Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB) vs. UpCloud Balanced (1 GB)

Updated Daily — Last generated on June 16, 2025

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Overview

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked	Mon, 16 Jun 2025 09:00:36 GMT	Sun, 15 Jun 2025 09:00:46 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	6.8.0-60-generic	6.8.0-31-generic
MySQL Version	8.0.42-0ubuntu0.24.04.1	8.0.42-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
Redis Version	7.0.15	7.0.15
Location	Newark, NJ	New York, NY
Monthly Price	$5.00	€7.00
RAM (GB)	1	1
CPU Cores	1	1
Storage (TB)	25	25
Storage Type	SSD	SSD
Transfer (TB)	1	1

CPU

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	AuthenticAMD
Model Name	Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX, IBRS)	AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,400.00	3,295.42
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	512.00
BogoMips	4,799.99	6,590.83
Events per Second	802.73	5,545.01
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.11	0.16
Average Latency (ms)	1.24	0.18
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.32	109.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.32	0.2

Memory

Memory Read

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Operations per second	3,975,665.48	8,116,315.82
Mebibytes per second	3,882.49	7,926.09
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.69	0.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Operations per second	4,004,187.38	8,051,777.24
Mebibytes per second	3,910.34	7,863.06
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.03	0.19
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Reads per Second	1,459.58	3,490.45
Writes per Second	973.12	2,326.97
Fsyncs per Second	3,117.81	7,457.19
Read Mebibytes per Second	22.81	54.54
Written Mebibytes per Second	15.20	36.36
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.18	0.08
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.02	51.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.58	0.21

Mutex

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)	2,084.97	1,116.12
Average Latency (ms)	2,089.70	1,120.39
Maximum Latency (ms)	2,097.97	1,126.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2,082.91	1,129.24

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	4,502.00	11.00
Queries per second	45,020.00	110.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.94	904.19
Average Latency (ms)	2.22	994.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	31.1	1088.66
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.57	1089.3

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	2,284.00	6,076.00
Queries per second	22,840.00	60,760.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2	0.59
Average Latency (ms)	4.38	1.64
Maximum Latency (ms)	100.59	89.64
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	7.98	2.81

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	1,642.00	463.00
Queries per second	16,420.00	4,630.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	4.28	1.37
Average Latency (ms)	6.09	21.75
Maximum Latency (ms)	20.38	189.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	9.06	99.33

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	1,644.00	8,199.00
Queries per second	16,440.00	81,990.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.41	0.43
Average Latency (ms)	6.08	1.22
Maximum Latency (ms)	33.49	106.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	11.04	1.86

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	931,337.00	2,997,682.00
Queries per second	9,313,370.00	29,976,820.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	671.21	235.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	95,917.00	707,700.00
Queries per second	959,170.00	7,077,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.07	0.01
Average Latency (ms)	0.1	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.98	18.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.14	0.02

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	1,134.00	336.00
Queries per second	11,340.00	3,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.17	13.73
Average Latency (ms)	8.82	29.76
Maximum Latency (ms)	56.69	90.9
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	12.75	41.1

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	4,487.00	14,920.00
Queries per second	44,870.00	149,200.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.82	0.2
Average Latency (ms)	2.23	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.28	8.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.81	0.94

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	2,322.00	6,759.00
Queries per second	23,220.00	67,590.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.29	0.42
Average Latency (ms)	4.3	1.48
Maximum Latency (ms)	29.01	79.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	8.58	2.57

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	1,434.00	9,005.00
Queries per second	14,340.00	90,050.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.54	0.42
Average Latency (ms)	6.97	1.11
Maximum Latency (ms)	104.08	107.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	12.52	1.67

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	1,435.00	9,411.00
Queries per second	14,350.00	94,110.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.11	0.01
Average Latency (ms)	6.97	1.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	34.29	115.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	12.75	2.03

Redis

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second	37,579.86	191,570.88
PING_MBULK per Second	38,080.73	188,679.25
SET per Second	37,091.99	178,890.88
GET per Second	37,453.18	185,185.17
INCR per Second	36,192.54	195,694.72
LPUSH per Second	36,536.36	186,915.88
RPUSH per Second	36,927.62	191,570.88
LPOP per Second	36,859.56	193,798.45
RPOP per Second	36,670.33	190,476.20
SADD per Second	37,050.76	198,019.80
HSET per Second	36,509.68	191,570.88
SPOP per Second	36,900.37	189,393.94
ZADD per Second	36,832.41	189,393.94
ZPOPMIN per Second	37,565.74	199,203.20
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	24,078.98	104,602.52
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	13,144.06	45,766.59
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	8,947.75	32,637.08
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	7,753.74	25,125.63
MSET (10 keys) per Second	34,188.04	168,634.06

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
PING_INLINE	0.88	0.17
PING_MBULK	0.86	0.17
SET	0.89	0.19
GET	0.88	0.18
INCR	0.91	0.17
LPUSH	0.91	0.18
RPUSH	0.90	0.17
LPOP	0.90	0.17
RPOP	0.91	0.18
SADD	0.90	0.17
HSET	0.91	0.17
SPOP	0.90	0.17
ZADD	0.91	0.18
ZPOPMIN	0.88	0.17
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	1.40	0.35
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	2.64	0.78
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	3.86	1.10
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	4.39	1.43
MSET (10 keys)	1.01	0.21

Conclusion

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