Gcore Standard A1 2 vCPU / 4 GB

Manassas

Benchmark complete

Finished Oct 13, 2026

Geekbench 7 single-core

986

Faster than 43% of 2 vCPU plans

Geekbench 7 multi-core

1,817

Faster than 44% of 2 vCPU plans

Disk 4K IOPS

1,203

fio random read and write, 50/50

Monthly price at test time

€29.40 EUR

53 multi-core points per dollar

Same price today

Server

Gcore Standard A1 2 vCPU / 4 GB

Provider

Gcore
Plan

Standard A1 2 vCPU / 4 GB
Location

Manassas
vCPU

2
RAM

4 GB
Storage
Network

1 Gbps
OS image

ubuntu-24.04
Trigger

Scheduled
Queued at

Oct 13, 2026, 11:38:00 UTC

Visit Gcore

CPU

Version	Single-core	Multi-core	Result link
Geekbench 7	986	1,817	Geekbench Browser

Scores from different Geekbench versions aren't comparable with each other. Charts only use Geekbench 7.

Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

Test	Result	Runs	Spread
Copy higher is better	47.7 GB/s	3	0.815%
Scale higher is better	47.1 GB/s	3	1.56%
Add higher is better	42.1 GB/s	3	1.45%
Triad higher is better	42.4 GB/s	3	0.321%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

TLS and crypto (OpenSSL)

Test	Result	Runs	Spread
RSA 4096 signs higher is better	97.2/s	3	0.475%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better	7,845/s	3	1.7%
SHA-256 higher is better	1.45 GB/s	3	0.304%
AES-256-GCM higher is better	4.69 GB/s	3	0.145%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better	1.72 GB/s	3	0.134%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Scheduler latency (schbench)

Test	Result	Runs	Spread
Request latency, median lower is better	15 ms	3	0%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better	132/s	3	0%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better	22.2 ms	3	0.44%
Requests per second, average higher is better	132/s	3	0.0531%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Disk

Block size	Read	Write	Total
4K	2.3 MB/s (599 IOPS)	2.4 MB/s (604 IOPS)	4.7 MB/s (1,203 IOPS)
64K	37.2 MB/s (595 IOPS)	38.3 MB/s (612 IOPS)	75.5 MB/s (1,207 IOPS)
512K	48.4 MB/s (96 IOPS)	52.6 MB/s (105 IOPS)	101 MB/s (201 IOPS)
1M	47.5 MB/s (47 IOPS)	53 MB/s (53 IOPS)	100.5 MB/s (100 IOPS)

fio random read and write, 50/50, run by YABS against the boot disk.

Network

IPv4 transfer speed

Target	Protocol	Send	Receive
Clouvider, London, UK (10G)	IPv4	1.39 Gbps	1.38 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G)	IPv4	1.41 Gbps	1.36 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G)	IPv4	819 Mbps	978 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G)	IPv4	1.44 Gbps	1.41 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G)	IPv4	1.51 Gbps	1.45 Gbps

Public iperf3 servers vary in capacity and availability. Compare a target only with itself over time.

Datastores

PostgreSQL

fsync speed (pg_test_fsync)

Method	Operations per second	Time per operation
One 8 kB write
open_datasync	340	2.95 ms
fdatasync	341	2.93 ms
fsync	116	8.61 ms
fsync_writethrough	Not supported here	n/a
open_sync	102	9.85 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync	176	5.67 ms
fdatasync	314	3.19 ms
fsync	119	8.39 ms
fsync_writethrough	Not supported here	n/a
open_sync	54	18.5 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write	95.2	10.5 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes	54.7	18.3 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes	27.5	36.4 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes	12.1	82.8 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes	7.72	129 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close	128	7.8 ms
write, close, fsync	109	9.19 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write	1,006,864	0.001 ms

pg_test_fsync against the Docker volume Postgres keeps its data on. fdatasync is Linux's default wal_sync_method.

pgbench at scale 10

Workload	Clients	Transactions/s	Median	p95	p99	p99.9
Read/write (TPC-B like)	1	222	3.5 ms	7.96 ms	12.2 ms	52.1 ms
Read/write (TPC-B like)	8	784	7.66 ms	24 ms	43.5 ms	160 ms
Read/write (TPC-B like)	32	1,121	18.6 ms	85.3 ms	173 ms	336 ms
Read only	1	20,132	0.044 ms	0.076 ms	0.105 ms	0.226 ms
Read only	8	33,617	0.219 ms	0.357 ms	0.433 ms	0.885 ms
Read only	32	34,394	0.845 ms	1.3 ms	1.73 ms	3.24 ms

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 3.04 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

pgbench at scale 100

Workload	Clients	Transactions/s	Median	p95	p99	p99.9
Read/write (TPC-B like)	1	235	3.54 ms	6.88 ms	16.9 ms	55.6 ms
Read/write (TPC-B like)	8	576	6.56 ms	59.8 ms	160 ms	286 ms
Read/write (TPC-B like)	32	681	17 ms	162 ms	283 ms	458 ms
Read only	1	1,907	0.144 ms	2.28 ms	5.34 ms	12.3 ms
Read only	8	18,617	0.284 ms	0.529 ms	1.18 ms	25.4 ms
Read only	32	25,339	1.16 ms	1.9 ms	2.45 ms	4.24 ms

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 60.7 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

MySQL

sysbench OLTP

Workload	Threads	Transactions/s	Queries/s	Median	p95	p99
Read/write	1	36.5	730	18.6 ms	60 ms	240 ms
Read/write	8	92.6	1,851	39.7 ms	320 ms	451 ms
Read/write	32	94.9	1,898	197 ms	580 ms	3.64 s
Read only	1	610	9,758	1.37 ms	2.81 ms	4.1 ms
Read only	8	1,124	17,986	7.04 ms	9.39 ms	11 ms
Read only	32	1,014	16,220	31.4 ms	40.4 ms	45 ms

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 37.9 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix	Operations/s	Hits/s	Median	p99	p99.9
1:10 set:get	60,878	55,343	0.767 ms	2.9 ms	4.61 ms
1:1 set:get	60,813	30,406	0.775 ms	2.91 ms	4.58 ms

1,000,000 keys of 32 bytes. 64 connections over 2 threads, 60 s per ratio.

Web frameworks

Framework	Fortunes req/s	Single query req/s	JSON req/s	Fortunes p99 at 256 connections
Next.js nextjs	492	1,675	2,337	1.39 s
Express express-postgresjs	5,743	7,892	18,591	239 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres	5,735	8,404	19,285	327 ms
NestJS nestjs	3,100	3,445	10,666	141 ms
Nuxt nuxt	4,912	7,106	15,819	234 ms
FastAPI fastapi	2,738	3,388	18,470	319 ms
Django django-postgresql	933	1,039	2,327	549 ms
Rails rails	1,112	1,566	6,979	335 ms
Laravel laravel	516	569	1,066	539 ms
Symfony symfony	731	785	2,090	388 ms

Peak requests per second across the 64 and 256 connection levels, measured with wrk. Each test has to pass the TechEmpower response checks first, or it's marked invalid.

WooCommerce

Page mix

Step	Requests/s	Median	p95	p99	Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page	1.72	920 ms	1 s	1.07 s	0%
Shop page	1.72	1.25 s	1.37 s	1.43 s	0%
Category page	1.72	783 ms	1.26 s	1.28 s	0%
Product page	1.72	834 ms	961 ms	1.02 s	0%
Product search	1.72	747 ms	844 ms	876 ms	0%
32 virtual users
Home page	1.81	3.26 s	3.67 s	3.83 s	0%
Shop page	1.81	4.38 s	4.9 s	4.95 s	0%
Category page	1.81	3.85 s	4.51 s	4.62 s	0%
Product page	1.81	3.36 s	3.61 s	3.76 s	0%
Product search	1.47	3.1 s	3.34 s	3.42 s	0%

Cart and checkout

Step	Requests/s	Median	p95	p99	Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart	3.34	975 ms	1.11 s	1.17 s	0%
Cart	3.34	789 ms	908 ms	949 ms	0%
Checkout	3.34	599 ms	686 ms	719 ms	0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart	3.37	3.22 s	3.89 s	4.09 s	0%
Cart	3.37	3.41 s	3.72 s	3.87 s	0%
Checkout	3.37	2.67 s	3.06 s	3.15 s	0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 63 to 71 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

Discourse

Signed in

Step	Requests/s	Median	p95	p99	Error rate
1 virtual user
Topic page	1.43	304 ms	463 ms	669 ms	0%
Topic JSON	0.725	153 ms	171 ms	316 ms	0%
Home page	0.725	275 ms	404 ms	569 ms	0%
Categories page	0.362	319 ms	361 ms	455 ms	0%
User activity page	0.362	197 ms	275 ms	422 ms	0%
4 virtual users
Topic page	3.21	546 ms	753 ms	1.23 s	0%
Topic JSON	1.6	286 ms	365 ms	646 ms	0%
Home page	1.58	478 ms	742 ms	1.23 s	0%
Categories page	0.823	575 ms	971 ms	1.36 s	0%
User activity page	0.79	343 ms	518 ms	751 ms	0%
16 virtual users
Topic page	3.19	1.61 s	2.03 s	2.48 s	0%
Topic JSON	1.61	1.37 s	1.72 s	1.85 s	0%
Home page	1.61	1.58 s	2.03 s	2.16 s	0%
Categories page	0.821	1.61 s	2.14 s	2.28 s	0%
User activity page	0.805	1.48 s	1.87 s	2.15 s	0%

Anonymous

Step	Requests/s	Median	p95	p99	Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page	58.5	79.1 ms	185 ms	235 ms	0%
Topic JSON	29.2	72.6 ms	176 ms	220 ms	0%
Home page	29.2	79.8 ms	195 ms	241 ms	0%
Categories page	14.6	74.9 ms	180 ms	252 ms	0%
User activity page	14.7	240 ms	366 ms	585 ms	0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 62 s per level, after a 22 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Discourse ran with 4 app workers and 1024 MB of Postgres shared buffers, what its installer picks for a 4 GB box. It added a 2 GB swapfile first, the way its installer does, and didn't need it. The container peaked at 2,007 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step	Requests/s	Median	p95	p99	Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page	6.18	45.9 ms	52.2 ms	70.3 ms	0%
Post page	15.4	24.7 ms	29.4 ms	38.9 ms	0%
Tag page	3.1	30.5 ms	35.3 ms	38.5 ms	0%
Author page	3.08	30.9 ms	36.2 ms	45.8 ms	0%
RSS feed	3.08	39.2 ms	47.2 ms	52.2 ms	0%
4 virtual users
Home page	8.13	133 ms	166 ms	206 ms	0%
Post page	20.3	87.6 ms	126 ms	149 ms	0%
Tag page	4.06	83 ms	113 ms	132 ms	0%
Author page	4.06	85.8 ms	114 ms	120 ms	0%
RSS feed	4.06	95.5 ms	131 ms	143 ms	0%
16 virtual users
Home page	8.04	495 ms	590 ms	630 ms	0%
Post page	20.1	421 ms	520 ms	568 ms	0%
Tag page	4.03	273 ms	341 ms	394 ms	0%
Author page	4	274 ms	359 ms	402 ms	0%
RSS feed	4	279 ms	362 ms	403 ms	0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step	Requests/s	Median	p95	p99	Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list	2.22	46.4 ms	56.3 ms	68.7 ms	0%
Post editor	6.69	19.1 ms	24.9 ms	29.8 ms	0%
Saving a draft	6.69	69.3 ms	158 ms	744 ms	0%
Member list	2.24	58.6 ms	73.1 ms	116 ms	0%
4 virtual users
Post list	3.36	54.6 ms	64.9 ms	73.8 ms	0%
Post editor	10.1	22.1 ms	32.4 ms	50.3 ms	0%
Saving a draft	10.2	297 ms	470 ms	702 ms	0%
Member list	3.37	64.2 ms	73.2 ms	96.1 ms	0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 s per level, after a 20 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Ghost ran the way its ghost-docker setup runs it: one Node process, and MySQL with its stock 128 MB buffer pool. Memory peaked with Ghost at 307 MB and MySQL at 620 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step	Requests/s	Median	p95	p99	Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page	1.14	111 ms	123 ms	126 ms	0%
Blog index	1.14	401 ms	443 ms	457 ms	0%
Blog post	3.39	37.6 ms	52.8 ms	60 ms	0%
Bread page	3.41	41 ms	47.4 ms	49.2 ms	0%
Location page	1.14	39.1 ms	45.2 ms	47.4 ms	0%
Site search	1.13	73 ms	118 ms	122 ms	0%
4 virtual users
Home page	1.93	291 ms	401 ms	447 ms	0%
Blog index	1.95	1.02 s	1.43 s	1.57 s	0%
Blog post	5.79	78.3 ms	141 ms	174 ms	0%
Bread page	5.84	89.1 ms	140 ms	165 ms	0%
Location page	1.98	77.4 ms	136 ms	212 ms	0%
Site search	1.91	126 ms	258 ms	305 ms	0%
16 virtual users
Home page	1.91	982 ms	1.24 s	1.33 s	0%
Blog index	1.95	2.55 s	2.99 s	3.19 s	0%
Blog post	5.67	532 ms	873 ms	981 ms	0%
Bread page	5.7	556 ms	851 ms	1.02 s	0%
Location page	1.94	555 ms	902 ms	1.18 s	0%
Site search	1.87	651 ms	899 ms	950 ms	0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step	Requests/s	Median	p95	p99	Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard	0.594	112 ms	129 ms	149 ms	0%
Page explorer	1.19	371 ms	453 ms	540 ms	0%
Page editor	1.78	192 ms	313 ms	388 ms	0%
Image library	0.594	77.1 ms	87 ms	721 ms	0%
Admin page search	0.594	47.3 ms	95.7 ms	102 ms	0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard	0.954	307 ms	619 ms	758 ms	0%
Page explorer	1.94	871 ms	1.68 s	1.8 s	0%
Page editor	2.91	440 ms	970 ms	1.25 s	0%
Image library	0.971	229 ms	493 ms	572 ms	0%
Admin page search	0.954	112 ms	352 ms	479 ms	0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 61 s per level, after a 21 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Wagtail ran the way bakerydemo ships it: uWSGI with 2 workers of 4 threads each, whatever the box, and Postgres and Redis on stock settings. Memory peaked with Wagtail at 296 MB, Postgres at 163 MB, and Redis at 25 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Spec	Advertised	Measured
vCPU	2	2
CPU	Shared vCPU	0.8% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM	4 GB	3.8 GiB
Storage		19.3 GiB
Architecture	arm64	arm64
Virtualization	KVM	KVM

Guests usually report slightly less RAM and disk than advertised because of kernel reservations and filesystem overhead.

Detected hardware

CPU model: Neoverse-N1
CPU cores: 2
CPU frequency: Unknown
AES-NI: Yes
VM-x/AMD-V: No
RAM reported: 3.8 GiB
Swap reported: 0 MiB
Disk reported: 19.3 GiB
Virtualization reported: KVM
CPU steal: 0.8% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
Kernel: 6.8.0-90-generic
Architecture: arm64
IPv4 reachable: Yes
IPv6 reachable: Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan: Standard A1 2 vCPU / 4 GB
Product line: Standard A1
Location: Manassas
vCPU: 2 shared vCPU
Architecture: arm64
RAM: 4 GB
Storage
Virtualization: KVM
Network: 1 Gbps
Transfer: Unmetered
Port 25: Unknown
Monthly price at test time: €29.40 EUR
Hourly price at test time: €0.041 EUR
YABS version: v2026-09-20
Ran at: Oct 13, 2026, 11:40:07 UTC
Parser version: 5

Run timeline

Queued: Oct 13, 2026, 11:38:00 UTC
Server created: Oct 13, 2026, 11:38:52 UTC
First update from the server: Oct 13, 2026, 11:38:53 UTC
Completed: Oct 13, 2026, 13:42:00 UTC
Server deleted: Oct 13, 2026, 13:42:00 UTC
Cost of this run: €0.084 EUR

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Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

TLS and crypto (OpenSSL)

Scheduler latency (schbench)

Disk

Network

IPv4 transfer speed

Datastores

PostgreSQL

fsync speed (pg_test_fsync)

pgbench at scale 10

pgbench at scale 100

MySQL

sysbench OLTP

Redis

memtier

Web frameworks

WooCommerce

Page mix

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Discourse

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