UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've got brand new instances from UpCloud and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. All instances were running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.
Overview
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:02:17 GMT
Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:09:02 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
$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)
3,295.42
3,792.05
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
6,590.84
7,584.10
Events per Second
4,771.17
1,433.50
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.19
0.67
Average Latency (ms)
0.21
0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.26
3.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.23
0.73
Memory
Memory Read
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second
6,936,402.22
6,381,196.95
Mebibytes per second
6,773.83
6,231.64
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.35
0.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second
6,762,728.29
7,590,256.83
Mebibytes per second
6,604.23
7,412.36
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.65
0.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second
2,763.16
4,797.61
Writes per Second
1,842.11
3,198.41
Fsyncs per Second
5,897.24
10,240.61
Read Mebibytes per Second
43.17
74.96
Written Mebibytes per Second
28.78
49.98
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.09
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
44.23
19.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.3
0.15
Mutex
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,275.54
1,120.95
Average Latency (ms)
1,282.62
1,127.36
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,289.72
1,132.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,280.93
1,129.24
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
10,238.00
Queries per second
0.00
102,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.9
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.98
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
2.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
1.06
MySQL Write-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
12,564.00
Queries per second
0.00
125,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.65
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.79
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
8.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.97
MySQL Read/Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
5,279.00
Queries per second
0.00
52,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
1.64
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.89
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
4.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
2.22
MySQL INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
22,126.00
Queries per second
0.00
221,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.45
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
2.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.53
MySQL Bulk INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
1,958,342.00
Queries per second
0.00
19,583,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
207.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
216,335.00
Queries per second
0.00
2,163,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
1.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.06
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
8,316.00
Queries per second
0.00
83,160.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.4
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.2
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
3.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
1.55
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
11,393.00
Queries per second
0.00
113,930.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.24
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.88
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
2.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
1.12
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
20,610.00
Queries per second
0.00
206,100.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.36
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.48
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
4.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.65
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
22,150.00
Queries per second
0.00
221,500.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.45
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
9.44
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.54
MySQL DELETE
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
162,113.00
Queries per second
0.00
1,621,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
4.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.09
Redis
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
36,218.76
50,327.12
PING_MBULK per Second
45,454.54
52,002.08
SET per Second
48,449.61
52,966.10
GET per Second
48,685.49
53,022.27
INCR per Second
48,449.61
53,219.80
LPUSH per Second
50,175.61
52,273.91
RPUSH per Second
48,828.12
52,056.22
LPOP per Second
50,942.43
51,679.59
RPOP per Second
49,603.17
50,890.59
SADD per Second
47,438.33
49,603.17
HSET per Second
48,685.49
51,466.80
SPOP per Second
46,403.71
53,134.96
ZADD per Second
47,687.18
51,948.05
ZPOPMIN per Second
47,103.16
52,742.62
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
36,114.12
36,832.41
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
23,266.64
22,041.00
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
15,227.65
15,622.56
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
11,837.12
13,980.15
MSET (10 keys) per Second
44,964.03
50,025.02
Redis Average Latency (ms)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.88
0.61
PING_MBULK
0.64
0.58
SET
0.63
0.59
GET
0.61
0.58
INCR
0.62
0.59
LPUSH
0.61
0.60
RPUSH
0.62
0.60
LPOP
0.61
0.60
RPOP
0.62
0.61
SADD
0.63
0.62
HSET
0.62
0.60
SPOP
0.64
0.58
ZADD
0.65
0.60
ZPOPMIN
0.63
0.59
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.87
0.85
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.38
1.48
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
2.08
2.02
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
2.62
2.37
MSET (10 keys)
0.76
0.66
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The Vultr High Frequency Intel instance with 2 GB RAM and 1 CPU core outperforms the UpCloud Balanced instance with 1 GB RAM and 1 CPU core on Redis benchmarks, achieving higher requests per second (rps) and lower latencies across multiple operations, as well as in MySQL bulk insert operations. Specifically, Vultr's Redis SET command reaches 52966.1 rps with an average latency of 0.588 ms, compared to UpCloud's 48449.61 rps and 0.625 ms average latency, showcasing Vultr's superior performance for I/O-heavy workloads. Opt for Vultr if your application demands high throughput and low latency in database operations.
From the friendly human:
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