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

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up some brand new instance from UpCloud and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided 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 Sat, 12 Jul 2025 09:00:46 GMT Sat, 12 Jul 2025 09:00:36 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 6.8.0-63-generic 6.8.0-60-generic
MySQL Version 8.0.42-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 8.0.42-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
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 1,598.32 864.70
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.6 1.14
Average Latency (ms) 0.63 1.16
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.77 2.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.65 1.21

Memory

Memory Read

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second 5,296,342.95 4,148,345.50
Mebibytes per second 5,172.21 4,051.12
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.66 1.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second 5,303,572.63 4,161,064.61
Mebibytes per second 5,179.27 4,063.54
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.11 2.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Reads per Second 2,673.39 2,036.01
Writes per Second 1,782.23 1,357.31
Fsyncs per Second 5,706.63 4,346.89
Read Mebibytes per Second 41.77 31.81
Written Mebibytes per Second 27.85 21.21
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.1 0.13
Maximum Latency (ms) 29.03 6.57
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.3 0.38

Mutex

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,591.88 1,991.45
Average Latency (ms) 1,598.83 2,000.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,605.31 2,006.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,618.78 2,009.23

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,419.00 5,358.00
Queries per second 74,190.00 53,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.26 1.7
Average Latency (ms) 1.35 1.86
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.25 9.2
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.47 2.14

MySQL Write-only

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 4,494.00 4,494.00
Queries per second 44,940.00 44,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.44 1.53
Average Latency (ms) 2.22 2.22
Maximum Latency (ms) 140.18 17
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.02 3.13

MySQL Read/Write

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,493.00 2,299.00
Queries per second 24,930.00 22,990.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.77 3.52
Average Latency (ms) 4.01 4.35
Maximum Latency (ms) 43.94 11.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.37 5.28

MySQL INSERT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,791.00 8,179.00
Queries per second 67,910.00 81,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.09 0.82
Average Latency (ms) 1.47 1.22
Maximum Latency (ms) 38.69 25.37
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.89 1.58

MySQL Bulk INSERT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,171,967.00 996,869.00
Queries per second 11,719,670.00 9,968,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 456.94 553.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 177,998.00 118,318.00
Queries per second 1,779,980.00 1,183,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.07
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.08
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.8 1.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.07 0.11

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,899.00 5,613.00
Queries per second 78,990.00 56,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.45 0.69
Average Latency (ms) 1.27 1.78
Maximum Latency (ms) 26.56 7.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.61 2.35

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,696.00 6,234.00
Queries per second 76,960.00 62,340.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.48 0.61
Average Latency (ms) 1.3 1.6
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.7 3.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.67 2.07

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,305.00 7,394.00
Queries per second 63,050.00 73,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.89 0.73
Average Latency (ms) 1.59 1.35
Maximum Latency (ms) 94.06 19.3
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.3 2.03

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,627.00 8,260.00
Queries per second 66,270.00 82,600.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.96 0.73
Average Latency (ms) 1.51 1.21
Maximum Latency (ms) 90.52 7.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.03 1.52

MySQL DELETE

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 61,421.00 54,710.00
Queries per second 614,210.00 547,100.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.07
Average Latency (ms) 0.16 0.18
Maximum Latency (ms) 59.51 27.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.25 1.08

Redis

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 45,085.66 40,617.39
PING_MBULK per Second 45,641.26 40,144.52
SET per Second 44,843.05 39,385.59
GET per Second 45,413.26 40,225.26
INCR per Second 45,433.89 39,246.46
LPUSH per Second 45,433.89 38,940.81
RPUSH per Second 45,248.87 38,669.76
LPOP per Second 43,859.65 36,818.85
RPOP per Second 44,722.72 38,138.82
SADD per Second 45,703.84 39,246.46
HSET per Second 45,045.04 40,535.06
SPOP per Second 46,104.20 41,322.31
ZADD per Second 45,085.66 38,109.75
ZPOPMIN per Second 45,934.77 40,387.72
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 29,222.68 25,068.94
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 15,559.36 13,166.56
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 10,643.96 9,360.67
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 9,204.71 7,893.28
MSET (10 keys) per Second 40,338.84 35,410.77

Redis Average Latency (ms)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.760.83
PING_MBULK0.750.83
SET0.770.85
GET0.760.83
INCR0.760.85
LPUSH0.760.86
RPUSH0.760.87
LPOP0.790.92
RPOP0.770.88
SADD0.760.85
HSET0.770.83
SPOP0.750.81
ZADD0.770.88
ZPOPMIN0.750.83
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.221.37
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.362.59
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)3.463.68
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)4.004.35
MSET (10 keys)0.870.99

Conclusion

After analyzing the benchmark results for both the UpCloud and Vultr instances, it's clear that UpCloud's Balanced (1 GB) instance outperforms Vultr's Cloud Compute (1 GB) in terms of Redis operations and MySQL OLTP operations, with higher requests per second and better latency across most benchmarks. UpCloud's instance also shows superior file I/O performance with higher throughput and lower latency. Vultr's instance, however, has a lower cost and comparable CPU performance, though it lags behind in memory operations and thread management. Ideal use cases for UpCloud would include applications requiring high I/O performance and low latency for Redis and MySQL operations, while Vultr would be more suitable for cost-sensitive applications where CPU performance and memory usage are less critical.

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