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

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Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I spun up fresh 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). Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:03:02 GMT Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:01:32 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 7.0.0-28-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.

CategoryWinner
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 7642 48-Core Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,400.00 2,300.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 512.00
BogoMips 4,799.99 4,600.00
Events per Second 763.23 1,479.09
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.11 0.65
Average Latency (ms) 1.31 0.68
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.63 4.07
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.44 0.69

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Operations per second 3,905,870.09 5,162,780.30
Mebibytes per second 3,814.33 5,041.78
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.72 1.07
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Operations per second 3,886,921.83 5,347,459.67
Mebibytes per second 3,795.82 5,222.13
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.73 0.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Reads per Second 1,890.03 2,518.00
Writes per Second 1,259.95 1,678.67
Fsyncs per Second 4,040.16 5,375.23
Read Mebibytes per Second 29.53 39.34
Written Mebibytes per Second 19.69 26.23
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.14 0.1
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.59 14.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.35 0.35

Mutex

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,141.87 1,639.75
Average Latency (ms) 2,158.92 1,650.21
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,165.16 1,660.37
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,159.29 1,648.20

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,168.00 9,017.00
Queries per second 51,680.00 90,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.65 1.02
Average Latency (ms) 1.93 1.11
Maximum Latency (ms) 12.8 5.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.22 1.27

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,072.00 8,101.00
Queries per second 30,720.00 81,010.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.58 0.87
Average Latency (ms) 3.71 1.23
Maximum Latency (ms) 3416.63 11.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.07 1.64

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,195.00 3,971.00
Queries per second 21,950.00 39,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.59 1.98
Average Latency (ms) 4.55 2.52
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.62 17.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.28 3.07

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,793.00 12,157.00
Queries per second 67,930.00 121,570.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.03 0.58
Average Latency (ms) 1.47 0.82
Maximum Latency (ms) 42.94 13.14
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.89 1.12

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 931,337.00 1,346,717.00
Queries per second 9,313,370.00 13,467,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 595.92 454.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 112,159.00 211,595.00
Queries per second 1,121,590.00 2,115,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.07 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.09 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.1 3.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.13 0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 4,115.00 6,687.00
Queries per second 41,150.00 66,870.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.76 0.46
Average Latency (ms) 2.43 1.49
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.44 5
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.25 1.93

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,698.00 7,633.00
Queries per second 56,980.00 76,330.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.65 0.46
Average Latency (ms) 1.75 1.31
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.36 3.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.35 1.73

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,594.00 12,921.00
Queries per second 65,940.00 129,210.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1 0.6
Average Latency (ms) 1.51 0.77
Maximum Latency (ms) 26.54 10.21
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.07 0.99

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,477.00 11,621.00
Queries per second 64,770.00 116,210.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.02 0.59
Average Latency (ms) 1.54 0.86
Maximum Latency (ms) 33.4 70.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.18 1.3

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 48,339.00 137,539.00
Queries per second 483,390.00 1,375,390.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.06 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.21 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 22.17 5.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.34 0.1

Redis

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 33,288.95 85,324.23
PING_MBULK per Second 33,704.08 72,150.07
SET per Second 33,456.00 83,682.01
GET per Second 32,010.24 86,430.43
INCR per Second 30,147.72 85,984.52
LPUSH per Second 28,232.64 85,324.23
RPUSH per Second 32,552.08 85,543.20
LPOP per Second 32,414.91 85,034.02
RPOP per Second 32,195.75 84,961.77
SADD per Second 32,278.89 85,763.29
HSET per Second 32,776.14 84,961.77
SPOP per Second 30,147.72 85,984.52
ZADD per Second 25,412.96 85,106.38
ZPOPMIN per Second 25,920.17 86,580.09
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 19,098.55 44,782.80
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 11,506.16 21,213.41
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 7,970.67 14,192.45
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 7,017.05 11,773.02
MSET (10 keys) per Second 30,165.91 72,046.11

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.920.37
PING_MBULK0.900.43
SET0.920.39
GET0.940.37
INCR1.010.37
LPUSH1.080.38
RPUSH0.940.38
LPOP0.950.38
RPOP0.960.38
SADD0.940.37
HSET0.930.38
SPOP1.010.37
ZADD1.210.38
ZPOPMIN1.160.37
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.650.80
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.641.61
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)3.642.49
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)4.122.96
MSET (10 keys)1.100.57

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Linode Nanode (1 GB) instance outperforms the Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB) instance in key benchmarks, especially in Redis performance with higher request per second (rps) rates and lower latencies, such as 85324.23 rps for PING_INLINE compared to Vultr's 33288.95 rps. The Linode also excels in CPU event processing, registering 1479.09 events per second versus Vultr's 763.23, demonstrating superior overall performance for CPU-intensive tasks. For users prioritizing high throughput and low latency, especially in database operations and general CPU-heavy applications, the Linode Nanode is the better choice.

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