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

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Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from UpCloud and did some benchmarking. All instances were running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:00:53 GMT Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:00:53 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 6.8.0-63-generic 6.8.0-63-generic
MySQL Version 8.0.43-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 8.0.43-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
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) 3,295.45 3,295.45
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 512.00
BogoMips 6,590.90 6,590.89
Events per Second 5,197.84 5,545.59
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.17 0.16
Average Latency (ms) 0.19 0.18
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.49 2.21
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.22 0.2

Memory

Memory Read

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Operations per second 6,990,244.41 7,837,342.51
Mebibytes per second 6,826.41 7,653.65
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.69 0.19
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Operations per second 6,855,048.18 7,655,519.12
Mebibytes per second 6,694.38 7,476.09
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.93 0.9
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Reads per Second 4,115.12 3,472.35
Writes per Second 2,743.41 2,314.90
Fsyncs per Second 8,789.69 7,414.77
Read Mebibytes per Second 64.30 54.26
Written Mebibytes per Second 42.87 36.17
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.08
Maximum Latency (ms) 21.65 47.6
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.22 0.26

Mutex

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,293.41 1,231.31
Average Latency (ms) 1,298.04 1,239.56
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,305.02 1,246.63
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,304.21 1,235.62

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 21,643.00 21,811.00
Queries per second 216,430.00 218,110.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.29 0.29
Average Latency (ms) 0.46 0.46
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.72 115.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.65 0.6

MySQL Write-only

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,317.00 5,622.00
Queries per second 73,170.00 56,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.59 0.64
Average Latency (ms) 1.37 1.78
Maximum Latency (ms) 67.35 113.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.18 3.07

MySQL Read/Write

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,249.00 4,055.00
Queries per second 42,490.00 40,550.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.15 1.11
Average Latency (ms) 2.35 2.46
Maximum Latency (ms) 45.57 123.98
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.75 4.25

MySQL INSERT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 8,829.00 7,076.00
Queries per second 88,290.00 70,760.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.44 0.51
Average Latency (ms) 1.13 1.41
Maximum Latency (ms) 40.83 84.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.67 2.71

MySQL Bulk INSERT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 2,744,717.00 2,744,717.00
Queries per second 27,447,170.00 27,447,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 179.6 210.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 793,218.00 838,505.00
Queries per second 7,932,180.00 8,385,050.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 111.29 1.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.02 0.02

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 13,589.00 12,703.00
Queries per second 135,890.00 127,030.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.18 0.21
Average Latency (ms) 0.73 0.79
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.88 7.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.16 1.16

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 14,875.00 14,997.00
Queries per second 148,750.00 149,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.19 0.18
Average Latency (ms) 0.67 0.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.04 3.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.04 1.04

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 8,322.00 5,611.00
Queries per second 83,220.00 56,110.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.48 0.56
Average Latency (ms) 1.2 1.78
Maximum Latency (ms) 50.42 48.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.89 3.96

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 9,391.00 6,908.00
Queries per second 93,910.00 69,080.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.42 0.53
Average Latency (ms) 1.06 1.45
Maximum Latency (ms) 45.75 106.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.7 2.66

MySQL DELETE

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 320,169.00 202,880.00
Queries per second 3,201,690.00 2,028,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Average Latency (ms) 0.03 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 39.95 105.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.03 0.04

Redis

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 146,627.56 149,925.03
PING_MBULK per Second 137,362.64 160,256.41
SET per Second 130,039.02 154,559.50
GET per Second 132,100.39 159,489.64
INCR per Second 140,646.97 156,494.52
LPUSH per Second 131,752.31 158,478.61
RPUSH per Second 144,092.22 162,074.56
LPOP per Second 134,952.77 156,006.25
RPOP per Second 158,227.84 155,521.00
SADD per Second 158,730.16 155,521.00
HSET per Second 157,232.70 160,513.64
SPOP per Second 163,132.14 161,030.59
ZADD per Second 156,739.81 156,985.86
ZPOPMIN per Second 159,235.66 155,763.23
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 75,414.78 79,051.38
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 38,240.92 38,505.97
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 26,274.30 25,043.83
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 19,860.97 23,568.23
MSET (10 keys) per Second 129,032.27 142,045.45

Redis Average Latency (ms)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.230.22
PING_MBULK0.240.21
SET0.260.22
GET0.250.21
INCR0.240.21
LPUSH0.260.21
RPUSH0.230.21
LPOP0.250.22
RPOP0.210.22
SADD0.210.21
HSET0.220.21
SPOP0.200.21
ZADD0.220.22
ZPOPMIN0.210.21
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.480.46
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)0.950.93
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)1.381.44
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)1.821.53
MSET (10 keys)0.280.25

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) instance shows strong performance in Redis operations, with high request rates and low latencies, but its CPU and file I/O benchmarks are slightly lower compared to the Balanced (2 GB) instance. The Balanced (2 GB) instance, while having similar Redis performance, excels in CPU, file I/O, and memory benchmarks, indicating better overall throughput and lower latencies. The 2 GB instance is more suitable for CPU-intensive, I/O-heavy workloads, and applications requiring more RAM, while the 1 GB instance is ideal for less demanding tasks where lower cost is a priority.

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