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Tampa

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 13, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,040
Faster than 55% of 2 vCPU plans
Median here: 1,053 over 2 runs in 90 days
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,941
Faster than 56% of 2 vCPU plans
Median here: 1,960 over 2 runs in 90 days
Disk 4K IOPS
150,787
fio random read and write, 50/50
Median here: 145,635 over 2 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
$8.00
243 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    LayerOne
  • Plan
    gc.small
  • Location
    Tampa
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
    60 GB NVMe
  • Network
    2.5 Gbps
  • OS image
    Ubuntu 24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 13, 2026, 19:52:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,040 1,941 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
981
114th of 150
1,627
84th of 113
Navigation
1,237
85th of 150
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,010
96th of 150
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,121
92nd of 150
Single-core only
Photo Library
852
101st of 150
1,699
78th of 113
Clang
1,119
75th of 150
2,065
72nd of 113
Text Processing
970
100th of 150
1,846
76th of 113
Asset Compression
1,189
83rd of 150
2,375
69th of 113
HDR
931
93rd of 150
1,777
74th of 113
Photo Editor
1,156
81st of 150
2,232
65th of 113
Ray Tracer
995
99th of 150
2,027
77th of 113
Structure from Motion
1,139
96th of 150
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,004
99th of 150
Single-core only
Video Encoder
959
100th of 150
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,066
97th of 150
Single-core only
Video Player
991
98th of 150
Single-core only

Rank among the 150 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 20 GB/s 3 1.62%
Scale higher is better 20.9 GB/s 3 0.468%
Add higher is better 24.2 GB/s 3 2.5%
Triad higher is better 24.2 GB/s 3 3.11%

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 475/s 3 0.135%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 30,907/s 3 0.121%
SHA-256 higher is better 499 MB/s 3 3.48%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 7.23 GB/s 3 0.809%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 4.49 GB/s 3 1.9%

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 3.92 ms 3 1.24%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 504/s 3 0.303%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 10.7 ms 3 0.623%
Requests per second, average higher is better 495/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 294.1 MB/s (75,294 IOPS) 294.9 MB/s (75,493 IOPS) 589 MB/s (150,787 IOPS)
64K 2.42 GB/s (39,614 IOPS) 2.43 GB/s (39,823 IOPS) 4.85 GB/s (79,437 IOPS)
512K 4.41 GB/s (9,027 IOPS) 4.64 GB/s (9,506 IOPS) 9.05 GB/s (18,533 IOPS)
1M 3.94 GB/s (4,036 IOPS) 4.2 GB/s (4,305 IOPS) 8.15 GB/s (8,341 IOPS)

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

Network

iperf3 didn't report network results for this run.

Datastores

PostgreSQL

fsync speed (pg_test_fsync)

Method Operations per second Time per operation
One 8 kB write
open_datasync 2,061 0.485 ms
fdatasync 1,652 0.605 ms
fsync 669 1.5 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 757 1.32 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 1,019 0.982 ms
fdatasync 1,576 0.635 ms
fsync 682 1.47 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 406 2.46 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 718 1.39 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 379 2.64 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 177 5.66 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 92.3 10.8 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 44.8 22.3 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 743 1.35 ms
write, close, fsync 652 1.53 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 549,031 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) 1 861 1.06 ms 1.69 ms 2.06 ms 3.35 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,206 2.19 ms 4.54 ms 6.4 ms 11 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,582 6.77 ms 22.6 ms 38.2 ms 60.6 ms 0
Read only 1 17,849 0.05 ms 0.087 ms 0.126 ms 0.224 ms 0
Read only 8 43,350 0.166 ms 0.28 ms 0.353 ms 0.721 ms 0
Read only 32 43,393 0.64 ms 1.02 ms 1.35 ms 2.5 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.17 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) 1 698 1.36 ms 2.11 ms 2.8 ms 6.53 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,707 2.83 ms 4.84 ms 6.74 ms 11 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,705 8.07 ms 13.6 ms 18.3 ms 25.7 ms 0
Read only 1 11,231 0.074 ms 0.158 ms 0.355 ms 0.853 ms 0
Read only 8 30,472 0.242 ms 0.406 ms 0.527 ms 1.39 ms 0
Read only 32 32,530 0.877 ms 1.47 ms 1.95 ms 3.41 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 18.7 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 Errors
Read/write 1 202 4,038 4.57 ms 7.43 ms 12.5 ms 0
Read/write 8 668 13,351 11.7 ms 18.3 ms 23.5 ms 0
Read/write 32 770 15,391 40.4 ms 68.1 ms 84.5 ms 0
Read only 1 690 11,035 1.3 ms 2.15 ms 3.19 ms 0
Read only 8 1,494 23,900 5.09 ms 7.57 ms 9.22 ms 0
Read only 32 1,389 22,227 22.3 ms 30.3 ms 35.6 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 11.1 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 63,540 57,764 0.759 ms 2.74 ms 3.86 ms
1:1 set:get 62,167 31,083 0.759 ms 2.91 ms 4.22 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 531 1,793 2,608 955 ms
Express express-postgresjs 6,600 9,038 29,924 191 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 6,400 10,153 31,755 210 ms
NestJS nestjs 3,690 4,319 16,263 129 ms
Nuxt nuxt 5,803 8,637 28,161 94.3 ms
FastAPI fastapi 3,071 3,923 15,915 364 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,467 1,754 3,848 234 ms
Rails rails 2,510 3,318 12,405 212 ms
Laravel laravel 631 668 1,251 462 ms
Symfony symfony 806 873 2,318 383 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 1.88 844 ms 1.01 s 1.15 s 0%
Shop page 1.88 1.14 s 1.38 s 1.58 s 0%
Category page 1.88 733 ms 1.14 s 1.29 s 0%
Product page 1.88 783 ms 933 ms 1.06 s 0%
Product search 1.88 677 ms 796 ms 947 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.83 3.13 s 3.53 s 3.66 s 0%
Shop page 1.83 4.21 s 4.8 s 5.02 s 0%
Category page 1.83 3.76 s 4.46 s 4.62 s 0%
Product page 1.83 3.2 s 3.45 s 3.55 s 0%
Product search 1.83 2.94 s 3.3 s 3.42 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 3.68 889 ms 1.06 s 1.11 s 0%
Cart 3.68 722 ms 859 ms 891 ms 0%
Checkout 3.68 569 ms 673 ms 720 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 3.6 2.96 s 3.69 s 3.81 s 0%
Cart 3.6 3.13 s 3.49 s 3.65 s 0%
Checkout 3.6 2.52 s 2.9 s 3.05 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 62 to 70 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 1.67 260 ms 324 ms 554 ms 0%
Topic JSON 0.853 130 ms 158 ms 261 ms 0%
Home page 0.853 228 ms 441 ms 516 ms 0%
Categories page 0.427 267 ms 303 ms 442 ms 0%
User activity page 0.427 158 ms 183 ms 185 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 3.27 538 ms 700 ms 1.33 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.62 271 ms 343 ms 404 ms 0%
Home page 1.61 480 ms 697 ms 1.19 s 0%
Categories page 0.853 540 ms 671 ms 1.26 s 0%
User activity page 0.804 353 ms 565 ms 920 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 3.42 1.65 s 2.05 s 2.27 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.71 1.43 s 1.86 s 2.05 s 0%
Home page 1.74 1.61 s 2 s 2.32 s 0%
Categories page 0.839 1.68 s 1.97 s 2.36 s 0%
User activity page 0.904 1.5 s 1.77 s 1.86 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 72.5 64.7 ms 141 ms 172 ms 0%
Topic JSON 36.3 63.6 ms 140 ms 171 ms 0%
Home page 36.2 66.7 ms 145 ms 175 ms 0%
Categories page 18.2 62.1 ms 135 ms 169 ms 0%
User activity page 18.1 200 ms 289 ms 416 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 had swap the way its installer sets a box up. The container peaked at 2,456 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 6.7 41.8 ms 50.7 ms 60 ms 0%
Post page 16.7 22.4 ms 28.4 ms 36.1 ms 0%
Tag page 3.35 28.6 ms 34.2 ms 51.2 ms 0%
Author page 3.33 28.5 ms 33.6 ms 38.2 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.33 36.4 ms 43.8 ms 47 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 8.34 131 ms 160 ms 180 ms 0%
Post page 20.8 85.4 ms 123 ms 146 ms 0%
Tag page 4.18 82.9 ms 112 ms 118 ms 0%
Author page 4.15 81.9 ms 111 ms 123 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.13 94.6 ms 128 ms 164 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 8.34 474 ms 570 ms 599 ms 0%
Post page 20.9 408 ms 502 ms 530 ms 0%
Tag page 4.14 260 ms 325 ms 356 ms 0%
Author page 4.17 258 ms 326 ms 388 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.15 273 ms 352 ms 373 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 3.8 39.2 ms 49.7 ms 54.2 ms 0%
Post editor 11.4 15.1 ms 21.2 ms 26.8 ms 0%
Saving a draft 11.4 38.5 ms 48.8 ms 58.2 ms 0%
Member list 3.8 44.8 ms 55.7 ms 68.1 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 4.9 51.1 ms 63.7 ms 72.4 ms 0%
Post editor 14.7 24.3 ms 33.6 ms 41.7 ms 0%
Saving a draft 14.7 200 ms 261 ms 309 ms 0%
Member list 4.9 55.3 ms 73.8 ms 83.7 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 301 MB and MySQL at 622 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.24 106 ms 123 ms 136 ms 0%
Blog index 1.24 362 ms 414 ms 468 ms 0%
Blog post 3.7 33.8 ms 53.1 ms 61.6 ms 0%
Bread page 3.72 37.4 ms 47.4 ms 50.3 ms 0%
Location page 1.24 35.7 ms 43.5 ms 49 ms 0%
Site search 1.23 56.2 ms 94.3 ms 112 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 2.54 216 ms 316 ms 364 ms 0%
Blog index 2.56 807 ms 1.05 s 1.09 s 0%
Blog post 7.65 63.7 ms 109 ms 142 ms 0%
Bread page 7.65 70.2 ms 103 ms 120 ms 0%
Location page 2.56 64.9 ms 97.5 ms 116 ms 0%
Site search 2.56 104 ms 203 ms 232 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 2.77 676 ms 865 ms 1.01 s 0%
Blog index 2.83 1.61 s 1.93 s 2.04 s 0%
Blog post 8.35 387 ms 571 ms 692 ms 0%
Bread page 8.35 395 ms 587 ms 684 ms 0%
Location page 2.82 394 ms 562 ms 644 ms 0%
Site search 2.8 468 ms 679 ms 763 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.54 112 ms 135 ms 259 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.1 416 ms 471 ms 624 ms 0%
Page editor 1.62 205 ms 260 ms 388 ms 0%
Image library 0.54 82.8 ms 98.5 ms 766 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.54 46.1 ms 95.8 ms 114 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.974 322 ms 552 ms 727 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.98 907 ms 1.42 s 1.53 s 0%
Page editor 2.96 455 ms 790 ms 876 ms 0%
Image library 0.99 312 ms 528 ms 561 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.974 105 ms 305 ms 390 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. 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 188 MB, and Redis at 26 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Shared vCPU 0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 4 GB 3.8 GiB
Storage 60 GB NVMe 58.9 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
Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6150 CPU @ 2.70GHz
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
2694 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
3.8 GiB
Swap reported
2 GiB
Disk reported
58.9 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-139-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
No

Advertised at test time

Plan
gc.small
Product line
General Compute
Location
Tampa
vCPU
2 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
4 GB
Storage
60 GB NVMe
Virtualization
KVM
Network
2.5 Gbps
Transfer
3 TB
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
$8.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.011
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 13, 2026, 19:55:17 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 13, 2026, 19:52:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 13, 2026, 19:52:51 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 13, 2026, 19:52:51 UTC
Completed
Oct 13, 2026, 21:32:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 13, 2026, 21:32:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.018
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