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Scaleway BASIC2-A2C-4G

Paris 1

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 14, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
930
Faster than 38% of 2 vCPU plans
Median here: 928 over 2 runs in 90 days
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,747
Faster than 43% of 2 vCPU plans
Median here: 1,742 over 2 runs in 90 days
Disk 4K IOPS
5,160
fio random read and write, 50/50
Median here: 5,159 over 2 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
€16.79 EUR
89 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Scaleway
  • Plan
    BASIC2-A2C-4G
  • Location
    Paris 1
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
  • Network
    200 Mbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu_noble
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 14, 2026, 14:44:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 930 1,747 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 43.6 GB/s 3 2%
Scale higher is better 43.1 GB/s 3 2.6%
Add higher is better 41.1 GB/s 3 1.04%
Triad higher is better 40.9 GB/s 3 1.97%

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 96.1/s 3 1.45%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 7,960/s 3 0.348%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.46 GB/s 3 0.518%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 4.71 GB/s 3 0.122%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 1.73 GB/s 3 0.1%

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 15 ms 3 0.327%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 132/s 3 0%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 35.8 ms 3 13.4%
Requests per second, average higher is better 132/s 3 0.462%

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 (2,576 IOPS) 10.1 MB/s (2,584 IOPS) 20.2 MB/s (5,160 IOPS)
64K 78.9 MB/s (1,262 IOPS) 81.2 MB/s (1,299 IOPS) 160.1 MB/s (2,561 IOPS)
512K 74.9 MB/s (149 IOPS) 81.3 MB/s (162 IOPS) 156.1 MB/s (311 IOPS)
1M 73.3 MB/s (73 IOPS) 81.8 MB/s (81 IOPS) 155.1 MB/s (154 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 962 1.04 ms
fdatasync 964 1.04 ms
fsync 354 2.82 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 353 2.83 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 474 2.11 ms
fdatasync 867 1.15 ms
fsync 359 2.78 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 180 5.56 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 359 2.79 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 184 5.44 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 92 10.9 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 44.5 22.5 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 22.6 44.3 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 364 2.75 ms
write, close, fsync 346 2.89 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 1,065,516 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) 1 437 2.06 ms 3.07 ms 4.61 ms 11.4 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 1,723 3.7 ms 8.84 ms 14.3 ms 128 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 2,000 10.7 ms 40.1 ms 76 ms 370 ms 0
Read only 1 23,227 0.039 ms 0.058 ms 0.083 ms 0.153 ms 0
Read only 8 34,319 0.218 ms 0.354 ms 0.439 ms 0.798 ms 0
Read only 32 27,218 1.11 ms 1.81 ms 2.3 ms 3.77 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 3.66 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) 1 309 2.65 ms 4.36 ms 8.15 ms 65.9 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 1,218 4.44 ms 13.7 ms 41.4 ms 360 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 1,499 13.6 ms 55.5 ms 151 ms 794 ms 0
Read only 1 11,678 0.054 ms 0.122 ms 0.418 ms 1.6 ms 0
Read only 8 23,829 0.298 ms 0.517 ms 0.818 ms 2.53 ms 0
Read only 32 21,685 1.4 ms 2.28 ms 2.83 ms 4.44 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 60.5 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 76.2 1,524 9.91 ms 21.9 ms 103 ms 0
Read/write 8 247 4,940 19 ms 113 ms 212 ms 0
Read/write 32 383 7,663 71.8 ms 170 ms 240 ms 0
Read only 1 720 11,518 1.27 ms 1.96 ms 3.43 ms 0
Read only 8 1,040 16,642 7.3 ms 10.7 ms 12.3 ms 0
Read only 32 939 15,028 33.1 ms 43.4 ms 47.5 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 20.5 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 66,065 60,059 0.527 ms 3.04 ms 4.61 ms
1:1 set:get 64,463 32,231 0.551 ms 3.1 ms 4.64 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 378 1,101 1,747 2.24 s
Express express-postgresjs 5,291 6,660 15,566 409 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 5,271 7,675 18,976 370 ms
NestJS nestjs 2,291 2,485 9,047 179 ms
Nuxt nuxt 4,469 6,090 14,436 423 ms
FastAPI fastapi 1,882 2,393 16,110 655 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,083 1,161 3,305 338 ms
Rails rails 1,347 1,948 8,165 263 ms
Laravel laravel 380 382 649 726 ms
Symfony symfony 468 526 1,358 569 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 1.43 1.11 s 1.24 s 1.28 s 0%
Shop page 1.43 1.51 s 1.68 s 1.75 s 0%
Category page 1.43 937 ms 1.49 s 1.6 s 0%
Product page 1.43 1.02 s 1.18 s 1.23 s 0%
Product search 1.43 855 ms 1.03 s 1.07 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.39 4.08 s 4.57 s 4.82 s 0%
Shop page 1.39 5.58 s 6.4 s 6.58 s 0%
Category page 1.39 4.87 s 6.03 s 6.34 s 0%
Product page 1.39 4.1 s 4.41 s 4.46 s 0%
Product search 1.39 3.87 s 4.19 s 4.36 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 2.59 1.3 s 1.5 s 1.61 s 0%
Cart 2.59 990 ms 1.18 s 1.31 s 0%
Checkout 2.59 794 ms 925 ms 986 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 2.54 4.19 s 5.3 s 5.43 s 0%
Cart 2.54 4.46 s 5.02 s 5.15 s 0%
Checkout 2.54 3.45 s 3.99 s 4.11 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 63 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 4434 MB is free

Anonymous

Skipped: not enough disk, needs 7500 MB and 4434 MB is free

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 4.53 58.2 ms 89.9 ms 101 ms 0%
Post page 11.3 33 ms 47.3 ms 54.7 ms 0%
Tag page 2.26 39.3 ms 62.1 ms 72.6 ms 0%
Author page 2.26 40.8 ms 65.8 ms 69.8 ms 0%
RSS feed 2.25 48.3 ms 76 ms 83.3 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 5.85 176 ms 243 ms 281 ms 0%
Post page 14.6 125 ms 185 ms 219 ms 0%
Tag page 2.96 113 ms 153 ms 195 ms 0%
Author page 2.93 116 ms 169 ms 187 ms 0%
RSS feed 2.93 116 ms 183 ms 207 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 5.97 680 ms 810 ms 839 ms 0%
Post page 14.9 562 ms 700 ms 762 ms 0%
Tag page 2.99 366 ms 473 ms 496 ms 0%
Author page 2.99 367 ms 457 ms 507 ms 0%
RSS feed 2.98 385 ms 475 ms 548 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 2.35 55.9 ms 73.7 ms 79.9 ms 0%
Post editor 7.07 24.6 ms 34.1 ms 41.6 ms 0%
Saving a draft 7.07 67.3 ms 85.4 ms 106 ms 0%
Member list 2.35 67.1 ms 88.2 ms 93.5 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 3.18 72 ms 100 ms 114 ms 0%
Post editor 9.57 36.7 ms 53.9 ms 80 ms 0%
Saving a draft 9.59 312 ms 420 ms 552 ms 0%
Member list 3.18 79 ms 107 ms 132 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 0.773 168 ms 205 ms 220 ms 0%
Blog index 0.773 600 ms 763 ms 774 ms 0%
Blog post 2.29 50.7 ms 79.6 ms 102 ms 0%
Bread page 2.3 55 ms 76.4 ms 80 ms 0%
Location page 0.773 55 ms 74.2 ms 78.6 ms 0%
Site search 0.757 93.7 ms 163 ms 204 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 1.64 334 ms 480 ms 568 ms 0%
Blog index 1.68 1.2 s 1.58 s 1.69 s 0%
Blog post 4.91 96 ms 161 ms 264 ms 0%
Bread page 4.94 107 ms 153 ms 172 ms 0%
Location page 1.68 104 ms 145 ms 153 ms 0%
Site search 1.63 146 ms 286 ms 362 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 1.62 1.11 s 1.54 s 1.64 s 0%
Blog index 1.7 2.82 s 3.48 s 3.77 s 0%
Blog post 4.97 601 ms 979 ms 1.17 s 0%
Bread page 4.98 656 ms 1.02 s 1.16 s 0%
Location page 1.69 681 ms 900 ms 969 ms 0%
Site search 1.66 771 ms 1.15 s 1.45 s 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Failed: k6 setup failed at 1 virtual users, wagtail isn't serving the seeded site: time="2026-10-14T16:19:03Z" level=warning msg="Request Failed" error="Get \"http://wagtail:8000/\": lookup wagtail on 127.0.0.11:53: server misbehaving" time="2026-10-14T16:19:03Z" 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, 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 319 MB, Postgres at 208 MB, and Redis at 9 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 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
0.1% 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 1
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 14, 2026, 14:45:41 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 14, 2026, 14:44:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 14, 2026, 14:44:54 UTC
Completed
Oct 14, 2026, 16:20:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 14, 2026, 16:20:00 UTC
Cost of this run
€0.037 EUR
TestResultTime
Discourse, signed in Discourse Not run not enough disk, needs 7432 MB and 4434 MB is free
Discourse, anonymous Discourse Not run not enough disk, needs 7500 MB and 4434 MB is free
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