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Stockholm, SE

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 12, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,333
Faster than 57% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,627
Faster than 27% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
91,172
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$43.00
38 multi-core points per dollar
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Server

  • Provider
    Linode
  • Plan
    Premium 4GB
  • Location
    Stockholm, SE
  • 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 1,333 1,627 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
1,388
52nd of 106
1,872
66th of 90
Navigation
1,375
50th of 106
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,279
52nd of 106
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,335
54th of 106
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,217
52nd of 106
1,530
71st of 90
Clang
1,157
52nd of 106
1,461
75th of 90
Text Processing
1,207
53rd of 106
1,350
76th of 90
Asset Compression
1,347
53rd of 106
1,712
74th of 90
HDR
1,335
47th of 106
1,535
71st of 90
Photo Editor
1,498
49th of 106
1,718
64th of 90
Ray Tracer
1,365
44th of 106
1,928
70th of 90
Structure from Motion
1,380
55th of 106
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,280
52nd of 106
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,297
47th of 106
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,415
49th of 106
Single-core only
Video Player
1,498
45th 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 47.5 GB/s 3 0.352%
Scale higher is better 32.3 GB/s 3 1.23%
Add higher is better 34 GB/s 3 0.88%
Triad higher is better 34.2 GB/s 3 0.97%

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 222/s 3 0.156%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 14,325/s 3 2.34%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.16 GB/s 3 0.206%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 3.64 GB/s 3 0.0233%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 2.54 GB/s 3 0.162%

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 10.9 ms 3 1.76%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 182/s 3 1.93%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 18.8 ms 3 1.48%
Requests per second, average higher is better 182/s 3 1.58%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 177.8 MB/s (45,526 IOPS) 178.3 MB/s (45,646 IOPS) 356.1 MB/s (91,172 IOPS)
64K 1.49 GB/s (24,353 IOPS) 1.49 GB/s (24,481 IOPS) 2.98 GB/s (48,834 IOPS)
512K 5.1 GB/s (10,445 IOPS) 5.37 GB/s (11,000 IOPS) 10.47 GB/s (21,445 IOPS)
1M 5.12 GB/s (5,243 IOPS) 5.46 GB/s (5,592 IOPS) 10.58 GB/s (10,835 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 3.85 Gbps 6.38 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 4.3 Gbps 7.76 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 689 Mbps 775 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 999 Mbps 1.26 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 1.61 Gbps 2.62 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 11,866 0.084 ms
fdatasync 6,362 0.157 ms
fsync 4,225 0.237 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 4,546 0.22 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 6,054 0.165 ms
fdatasync 5,792 0.173 ms
fsync 4,071 0.246 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 2,424 0.413 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 4,616 0.217 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 2,450 0.408 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 1,257 0.796 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 458 2.18 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 228 4.38 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 4,041 0.247 ms
write, close, fsync 3,887 0.257 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 491,323 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 1,371 0.715 ms 0.822 ms 0.99 ms 1.85 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,470 2.16 ms 3.64 ms 4.84 ms 6.96 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,434 7.64 ms 20.5 ms 33 ms 51.2 ms 0
Read only 1 13,943 0.067 ms 0.091 ms 0.114 ms 0.266 ms 0
Read only 8 36,705 0.192 ms 0.319 ms 0.41 ms 0.91 ms 0
Read only 32 38,128 0.695 ms 1.05 ms 1.43 ms 2.7 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.41 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 1,227 0.775 ms 1.03 ms 1.28 ms 2.54 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,214 2.38 ms 3.77 ms 5.15 ms 7.92 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,708 8.12 ms 13.1 ms 17.7 ms 26.1 ms 0
Read only 1 10,823 0.082 ms 0.122 ms 0.314 ms 0.762 ms 0
Read only 8 29,567 0.24 ms 0.412 ms 0.631 ms 2.16 ms 0
Read only 32 31,003 0.876 ms 1.47 ms 2.41 ms 4.61 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 14.9 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 1 300 6,002 3.08 ms 4.57 ms 7.3 ms 0
Read/write 8 574 11,480 13.7 ms 21.9 ms 29.2 ms 0
Read/write 32 615 12,293 51 ms 87.6 ms 113 ms 0
Read only 1 597 9,550 1.64 ms 2 ms 2.39 ms 0
Read only 8 1,181 18,893 6.55 ms 9.22 ms 11.4 ms 0
Read only 32 1,147 18,348 27.2 ms 36.2 ms 42.6 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 10.6 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 42,314 38,467 1.12 ms 3.79 ms 5.7 ms
1:1 set:get 41,599 20,799 1.14 ms 3.87 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 439 1,612 2,189 868 ms
Express express-postgresjs 4,859 7,011 17,853 92.6 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 4,756 7,203 18,386 96.5 ms
NestJS nestjs 3,211 3,650 10,814 122 ms
Nuxt nuxt 4,261 6,391 15,357 116 ms
FastAPI fastapi 2,455 3,125 10,476 455 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,211 1,439 3,077 305 ms
Rails rails 2,019 2,800 8,887 164 ms
Laravel laravel 550 595 1,056 491 ms
Symfony symfony 713 785 2,031 380 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 1.5 1.07 s 1.26 s 1.27 s 0%
Shop page 1.5 1.41 s 1.67 s 1.68 s 0%
Category page 1.5 883 ms 1.5 s 1.58 s 0%
Product page 1.5 980 ms 1.18 s 1.22 s 0%
Product search 1.5 873 ms 1.07 s 1.13 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.52 3.75 s 4.25 s 4.34 s 0%
Shop page 1.52 5.11 s 5.94 s 6.04 s 0%
Category page 1.52 4.43 s 5.46 s 5.68 s 0%
Product page 1.52 3.85 s 4.12 s 4.23 s 0%
Product search 1.52 3.57 s 3.96 s 4.08 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 2.88 1.13 s 1.35 s 1.44 s 0%
Cart 2.88 895 ms 1.09 s 1.13 s 0%
Checkout 2.88 736 ms 876 ms 922 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 2.9 3.68 s 4.53 s 4.7 s 0%
Cart 2.9 3.97 s 4.43 s 4.52 s 0%
Checkout 2.9 3.13 s 3.57 s 3.69 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 62 to 66 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 2 207 ms 383 ms 637 ms 0%
Topic JSON 1.01 107 ms 144 ms 158 ms 0%
Home page 1.01 186 ms 273 ms 294 ms 0%
Categories page 0.512 219 ms 293 ms 311 ms 0%
User activity page 0.495 129 ms 215 ms 318 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 2.95 603 ms 772 ms 1.42 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.49 317 ms 384 ms 421 ms 0%
Home page 1.47 553 ms 676 ms 897 ms 0%
Categories page 0.743 653 ms 846 ms 1.34 s 0%
User activity page 0.726 365 ms 782 ms 1.01 s 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 2.89 1.75 s 2.11 s 2.35 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.44 1.47 s 1.7 s 1.91 s 0%
Home page 1.48 1.74 s 2.03 s 2.05 s 0%
Categories page 0.73 1.79 s 2.06 s 2.14 s 0%
User activity page 0.746 1.53 s 1.99 s 2.05 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 63.5 69.3 ms 172 ms 215 ms 0%
Topic JSON 31.8 68.3 ms 169 ms 203 ms 0%
Home page 31.8 69.6 ms 178 ms 230 ms 0%
Categories page 15.9 68.4 ms 171 ms 223 ms 0%
User activity page 15.9 223 ms 358 ms 504 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 2,340 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 8.46 32.7 ms 39.5 ms 62.7 ms 0%
Post page 21.1 17.2 ms 22.5 ms 34.2 ms 0%
Tag page 4.23 23.2 ms 28.1 ms 39.1 ms 0%
Author page 4.23 23.1 ms 28.7 ms 42.8 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.21 29 ms 33.8 ms 41.6 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 9.55 110 ms 139 ms 176 ms 0%
Post page 23.8 76.6 ms 106 ms 141 ms 0%
Tag page 4.79 69.8 ms 95.9 ms 115 ms 0%
Author page 4.79 72 ms 96.1 ms 119 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.74 79.2 ms 106 ms 115 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 9.25 434 ms 528 ms 550 ms 0%
Post page 23.1 366 ms 459 ms 492 ms 0%
Tag page 4.61 234 ms 310 ms 337 ms 0%
Author page 4.61 236 ms 304 ms 345 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.58 243 ms 309 ms 348 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 4.4 34.2 ms 45.2 ms 60.9 ms 0%
Post editor 13.2 12.7 ms 18.3 ms 24.8 ms 0%
Saving a draft 13.2 31.3 ms 39.9 ms 51.4 ms 0%
Member list 4.4 40.9 ms 55.1 ms 70.2 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 5.03 52.2 ms 62.6 ms 69.8 ms 0%
Post editor 15.1 26.8 ms 33.8 ms 40.4 ms 0%
Saving a draft 15.1 189 ms 245 ms 295 ms 0%
Member list 5.03 58.2 ms 73.8 ms 95.3 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 360 MB and MySQL at 620 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.6 84.1 ms 90.9 ms 103 ms 0%
Blog index 1.58 289 ms 302 ms 330 ms 0%
Blog post 4.76 26 ms 39.8 ms 42.8 ms 0%
Bread page 4.78 29.1 ms 32.4 ms 34.3 ms 0%
Location page 1.6 27.3 ms 31 ms 32.1 ms 0%
Site search 1.58 45.8 ms 74.7 ms 77.3 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 2.15 275 ms 358 ms 392 ms 0%
Blog index 2.18 970 ms 1.14 s 1.26 s 0%
Blog post 6.42 77.8 ms 128 ms 173 ms 0%
Bread page 6.45 83.7 ms 117 ms 129 ms 0%
Location page 2.18 82.6 ms 119 ms 139 ms 0%
Site search 2.13 108 ms 214 ms 239 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 2.23 836 ms 1.06 s 1.13 s 0%
Blog index 2.31 2.04 s 2.32 s 2.46 s 0%
Blog post 6.66 478 ms 758 ms 1.02 s 0%
Bread page 6.72 474 ms 721 ms 1.02 s 0%
Location page 2.25 479 ms 693 ms 1.05 s 0%
Site search 2.23 576 ms 814 ms 919 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.627 87.8 ms 95.5 ms 110 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.29 377 ms 505 ms 528 ms 0%
Page editor 1.9 175 ms 205 ms 328 ms 0%
Image library 0.627 67.6 ms 72.4 ms 618 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.627 34.9 ms 85 ms 178 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.789 399 ms 563 ms 598 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.58 1.31 s 1.82 s 2.02 s 0%
Page editor 2.38 577 ms 878 ms 992 ms 0%
Image library 0.789 305 ms 500 ms 551 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.789 117 ms 311 ms 403 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 61 s per level, after a 20 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 295 MB, Postgres at 159 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
Stockholm, SE
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, 04:24:14 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 12, 2026, 01:06:45 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 12, 2026, 04:22:47 UTC
Completed
Oct 12, 2026, 06:04:03 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 12, 2026, 06:04:03 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.11
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