UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. 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 were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Let's get into the numbers.
Overview
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:42:22 GMT
Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:12:02 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
50
Storage Type
SSD
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
1
3
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)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) takes 5 of 5 categories.
CPU
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
AuthenticAMD
Model Name
AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core Processor
AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)
3,295.46
2,900.00
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
1,024.00
BogoMips
6,590.91
5,800.00
Events per Second
5,281.40
4,289.74
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.17
0.22
Average Latency (ms)
0.19
0.23
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.63
3.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.21
0.25
Memory
Memory Read
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second
7,916,721.84
7,477,695.15
Mebibytes per second
7,731.17
7,302.44
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.56
0.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second
7,831,276.08
7,480,195.03
Mebibytes per second
7,647.73
7,304.88
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.33
0.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Reads per Second
3,918.58
3,878.89
Writes per Second
2,612.35
2,585.89
Fsyncs per Second
8,362.41
8,276.45
Read Mebibytes per Second
61.23
60.61
Written Mebibytes per Second
40.82
40.40
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.07
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
56.19
2.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.2
0.19
Mutex
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,149.76
1,267.92
Average Latency (ms)
1,155.73
1,275.63
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,166.28
1,281.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,170.65
1,280.93
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
14,172.00
Queries per second
0.00
141,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.64
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
3.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.78
MySQL Write-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
12,730.00
Queries per second
0.00
127,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.62
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.78
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
4.66
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.94
MySQL Read/Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
6,314.00
Queries per second
0.00
63,140.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
1.39
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.58
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
7.43
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
1.76
MySQL INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
20,594.00
Queries per second
0.00
205,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.39
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.48
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
3.1
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.57
MySQL Bulk INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
2,395,217.00
Queries per second
0.00
23,952,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
192.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
364,617.00
Queries per second
0.00
3,646,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.02
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
0.91
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.04
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
11,020.00
Queries per second
0.00
110,200.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.31
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.91
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
3.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
1.18
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
14,569.00
Queries per second
0.00
145,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.22
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.69
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
2.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.89
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
19,450.00
Queries per second
0.00
194,500.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.42
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.51
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
10.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.61
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
19,900.00
Queries per second
0.00
199,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.4
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.5
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
10.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.59
MySQL DELETE
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
265,546.00
Queries per second
0.00
2,655,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.02
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
2.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.06
Redis
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
45,871.56
48,146.37
PING_MBULK per Second
57,870.37
47,460.84
SET per Second
60,096.15
49,140.05
GET per Second
59,347.18
48,332.53
INCR per Second
58,997.05
47,080.98
LPUSH per Second
60,024.01
48,449.61
RPUSH per Second
59,206.63
47,961.63
LPOP per Second
59,952.04
46,794.57
RPOP per Second
59,206.63
47,103.16
SADD per Second
58,754.41
47,984.64
HSET per Second
58,275.06
47,961.63
SPOP per Second
59,559.26
46,838.41
ZADD per Second
61,312.08
48,947.62
ZPOPMIN per Second
61,050.06
47,619.05
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
45,392.64
38,226.30
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
25,859.84
24,906.60
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
16,854.88
18,073.38
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
17,455.05
16,404.20
MSET (10 keys) per Second
49,578.58
48,262.55
Redis Average Latency (ms)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.73
0.63
PING_MBULK
0.51
0.63
SET
0.51
0.63
GET
0.51
0.62
INCR
0.52
0.65
LPUSH
0.52
0.64
RPUSH
0.52
0.65
LPOP
0.52
0.68
RPOP
0.53
0.66
SADD
0.52
0.64
HSET
0.53
0.65
SPOP
0.50
0.64
ZADD
0.51
0.64
ZPOPMIN
0.50
0.63
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.72
0.82
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.24
1.30
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
1.89
1.69
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
1.79
1.95
MSET (10 keys)
0.71
0.69
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) instance wins overall due to its superior performance in Redis benchmarks, particularly with operations like LPUSH (58,789 vs 48,450 requests per second) and LRANGE_500 (16,855 vs 18,073 rps), which are critical for high-throughput applications. While Vultr's High Performance AMD (2 GB) offers better MySQL bulk insert throughput (238,319 vs 0 tps), UpCloud's lower latency and higher request rates make it more suitable for CPU-intensive, memory-bound, and I/O-heavy use cases.
From the friendly human:
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