# Scaleway BASIC2-A2C-4G

[Paris 2](https://rackcensus.com/locations/paris-vps-benchmarks "Every provider in Paris")

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

[Scaleway](https://rackcensus.com/vps-providers/scaleway-benchmarks)[BASIC2-A2C-4G](https://rackcensus.com/plans/bmh9l8-scaleway-basic2-a2c-4g-benchmarks?location=fr-par-2)

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Provider

Scaleway

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Plan

BASIC2-A2C-4G

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Location

Paris 2

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vCPU

2

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RAM

4 GB

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Storage

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Network

200 Mbps

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OS image

ubuntu\_noble

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Trigger

Scheduled

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Queued at

Oct 16, 2026, 12:54:00 UTC

[Visit Scaleway](https://rackcensus.com/go/scaleway)

## Latest runs of this plan

- [Paris 1 Oct 14, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/vrbqud-scaleway-basic2-a2c-4g-fr-par-1-benchmark)930
- [Amsterdam 1 Oct 14, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/xm0gkr-scaleway-basic2-a2c-4g-nl-ams-1-benchmark)983
- [Paris 1 Oct 7, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/9h2d8o-scaleway-basic2-a2c-4g-fr-par-1-benchmark)925

[Full history of this plan](https://rackcensus.com/plans/bmh9l8-scaleway-basic2-a2c-4g-benchmarks/history)

## CPU

| Version | Single-core | Multi-core | Result link |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Geekbench 7 | 932 | 1,768 | [Geekbench Browser](https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/646045) |

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

| Spec | 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

Tests 40 of 41 done Live output 765 lines

Setup 2 cores, 3.8 GiB RAM 4 of 4Done

Disk (fio) 21.1 MB/s at 4k, 162 MB/s at 1m 5 of 5Done

Network, IPv4 (iperf3) Median 437 Mbit/s send, 3.29 Gbit/s receive, 1 retried 5 of 5Done

Geekbench 7, single-core Score 932 1 of 1Done

Geekbench 7, multi-core Score 1,768 1 of 1Done

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

Datastores 5 of 5Done

Web frameworks 10 of 10Done

Web apps 1 failed, 2 skipped 5 of 6Some failed

TestResultTime

WooCommerce page mix 32 vus 7.21 req/s rps, 32 vus 3m 14s

WooCommerce cart flow 32 vus 8.32 req/s rps, 32 vus 2m 14s

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

Ghost, readers 16 vus 28.9 req/s rps, 16 vus 5m 14s

Ghost, staff in Ghost Admin 4 vus 26.5 req/s rps, 4 vus 2m 05s

Wagtail, visitors 16 vus 19.1 req/s rps, 16 vus 4m 11s

Wagtail, editors in the Wagtail admin 1 vus Stopped 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 6s

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