UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up some brand new instance from UpCloud and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked Thu, 28 May 2026 18:00:52 GMT Sun, 31 May 2026 07:00:52 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 $18.00
RAM (GB) 1 2
CPU Cores 1 2
Storage (TB) 25 60
Storage Type SSD NVMe
Transfer (TB) 1 4

CPU

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor AuthenticAMD AuthenticAMD
Model Name AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core Processor AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 3,295.46 2,899.99
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 1,024.00
BogoMips 6,590.91 5,799.98
Events per Second 5,659.06 4,648.14
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.16 0.2
Average Latency (ms) 0.18 0.21
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.22 1.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.19 0.23

Memory

Memory Read

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 7,861,995.86 7,548,502.85
Mebibytes per second 7,677.73 7,371.58
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.26 0.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 7,750,432.19 7,544,807.09
Mebibytes per second 7,568.78 7,367.98
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.29 0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second 4,762.84 5,114.79
Writes per Second 3,175.19 3,409.86
Fsyncs per Second 10,171.17 10,914.44
Read Mebibytes per Second 74.42 79.92
Written Mebibytes per Second 49.61 53.28
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 13.45 3.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.2 0.12

Mutex

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,251.91 574.03
Average Latency (ms) 1,256.03 637.47
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,262.64 663.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,258.08 657.93

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 23,963.00 9,622.00
Queries per second 239,630.00 96,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.29 0.73
Average Latency (ms) 0.42 1.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 115.43 2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.56 1.12

MySQL Write-only

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 7,314.00 9,585.00
Queries per second 73,140.00 95,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.59 0.8
Average Latency (ms) 1.37 1.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 24.88 2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.26 1.32

MySQL Read/Write

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 4,842.00 4,686.00
Queries per second 48,420.00 46,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.09 1.57
Average Latency (ms) 2.06 2.13
Maximum Latency (ms) 31.78 4.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.81 2.52

MySQL INSERT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 10,222.00 15,965.00
Queries per second 102,220.00 159,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.39 0.45
Average Latency (ms) 0.98 0.62
Maximum Latency (ms) 23.2 2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.5 0.74

MySQL Bulk INSERT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 3,035,967.00 3,065,092.00
Queries per second 30,359,670.00 30,650,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 161.86 208.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 829,406.00 217,035.00
Queries per second 8,294,060.00 2,170,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.01 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.88 0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.02 0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 15,660.00 14,818.00
Queries per second 156,600.00 148,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.2 0.24
Average Latency (ms) 0.64 0.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 111.51 1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.95 0.86

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 17,794.00 14,341.00
Queries per second 177,940.00 143,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.16 0.27
Average Latency (ms) 0.56 0.7
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.85 1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.9 0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 9,797.00 14,864.00
Queries per second 97,970.00 148,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.41 0.47
Average Latency (ms) 1.02 0.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 40.23 2.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.47 0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 9,458.00 15,284.00
Queries per second 94,580.00 152,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.45 0.46
Average Latency (ms) 1.06 0.65
Maximum Latency (ms) 32.96 1.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.47 0.83

MySQL DELETE

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 402,481.00 151,536.00
Queries per second 4,024,810.00 1,515,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.01 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.02 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 20.2 4.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.03 0.08

Redis

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second 161,030.59 55,991.04
PING_MBULK per Second 156,985.86 57,903.88
SET per Second 137,362.64 57,703.40
GET per Second 172,117.05 57,703.40
INCR per Second 176,366.86 57,372.34
LPUSH per Second 168,067.22 57,836.90
RPUSH per Second 161,550.89 58,173.36
LPOP per Second 152,439.02 58,343.06
RPOP per Second 156,985.86 58,343.06
SADD per Second 165,837.48 58,241.12
HSET per Second 154,083.20 58,858.15
SPOP per Second 162,866.44 58,892.82
ZADD per Second 168,634.06 57,504.31
ZPOPMIN per Second 166,112.95 57,870.37
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 84,459.46 49,236.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 41,459.37 34,818.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 25,412.96 26,766.60
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 21,335.61 24,207.21
MSET (10 keys) per Second 144,300.14 58,548.01

Redis Average Latency (ms)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE0.200.48
PING_MBULK0.210.44
SET0.240.45
GET0.190.45
INCR0.190.45
LPUSH0.200.44
RPUSH0.210.44
LPOP0.220.44
RPOP0.220.44
SADD0.200.44
HSET0.220.44
SPOP0.210.44
ZADD0.200.45
ZPOPMIN0.200.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.430.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)0.870.74
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)1.410.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)1.711.05
MSET (10 keys)0.250.44

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) instance demonstrates superior performance for both CPU-intensive tasks and I/O operations, with higher read/write throughput, lower latencies, and higher requests per second in Redis benchmarks. In contrast, the Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) shows solid but lower benchmarks in similar tasks, particularly excelling in MySQL point select operations and showing a slightly higher number of CPU events per second. The UpCloud instance is better suited for applications demanding higher I/O performance and lower latencies, while the Vultr instance might be more appropriate for scenarios where CPU performance and cost-effectiveness for moderate workloads are priorities.

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