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Scaleway BASIC2-A2C-4G

Paris 2

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 16, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
932
Faster than 26% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,768
Faster than 32% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
5,154
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
€16.79 EUR
90 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Scaleway
  • Plan
    BASIC2-A2C-4G
  • Location
    Paris 2
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
  • Network
    200 Mbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu_noble
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 16, 2026, 12:54:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 932 1,768 Geekbench Browser

Scores from different Geekbench versions aren't comparable with each other. Charts only use Geekbench 7.

Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

Test Result Runs Spread
Copy higher is better 46.2 GB/s 3 0.277%
Scale higher is better 44.5 GB/s 3 1.03%
Add higher is better 41.7 GB/s 3 0.792%
Triad higher is better 41.5 GB/s 3 0.497%

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 97.6/s 3 0.33%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 7,990/s 3 0.319%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.46 GB/s 3 0.178%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 4.72 GB/s 3 0.407%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 1.73 GB/s 3 0.28%

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 14.9 ms 3 0.124%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 133/s 3 0.435%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 33.6 ms 3 5.69%
Requests per second, average higher is better 133/s 3 0.183%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 10.1 MB/s (2,573 IOPS) 10.1 MB/s (2,581 IOPS) 20.1 MB/s (5,154 IOPS)
64K 78 MB/s (1,247 IOPS) 80.3 MB/s (1,284 IOPS) 158.3 MB/s (2,531 IOPS)
512K 75 MB/s (149 IOPS) 81.4 MB/s (162 IOPS) 156.4 MB/s (311 IOPS)
1M 73.1 MB/s (73 IOPS) 81.6 MB/s (81 IOPS) 154.7 MB/s (154 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 454 Mbps 7.3 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 417 Mbps 10.9 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 437 Mbps 1.47 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 432 Mbps 1.43 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 449 Mbps 3.29 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 1,090 0.917 ms
fdatasync 1,093 0.915 ms
fsync 432 2.32 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 405 2.47 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 556 1.8 ms
fdatasync 949 1.05 ms
fsync 433 2.31 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 205 4.88 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 384 2.6 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 185 5.4 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 103 9.73 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 50.5 19.8 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 27.6 36.2 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 368 2.72 ms
write, close, fsync 408 2.45 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 1,060,943 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) 1 417 2.1 ms 2.87 ms 4.1 ms 9.46 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 1,892 3.42 ms 7.78 ms 12.7 ms 120 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 1,948 11.4 ms 39.9 ms 80.8 ms 339 ms 0
Read only 1 24,078 0.039 ms 0.055 ms 0.068 ms 0.13 ms 0
Read only 8 32,897 0.229 ms 0.365 ms 0.447 ms 0.932 ms 0
Read only 32 25,646 1.16 ms 1.98 ms 2.77 ms 5.1 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 3.64 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) 1 367 2.32 ms 3.68 ms 5.35 ms 13.2 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 1,309 4.15 ms 11.9 ms 44.5 ms 217 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 1,696 13.3 ms 38.6 ms 116 ms 377 ms 0
Read only 1 12,244 0.048 ms 0.106 ms 0.32 ms 1.45 ms 0
Read only 8 22,535 0.299 ms 0.498 ms 0.674 ms 1.94 ms 0
Read only 32 18,866 1.45 ms 2.4 ms 3.07 ms 4.99 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 61.7 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 81.8 1,637 9.22 ms 18.3 ms 113 ms 0
Read/write 8 269 5,386 18 ms 121 ms 193 ms 0
Read/write 32 379 7,584 69.3 ms 183 ms 282 ms 0
Read only 1 701 11,219 1.3 ms 2.52 ms 3.36 ms 0
Read only 8 1,114 17,823 6.91 ms 10.3 ms 11.4 ms 0
Read only 32 993 15,880 31.4 ms 41.1 ms 45 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 26.6 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 68,990 62,718 0.495 ms 3.02 ms 4.54 ms
1:1 set:get 66,224 33,112 0.527 ms 2.99 ms 4.58 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 406 1,196 1,953 2.04 s
Express express-postgresjs 5,471 7,118 16,189 341 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 5,334 7,675 17,364 216 ms
NestJS nestjs 2,506 2,763 9,910 171 ms
Nuxt nuxt 4,616 6,607 14,453 628 ms
FastAPI fastapi 2,108 2,383 16,432 811 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,114 1,258 3,428 380 ms
Rails rails 1,501 1,955 8,757 225 ms
Laravel laravel 378 408 753 731 ms
Symfony symfony 474 545 1,367 571 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.

Web apps

WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 1.42 1.11 s 1.28 s 1.33 s 0%
Shop page 1.42 1.53 s 1.76 s 1.78 s 0%
Category page 1.42 926 ms 1.58 s 1.7 s 0%
Product page 1.42 1 s 1.19 s 1.22 s 0%
Product search 1.42 843 ms 1.03 s 1.08 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.44 3.94 s 4.46 s 4.52 s 0%
Shop page 1.44 5.3 s 6.11 s 6.24 s 0%
Category page 1.44 4.72 s 5.82 s 5.9 s 0%
Product page 1.44 4 s 4.27 s 4.34 s 0%
Product search 1.44 3.73 s 3.98 s 4.24 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 2.77 1.2 s 1.32 s 1.34 s 0%
Cart 2.77 942 ms 1.04 s 1.08 s 0%
Checkout 2.77 720 ms 805 ms 839 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 2.77 3.9 s 4.79 s 4.99 s 0%
Cart 2.77 4.1 s 4.51 s 4.59 s 0%
Checkout 2.77 3.2 s 3.66 s 3.72 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.

Discourse

Signed in

Skipped: not enough disk, needs 7432 MB and 4436 MB is free

Anonymous

Skipped: not enough disk, needs 7500 MB and 4436 MB is free

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 4.45 60 ms 94.5 ms 101 ms 0%
Post page 11.1 32.3 ms 48.2 ms 56.1 ms 0%
Tag page 2.23 40.5 ms 66 ms 70.2 ms 0%
Author page 2.21 38.7 ms 65.5 ms 71.3 ms 0%
RSS feed 2.21 47.8 ms 80 ms 93.7 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 5.89 171 ms 254 ms 333 ms 0%
Post page 14.7 121 ms 196 ms 247 ms 0%
Tag page 2.94 111 ms 174 ms 215 ms 0%
Author page 2.94 113 ms 194 ms 225 ms 0%
RSS feed 2.94 116 ms 181 ms 219 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 5.78 671 ms 1.14 s 1.29 s 0%
Post page 14.5 562 ms 803 ms 1.1 s 0%
Tag page 2.88 369 ms 608 ms 778 ms 0%
Author page 2.9 370 ms 526 ms 740 ms 0%
RSS feed 2.88 378 ms 581 ms 768 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 2.27 59.8 ms 91.8 ms 99.6 ms 0%
Post editor 6.84 24.5 ms 37.1 ms 42.7 ms 0%
Saving a draft 6.84 66.5 ms 90.2 ms 124 ms 0%
Member list 2.27 70.7 ms 109 ms 129 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 3.3 73.2 ms 98.1 ms 109 ms 0%
Post editor 9.95 33.9 ms 50 ms 65.5 ms 0%
Saving a draft 9.97 306 ms 390 ms 539 ms 0%
Member list 3.3 81.9 ms 110 ms 116 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 296 MB and MySQL at 626 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 0.748 174 ms 224 ms 228 ms 0%
Blog index 0.748 632 ms 770 ms 805 ms 0%
Blog post 2.24 53.6 ms 91.1 ms 105 ms 0%
Bread page 2.24 60.6 ms 80.6 ms 83.8 ms 0%
Location page 0.748 64.3 ms 81 ms 85.5 ms 0%
Site search 0.748 98.5 ms 189 ms 200 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 1.86 292 ms 399 ms 450 ms 0%
Blog index 1.9 1.06 s 1.39 s 1.46 s 0%
Blog post 5.59 85.7 ms 150 ms 223 ms 0%
Bread page 5.64 98.1 ms 137 ms 152 ms 0%
Location page 1.91 83.3 ms 130 ms 146 ms 0%
Site search 1.85 128 ms 275 ms 322 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 1.89 923 ms 1.26 s 1.49 s 0%
Blog index 1.99 2.42 s 2.87 s 3.28 s 0%
Blog post 5.66 531 ms 949 ms 1.15 s 0%
Bread page 5.74 556 ms 903 ms 1.23 s 0%
Location page 1.92 536 ms 894 ms 1.12 s 0%
Site search 1.91 678 ms 994 ms 1.38 s 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Failed: k6 setup failed at 1 virtual users, wagtail isn't serving the seeded site: time="2026-10-16T14:31:58Z" level=warning msg="Request Failed" error="Get \"http://wagtail:8000/\": lookup wagtail on 127.0.0.11:53: server misbehaving" time="2026-10-16T14:31:58Z" level=error msg="Error: the home page returned status 0\n\tat setup (file:///work/wagtail.js:170:11(31))\n" hint="script exception" source=stacktrace

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 61 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 318 MB, Postgres at 198 MB, and Redis at 9 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Shared vCPU 0.2% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 4 GB 3.8 GiB
Storage 8.9 GiB
Architecture arm64 arm64
Virtualization KVM VM-OTHER

Guests usually report slightly less RAM and disk than advertised because of kernel reservations and filesystem overhead.

Detected hardware

CPU model
Neoverse-N1
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
Unknown
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
No
RAM reported
3.8 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
8.9 GiB
Virtualization reported
VM-OTHER
CPU steal
0.2% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-142-generic
Architecture
arm64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
No

Advertised at test time

Plan
BASIC2-A2C-4G
Product line
General Purpose
Location
Paris 2
vCPU
2 shared vCPU
Architecture
arm64
RAM
4 GB
Storage
Virtualization
KVM
Network
200 Mbps
Transfer
Unmetered
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
€16.79 EUR
Hourly price at test time
€0.023 EUR
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 16, 2026, 12:56:01 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 16, 2026, 12:54:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 16, 2026, 12:54:49 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 16, 2026, 12:54:49 UTC
Completed
Oct 16, 2026, 14:33:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 16, 2026, 14:33:00 UTC
Cost of this run
€0.038 EUR
TestResultTime
Discourse, signed in Discourse Not run not enough disk, needs 7432 MB and 4436 MB is free
Discourse, anonymous Discourse Not run not enough disk, needs 7500 MB and 4436 MB is free
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