UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) vs. UpCloud Balanced (2 GB)
New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from UpCloud to run some benchmarks on. Each instance was running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.
Overview
| UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) | UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Last Benchmarked | Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:00:52 GMT | Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:00:52 GMT |
| Linux Distro | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 |
| Kernel Version | 6.8.0-106-generic | 6.8.0-106-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 | €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 9575F 64-Core Processor | AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core Processor |
| Clock Speed (MHz) | 3,295.48 | 3,295.48 |
| CPU Cache Size (KB) | 512.00 | 512.00 |
| BogoMips | 6,590.95 | 6,590.95 |
| Events per Second | 5,498.48 | 5,483.57 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.16 | 0.17 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.18 | 0.18 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 1.19 | 2.36 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Memory
Memory Read
| UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) | UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Operations per second | 7,536,293.91 | 7,880,877.78 |
| Mebibytes per second | 7,359.66 | 7,696.17 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 0.25 | 0.26 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
Memory Write
| UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) | UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Operations per second | 7,610,312.91 | 7,984,777.79 |
| Mebibytes per second | 7,431.95 | 7,797.63 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 0.18 | 0.61 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
File I/O
| UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) | UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Reads per Second | 4,958.78 | 5,557.43 |
| Writes per Second | 3,305.85 | 3,704.95 |
| Fsyncs per Second | 10,581.62 | 11,856.64 |
| Read Mebibytes per Second | 77.48 | 86.83 |
| Written Mebibytes per Second | 51.65 | 57.89 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.05 | 0.05 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 23.72 | 26.07 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.2 | 0.19 |
Mutex
| UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) | UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 1,200.46 | 1,224.67 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1,205.89 | 1,237.18 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 1,209.97 | 1,243.71 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 1,213.57 | 1,235.62 |
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
| UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) | UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 23,913.00 | 23,549.00 |
| Queries per second | 239,130.00 | 235,490.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.29 | 0.28 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.42 | 0.42 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 3.69 | 120.62 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.55 | 0.57 |
MySQL Write-only
| UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) | UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 7,390.00 | 8,866.00 |
| Queries per second | 73,900.00 | 88,660.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.59 | 0.54 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.35 | 1.13 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 151.26 | 14.32 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 2.18 | 1.58 |
MySQL Read/Write
| UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) | UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 5,643.00 | 5,608.00 |
| Queries per second | 56,430.00 | 56,080.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 1.07 | 0.99 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.77 | 1.78 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 18.59 | 21.57 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 2.39 | 2.91 |
MySQL INSERT
| UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) | UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 10,691.00 | 12,049.00 |
| Queries per second | 106,910.00 | 120,490.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.4 | 0.36 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.93 | 0.83 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 28.16 | 16.1 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 1.52 | 1.16 |
MySQL Bulk INSERT
| UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) | UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 2,861,217.00 | 3,327,217.00 |
| Queries per second | 28,612,170.00 | 33,272,170.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 190.34 | 159.89 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
MySQL SELECT
| UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) | UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 797,057.00 | 902,756.00 |
| Queries per second | 7,970,570.00 | 9,027,560.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 1.08 | 0.67 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.02 | 0.01 |
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
| UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) | UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 14,716.00 | 17,948.00 |
| Queries per second | 147,160.00 | 179,480.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.19 | 0.12 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.68 | 0.56 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 5.31 | 2.25 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 1.01 | 0.81 |
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
| UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) | UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 18,683.00 | 19,249.00 |
| Queries per second | 186,830.00 | 192,490.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.15 | 0.15 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.53 | 0.52 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 2.69 | 2.17 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.77 | 0.86 |
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
| UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) | UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 11,777.00 | 10,035.00 |
| Queries per second | 117,770.00 | 100,350.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.39 | 0.37 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.85 | 1 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 16.28 | 156.69 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 1.23 | 1.44 |
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
| UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) | UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 11,468.00 | 11,895.00 |
| Queries per second | 114,680.00 | 118,950.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.35 | 0.38 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.87 | 0.84 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 15.13 | 17.49 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 1.23 | 1.21 |
MySQL DELETE
| UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) | UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 397,047.00 | 382,811.00 |
| Queries per second | 3,970,470.00 | 3,828,110.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.02 | 0.03 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 12.77 | 15.28 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.03 | 0.03 |
Redis
| UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) | UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| PING_INLINE per Second | 163,132.14 | 147,492.62 |
| PING_MBULK per Second | 146,412.88 | 173,310.22 |
| SET per Second | 168,067.22 | 169,204.73 |
| GET per Second | 163,666.12 | 167,504.19 |
| INCR per Second | 168,067.22 | 177,619.89 |
| LPUSH per Second | 158,730.16 | 172,711.58 |
| RPUSH per Second | 166,666.66 | 168,918.92 |
| LPOP per Second | 157,232.70 | 161,812.31 |
| RPOP per Second | 157,232.70 | 168,918.92 |
| SADD per Second | 161,030.59 | 179,856.11 |
| HSET per Second | 157,977.88 | 169,204.73 |
| SPOP per Second | 165,562.92 | 154,559.50 |
| ZADD per Second | 158,730.16 | 150,150.14 |
| ZPOPMIN per Second | 167,785.23 | 151,975.69 |
| LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second | 89,285.71 | 74,074.07 |
| LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second | 42,354.93 | 31,377.47 |
| LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second | 28,042.62 | 29,103.61 |
| LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second | 23,635.07 | 24,832.38 |
| MSET (10 keys) per Second | 140,845.08 | 156,494.52 |
Redis Average Latency (ms)
| UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) | UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| PING_INLINE | 0.21 | 0.22 |
| PING_MBULK | 0.22 | 0.19 |
| SET | 0.20 | 0.20 |
| GET | 0.20 | 0.20 |
| INCR | 0.20 | 0.19 |
| LPUSH | 0.21 | 0.20 |
| RPUSH | 0.20 | 0.20 |
| LPOP | 0.22 | 0.21 |
| RPOP | 0.22 | 0.20 |
| SADD | 0.21 | 0.18 |
| HSET | 0.21 | 0.20 |
| SPOP | 0.20 | 0.22 |
| ZADD | 0.21 | 0.22 |
| ZPOPMIN | 0.20 | 0.22 |
| LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) | 0.40 | 0.50 |
| LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) | 0.84 | 1.13 |
| LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) | 1.26 | 1.23 |
| LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) | 1.52 | 1.45 |
| MSET (10 keys) | 0.26 | 0.23 |
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
Upon careful comparison of the benchmark results for the UpCloud 1xCPU-1GB instance and the 1xCPU-2GB instance, it's clear that the latter offers notably superior performance metrics across the board, particularly in Redis operations, CPU throughput, and MySQL workloads, owing to its additional gigabyte of RAM. While the 1xCPU-1GB instance provides strong performance for its resource limits, particularly excelling in Redis commands and exhibiting minimal memory latency, the 1xCPU-2GB instance, despite slightly lower Redis request rates per second, shows better overall latency and more robust handling of larger datasets in Redis and more significant improvements in MySQL operations. Therefore, the 1xCPU-2GB instance is highly recommended for applications requiring more memory and better handling of database-intensive or larger dataset operations, while the 1xCPU-1GB remains a solid choice for simpler, memory-light workloads.
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