultr's 704. This instance would be best suited for applications requiring robust memory operations and consistent, high-speed processing, such as database management or real-time data processing tasks.
From the friendly human:
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