UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've got brand new instances from UpCloud and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. All instances were spun up with 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 – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:42:22 GMT
Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:09:02 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
7.0.0-14-generic
7.0.0-28-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
$12.00
RAM (GB)
1
2
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
25
64
Storage Type
SSD
NVMe
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 – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) takes 3 of 5 categories.
CPU
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (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
3,696.00
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
6,590.91
7,391.99
Events per Second
5,281.40
1,429.28
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.17
0.67
Average Latency (ms)
0.19
0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.63
3.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.21
0.8
Memory
Memory Read
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second
7,916,721.84
7,573,259.47
Mebibytes per second
7,731.17
7,395.76
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.56
0.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second
7,831,276.08
7,520,809.77
Mebibytes per second
7,647.73
7,344.54
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.33
0.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second
3,918.58
4,743.82
Writes per Second
2,612.35
3,162.54
Fsyncs per Second
8,362.41
10,128.84
Read Mebibytes per Second
61.23
74.12
Written Mebibytes per Second
40.82
49.41
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.07
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
56.19
2.43
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.2
0.16
Mutex
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,149.76
1,135.02
Average Latency (ms)
1,155.73
1,145.46
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,166.28
1,150.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,170.65
1,149.76
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
10,014.00
Queries per second
0.00
100,140.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.91
Average Latency (ms)
0
1
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
2.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
1.14
MySQL Write-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
11,181.00
Queries per second
0.00
111,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.58
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.89
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
7.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
1.16
MySQL Read/Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
4,056.00
Queries per second
0.00
40,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
1.7
Average Latency (ms)
0
2.46
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
19.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
3.82
MySQL INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
20,663.00
Queries per second
0.00
206,630.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.32
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.48
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
5.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.64
MySQL Bulk INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (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
227.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
229,513.00
Queries per second
0.00
2,295,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
1.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.05
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
7,697.00
Queries per second
0.00
76,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.42
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.3
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
4.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
1.67
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
10,600.00
Queries per second
0.00
106,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.94
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
2.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
1.25
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
19,067.00
Queries per second
0.00
190,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.32
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.52
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
3.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.73
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
20,161.00
Queries per second
0.00
201,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.32
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.5
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
11.21
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.67
MySQL DELETE
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
155,087.00
Queries per second
0.00
1,550,870.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
3.89
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.09
Redis
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
45,871.56
57,937.43
PING_MBULK per Second
57,870.37
57,670.13
SET per Second
60,096.15
60,096.15
GET per Second
59,347.18
60,938.45
INCR per Second
58,997.05
58,105.75
LPUSH per Second
60,024.01
59,453.03
RPUSH per Second
59,206.63
60,827.25
LPOP per Second
59,952.04
60,864.27
RPOP per Second
59,206.63
61,312.08
SADD per Second
58,754.41
59,066.75
HSET per Second
58,275.06
59,066.75
SPOP per Second
59,559.26
59,276.82
ZADD per Second
61,312.08
58,105.75
ZPOPMIN per Second
61,050.06
59,594.76
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
45,392.64
38,986.36
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
25,859.84
22,753.13
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
16,854.88
15,583.61
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
17,455.05
14,130.28
MSET (10 keys) per Second
49,578.58
54,674.69
Redis Average Latency (ms)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.73
0.52
PING_MBULK
0.51
0.51
SET
0.51
0.51
GET
0.51
0.49
INCR
0.52
0.51
LPUSH
0.52
0.51
RPUSH
0.52
0.50
LPOP
0.52
0.51
RPOP
0.53
0.50
SADD
0.52
0.51
HSET
0.53
0.51
SPOP
0.50
0.50
ZADD
0.51
0.52
ZPOPMIN
0.50
0.50
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.72
0.81
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.24
1.44
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
1.89
2.06
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
1.79
2.35
MSET (10 keys)
0.71
0.59
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) instance demonstrates superior performance in most benchmarks, especially with high RPS rates for Redis commands like LPUSH and ZADD reaching up to 61,312 and 61,050 requests per second respectively, alongside significantly lower latencies. This instance excels in CPU-heavy tasks, as evidenced by its strong throughput and low latency in CPU event benchmarks. On the other hand, the Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB) instance, while providing more RAM, lags in critical benchmarks such as Redis LRANGE operations and MySQL bulk insert tasks. Therefore, the UpCloud instance is better suited for CPU-intensive applications requiring high throughput and low latency.
From the friendly human:
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