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London 2, UK

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Finished Oct 12, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,134
Faster than 39% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,429
Faster than 14% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
101,971
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$43.00
33 multi-core points per dollar
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Server

  • Provider
    Linode
  • Plan
    Premium 4GB
  • Location
    London 2, UK
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
    80 GB SSD
  • Network
    4 Gbps
  • OS image
    linode/ubuntu24.04
  • Trigger
    Manual
  • Queued at
    Oct 12, 2026, 01:06:45 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,134 1,429 Geekbench Browser

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

Geekbench 7 workloads

Workload Single-core Multi-core
File Compression
1,070
77th of 106
1,388
76th of 90
Navigation
1,037
93rd of 106
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,074
70th of 106
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,175
70th of 106
Single-core only
Photo Library
946
74th of 106
1,299
78th of 90
Clang
1,040
78th of 106
1,447
78th of 90
Text Processing
955
83rd of 106
1,253
81st of 90
Asset Compression
1,153
72nd of 106
1,555
79th of 90
HDR
852
83rd of 106
1,114
82nd of 90
Photo Editor
1,447
52nd of 106
1,678
67th of 90
Ray Tracer
1,291
55th of 106
1,832
73rd of 90
Structure from Motion
1,246
67th of 106
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,185
63rd of 106
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,141
66th of 106
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,307
56th of 106
Single-core only
Video Player
1,404
53rd of 106
Single-core only

Rank among the 106 runs with Geekbench 7 workload scores. Bars are relative to the best run. Geekbench doesn't run every workload multi-core, so some rows only have a single-core score.

Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

Test Result Runs Spread
Copy higher is better 47.8 GB/s 3 0.285%
Scale higher is better 32.5 GB/s 3 0.449%
Add higher is better 34.2 GB/s 3 0.0945%
Triad higher is better 34.3 GB/s 3 0.377%

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 221/s 3 0.159%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 14,323/s 3 1.23%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.1 GB/s 3 8.82%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 3.65 GB/s 3 0.101%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 2.54 GB/s 3 0.223%

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 10.4 ms 3 2.06%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 193/s 3 2.26%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 17.7 ms 3 2.35%
Requests per second, average higher is better 192/s 3 1.82%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 198.9 MB/s (50,918 IOPS) 199.4 MB/s (51,053 IOPS) 398.3 MB/s (101,971 IOPS)
64K 1.95 GB/s (31,947 IOPS) 1.96 GB/s (32,115 IOPS) 3.91 GB/s (64,062 IOPS)
512K 3.94 GB/s (8,076 IOPS) 4.15 GB/s (8,506 IOPS) 8.1 GB/s (16,582 IOPS)
1M 4.49 GB/s (4,598 IOPS) 4.79 GB/s (4,904 IOPS) 9.28 GB/s (9,502 IOPS)

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

Network

IPv4 transfer speed

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Target Protocol Send Receive
Clouvider, London, UK (10G) IPv4 4.4 Gbps 8.14 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 4.37 Gbps 15.5 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 1.1 Gbps 1.26 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.12 Gbps 1.41 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 1.59 Gbps 3.38 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 10,511 0.095 ms
fdatasync 5,632 0.178 ms
fsync 3,733 0.268 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 4,072 0.246 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 4,685 0.213 ms
fdatasync 4,902 0.204 ms
fsync 3,398 0.294 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 2,101 0.476 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 3,909 0.256 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 2,034 0.492 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 1,064 0.94 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 377 2.66 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 186 5.38 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 3,422 0.292 ms
write, close, fsync 3,493 0.286 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 445,792 0.002 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 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 1,288 0.734 ms 0.951 ms 1.09 ms 2.02 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,103 2.4 ms 4.18 ms 5.59 ms 8.81 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,175 8.22 ms 22.4 ms 35.2 ms 59.2 ms 0
Read only 1 12,706 0.069 ms 0.098 ms 0.264 ms 0.299 ms 0
Read only 8 35,103 0.189 ms 0.379 ms 0.59 ms 0.986 ms 0
Read only 32 35,444 0.702 ms 1.22 ms 1.85 ms 3.11 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.66 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 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 1,168 0.788 ms 1.14 ms 1.53 ms 2.58 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,899 2.63 ms 4.19 ms 5.64 ms 8.54 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,447 8.7 ms 14.6 ms 19 ms 27.8 ms 0
Read only 1 10,010 0.084 ms 0.143 ms 0.366 ms 0.815 ms 0
Read only 8 27,203 0.247 ms 0.508 ms 0.853 ms 2.19 ms 0
Read only 32 28,314 0.928 ms 1.63 ms 2.42 ms 4.45 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 16.9 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 Errors
Read/write 1 270 5,394 3.49 ms 5.18 ms 7.7 ms 0
Read/write 8 518 10,367 15.3 ms 24.4 ms 32.5 ms 0
Read/write 32 559 11,183 55.8 ms 95.8 ms 123 ms 0
Read only 1 522 8,359 1.89 ms 2.22 ms 2.62 ms 0
Read only 8 1,046 16,729 7.43 ms 10.3 ms 12.1 ms 0
Read only 32 1,003 16,040 31.4 ms 41.1 ms 49.2 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 11.4 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 39,389 35,807 1.3 ms 3.94 ms 5.86 ms
1:1 set:get 38,593 19,296 1.32 ms 4.13 ms 6.11 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 406 1,486 2,094 803 ms
Express express-postgresjs 4,742 6,581 16,594 409 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 4,627 6,894 17,023 97 ms
NestJS nestjs 2,982 3,364 9,978 153 ms
Nuxt nuxt 4,152 5,961 14,288 299 ms
FastAPI fastapi 2,174 2,829 9,082 416 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,076 1,264 2,657 333 ms
Rails rails 1,928 2,568 8,395 165 ms
Laravel laravel 499 538 949 544 ms
Symfony symfony 631 710 1,808 428 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 1.36 1.17 s 1.24 s 1.27 s 0%
Shop page 1.36 1.58 s 1.66 s 1.67 s 0%
Category page 1.36 990 ms 1.51 s 1.58 s 0%
Product page 1.36 1.1 s 1.18 s 1.21 s 0%
Product search 1.36 951 ms 1.05 s 1.09 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.36 4.3 s 4.9 s 5 s 0%
Shop page 1.36 5.62 s 6.4 s 6.62 s 0%
Category page 1.36 5.05 s 5.91 s 6.17 s 0%
Product page 1.36 4.33 s 4.81 s 4.86 s 0%
Product search 1.36 3.96 s 4.31 s 4.47 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 2.57 1.25 s 1.38 s 1.43 s 0%
Cart 2.57 1.03 s 1.18 s 1.22 s 0%
Checkout 2.57 802 ms 936 ms 956 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 2.62 4.01 s 5 s 5.09 s 0%
Cart 2.62 4.34 s 4.8 s 4.93 s 0%
Checkout 2.62 3.36 s 4.01 s 4.17 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 62 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 1.87 232 ms 370 ms 478 ms 0%
Topic JSON 0.942 118 ms 160 ms 221 ms 0%
Home page 0.942 206 ms 296 ms 464 ms 0%
Categories page 0.479 241 ms 282 ms 320 ms 0%
User activity page 0.463 148 ms 296 ms 361 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 2.6 671 ms 989 ms 1.43 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.3 352 ms 419 ms 562 ms 0%
Home page 1.3 605 ms 755 ms 901 ms 0%
Categories page 0.675 696 ms 1.43 s 1.55 s 0%
User activity page 0.658 432 ms 862 ms 1.2 s 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 2.4 1.79 s 2.3 s 2.97 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.21 1.47 s 1.8 s 2.04 s 0%
Home page 1.21 1.71 s 2.1 s 2.49 s 0%
Categories page 0.613 1.78 s 2.12 s 2.24 s 0%
User activity page 0.613 1.49 s 1.93 s 2.06 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 56.5 78.9 ms 189 ms 260 ms 0%
Topic JSON 28.3 77.1 ms 187 ms 268 ms 0%
Home page 28.3 80.3 ms 194 ms 270 ms 0%
Categories page 14.1 82.6 ms 194 ms 271 ms 0%
User activity page 14.2 250 ms 393 ms 587 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 62 s per level, after a 21 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 2,281 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 7.59 38.9 ms 45.3 ms 72.5 ms 0%
Post page 19 18.6 ms 23.9 ms 34.6 ms 0%
Tag page 3.8 25.5 ms 32.1 ms 55.9 ms 0%
Author page 3.8 26.7 ms 32.8 ms 38.5 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.8 31.9 ms 38.4 ms 51.6 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 8.49 133 ms 167 ms 220 ms 0%
Post page 21.2 81 ms 120 ms 146 ms 0%
Tag page 4.24 77.2 ms 108 ms 146 ms 0%
Author page 4.26 83.9 ms 114 ms 133 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.23 88.8 ms 126 ms 138 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 8.31 486 ms 594 ms 651 ms 0%
Post page 20.8 399 ms 507 ms 582 ms 0%
Tag page 4.15 270 ms 348 ms 424 ms 0%
Author page 4.2 266 ms 368 ms 421 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.16 270 ms 359 ms 390 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 4.12 37.7 ms 49.6 ms 64 ms 0%
Post editor 12.4 13.7 ms 19.6 ms 24.7 ms 0%
Saving a draft 12.4 33.7 ms 43.2 ms 54.8 ms 0%
Member list 4.12 44.3 ms 58.9 ms 82.7 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 4.76 56.6 ms 64.6 ms 82 ms 0%
Post editor 14.3 28 ms 34.6 ms 44.1 ms 0%
Saving a draft 14.3 214 ms 263 ms 314 ms 0%
Member list 4.78 64.1 ms 79.8 ms 91.1 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 302 MB and MySQL at 621 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.31 103 ms 108 ms 110 ms 0%
Blog index 1.31 353 ms 367 ms 372 ms 0%
Blog post 3.9 32.3 ms 49.5 ms 53.2 ms 0%
Bread page 3.91 35.8 ms 38.9 ms 40.7 ms 0%
Location page 1.31 34.1 ms 37.3 ms 40.1 ms 0%
Site search 1.29 54.3 ms 89.3 ms 91.6 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 1.83 303 ms 423 ms 487 ms 0%
Blog index 1.87 1.05 s 1.3 s 1.35 s 0%
Blog post 5.52 90.5 ms 143 ms 187 ms 0%
Bread page 5.55 99.9 ms 140 ms 159 ms 0%
Location page 1.88 93.7 ms 128 ms 148 ms 0%
Site search 1.83 147 ms 287 ms 316 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 1.92 996 ms 1.26 s 1.42 s 0%
Blog index 1.99 2.34 s 2.7 s 2.79 s 0%
Blog post 5.8 559 ms 860 ms 1.04 s 0%
Bread page 5.8 564 ms 820 ms 932 ms 0%
Location page 1.96 549 ms 773 ms 989 ms 0%
Site search 1.94 662 ms 912 ms 1.03 s 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.493 111 ms 127 ms 137 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.02 478 ms 505 ms 693 ms 0%
Page editor 1.5 223 ms 262 ms 367 ms 0%
Image library 0.493 84.3 ms 156 ms 719 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.493 67.2 ms 105 ms 184 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.658 405 ms 685 ms 712 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.35 1.46 s 2.18 s 2.58 s 0%
Page editor 2.04 709 ms 1.13 s 1.18 s 0%
Image library 0.691 303 ms 554 ms 576 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.658 146 ms 389 ms 461 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 292 MB, Postgres at 162 MB, and Redis at 26 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 4 GB 3.8 GiB
Storage 80 GB SSD 78.2 GiB
Architecture x86_64 x86_64
Virtualization KVM KVM

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

Detected hardware

CPU model
AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
2000 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
No
RAM reported
3.8 GiB
Swap reported
496 MiB
Disk reported
78.2 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-134-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
Premium 4GB
Product line
Premium CPU
Location
London 2, UK
vCPU
2 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
4 GB
Storage
80 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
4 Gbps
Transfer
4 TB
Port 25
On request
Monthly price at test time
$43.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.065
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 12, 2026, 05:37:08 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 12, 2026, 01:06:45 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 12, 2026, 05:35:36 UTC
Completed
Oct 12, 2026, 07:18:37 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 12, 2026, 07:18:37 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.11
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