UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Same showdown, different day. Today I've got brand new instances from UpCloud and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. All instances were running Ubuntu 26.04 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
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:02:17 GMT
Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:03:03 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
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
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category
Winner
CPU (events/sec)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) takes 5 of 5 categories.
CPU
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
GenuineIntel
Model Name
AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core Processor
Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz)
3,295.42
2,400.00
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
6,590.84
4,799.99
Events per Second
4,771.17
747.20
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.19
1.23
Average Latency (ms)
0.21
1.34
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.26
4.19
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.23
1.61
Memory
Memory Read
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second
6,936,402.22
3,468,220.65
Mebibytes per second
6,773.83
3,386.93
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.35
2.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second
6,762,728.29
3,710,866.55
Mebibytes per second
6,604.23
3,623.89
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.65
0.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Reads per Second
2,763.16
1,891.00
Writes per Second
1,842.11
1,260.60
Fsyncs per Second
5,897.24
4,039.68
Read Mebibytes per Second
43.17
29.55
Written Mebibytes per Second
28.78
19.70
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.09
0.14
Maximum Latency (ms)
44.23
6.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.3
0.33
Mutex
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,275.54
2,212.92
Average Latency (ms)
1,282.62
2,218.18
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,289.72
2,222.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,280.93
2,238.47
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
4,645.00
Queries per second
0.00
46,450.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
1.76
Average Latency (ms)
0
2.15
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
6.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
2.97
MySQL Write-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
3,815.00
Queries per second
0.00
38,150.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
1.64
Average Latency (ms)
0
2.62
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
21.48
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
3.55
MySQL Read/Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
1,258.00
Queries per second
0.00
12,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
3.82
Average Latency (ms)
0
7.94
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
2585.43
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
8.58
MySQL INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
4,318.00
Queries per second
0.00
43,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
1.13
Average Latency (ms)
0
2.31
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
41.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
4.18
MySQL Bulk INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
800,273.00
Queries per second
0.00
8,002,730.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
573.78
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
99,416.00
Queries per second
0.00
994,160.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.07
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.1
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
3.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.15
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
3,664.00
Queries per second
0.00
36,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.6
Average Latency (ms)
0
2.73
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
10.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
4.25
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
5,031.00
Queries per second
0.00
50,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.67
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.98
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
12.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
3.25
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
5,894.00
Queries per second
0.00
58,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
1.05
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.69
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
17.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
2.39
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
5,867.00
Queries per second
0.00
58,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
1.04
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.7
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
10.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
2.48
MySQL DELETE
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
27,369.00
Queries per second
0.00
273,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.07
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.36
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
22.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
1.86
Redis
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
36,218.76
29,316.92
PING_MBULK per Second
45,454.54
27,233.12
SET per Second
48,449.61
23,980.81
GET per Second
48,685.49
27,925.16
INCR per Second
48,449.61
29,316.92
LPUSH per Second
50,175.61
26,260.50
RPUSH per Second
48,828.12
27,292.58
LPOP per Second
50,942.43
28,810.14
RPOP per Second
49,603.17
27,517.89
SADD per Second
47,438.33
28,776.98
HSET per Second
48,685.49
28,490.03
SPOP per Second
46,403.71
25,746.65
ZADD per Second
47,687.18
27,987.69
ZPOPMIN per Second
47,103.16
28,176.95
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
36,114.12
20,345.88
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
23,266.64
10,920.61
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
15,227.65
7,457.12
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
11,837.12
7,261.64
MSET (10 keys) per Second
44,964.03
29,188.56
Redis Average Latency (ms)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.88
1.04
PING_MBULK
0.64
1.10
SET
0.63
1.29
GET
0.61
1.08
INCR
0.62
1.03
LPUSH
0.61
1.17
RPUSH
0.62
1.12
LPOP
0.61
1.07
RPOP
0.62
1.11
SADD
0.63
1.05
HSET
0.62
1.07
SPOP
0.64
1.18
ZADD
0.65
1.09
ZPOPMIN
0.63
1.07
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.87
1.57
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.38
2.84
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
2.08
3.99
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
2.62
4.07
MSET (10 keys)
0.76
1.15
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) instance outperforms the Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB) instance across key benchmarks, primarily in Redis operations and CPU events per second. The UpCloud instance achieves significantly higher request rates per second (rps) in Redis benchmarks, such as PING_INLINE at 36,219 rps compared to Vultr's 29,317 rps, and superior CPU event throughput at 4,771 events per second versus Vultr's 747. This makes the UpCloud instance a better choice for CPU-intensive and I/O-heavy applications, offering better performance at a higher monthly cost of $7 compared to Vultr's $5.
From the friendly human:
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