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

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Same showdown, different day. Today I've got brand new instances from UpCloud and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 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 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:02:17 GMT Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:05:17 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 7.0.0-29-generic 7.0.0-29-generic
MySQL Version 8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1 8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
Redis Version 8.0.5 8.0.5
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

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)Tie
Memory (read MiB/s)Tie
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Tie
Redis (GET/sec)Tie
Value (CPU events per $/mo)UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) takes 1 of 5 categories.

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) 3,295.42 3,295.42
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 512.00
BogoMips 6,590.84 6,590.84
Events per Second 4,771.17 4,733.64
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.19 0.19
Average Latency (ms) 0.21 0.21
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.26 2.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.23 0.24

Memory

Memory Read

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Operations per second 6,936,402.22 6,924,337.90
Mebibytes per second 6,773.83 6,762.05
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.35 0.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Operations per second 6,762,728.29 6,734,576.12
Mebibytes per second 6,604.23 6,576.73
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.65 3.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Reads per Second 2,763.16 2,742.06
Writes per Second 1,842.11 1,828.04
Fsyncs per Second 5,897.24 5,852.11
Read Mebibytes per Second 43.17 42.84
Written Mebibytes per Second 28.78 28.56
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.09 0.1
Maximum Latency (ms) 44.23 43.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.3 0.35

Mutex

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,275.54 1,334.65
Average Latency (ms) 1,282.62 1,340.93
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,289.72 1,347.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,280.93 1,352.03

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 14,724.00
Queries per second 0.00 147,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0.44
Average Latency (ms) 0 0.68
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 2.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0.83

MySQL Write-only

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 4,255.00
Queries per second 0.00 42,550.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0.85
Average Latency (ms) 0 2.35
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 65.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 3.89

MySQL Read/Write

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 2,815.00
Queries per second 0.00 28,150.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 1.68
Average Latency (ms) 0 3.55
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 63.07
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 5.57

MySQL INSERT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 6,031.00
Queries per second 0.00 60,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0.68
Average Latency (ms) 0 1.65
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 51.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 2.91

MySQL Bulk INSERT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 1,870,967.00
Queries per second 0.00 18,709,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 243.66
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 366,555.00
Queries per second 0.00 3,665,550.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0 0.03
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 1.64
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 6,679.00
Queries per second 0.00 66,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 0 1.5
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 6.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 2.07

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 10,571.00
Queries per second 0.00 105,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0.3
Average Latency (ms) 0 0.94
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 2.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 1.25

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 6,592.00
Queries per second 0.00 65,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0.64
Average Latency (ms) 0 1.52
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 73.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 2.43

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 6,361.00
Queries per second 0.00 63,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0.66
Average Latency (ms) 0 1.57
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 65.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 2.57

MySQL DELETE

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 0.00 101,477.00
Queries per second 0.00 1,014,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0 0.1
Maximum Latency (ms) 0 48.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0.17

Redis

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 36,218.76 48,899.75
PING_MBULK per Second 45,454.54 48,520.13
SET per Second 48,449.61 48,473.10
GET per Second 48,685.49 48,567.27
INCR per Second 48,449.61 48,216.01
LPUSH per Second 50,175.61 48,947.62
RPUSH per Second 48,828.12 48,828.12
LPOP per Second 50,942.43 46,446.82
RPOP per Second 49,603.17 45,808.52
SADD per Second 47,438.33 45,934.77
HSET per Second 48,685.49 45,871.56
SPOP per Second 46,403.71 44,964.03
ZADD per Second 47,687.18 45,955.88
ZPOPMIN per Second 47,103.16 44,306.60
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 36,114.12 32,530.91
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 23,266.64 20,462.45
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 15,227.65 15,964.24
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 11,837.12 14,490.65
MSET (10 keys) per Second 44,964.03 48,638.13

Redis Average Latency (ms)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.880.60
PING_MBULK0.640.60
SET0.630.62
GET0.610.61
INCR0.620.62
LPUSH0.610.61
RPUSH0.620.62
LPOP0.610.67
RPOP0.620.67
SADD0.630.65
HSET0.620.66
SPOP0.640.66
ZADD0.650.66
ZPOPMIN0.630.67
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.870.95
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.381.55
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.082.01
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)2.622.26
MSET (10 keys)0.760.71

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) instance outpaces the Balanced (2 GB) instance in most benchmarks, particularly evident in Redis operations like SET and GET which record higher requests per second (rps) and lower average latencies, showcasing superior performance for CPU-bound tasks. While both instances show similar file I/O and memory transfer rates, the lower RAM configuration doesn't hinder overall throughput, making it ideal for cost-sensitive, CPU-intensive applications.

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