UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (2 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 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)
Last Benchmarked
Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:42:22 GMT
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:33:36 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
7.0.0-14-generic
7.0.0-27-generic
MySQL Version
8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
Redis Version
8.0.5
8.0.5
Location
New York, NY
Newark, NJ
Monthly Price
€7.00
$10.00
RAM (GB)
1
2
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
25
50
Storage Type
SSD
SSD
Transfer (TB)
1
2
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)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) takes 4 of 5 categories.
CPU
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
GenuineIntel
Model Name
AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core Processor
Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz)
3,295.46
3,791.94
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
6,590.91
7,583.88
Events per Second
5,281.40
1,435.42
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.17
0.67
Average Latency (ms)
0.19
0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.63
4.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.21
0.74
Memory
Memory Read
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Operations per second
7,916,721.84
7,568,455.18
Mebibytes per second
7,731.17
7,391.07
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.56
0.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Operations per second
7,831,276.08
7,598,419.58
Mebibytes per second
7,647.73
7,420.33
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.33
0.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Reads per Second
3,918.58
4,001.75
Writes per Second
2,612.35
2,667.80
Fsyncs per Second
8,362.41
8,546.24
Read Mebibytes per Second
61.23
62.53
Written Mebibytes per Second
40.82
41.68
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.07
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
56.19
24.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.2
0.2
Mutex
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,149.76
1,145.72
Average Latency (ms)
1,155.73
1,154.58
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,166.28
1,160.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,170.65
1,170.65
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
9,706.00
Queries per second
0.00
97,060.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.91
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.03
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
2.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
1.18
MySQL Write-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
7,666.00
Queries per second
0.00
76,660.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.67
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.3
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
158.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
1.42
MySQL Read/Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
3,938.00
Queries per second
0.00
39,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
1.82
Average Latency (ms)
0
2.54
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
51.37
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
3.13
MySQL INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
18,012.00
Queries per second
0.00
180,120.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.39
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.55
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
44.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.73
MySQL Bulk INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
1,870,967.00
Queries per second
0.00
18,709,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
225.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
213,062.00
Queries per second
0.00
2,130,620.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
1.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.06
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
7,351.00
Queries per second
0.00
73,510.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.41
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.36
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
5.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
2.14
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
9,954.00
Queries per second
0.00
99,540.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.27
Average Latency (ms)
0
1
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
4.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
1.58
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
16,749.00
Queries per second
0.00
167,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.38
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.6
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
83.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.8
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
17,638.00
Queries per second
0.00
176,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.38
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.57
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
77.2
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.75
MySQL DELETE
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
145,888.00
Queries per second
0.00
1,458,880.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
4.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.1
Redis
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
45,871.56
50,838.84
PING_MBULK per Second
57,870.37
50,761.42
SET per Second
60,096.15
52,192.07
GET per Second
59,347.18
52,383.45
INCR per Second
58,997.05
52,938.06
LPUSH per Second
60,024.01
51,813.47
RPUSH per Second
59,206.63
51,572.98
LPOP per Second
59,952.04
50,968.40
RPOP per Second
59,206.63
50,479.56
SADD per Second
58,754.41
51,308.36
HSET per Second
58,275.06
49,925.11
SPOP per Second
59,559.26
50,890.59
ZADD per Second
61,312.08
50,505.05
ZPOPMIN per Second
61,050.06
50,968.40
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
45,392.64
34,399.72
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
25,859.84
20,016.01
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
16,854.88
14,332.81
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
17,455.05
12,966.80
MSET (10 keys) per Second
49,578.58
49,603.17
Redis Average Latency (ms)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.73
0.61
PING_MBULK
0.51
0.60
SET
0.51
0.59
GET
0.51
0.59
INCR
0.52
0.59
LPUSH
0.52
0.60
RPUSH
0.52
0.60
LPOP
0.52
0.61
RPOP
0.53
0.61
SADD
0.52
0.60
HSET
0.53
0.62
SPOP
0.50
0.60
ZADD
0.51
0.61
ZPOPMIN
0.50
0.60
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.72
0.91
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.24
1.61
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
1.89
2.25
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
1.79
2.52
MSET (10 keys)
0.71
0.67
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
Based on benchmark results, the Vultr Cloud Compute instance (2 GB) narrowly edges out the UpCloud Balanced instance (1 GB) in overall performance due to higher rates of Redis operations such as SET (52192.07 vs. 60096.15 requests per second) and MySQL bulk inserts (186460.11 transactions per second vs. lower performance metrics). While UpCloud shows better consistency and lower latency in memory operations, Vultr's superior CPU performance and higher throughput in file I/O make it the better choice for CPU-intensive and I/O-heavy applications, even though it costs more monthly.
From the friendly human:
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