How much does UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) cost per month?

UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) is €7.00/mo and includes 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD of storage, and 1 TB of transfer.

How much does Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $15.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 65 GB SSD of storage, and 3 TB of transfer.

What are the specs of UpCloud Balanced (1 GB)?

UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) has 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD of storage, and 1 TB of monthly transfer for €7.00/mo.

UpCloud Balanced 1 GB (€7/mo) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute 2 GB, 2 Cores ($15/mo) Benchmarks

New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up brand new instance from UpCloud and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. 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 (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Sun, 10 May 2026 01:00:52 GMT	Mon, 11 May 2026 04:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	6.8.0-111-generic	6.8.0-111-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	$15.00
RAM (GB)	1	2
CPU Cores	1	2
Storage (TB)	25	65
Storage Type	SSD	SSD
Transfer (TB)	1	3

CPU

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	AuthenticAMD	GenuineIntel
Model Name	AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core Processor	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz)	3,295.48	3,792.00
CPU Cache Size (KB)	512.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	6,590.95	7,583.99
Events per Second	5,808.89	1,481.60
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.16	0.63
Average Latency (ms)	0.17	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.91	1.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.19	0.77

Memory Read

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	8,147,464.61	6,401,389.08
Mebibytes per second	7,956.51	6,251.36
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.25	0.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	8,246,922.71	6,411,085.35
Mebibytes per second	8,053.64	6,260.83
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.24	0.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	5,159.90	4,345.71
Writes per Second	3,439.93	2,897.07
Fsyncs per Second	11,013.54	9,273.19
Read Mebibytes per Second	80.62	67.90
Written Mebibytes per Second	53.75	45.27
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	52.17	2.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.18	0.17

Mutex

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,201.12	214.63
Average Latency (ms)	1,206.08	569.72
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,210.41	636.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,213.57	634.66

MySQL Read-only

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	28,978.00	8,015.00
Queries per second	289,780.00	80,150.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.27	0.92
Average Latency (ms)	0.34	1.25
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.69	5.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.48	1.86

MySQL Write-only

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,035.00	8,497.00
Queries per second	100,350.00	84,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.47	0.76
Average Latency (ms)	1	1.17
Maximum Latency (ms)	30.82	3.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.44	1.55

MySQL Read/Write

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	6,060.00	3,726.00
Queries per second	60,600.00	37,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.99	1.78
Average Latency (ms)	1.65	2.68
Maximum Latency (ms)	39.94	5.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.48	3.43

MySQL INSERT

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	13,060.00	15,028.00
Queries per second	130,600.00	150,280.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.34	0.41
Average Latency (ms)	0.76	0.66
Maximum Latency (ms)	25.82	2.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.04	0.86

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,521,146.00	1,696,217.00
Queries per second	35,211,460.00	16,962,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	160.29	283.37
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	976,863.00	201,989.00
Queries per second	9,768,630.00	2,019,890.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.01	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.28	0.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.01	0.07

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	19,152.00	8,025.00
Queries per second	191,520.00	80,250.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.15	0.35
Average Latency (ms)	0.52	1.24
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.07	3.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.75	2.07

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	19,009.00	8,336.00
Queries per second	190,090.00	83,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.14	0.4
Average Latency (ms)	0.53	1.2
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.22	4.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.87	2.22

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	12,488.00	13,858.00
Queries per second	124,880.00	138,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.35	0.42
Average Latency (ms)	0.8	0.72
Maximum Latency (ms)	21.25	6.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.25	0.95

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	13,276.00	14,587.00
Queries per second	132,760.00	145,870.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.36	0.4
Average Latency (ms)	0.75	0.68
Maximum Latency (ms)	19.77	11.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.04	0.9

MySQL DELETE

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	506,633.00	129,013.00
Queries per second	5,066,330.00	1,290,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.01	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.02	0.08
Maximum Latency (ms)	18.52	2.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.02	0.09

Redis

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	180,831.83	78,247.26
PING_MBULK per Second	192,307.70	74,738.41
SET per Second	181,818.17	77,041.60
GET per Second	189,035.92	83,333.33
INCR per Second	182,815.36	80,971.66
LPUSH per Second	185,185.17	79,113.92
RPUSH per Second	175,131.36	77,160.49
LPOP per Second	188,323.91	81,499.59
RPOP per Second	180,505.41	82,440.23
SADD per Second	187,617.27	80,192.46
HSET per Second	184,162.06	83,612.04
SPOP per Second	184,842.88	85,034.02
ZADD per Second	176,056.33	83,263.95
ZPOPMIN per Second	176,991.16	82,987.55
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	98,135.42	55,555.56
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	47,641.73	28,851.70
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	31,938.68	19,391.12
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	24,875.62	17,211.71
MSET (10 keys) per Second	163,934.42	80,256.82

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.18	0.34
PING_MBULK	0.17	0.35
SET	0.18	0.34
GET	0.17	0.32
INCR	0.18	0.32
LPUSH	0.18	0.34
RPUSH	0.19	0.34
LPOP	0.18	0.32
RPOP	0.19	0.32
SADD	0.18	0.32
HSET	0.18	0.31
SPOP	0.18	0.30
ZADD	0.19	0.31
ZPOPMIN	0.19	0.31
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.37	0.54
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	0.76	1.11
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	1.13	1.62
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	1.39	1.84
MSET (10 keys)	0.22	0.38

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Comparing the benchmarks of the two instances, UpCloud's Balanced (1 GB) instance demonstrates higher Redis throughput and lower latency across various operations, suggesting superior performance for memory-intensive and latency-sensitive applications such as real-time analytics and caching services. The Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores) instance, while having lower average latency in Redis operations, shows more variability and higher maximum latency, which might be acceptable for less demanding applications. The Vultr instance also excels in CPU-intensive tasks with more cores and slightly higher CPU MHz, making it suitable for workloads that benefit from parallel processing, such as batch processing and virtual machine hosting. Additionally, the file I/O performance of the Vultr instance is also slightly better in terms of throughput, which is beneficial for applications involving frequent read/write operations. Therefore, UpCloud's instance is ideal for applications requiring low-latency, high-throughput memory operations, while Vultr's instance is better for CPU-intensive and high-throughput I/O workloads.

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UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)