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Scaleway BASIC2-A2C-4G

Amsterdam 1

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 14, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
983
Faster than 41% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,830
Faster than 48% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
5,164
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
€16.79 EUR
93 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Scaleway
  • Plan
    BASIC2-A2C-4G
  • Location
    Amsterdam 1
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
  • Network
    200 Mbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu_noble
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 14, 2026, 03:24:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 983 1,830 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 46.3 GB/s 3 0.748%
Scale higher is better 44.8 GB/s 3 0.282%
Add higher is better 41.9 GB/s 3 1.56%
Triad higher is better 42.1 GB/s 3 1.83%

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 0.237%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 8,015/s 3 0.083%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.45 GB/s 3 1.24%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 4.72 GB/s 3 0.0812%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 1.74 GB/s 3 0.0632%

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%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 133/s 3 0.433%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 36.2 ms 3 13.6%
Requests per second, average higher is better 133/s 2 0.282%

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 (2,578 IOPS) 10.1 MB/s (2,586 IOPS) 20.2 MB/s (5,164 IOPS)
64K 78.8 MB/s (1,261 IOPS) 81.2 MB/s (1,298 IOPS) 160 MB/s (2,559 IOPS)
512K 75 MB/s (149 IOPS) 81.4 MB/s (162 IOPS) 156.4 MB/s (311 IOPS)
1M 72.8 MB/s (72 IOPS) 81.2 MB/s (81 IOPS) 154 MB/s (153 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 7.31 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 411 Mbps 15.9 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 429 Mbps 1.53 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 434 Mbps 1.23 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 450 Mbps 3.17 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 1,160 0.862 ms
fdatasync 1,245 0.803 ms
fsync 489 2.05 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 446 2.24 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 646 1.55 ms
fdatasync 1,139 0.878 ms
fsync 501 2 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 258 3.88 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 512 1.95 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 260 3.85 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 126 7.92 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 58.6 17.1 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 30.7 32.6 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 490 2.04 ms
write, close, fsync 506 1.98 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 1,067,585 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) 1 500 1.89 ms 2.39 ms 3.43 ms 7.34 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,369 2.77 ms 6.25 ms 9.83 ms 31.2 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 2,689 8.71 ms 29.7 ms 54.5 ms 152 ms 0
Read only 1 23,400 0.04 ms 0.055 ms 0.071 ms 0.108 ms 0
Read only 8 36,430 0.205 ms 0.326 ms 0.39 ms 0.787 ms 0
Read only 32 35,454 0.843 ms 1.32 ms 1.68 ms 3.15 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 3.63 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) 1 444 2.04 ms 3.06 ms 5.56 ms 14.2 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 1,696 3.47 ms 8.81 ms 28.4 ms 100 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 2,308 10.2 ms 32.9 ms 65.5 ms 146 ms 0
Read only 1 13,455 0.054 ms 0.102 ms 0.283 ms 1.12 ms 0
Read only 8 27,987 0.262 ms 0.419 ms 0.571 ms 1.64 ms 0
Read only 32 28,799 1.04 ms 1.68 ms 2.13 ms 3.74 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 59.8 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 89.9 1,799 8.58 ms 15.3 ms 95.8 ms 0
Read/write 8 301 6,025 15.8 ms 111 ms 190 ms 0
Read/write 32 425 8,503 61.1 ms 159 ms 240 ms 0
Read only 1 747 11,957 1.25 ms 2.03 ms 2.91 ms 0
Read only 8 1,231 19,690 6.21 ms 9.22 ms 10.3 ms 0
Read only 32 1,117 17,871 27.7 ms 36.2 ms 40.4 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 18.5 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 77,283 70,257 0.439 ms 2.7 ms 4.42 ms
1:1 set:get 74,235 37,117 0.495 ms 2.77 ms 4.1 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 455 1,570 2,334 1.84 s
Express express-postgresjs 5,826 7,662 18,310 407 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 5,807 8,359 20,349 250 ms
NestJS nestjs 3,093 3,578 10,291 148 ms
Nuxt nuxt 4,971 7,265 16,269 108 ms
FastAPI fastapi 2,602 3,202 17,228 327 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,459 1,611 3,818 338 ms
Rails rails 1,865 2,390 9,088 194 ms
Laravel laravel 496 496 919 545 ms
Symfony symfony 594 670 1,959 454 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 1.62 975 ms 1.1 s 1.11 s 0%
Shop page 1.62 1.32 s 1.5 s 1.52 s 0%
Category page 1.62 836 ms 1.35 s 1.44 s 0%
Product page 1.62 889 ms 1.05 s 1.07 s 0%
Product search 1.62 774 ms 879 ms 889 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.74 3.63 s 4.15 s 4.29 s 0%
Shop page 1.74 4.76 s 5.48 s 5.59 s 0%
Category page 1.59 4.12 s 5.22 s 5.42 s 0%
Product page 1.35 3.62 s 3.94 s 3.99 s 0%
Product search 1.35 3.41 s 3.72 s 3.81 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 3.12 1.04 s 1.18 s 1.2 s 0%
Cart 3.12 819 ms 939 ms 967 ms 0%
Checkout 3.12 621 ms 723 ms 736 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 3.14 3.41 s 4.23 s 4.37 s 0%
Cart 3.14 3.6 s 3.97 s 4.08 s 0%
Checkout 3.14 2.79 s 3.21 s 3.34 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 64 to 71 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 4.49 65.1 ms 94.3 ms 99.5 ms 0%
Post page 11.2 30.5 ms 46.5 ms 56.1 ms 0%
Tag page 2.25 40 ms 61.1 ms 64.4 ms 0%
Author page 2.25 45.4 ms 64.6 ms 68.9 ms 0%
RSS feed 2.23 48.4 ms 76.3 ms 81.6 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 6.34 175 ms 236 ms 278 ms 0%
Post page 15.8 109 ms 171 ms 196 ms 0%
Tag page 3.18 97.1 ms 155 ms 190 ms 0%
Author page 3.18 116 ms 168 ms 190 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.16 111 ms 172 ms 188 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 6.53 627 ms 754 ms 802 ms 0%
Post page 16.4 511 ms 637 ms 711 ms 0%
Tag page 3.27 341 ms 461 ms 510 ms 0%
Author page 3.3 346 ms 485 ms 554 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.27 340 ms 436 ms 456 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 2.5 55.7 ms 77.7 ms 84.2 ms 0%
Post editor 7.54 21.5 ms 31.9 ms 35.9 ms 0%
Saving a draft 7.54 58.2 ms 78.5 ms 104 ms 0%
Member list 2.5 72.3 ms 97.7 ms 113 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 3.73 60.3 ms 81.6 ms 138 ms 0%
Post editor 11.2 29.5 ms 46.8 ms 64.5 ms 0%
Saving a draft 11.3 268 ms 350 ms 422 ms 0%
Member list 3.75 76.8 ms 101 ms 119 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 305 MB and MySQL at 626 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 0.881 159 ms 208 ms 269 ms 0%
Blog index 0.881 487 ms 598 ms 626 ms 0%
Blog post 2.63 52.4 ms 87 ms 100 ms 0%
Bread page 2.63 58 ms 75.1 ms 76.4 ms 0%
Location page 0.881 59 ms 71 ms 72 ms 0%
Site search 0.865 83.3 ms 153 ms 183 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 2.2 241 ms 359 ms 411 ms 0%
Blog index 2.25 867 ms 1.21 s 1.6 s 0%
Blog post 6.63 70.8 ms 117 ms 146 ms 0%
Bread page 6.65 77.5 ms 114 ms 128 ms 0%
Location page 2.25 72.9 ms 99.8 ms 108 ms 0%
Site search 2.22 119 ms 262 ms 326 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 2.59 718 ms 931 ms 989 ms 0%
Blog index 2.56 1.82 s 2.08 s 2.19 s 0%
Blog post 7.66 413 ms 665 ms 757 ms 0%
Bread page 7.71 428 ms 691 ms 773 ms 0%
Location page 2.57 413 ms 715 ms 797 ms 0%
Site search 2.56 513 ms 771 ms 922 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Failed: k6 setup failed at 1 virtual users, wagtail isn't serving the seeded site: time="2026-10-14T04:59:38Z" level=warning msg="Request Failed" error="Get \"http://wagtail:8000/\": lookup wagtail on 127.0.0.11:53: server misbehaving" time="2026-10-14T04:59:38Z" 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 317 MB, Postgres at 204 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
Amsterdam 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, 03:25:00 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 14, 2026, 03:24:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 14, 2026, 03:24:52 UTC
Completed
Oct 14, 2026, 05:00:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 14, 2026, 05:00:00 UTC
Cost of this run
€0.037 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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