I just tried it and got a 20x difference. Scaleway, using one of four 1332 bogomips processors and 2GB RAM (~$3.30/mo): Test execution summary: total

I just tried it and got a 20x difference. Scaleway, using one of four 1332 bogomips processors and 2GB RAM (~$3.30/mo): Test execution summary: total time: 685.4730s total number of events: 10000 total time taken by event execution: 685.4637 per-request statistics: min: 68.52ms avg: 68.55ms max: 75.46ms approx. 95 percentile: 68.58ms Digital Ocean, using the sole 4600 bogomips processor and 512MB RAM ($5/mo): Test execution summary: total time: 34.9343s total number of events: 10000 total time taken by event execution: 34.9257 per-request statistics: min: 2.88ms avg: 3.49ms max: 8.00ms approx. 95 percentile: 3.68ms Commandline: $ sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 run