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Linode Dedicated 4GB

London 2, UK

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 23, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,050
Faster than 46% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,373
Faster than 36% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
98,429
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$36.00
38 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Linode
  • Plan
    Dedicated 4GB
  • Location
    London 2, UK
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
    80 GB SSD
  • Network
    4 Gbps
  • OS image
    linode/ubuntu24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 21, 2026, 08:23:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,050 1,373 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
1,083
34th of 64
1,314
31st of 36
Navigation
989
42nd of 64
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,054
30th of 64
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,171
35th of 64
Single-core only
Photo Library
949
32nd of 64
1,250
33rd of 36
Clang
985
33rd of 64
1,294
34th of 36
Text Processing
892
42nd of 64
1,228
32nd of 36
Asset Compression
1,143
27th of 64
1,530
30th of 36
HDR
865
41st of 64
1,149
34th of 36
Photo Editor
672
55th of 64
1,595
32nd of 36
Ray Tracer
1,202
24th of 64
1,722
27th of 36
Structure from Motion
1,219
33rd of 64
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,102
33rd of 64
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,129
26th of 64
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,268
24th of 64
Single-core only
Video Player
1,282
25th of 64
Single-core only

Rank among the 64 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.

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 192 MB/s (49,150 IOPS) 192.5 MB/s (49,279 IOPS) 384.5 MB/s (98,429 IOPS)
64K 1.49 GB/s (24,371 IOPS) 1.5 GB/s (24,499 IOPS) 2.98 GB/s (48,870 IOPS)
512K 2.74 GB/s (5,611 IOPS) 2.89 GB/s (5,909 IOPS) 5.63 GB/s (11,520 IOPS)
1M 2.89 GB/s (2,958 IOPS) 3.08 GB/s (3,155 IOPS) 5.97 GB/s (6,113 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 7.73 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 2.74 Gbps 3.34 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 923 Mbps 1.14 Gbps

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

Application workloads

PostgreSQL transactions

Measured

Durable transfers and indexed account lookups against a fixed relational dataset.

RepeatOffered / stransactions/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
11001007.93 / 986.90 / 0load generator fell behind
1500494.6324.89 / 307.40 / 966load generator fell behind
11000973.4352.52 / 410.560 / 4783load generator fell behind
130002884.5126.48 / 179.20 / 20780load generator fell behind
210098.137.58 / 4481.922 / 335load generator fell behind
2500495.2410.68 / 104.290 / 856load generator fell behind
21000955.41130.06 / 611.750 / 8025load generator fell behind
230002826.7571.14 / 232.410 / 30780load generator fell behind

p95 ≤ 50 ms · p99 ≤ 100 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

PostgreSQL large dataset

Failed

The same transaction mix against ten million accounts; the dataset never shrinks to fit a plan.

RuntimeError: RuntimeError: TimeoutError:

p95 ≤ 100 ms · p99 ≤ 250 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Redis cache

Measured

A mixed cache workload with 1 KiB values, expiration, misses and eviction.

RepeatOffered / soperations/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
11000999.993.07 / 13.980 / 0Met workload limits
150004794.7223.63 / 135.380 / 36945load generator fell behind
1100009322.894.59 / 90.60 / 121875load generator fell behind
12500018143.8322.91 / 50.440 / 1233884load generator saturated
21000999.832.99 / 11.650 / 30Met workload limits
250004835.4911.27 / 105.350 / 29606load generator fell behind
2100009250.0316.22 / 122.470 / 134990load generator fell behind
22500018602.8421.3 / 37.160 / 1151237load generator saturated

p95 ≤ 10 ms · p99 ≤ 25 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Redis persistent queue

Measured

Enqueue, consume and acknowledge payloads with append-only persistence.

RepeatOffered / sjobs/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
11001005.69 / 10.450 / 0Met workload limits
1500493.357.54 / 833.160 / 1206load generator fell behind
11000986.7458.12 / 295.360 / 2386load generator fell behind
130002809.1477.9 / 234.740 / 33519load generator fell behind
21001005.89 / 10.560 / 0Met workload limits
2500496.8923.15 / 526.80 / 560load generator fell behind
21000977.3350.95 / 496.210 / 4080load generator fell behind
230002804.6711.77 / 292.430 / 35155load generator fell behind

p95 ≤ 20 ms · p99 ≤ 50 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Discourse community

Failed

Signed-in reading, search, posting and replies in a populated Rails forum.

RuntimeError: RuntimeError: TimeoutError:

p95 ≤ 1500 ms · p99 ≤ 3000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

n8n workflows

Measured

Webhook, transformation, branching and a verified final response.

RepeatOffered / sworkflows/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
15531.87 / 43.750 / 0Met workload limits
1202027.03 / 75.580 / 0Met workload limits
15049.99310.48 / 649.450 / 0Met workload limits
110057.44950.93 / 5308.140 / 7510latency limit exceeded
25531.22 / 40.320 / 0Met workload limits
2202027.03 / 48.920 / 0Met workload limits
25050582.01 / 986.90 / 0Met workload limits
210056.15050.46 / 5634.760 / 7705latency limit exceeded

p95 ≤ 1000 ms · p99 ≤ 2000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

n8n queue workers

Measured

Completed queued workflows including waiting time and worker execution.

RepeatOffered / sworkflows/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
15545.1 / 73.330 / 0Met workload limits
1202056.39 / 122.470 / 0Met workload limits
15038.987154.92 / 7445.480 / 1773latency limit exceeded
110038.967226.48 / 7371.750 / 10784latency limit exceeded
25545.1 / 60.520 / 0Met workload limits
2202042 / 118.830 / 0Met workload limits
25039.627084.07 / 7226.480 / 1651latency limit exceeded
210038.927371.75 / 7519.940 / 10790latency limit exceeded

p95 ≤ 2000 ms · p99 ≤ 4000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Ghost publishing

Measured

Readers, authenticated draft creation, publishing and image uploads.

RepeatOffered / sjourneys/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
155458.16 / 506.20 / 0Met workload limits
12019.495634.76 / 7013.9273 / 0latency limit exceeded
15014.357013.92 / 7013.924068 / 2263latency limit exceeded
110017.167013.92 / 7013.923658 / 11155latency limit exceeded
255444.66 / 506.20 / 0Met workload limits
22018.167013.92 / 7013.92293 / 0latency limit exceeded
2509.887013.92 / 7013.924836 / 2332latency limit exceeded
210014.917013.92 / 7013.924115 / 11103latency limit exceeded

p95 ≤ 1000 ms · p99 ≤ 2000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Formbricks / Next.js

Failed

Public survey rendering, persisted responses and authenticated analysis.

RuntimeError: RuntimeError: TimeoutError:

p95 ≤ 1000 ms · p99 ≤ 2000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

GitHub self-hosted runner

Insufficient RAM

A pinned build and test workflow with separate cold and warm dependency caches.

Requires 8192 MiB RAM; plan has 4096 MiB, 3915 MiB detected.

p95 ≤ 3600000 ms · p99 ≤ 3600000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Odoo Community sales

Failed

Customer lookup, sales order confirmation, stock operations and reporting.

RuntimeError: fixture command in rc-odoo failed: -packages/odoo/cli/shell.py", line 148, in shell self.console(local_vars) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/odoo/cli/shell.py", line 82, in console exec(sys.stdin.read(), local_vars) File "<string>", line 1, in <module> PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/rc-seed.py'

p95 ≤ 2000 ms · p99 ≤ 4000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

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
Dedicated 4GB
Product line
Dedicated 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
$36.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.054
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 23, 2026, 00:40:30 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 21, 2026, 08:23:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 23, 2026, 00:38:33 UTC
Completed
Oct 23, 2026, 05:22:14 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 23, 2026, 05:22:14 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.26
TestResultTime
GitHub self-hosted runner Requires 8192 MiB RAM; plan has 4096 MiB, 3915 MiB detected. Not run Requires 8192 MiB RAM; plan has 4096 MiB, 3915 MiB detected.
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