# Linode Linode 4GB

[Fremont, CA](https://rackcensus.com/locations/fremont-vps-benchmarks "Every provider in Fremont")

Benchmark complete

Finished Oct 11, 2026

Geekbench 7 single-core

1,219

Faster than 50% of 2 vCPU plans

Geekbench 7 multi-core

2,154

Faster than 50% of 2 vCPU plans

Disk 4K IOPS

70,825

fio random read and write, 50/50

Monthly price at test time

$24.00

90 multi-core points per dollar

Same price today

## Server

[Linode](https://rackcensus.com/vps-providers/linode-benchmarks)[Linode 4GB](https://rackcensus.com/plans/jqz5x2-linode-linode-4gb-benchmarks?location=us-west)

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Provider

Linode

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Plan

Linode 4GB

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Location

Fremont, CA

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vCPU

2

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RAM

4 GB

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Storage

80 GB SSD

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Network

4 Gbps

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OS image

linode/ubuntu24.04

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Trigger

Scheduled

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Queued at

Oct 11, 2026, 14:04:00 UTC

[Visit Linode](https://rackcensus.com/go/linode)

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## Latest runs of this plan

- [Tokyo 2, JP Oct 12, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/tc4uw0-linode-linode-4gb-ap-northeast-benchmark)1,256
- [Newark, NJ Oct 10, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/73miwf-linode-linode-4gb-us-east-benchmark)967

[Full history of this plan](https://rackcensus.com/plans/jqz5x2-linode-linode-4gb-benchmarks/history)

## CPU

| Version | Single-core | Multi-core | Result link |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Geekbench 7 | 1,219 | 2,154 | [Geekbench Browser](https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/606327) |

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 | 1,26860th of 106 | 1,85967th of 90 |
| Navigation | 1,30159th of 106 | Single-core only |
| HTML5 Browser | 1,12862nd of 106 | Single-core only |
| PDF Viewer | 1,32855th of 106 | Single-core only |
| Photo Library | 1,07061st of 106 | 2,10061st of 90 |
| Clang | 1,10868th of 106 | 2,28857th of 90 |
| Text Processing | 1,06763rd of 106 | 2,00063rd of 90 |
| Asset Compression | 1,19667th of 106 | 2,35161st of 90 |
| HDR | 86482nd of 106 | 1,58368th of 90 |
| Photo Editor | 1,35359th of 106 | 2,70444th of 90 |
| Ray Tracer | 1,35945th of 106 | 2,58056th of 90 |
| Structure from Motion | 1,58343rd of 106 | Single-core only |
| Game Physics | 1,32148th of 106 | Single-core only |
| Video Encoder | 1,11169th of 106 | Single-core only |
| Audio Encoder | 1,30756th of 106 | Single-core only |
| Video Player | 1,31362nd 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 | 44.2 GB/s | 3 | 25.5% |
| Scale higher is better | 30.1 GB/s | 3 | 15.3% |
| Add higher is better | 32.8 GB/s | 3 | 21.1% |
| Triad higher is better | 33.5 GB/s | 3 | 22.9% |

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 | 463/s | 3 | 0.0659% |
| RSA 4096 verifies higher is better | 30,107/s | 3 | 0.424% |
| SHA-256 higher is better | 1.41 GB/s | 3 | 0.566% |
| AES-256-GCM higher is better | 7.13 GB/s | 3 | 0.569% |
| ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better | 3.64 GB/s | 3 | 0.0772% |

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 | 4.08 ms | 3 | 0.575% |
| Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better | 484/s | 3 | 0.207% |
| Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better | 7.22 ms | 3 | 6.03% |
| Requests per second, average higher is better | 480/s | 3 | 0.473% |

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

## Disk

| Block size | Read | Write | Total |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 4K | 138.1 MB/s (35,366 IOPS) | 138.5 MB/s (35,459 IOPS) | 276.7 MB/s (70,825 IOPS) |
| 64K | 1.49 GB/s (24,480 IOPS) | 1.5 GB/s (24,609 IOPS) | 3 GB/s (49,089 IOPS) |
| 512K | 2.14 GB/s (4,375 IOPS) | 2.25 GB/s (4,607 IOPS) | 4.39 GB/s (8,982 IOPS) |
| 1M | 2.22 GB/s (2,270 IOPS) | 2.36 GB/s (2,421 IOPS) | 4.58 GB/s (4,691 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 | 1.26 Gbps | 1.58 Gbps |
| Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) | IPv4 | 1.62 Gbps | 1.68 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) | IPv4 | 951 Mbps | 1.28 Gbps |
| Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | IPv4 | 4.35 Gbps | 8.56 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) | IPv4 | 2 Gbps | 3.81 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 | 13,371 | 0.075 ms |
| fdatasync | 7,640 | 0.131 ms |
| fsync | 6,031 | 0.166 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 6,715 | 0.149 ms |
| Two 8 kB writes |
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| open\_datasync | 6,603 | 0.151 ms |
| fdatasync | 7,111 | 0.141 ms |
| fsync | 5,642 | 0.177 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 3,048 | 0.328 ms |
| open\_sync at different write sizes |
| --- |
| 1 \* 16kB open\_sync write | 5,891 | 0.17 ms |
| 2 \* 8kB open\_sync writes | 2,938 | 0.34 ms |
| 4 \* 4kB open\_sync writes | 1,377 | 0.726 ms |
| 8 \* 2kB open\_sync writes | 489 | 2.05 ms |
| 16 \* 1kB open\_sync writes | 283 | 3.53 ms |
| fsync on a non-write descriptor |
| --- |
| write, fsync, close | 5,600 | 0.179 ms |
| write, close, fsync | 5,524 | 0.181 ms |
| Non-synced 8 kB writes |
| --- |
| write | 1,153,697 | 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 | Failed |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 1 | 1,991 | 0.49 ms | 0.573 ms | 0.72 ms | 1.77 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 5,170 | 1.46 ms | 2.44 ms | 3.2 ms | 4.52 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 5,128 | 5.04 ms | 14.1 ms | 22.9 ms | 37.4 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 21,904 | 0.044 ms | 0.055 ms | 0.064 ms | 0.092 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 55,744 | 0.13 ms | 0.209 ms | 0.25 ms | 0.609 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 62,032 | 0.452 ms | 0.64 ms | 0.856 ms | 1.56 ms | 0 |

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.24 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 | 1,727 | 0.519 ms | 0.874 ms | 1.3 ms | 2.84 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 4,827 | 1.56 ms | 2.53 ms | 4.41 ms | 9.61 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 6,325 | 4.79 ms | 7.69 ms | 10.6 ms | 16.8 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 17,682 | 0.052 ms | 0.07 ms | 0.093 ms | 0.491 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 44,836 | 0.165 ms | 0.261 ms | 0.318 ms | 0.766 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 48,444 | 0.598 ms | 0.898 ms | 1.2 ms | 2.2 ms | 0 |

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 11.9 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 | 401 | 8,011 | 2.31 ms | 3.43 ms | 6.1 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 8 | 865 | 17,299 | 9.22 ms | 14 ms | 17.3 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 32 | 958 | 19,168 | 33.1 ms | 51.9 ms | 63.3 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 844 | 13,505 | 1.16 ms | 1.34 ms | 1.7 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 1,747 | 27,957 | 4.33 ms | 6.43 ms | 7.17 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 1,722 | 27,559 | 18 ms | 24.4 ms | 26.7 ms | 0 |

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 7 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

### Redis

#### memtier

| Mix | Operations/s | Hits/s | Median | p99 | p99.9 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1:10 set:get | 73,852 | 67,137 | 0.511 ms | 2.99 ms | 4.45 ms |
| 1:1 set:get | 75,397 | 37,698 | 0.487 ms | 2.99 ms | 4.48 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 | 693 | 2,636 | 3,470 | 1.17 s |
| Express express-postgresjs | 8,112 | 12,103 | 34,520 | 54.5 ms |
| Fastify fastify-postgres | 7,868 | 12,834 | 37,522 | 67.7 ms |
| NestJS nestjs | 5,551 | 6,109 | 19,160 | 87.8 ms |
| Nuxt nuxt | 7,112 | 11,918 | 32,582 | 85 ms |
| FastAPI fastapi | 4,016 | 5,027 | 18,455 | 206 ms |
| Django django-postgresql | 2,029 | 2,403 | 5,360 | 212 ms |
| Rails rails | 3,544 | 4,807 | 16,892 | 107 ms |
| Laravel laravel | 907 | 948 | 1,736 | 331 ms |
| Symfony symfony | 1,183 | 1,303 | 3,599 | 225 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 | 2.3 | 702 ms | 783 ms | 812 ms | 0% |
| Shop page | 2.3 | 946 ms | 1.06 s | 1.08 s | 0% |
| Category page | 2.3 | 597 ms | 921 ms | 981 ms | 0% |
| Product page | 2.3 | 635 ms | 755 ms | 764 ms | 0% |
| Product search | 2.3 | 556 ms | 668 ms | 695 ms | 0% |
| 32 virtual users |
| --- |
| Home page | 2.32 | 2.52 s | 2.85 s | 3 s | 0% |
| Shop page | 2.32 | 3.35 s | 3.77 s | 3.85 s | 0% |
| Category page | 2.32 | 2.91 s | 3.51 s | 3.65 s | 0% |
| Product page | 2.32 | 2.5 s | 2.74 s | 2.85 s | 0% |
| Product search | 2.32 | 2.35 s | 2.55 s | 2.64 s | 0% |

#### Cart and checkout

| Step | Requests/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Error rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 8 virtual users |
| --- |
| Add to cart | 4.47 | 731 ms | 848 ms | 866 ms | 0% |
| Cart | 4.47 | 605 ms | 694 ms | 705 ms | 0% |
| Checkout | 4.47 | 468 ms | 536 ms | 548 ms | 0% |
| 32 virtual users |
| --- |
| Add to cart | 4.41 | 2.46 s | 2.96 s | 3.07 s | 0% |
| Cart | 4.41 | 2.61 s | 2.87 s | 2.98 s | 0% |
| Checkout | 4.41 | 2.05 s | 2.35 s | 2.47 s | 0% |

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 62 to 69 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

## Advertised vs. measured

| Spec | Advertised | Measured |
| --- | --- | --- |
| vCPU | 2 | 2 |
| CPU | Shared 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 7542 32-Core Processor

**CPU cores:** 2

**CPU frequency:** 2900 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:** Linode 4GB

**Product line:** Shared CPU

**Location:** Fremont, CA

**vCPU:** 2 shared 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:** $24.00

**Hourly price at test time:** $0.036

**YABS version:** v2026-09-20

**Ran at:** Oct 11, 2026, 14:05:33 UTC

**Parser version:** 5

## Run timeline

**Queued:** Oct 11, 2026, 14:04:00 UTC

**Server created:** Oct 11, 2026, 14:05:29 UTC

**First update from the server:** Oct 11, 2026, 14:05:29 UTC

**Completed:** Oct 11, 2026, 15:21:10 UTC

**Server deleted:** Oct 11, 2026, 15:21:10 UTC

**Cost of this run:** $0.046

Tests 61 of 61 done Live output 753 lines

Setup 2 cores, 3.8 GiB RAM 4 of 4Done

Disk (fio) 290 MB/s at 4k, 4.91 GB/s at 1m 5 of 5Done

Network, IPv4 (iperf3) Median 1.62 Gbit/s send, 1.68 Gbit/s receive 5 of 5Done

Geekbench 7, single-core Score 1,219 17 of 17Done

Geekbench 7, multi-core Score 2,154 9 of 9Done

Phoronix (memory, TLS, scheduler) 3 of 3Done

Datastores 5 of 5Done

Web frameworks 12 of 12Done

Finish Results saved 1 of 1Done

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