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

New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up brand new instance from UpCloud to run some benchmarks on. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked	Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:00:52 GMT	Sun, 11 Jan 2026 07:00:52 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	1,601.08	1,395.79
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.6	0.61
Average Latency (ms)	0.62	0.71
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.45	96.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.65	0.72

Memory Read

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Operations per second	5,159,448.90	5,177,131.81
Mebibytes per second	5,038.52	5,055.79
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.07	1.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Operations per second	5,232,459.44	5,165,088.49
Mebibytes per second	5,109.82	5,044.03
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.21	0.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Reads per Second	2,136.79	2,746.46
Writes per Second	1,424.52	1,830.97
Fsyncs per Second	4,560.37	5,869.90
Read Mebibytes per Second	33.39	42.91
Written Mebibytes per Second	22.26	28.61
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.12	0.1
Maximum Latency (ms)	97.79	14.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.37	0.33

Mutex

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,728.50	1,740.38
Average Latency (ms)	1,749.05	1,747.45
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,765.60	1,750.80
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,771.29	1,739.68

MySQL Read-only

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	6,928.00	6,996.00
Queries per second	69,280.00	69,960.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.25	1.27
Average Latency (ms)	1.44	1.43
Maximum Latency (ms)	10.02	3.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.61	1.76

MySQL Write-only

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	3,856.00	4,162.00
Queries per second	38,560.00	41,620.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.71	1.64
Average Latency (ms)	2.59	2.4
Maximum Latency (ms)	28.87	38.57
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.49	3.19

MySQL Read/Write

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	2,158.00	2,239.00
Queries per second	21,580.00	22,390.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	3.4	3.2
Average Latency (ms)	4.63	4.47
Maximum Latency (ms)	39.11	45.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.99	5.88

MySQL INSERT

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	5,881.00	6,232.00
Queries per second	58,810.00	62,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.03	1
Average Latency (ms)	1.7	1.6
Maximum Latency (ms)	29.11	16.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.14	2.03

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	1,171,967.00	1,230,217.00
Queries per second	11,719,670.00	12,302,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	457.43	576.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	157,828.00	163,980.00
Queries per second	1,578,280.00	1,639,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.05
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.79	1.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.09	0.08

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	7,045.00	7,104.00
Queries per second	70,450.00	71,040.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.46	0.48
Average Latency (ms)	1.42	1.41
Maximum Latency (ms)	9.59	5.98
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.96	1.89

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	6,991.00	6,868.00
Queries per second	69,910.00	68,680.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.54	0.53
Average Latency (ms)	1.43	1.45
Maximum Latency (ms)	95.72	3.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.86	1.93

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	5,004.00	5,641.00
Queries per second	50,040.00	56,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.05	1
Average Latency (ms)	2	1.77
Maximum Latency (ms)	87.03	42.98
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.81	2.48

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	5,694.00	6,115.00
Queries per second	56,940.00	61,150.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.14	0.91
Average Latency (ms)	1.76	1.63
Maximum Latency (ms)	38.97	57.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.22	2.11

MySQL DELETE

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second	43,385.00	53,547.00
Queries per second	433,850.00	535,470.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.05
Average Latency (ms)	0.23	0.19
Maximum Latency (ms)	22.52	31.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.7	1.47

Redis

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second	42,194.09	39,714.06
PING_MBULK per Second	40,916.53	40,192.93
SET per Second	41,614.64	39,510.08
GET per Second	42,426.81	41,254.12
INCR per Second	42,105.26	41,771.09
LPUSH per Second	41,718.81	41,511.00
RPUSH per Second	41,459.37	42,105.26
LPOP per Second	41,425.02	40,584.41
RPOP per Second	41,736.23	40,551.50
SADD per Second	42,140.75	41,946.31
HSET per Second	41,220.11	42,462.84
SPOP per Second	41,893.59	41,562.76
ZADD per Second	40,160.64	40,355.12
ZPOPMIN per Second	41,631.97	41,753.65
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	27,151.78	25,940.34
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	14,176.35	14,821.40
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	10,114.29	9,831.88
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	9,054.69	9,037.51
MSET (10 keys) per Second	37,678.97	37,835.79

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
PING_INLINE	0.81	0.85
PING_MBULK	0.83	0.84
SET	0.82	0.86
GET	0.81	0.82
INCR	0.81	0.81
LPUSH	0.82	0.82
RPUSH	0.83	0.82
LPOP	0.83	0.85
RPOP	0.83	0.84
SADD	0.82	0.82
HSET	0.83	0.81
SPOP	0.81	0.82
ZADD	0.85	0.85
ZPOPMIN	0.82	0.82
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	1.29	1.34
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	2.53	2.46
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	3.54	3.67
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	3.98	4.00
MSET (10 keys)	0.93	0.93

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

In comparing the two UpCloud instances, the "Balanced (1 GB)" performs notably faster for Redis operations, achieving higher requests per second and lower latencies across various commands. However, the "Balanced (2 GB)" instance shows more robust performance in MySQL operations and file I/O tasks, handling bulk inserts, OLTP operations, and read/write throughput more effectively. The "Balanced (2 GB)" also demonstrates better handling of threads and mutex operations. For applications requiring heavy I/O and database operations, the "Balanced (2 GB)" would be more suitable, whereas the "Balanced (1 GB)" excels in scenarios where high-speed Redis performance is crucial.

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