New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and UpCloud and ran some benchmarks. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked
Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:00:52 GMT
Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
6.8.0-71-generic
6.8.0-111-generic
MySQL Version
8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
Redis Version
7.0.15
7.0.15
Location
New York, NY
New York, NY
Monthly Price
$64.00
€26.00
RAM (GB)
8
4
CPU Cores
4
2
Storage (TB)
240
80
Storage Type
NVMe
SSD
Transfer (TB)
6
4
CPU
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor
GenuineIntel
AuthenticAMD
Model Name
DO-Premium-Intel
AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)
1,995.31
3,295.46
CPU Cache Size (KB)
4,096.00
512.00
BogoMips
3,990.61
6,590.91
Events per Second
2,100.00
5,538.02
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.46
0.16
Average Latency (ms)
0.48
0.18
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.77
0.43
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.49
0.19
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second
4,031,036.30
7,744,795.06
Mebibytes per second
3,936.56
7,563.28
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.09
0.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second
4,327,248.72
7,915,291.33
Mebibytes per second
4,225.83
7,729.78
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.18
0.1
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second
1,848.36
5,263.44
Writes per Second
1,232.24
3,508.96
Fsyncs per Second
3,943.27
11,231.28
Read Mebibytes per Second
28.88
82.24
Written Mebibytes per Second
19.25
54.83
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.14
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
32.73
30.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.83
0.19
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)
496.91
519.77
Average Latency (ms)
678.09
597.61
Maximum Latency (ms)
755.25
637.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
759.88
634.66
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
5,172.00
19,719.00
Queries per second
51,720.00
197,190.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.28
0.34
Average Latency (ms)
1.93
0.51
Maximum Latency (ms)
8.32
1.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.61
0.63
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
2,301.00
6,768.00
Queries per second
23,010.00
67,680.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.35
0.63
Average Latency (ms)
4.34
1.48
Maximum Latency (ms)
12.64
50.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
7.3
2.14
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
1,495.00
4,707.00
Queries per second
14,950.00
47,070.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.89
1.08
Average Latency (ms)
6.68
2.12
Maximum Latency (ms)
19.01
37.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
10.46
2.97
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
3,010.00
7,393.00
Queries per second
30,100.00
73,930.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.11
0.44
Average Latency (ms)
3.32
1.35
Maximum Latency (ms)
14.62
63.1
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.09
1.7
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
1,201,092.00
3,356,342.00
Queries per second
12,010,920.00
33,563,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
566.03
151.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
157,927.00
592,464.00
Queries per second
1,579,270.00
5,924,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.01
Average Latency (ms)
0.06
0.02
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.99
10.21
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.09
0.02
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
5,434.00
12,203.00
Queries per second
54,340.00
122,030.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.45
0.25
Average Latency (ms)
1.84
0.82
Maximum Latency (ms)
14.81
11.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.71
1.21
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
6,582.00
16,394.00
Queries per second
65,820.00
163,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.57
0.13
Average Latency (ms)
1.52
0.61
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.15
1.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.66
0.97
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
3,033.00
8,134.00
Queries per second
30,330.00
81,340.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1
0.45
Average Latency (ms)
3.29
1.23
Maximum Latency (ms)
67.75
30.98
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5.99
1.73
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
3,268.00
7,953.00
Queries per second
32,680.00
79,530.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.03
0.45
Average Latency (ms)
3.06
1.26
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.49
76.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5.57
1.86
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
24,924.00
245,730.00
Queries per second
249,240.00
2,457,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.01
Average Latency (ms)
0.4
0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)
26.64
112.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.81
0.04
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (4 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second
93,545.37
210,084.03
PING_MBULK per Second
87,796.30
251,889.16
SET per Second
93,457.94
258,397.94
GET per Second
94,250.71
239,808.16
INCR per Second
85,106.38
268,096.53
LPUSH per Second
95,057.03
267,379.66
RPUSH per Second
86,505.19
263,157.91
LPOP per Second
89,285.71
272,479.56
RPOP per Second
100,100.10
274,725.28
SADD per Second
90,661.83
269,541.78
HSET per Second
90,415.91
246,305.42
SPOP per Second
96,432.02
256,410.27
ZADD per Second
97,751.71
252,525.25
ZPOPMIN per Second
97,751.71
247,524.75
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
58,997.05
147,275.41
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
26,191.72
59,136.61
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
15,961.69
38,850.04
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
14,390.56
38,461.54
MSET (10 keys) per Second
73,152.89
220,264.31
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (4 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE
0.28
0.16
PING_MBULK
0.31
0.11
SET
0.31
0.11
GET
0.28
0.11
INCR
0.31
0.12
LPUSH
0.29
0.13
RPUSH
0.32
0.10
LPOP
0.32
0.11
RPOP
0.27
0.10
SADD
0.32
0.10
HSET
0.29
0.11
SPOP
0.30
0.10
ZADD
0.31
0.11
ZPOPMIN
0.28
0.11
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.46
0.24
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.05
0.48
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
2.04
0.67
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
2.12
0.72
MSET (10 keys)
0.49
0.18
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
Comparing the benchmark performance of the DigitalOcean Premium Intel and the UpCloud Balanced instances reveals that the UpCloud instance offers higher throughput in various metrics, especially in Redis benchmarks where it achieves significantly higher requests per second across all commands. However, the DigitalOcean instance provides slightly better CPU and memory performance, along with lower latency for most memory operations. When considering ideal use cases, the UpCloud instance is well-suited for high-traffic, I/O-intensive workloads that benefit from increased CPU throughput, such as large-scale data processing and high-volume Redis operations. Conversely, the DigitalOcean instance is more appropriate for scenarios requiring robust memory and CPU performance with lower latency, such as CPU-intensive tasks and applications needing high memory throughput.
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