UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB)
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Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I've spun up brand new instance from UpCloud and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. 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)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Wed, 21 May 2025 09:00:46 GMT
Wed, 21 May 2025 09:00:36 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
6.8.0-31-generic
6.8.0-60-generic
MySQL Version
8.0.42-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
8.0.42-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
Redis Version
7.0.15
7.0.15
Location
New York, NY
Newark, NJ
Monthly Price
€7.00
$5.00
RAM (GB)
1
1
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
25
25
Storage Type
SSD
SSD
Transfer (TB)
1
1
CPU
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
GenuineIntel
Model Name
AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core Processor
Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,894.56
2,394.45
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
5,789.12
4,788.90
Events per Second
1,516.75
860.64
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.6
1.14
Average Latency (ms)
0.66
1.16
Maximum Latency (ms)
18.45
2.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.72
1.23
Memory
Memory Read
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second
5,125,857.86
4,203,941.93
Mebibytes per second
5,005.72
4,105.41
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.38
0.21
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second
5,117,919.14
4,193,413.10
Mebibytes per second
4,997.97
4,095.13
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.32
0.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Reads per Second
2,126.78
2,077.75
Writes per Second
1,417.85
1,385.10
Fsyncs per Second
4,537.52
4,436.80
Read Mebibytes per Second
33.23
32.46
Written Mebibytes per Second
22.15
21.64
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.12
0.13
Maximum Latency (ms)
52.76
4.1
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.37
0.37
Mutex
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,745.06
2,117.40
Average Latency (ms)
1,758.67
2,122.57
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,766.79
2,130.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,771.29
2,120.76
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
5,623.00
5,119.00
Queries per second
56,230.00
51,190.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.28
1.71
Average Latency (ms)
1.78
1.95
Maximum Latency (ms)
43.01
21.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.43
2.43
MySQL Write-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,858.00
3,859.00
Queries per second
28,580.00
38,590.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.78
1.5
Average Latency (ms)
3.5
2.59
Maximum Latency (ms)
28.79
17.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5.99
4.25
MySQL Read/Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,429.00
1,935.00
Queries per second
14,290.00
19,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.58
3.66
Average Latency (ms)
6.99
5.16
Maximum Latency (ms)
108.75
22.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
11.45
8.28
MySQL INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,656.00
8,161.00
Queries per second
46,560.00
81,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1
0.73
Average Latency (ms)
2.14
1.22
Maximum Latency (ms)
39.06
14.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.13
1.93
MySQL Bulk INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,084,592.00
996,869.00
Queries per second
10,845,920.00
9,968,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
517.27
570.9
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
107,819.00
115,535.00
Queries per second
1,078,190.00
1,155,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.07
Average Latency (ms)
0.09
0.09
Maximum Latency (ms)
27.4
5.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.23
0.12
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
141.00
1,232.00
Queries per second
1,410.00
12,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
27.86
2.01
Average Latency (ms)
71.23
8.12
Maximum Latency (ms)
305.49
31.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
137.35
11.87
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
5,000.00
4,470.00
Queries per second
50,000.00
44,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.37
0.66
Average Latency (ms)
2
2.24
Maximum Latency (ms)
18.6
5.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.57
2.81
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,931.00
5,428.00
Queries per second
29,310.00
54,280.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.37
0.89
Average Latency (ms)
3.41
1.84
Maximum Latency (ms)
1996.38
17.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.49
3.55
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
3,825.00
7,222.00
Queries per second
38,250.00
72,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.31
0.8
Average Latency (ms)
2.61
1.38
Maximum Latency (ms)
2036.89
9.57
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.07
2.61
MySQL DELETE
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
5,421.00
11,757.00
Queries per second
54,210.00
117,570.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.07
Average Latency (ms)
1.84
0.85
Maximum Latency (ms)
73.64
11.48
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.19
1.61
Redis
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
30,120.48
39,478.88
PING_MBULK per Second
42,844.90
30,367.45
SET per Second
42,194.09
34,734.29
GET per Second
41,425.02
39,588.28
INCR per Second
42,158.52
39,292.73
LPUSH per Second
33,534.54
31,289.11
RPUSH per Second
41,981.53
28,677.95
LPOP per Second
36,062.03
28,425.24
RPOP per Second
41,305.25
28,653.29
SADD per Second
41,597.34
34,965.04
HSET per Second
42,771.60
38,387.71
SPOP per Second
42,716.79
40,000.00
ZADD per Second
41,407.87
39,261.88
ZPOPMIN per Second
42,808.22
40,833.00
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
27,005.13
25,043.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
14,725.37
13,292.57
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
10,192.64
9,262.69
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
8,893.63
8,079.50
MSET (10 keys) per Second
39,138.94
36,218.76
Redis Average Latency (ms)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.83
0.84
PING_MBULK
0.80
1.05
SET
0.82
0.94
GET
0.82
0.84
INCR
0.81
0.85
LPUSH
1.00
1.04
RPUSH
0.81
1.12
LPOP
0.97
1.14
RPOP
0.83
1.13
SADD
0.83
0.93
HSET
0.81
0.87
SPOP
0.80
0.83
ZADD
0.83
0.85
ZPOPMIN
0.80
0.82
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.31
1.36
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
2.48
2.55
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
3.53
3.70
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
4.05
4.24
MSET (10 keys)
0.90
0.96
Conclusion
After analyzing the benchmark results for both UpCloud and Vultr's 1 GB instances, it's clear that UpCloud's "Balanced" instance outperforms Vultr's "Cloud Compute" in most metrics, especially in Redis operations and MySQL OLTP tasks. UpCloud's instance shows higher request rates per second and lower latency across various Redis commands, as well as better performance in MySQL bulk inserts and OLTP operations. Vultr's instance, while competitive, lags slightly behind in throughput and latency metrics, particularly in more complex Redis operations like LRANGE and in MySQL's read-write operations. Given these results, UpCloud's instance would be more suitable for workloads that require high throughput and low latency, such as real-time data processing and high-performance databases, whereas Vultr's instance might still be adequate for simpler tasks or where cost is a primary concern.
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