My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up some brand new instance from UpCloud and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Let's get into the numbers.
Overview
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Last Benchmarked
Fri, 22 May 2026 11:00:52 GMT
Sat, 23 May 2026 11:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
6.8.0-111-generic
6.8.0-117-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
$40.00
RAM (GB)
1
8
CPU Cores
1
4
Storage (TB)
25
160
Storage Type
SSD
SSD
Transfer (TB)
1
4
CPU
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
GenuineIntel
Model Name
AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core Processor
Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz)
3,295.45
2,593.90
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
6,590.90
5,187.80
Events per Second
5,248.20
1,100.82
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.18
0.88
Average Latency (ms)
0.19
0.91
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.79
1.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.2
0.97
Memory
Memory Read
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second
6,801,282.43
3,685,781.23
Mebibytes per second
6,641.88
3,599.40
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.29
1.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second
5,773,502.12
3,590,629.63
Mebibytes per second
5,638.19
3,506.47
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.02
1.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Reads per Second
3,347.40
4,999.39
Writes per Second
2,231.60
3,332.93
Fsyncs per Second
7,151.99
10,670.47
Read Mebibytes per Second
52.30
78.12
Written Mebibytes per Second
34.87
52.08
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.08
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
45.95
37.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.25
0.18
Mutex
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,448.88
369.37
Average Latency (ms)
1,453.66
416.22
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,458.86
441.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,453.01
442.73
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
186.00
5,144.00
Queries per second
1,860.00
51,440.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.33
1.72
Average Latency (ms)
54.83
1.94
Maximum Latency (ms)
1519.77
7.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
320.17
2.35
MySQL Write-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
7.00
5,108.00
Queries per second
70.00
51,080.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1299.84
1.15
Average Latency (ms)
1584.29
1.96
Maximum Latency (ms)
1904.57
12.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1903.57
2.71
MySQL Read/Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
1.00
2,247.00
Queries per second
10.00
22,470.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
16296.58
3.08
Average Latency (ms)
16296.58
4.45
Maximum Latency (ms)
16296.58
29.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
16224.31
5.28
MySQL INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
92.00
7,630.00
Queries per second
920.00
76,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.47
0.71
Average Latency (ms)
110.5
1.31
Maximum Latency (ms)
255.29
29.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
204.11
1.55
MySQL Bulk INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
2,307,842.00
898,571.00
Queries per second
23,078,420.00
8,985,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
293.41
505.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
613,969.00
149,465.00
Queries per second
6,139,690.00
1,494,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.01
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.02
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
211.08
1.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.02
0.09
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
36.00
4,249.00
Queries per second
360.00
42,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
132
0.83
Average Latency (ms)
280.61
2.35
Maximum Latency (ms)
683.5
6.6
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
411.96
3.02
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
33.00
2,637.00
Queries per second
330.00
26,370.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
107.87
0.94
Average Latency (ms)
311.59
3.79
Maximum Latency (ms)
710.24
6.3
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
493.24
5.09
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
756.00
7,166.00
Queries per second
7,560.00
71,660.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.6
0.7
Average Latency (ms)
13.32
1.39
Maximum Latency (ms)
591.87
28.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
82.96
1.79
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
22.00
7,661.00
Queries per second
220.00
76,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
288.94
0.7
Average Latency (ms)
468.04
1.3
Maximum Latency (ms)
695.61
33.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
612.21
1.58
MySQL DELETE
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
128.00
69,690.00
Queries per second
1,280.00
696,900.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
18.77
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
77.86
0.14
Maximum Latency (ms)
170.32
27.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
116.8
0.87
Redis
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second
93,370.68
54,436.58
PING_MBULK per Second
114,285.71
48,828.12
SET per Second
72,254.34
51,572.98
GET per Second
57,636.89
48,239.27
INCR per Second
114,547.53
52,328.62
LPUSH per Second
54,054.05
45,454.54
RPUSH per Second
121,951.22
49,751.24
LPOP per Second
76,745.97
53,390.28
RPOP per Second
102,145.05
53,648.07
SADD per Second
89,445.44
48,285.85
HSET per Second
93,720.71
51,493.30
SPOP per Second
92,081.03
52,910.05
ZADD per Second
81,900.09
53,504.55
ZPOPMIN per Second
99,601.60
53,590.57
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
48,473.10
28,645.09
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
17,497.81
13,131.98
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
14,285.71
8,529.51
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
10,760.79
7,479.99
MSET (10 keys) per Second
91,074.68
49,212.60
Redis Average Latency (ms)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE
0.40
0.47
PING_MBULK
0.30
0.53
SET
0.55
0.50
GET
0.70
0.54
INCR
0.30
0.49
LPUSH
0.74
0.58
RPUSH
0.29
0.52
LPOP
0.51
0.49
RPOP
0.35
0.48
SADD
0.42
0.54
HSET
0.40
0.53
SPOP
0.40
0.49
ZADD
0.44
0.48
ZPOPMIN
0.37
0.48
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.80
0.91
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
2.31
1.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
2.73
3.00
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
3.65
3.43
MSET (10 keys)
0.43
0.77
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
After analyzing the benchmarks for both UpCloud and Vultr instances, it is evident that Vultr's Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) instance offers superior performance metrics across various metrics, including higher CPU events per second, lower average latencies in Redis operations, and greater file IO throughput, while UpCloud's Balanced (1 GB) instance provides excellent performance in specific tasks like MySQL bulk inserts and Redis SET operations. Vultr's instance is better suited for workloads that require more CPU cores and RAM, such as high-concurrency web services or data processing tasks, whereas UpCloud's instance is ideal for lower resource-intensive applications like small web applications or services where lower cost is a priority.
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