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Linode Linode 4GB

Chicago, IL

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 20, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,073
Faster than 38% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,977
Faster than 67% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
90,730
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$24.00
82 multi-core points per dollar
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Server

  • Provider
    Linode
  • Plan
    Linode 4GB
  • Location
    Chicago, IL
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
    80 GB SSD
  • Network
    4 Gbps
  • OS image
    linode/ubuntu24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 19, 2026, 15:18:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,073 1,977 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
1,039
24th of 40
1,677
17th of 23
Navigation
950
31st of 40
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
964
29th of 40
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,076
29th of 40
Single-core only
Photo Library
899
23rd of 40
1,791
15th of 23
Clang
944
24th of 40
1,933
15th of 23
Text Processing
932
28th of 40
1,798
16th of 23
Asset Compression
1,138
18th of 40
2,216
16th of 23
HDR
888
26th of 40
1,538
17th of 23
Photo Editor
1,407
14th of 40
2,724
14th of 23
Ray Tracer
1,238
15th of 40
2,410
16th of 23
Structure from Motion
1,167
26th of 40
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,108
22nd of 40
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,046
25th of 40
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,215
21st of 40
Single-core only
Video Player
1,324
14th of 40
Single-core only

Rank among the 40 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 177 MB/s (45,305 IOPS) 177.4 MB/s (45,425 IOPS) 354.4 MB/s (90,730 IOPS)
64K 1.58 GB/s (25,938 IOPS) 1.59 GB/s (26,074 IOPS) 3.17 GB/s (52,012 IOPS)
512K 3.03 GB/s (6,195 IOPS) 3.19 GB/s (6,524 IOPS) 6.21 GB/s (12,719 IOPS)
1M 3.48 GB/s (3,564 IOPS) 3.71 GB/s (3,802 IOPS) 7.19 GB/s (7,366 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
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 4.22 Gbps 7.34 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.56 Gbps 1.97 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 849 Mbps 974 Mbps

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
11001004.22 / 5.060 / 0Met workload limits
1500497.323.96 / 4.650 / 482Met workload limits
11000992.424.01 / 4.820 / 1363Met workload limits
130002980.044.43 / 5.560 / 3591Met workload limits
21001004.48 / 5.240 / 0Met workload limits
2500497.263.91 / 4.650 / 492Met workload limits
21000992.464.01 / 4.820 / 1356Met workload limits
230002978.14.43 / 5.760 / 3938Met workload limits

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
1100010001.5 / 1.630 / 0Met workload limits
150004999.981.57 / 1.760 / 0Met workload limits
1100009999.971.55 / 1.810 / 0Met workload limits
12500023922.1111.77 / 15.710 / 193867load generator saturated
2100010001.5 / 1.650 / 0Met workload limits
250004999.971.6 / 1.810 / 0Met workload limits
2100009999.771.55 / 1.790 / 30Met workload limits
22500024355.3311.4 / 13.540 / 115895load 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
11001003.68 / 3.960 / 0Met workload limits
15005002.65 / 2.950 / 0Met workload limits
1100010002.72 / 2.990 / 0Met workload limits
130002999.962.76 / 3.230 / 0Met workload limits
21001003.72 / 3.960 / 0Met workload limits
25005002.68 / 2.950 / 0Met workload limits
21000999.992.76 / 3.030 / 0Met workload limits
230002999.982.72 / 3.230 / 0Met workload limits

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: ValueError: GET /session/csrf returned HTTP 503

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
15521.52 / 33.20 / 0Met workload limits
1202016.91 / 22.910 / 0Met workload limits
1505015.71 / 87.910 / 0Met workload limits
110082.613292.05 / 3564.90 / 2974latency limit exceeded
25522.44 / 29.360 / 0Met workload limits
2202017.27 / 22.670 / 0Met workload limits
2505016.04 / 76.350 / 0Met workload limits
210082.73292.05 / 3425.760 / 2967latency 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
15533.2 / 49.420 / 0Met workload limits
1202024.89 / 420 / 0Met workload limits
1505097.21 / 216.70 / 0Met workload limits
110062.584481.92 / 4757.710 / 6512latency limit exceeded
25532.2 / 47.940 / 0Met workload limits
2202027.6 / 52.520 / 0Met workload limits
25050113.02 / 244.310 / 0Met workload limits
210063.044526.75 / 4853.360 / 6405latency 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
155364.24 / 444.660 / 0Met workload limits
12020435.88 / 491.280 / 0Met workload limits
15043.017013.92 / 7013.92878 / 120latency limit exceeded
110045.647013.92 / 7013.92882 / 8621latency limit exceeded
255353.5 / 458.160 / 0Met workload limits
22020423.03 / 476.810 / 0Met workload limits
25043.047013.92 / 7013.92868 / 126latency limit exceeded
210046.917013.92 / 7013.92898 / 8376latency 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 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 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
Linode 4GB
Product line
Shared CPU
Location
Chicago, IL
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 20, 2026, 10:56:11 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 19, 2026, 15:18:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 20, 2026, 10:54:34 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 20, 2026, 10:54:34 UTC
Completed
Oct 20, 2026, 15:23:28 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 20, 2026, 15:23:28 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.16
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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