UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB)

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New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up brand new instance from UpCloud and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:00:52 GMT Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 6.8.0-106-generic 6.8.0-107-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 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 9575F 64-Core Processor Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz) 3,295.48 2,400.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 6,590.95 4,799.99
Events per Second 5,498.48 820.77
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.16 1
Average Latency (ms) 0.18 1.22
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.19 3.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.2 1.32

Memory

Memory Read

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second 7,536,293.91 4,183,460.82
Mebibytes per second 7,359.66 4,085.41
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.25 0.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second 7,610,312.91 4,091,149.16
Mebibytes per second 7,431.95 3,995.26
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.18 0.91
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Reads per Second 4,958.78 2,036.96
Writes per Second 3,305.85 1,357.97
Fsyncs per Second 10,581.62 4,346.01
Read Mebibytes per Second 77.48 31.83
Written Mebibytes per Second 51.65 21.22
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.13
Maximum Latency (ms) 23.72 4.89
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.2 0.3

Mutex

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,200.46 1,927.10
Average Latency (ms) 1,205.89 1,939.45
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,209.97 1,950.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,213.57 1,938.16

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 23,913.00 5,023.00
Queries per second 239,130.00 50,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.29 1.72
Average Latency (ms) 0.42 1.99
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.69 6.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.55 2.18

MySQL Write-only

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,390.00 3,626.00
Queries per second 73,900.00 36,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.59 1.75
Average Latency (ms) 1.35 2.76
Maximum Latency (ms) 151.26 26.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.18 4.41

MySQL Read/Write

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,643.00 1,959.00
Queries per second 56,430.00 19,590.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.07 4.12
Average Latency (ms) 1.77 5.1
Maximum Latency (ms) 18.59 10.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.39 6.21

MySQL INSERT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 10,691.00 6,524.00
Queries per second 106,910.00 65,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.4 1.08
Average Latency (ms) 0.93 1.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 28.16 15.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.52 2.03

MySQL Bulk INSERT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,861,217.00 996,869.00
Queries per second 28,612,170.00 9,968,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 190.34 477.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 797,057.00 104,020.00
Queries per second 7,970,570.00 1,040,200.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.01 0.07
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.1
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.08 2.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.02 0.14

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 14,716.00 5,526.00
Queries per second 147,160.00 55,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.19 0.63
Average Latency (ms) 0.68 1.81
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.31 6.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.01 2.35

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 18,683.00 6,273.00
Queries per second 186,830.00 62,730.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.15 0.5
Average Latency (ms) 0.53 1.59
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.69 3.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.77 2.07

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 11,777.00 6,371.00
Queries per second 117,770.00 63,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.39 1.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.85 1.57
Maximum Latency (ms) 16.28 7.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.23 2.14

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 11,468.00 6,541.00
Queries per second 114,680.00 65,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.35 0.91
Average Latency (ms) 0.87 1.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 15.13 24.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.23 1.96

MySQL DELETE

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 397,047.00 43,573.00
Queries per second 3,970,470.00 435,730.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.01 0.07
Average Latency (ms) 0.02 0.23
Maximum Latency (ms) 12.77 7.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.03 1.42

Redis

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 163,132.14 35,050.82
PING_MBULK per Second 146,412.88 33,534.54
SET per Second 168,067.22 36,010.08
GET per Second 163,666.12 35,149.38
INCR per Second 168,067.22 36,523.01
LPUSH per Second 158,730.16 37,369.21
RPUSH per Second 166,666.66 38,774.72
LPOP per Second 157,232.70 36,982.25
RPOP per Second 157,232.70 36,724.20
SADD per Second 161,030.59 36,563.07
HSET per Second 157,977.88 32,701.11
SPOP per Second 165,562.92 36,205.65
ZADD per Second 158,730.16 37,467.22
ZPOPMIN per Second 167,785.23 37,495.31
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 89,285.71 24,801.59
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 42,354.93 13,208.29
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 28,042.62 9,684.29
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 23,635.07 7,718.43
MSET (10 keys) per Second 140,845.08 33,602.15

Redis Average Latency (ms)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.210.93
PING_MBULK0.220.96
SET0.200.91
GET0.200.92
INCR0.200.90
LPUSH0.210.88
RPUSH0.200.85
LPOP0.220.89
RPOP0.220.90
SADD0.210.89
HSET0.211.01
SPOP0.200.89
ZADD0.210.88
ZPOPMIN0.200.87
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.401.35
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)0.842.57
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)1.263.54
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)1.524.41
MSET (10 keys)0.261.02

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Comparing the benchmark results of UpCloud's Balanced (1 GB) and Vultr's Cloud Compute (1 GB), UpCloud's instance exhibits slightly higher performance in Redis operations, demonstrating stronger read and write operations per second alongside better CPU and file I/O benchmarks. On the other hand, Vultr shows superior performance in handling memory and CPU operations, evidenced by higher events per second and lower average latencies in memory operations. Given these results, UpCloud's instance would be more suitable for workloads emphasizing high throughput and lower latency in database operations, whereas Vultr's instance would be preferable for tasks that require efficient memory and CPU usage.

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