UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) vs. UpCloud Balanced (2 GB)

My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up some brand new instance from UpCloud to run some benchmarks on. All instances were running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked	Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:00:51 GMT	Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:00:51 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	6.8.0-87-generic	6.8.0-87-generic
MySQL Version	8.0.44-0ubuntu0.24.04.2	8.0.44-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
Redis Version	7.0.15	7.0.15
Location	New York, NY	New York, NY
Monthly Price	€7.00	€13.00
RAM (GB)	1	2
CPU Cores	1	1
Storage (TB)	25	50
Storage Type	SSD	SSD
Transfer (TB)	1	2

CPU

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vendor	AuthenticAMD	AuthenticAMD
Model Name	AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core Processor	AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,894.56	2,894.56
CPU Cache Size (KB)	512.00	512.00
BogoMips	5,789.12	5,789.12
Events per Second	1,619.40	1,443.06
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.59	0.6
Average Latency (ms)	0.62	0.69
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.29	97.64
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.64	0.67

Memory Read

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Operations per second	5,401,190.66	5,348,693.12
Mebibytes per second	5,274.60	5,223.33
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.95	0.2
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Operations per second	5,439,333.74	5,369,377.58
Mebibytes per second	5,311.85	5,243.53
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.26	0.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Reads per Second	2,677.57	2,834.18
Writes per Second	1,785.05	1,889.46
Fsyncs per Second	5,722.44	6,049.06
Read Mebibytes per Second	41.84	44.28
Written Mebibytes per Second	27.89	29.52
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.1	0.09
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.5	27.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.31	0.31

Mutex

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,525.78	1,531.67
Average Latency (ms)	1,533.33	1,540.17
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,542.52	1,544.44
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,533.66	1,533.66

MySQL Read-only

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	7,634.00	7,444.00
Queries per second	76,340.00	74,440.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.23	1.24
Average Latency (ms)	1.31	1.34
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.81	4.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.39	1.44

MySQL Write-only

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	4,518.00	4,242.00
Queries per second	45,180.00	42,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.37	1.41
Average Latency (ms)	2.21	2.36
Maximum Latency (ms)	40	60.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.02	3.25

MySQL Read/Write

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	2,426.00	2,508.00
Queries per second	24,260.00	25,080.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.84	2.86
Average Latency (ms)	4.12	3.99
Maximum Latency (ms)	37.03	33.89
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.18	5

MySQL INSERT

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	6,678.00	6,690.00
Queries per second	66,780.00	66,900.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.11	1.03
Average Latency (ms)	1.5	1.49
Maximum Latency (ms)	32.11	25.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.96	1.89

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	1,317,592.00	1,346,717.00
Queries per second	13,175,920.00	13,467,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	409.13	365.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	172,758.00	167,932.00
Queries per second	1,727,580.00	1,679,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.05
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.82	1.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.07	0.08

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	8,213.00	8,096.00
Queries per second	82,130.00	80,960.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.43	0.41
Average Latency (ms)	1.22	1.23
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.44	7.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.55	1.58

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	7,551.00	7,466.00
Queries per second	75,510.00	74,660.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.51	0.43
Average Latency (ms)	1.32	1.34
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.44	3.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.7	1.73

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	5,926.00	6,394.00
Queries per second	59,260.00	63,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.92	0.94
Average Latency (ms)	1.69	1.56
Maximum Latency (ms)	32.97	23.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.39	2.07

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	6,383.00	6,389.00
Queries per second	63,830.00	63,890.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.98	0.9
Average Latency (ms)	1.57	1.56
Maximum Latency (ms)	31.28	17.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2	2.03

MySQL DELETE

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	56,148.00	55,025.00
Queries per second	561,480.00	550,250.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.05
Average Latency (ms)	0.18	0.18
Maximum Latency (ms)	91.95	116.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.39	1.42

Redis

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second	44,033.47	43,047.79
PING_MBULK per Second	44,782.80	43,591.98
SET per Second	44,072.28	44,033.47
GET per Second	44,722.72	44,286.98
INCR per Second	44,583.15	43,936.73
LPUSH per Second	44,091.71	44,111.16
RPUSH per Second	44,326.24	44,503.79
LPOP per Second	38,431.98	43,744.53
RPOP per Second	43,994.72	40,535.06
SADD per Second	44,642.86	43,821.21
HSET per Second	44,150.11	44,150.11
SPOP per Second	45,392.64	44,682.75
ZADD per Second	44,365.57	43,383.95
ZPOPMIN per Second	45,433.89	44,052.86
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	29,248.32	28,628.69
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	16,000.00	15,542.43
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	11,101.24	10,864.84
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	9,616.31	9,412.65
MSET (10 keys) per Second	41,339.40	40,160.64

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
PING_INLINE	0.77	0.79
PING_MBULK	0.77	0.78
SET	0.78	0.78
GET	0.77	0.78
INCR	0.77	0.78
LPUSH	0.78	0.78
RPUSH	0.78	0.78
LPOP	0.88	0.79
RPOP	0.79	0.87
SADD	0.77	0.79
HSET	0.78	0.78
SPOP	0.76	0.77
ZADD	0.78	0.80
ZPOPMIN	0.76	0.78
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	1.21	1.23
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	2.31	2.37
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	3.30	3.38
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	3.82	3.90
MSET (10 keys)	0.86	0.89

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Upon analyzing the benchmark performance for both UpCloud instances, the "Balanced (1 GB)" instance shows impressive results with higher requests per second (rps) for Redis commands and slightly better CPU event throughput but at a lower monthly cost, making it a more economical choice for light workloads or applications requiring lower CPU and memory usage. The "Balanced (2 GB)" instance outperforms in memory-intensive tasks, with higher throughput in both read and write operations and better Redis and MySQL latency across various operations, suggesting it is more suitable for applications that demand higher RAM and CPU capacity, such as heavy database operations or high-concurrency services. Each instance has its strengths depending on the specific requirements of CPU, memory, and budget considerations for the end user's context.

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