UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance Intel (1 GB)
New day, new benchmarks. Today I've got brand new instances from UpCloud and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.
Overview
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:02:17 GMT
Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:12:47 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
$6.00
RAM (GB)
1
1
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
25
25
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 Performance Intel (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 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 Performance Intel (1 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
GenuineIntel
Model Name
AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core Processor
Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz)
3,295.42
2,893.21
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
6,590.84
5,786.41
Events per Second
4,771.17
996.04
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.19
0.9
Average Latency (ms)
0.21
1
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.26
2.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.23
1.23
Memory
Memory Read
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second
6,936,402.22
5,033,336.75
Mebibytes per second
6,773.83
4,915.37
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.35
2.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second
6,762,728.29
4,974,126.38
Mebibytes per second
6,604.23
4,857.55
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.65
2.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Reads per Second
2,763.16
3,864.86
Writes per Second
1,842.11
2,576.57
Fsyncs per Second
5,897.24
8,249.51
Read Mebibytes per Second
43.17
60.39
Written Mebibytes per Second
28.78
40.26
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.09
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
44.23
9.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.3
0.2
Mutex
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,275.54
1,702.68
Average Latency (ms)
1,282.62
1,717.74
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,289.72
1,727.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,280.93
1,739.68
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
8,943.00
Queries per second
0.00
89,430.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.96
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.12
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
3.78
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
1.64
MySQL Write-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
9,273.00
Queries per second
0.00
92,730.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.74
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.08
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
9.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
1.52
MySQL Read/Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
3,689.00
Queries per second
0.00
36,890.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
1.93
Average Latency (ms)
0
2.71
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
12.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
3.62
MySQL INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
16,491.00
Queries per second
0.00
164,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.42
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.6
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
5.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.8
MySQL Bulk INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
1,142,842.00
Queries per second
0.00
11,428,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
468.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
244,994.00
Queries per second
0.00
2,449,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.03
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
2.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.06
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
5,118.00
Queries per second
0.00
51,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.56
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.95
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
10.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
3.19
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
7,171.00
Queries per second
0.00
71,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.47
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.39
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
6.2
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
2.52
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
16,059.00
Queries per second
0.00
160,590.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.42
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
7.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.9
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
17,224.00
Queries per second
0.00
172,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.41
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.58
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
6.78
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.74
MySQL DELETE
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
153,176.00
Queries per second
0.00
1,531,760.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.03
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
4.21
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.11
Redis
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
36,218.76
63,331.22
PING_MBULK per Second
45,454.54
66,357.00
SET per Second
48,449.61
64,020.48
GET per Second
48,685.49
65,789.48
INCR per Second
48,449.61
62,814.07
LPUSH per Second
50,175.61
64,557.78
RPUSH per Second
48,828.12
62,972.29
LPOP per Second
50,942.43
63,816.21
RPOP per Second
49,603.17
59,382.42
SADD per Second
47,438.33
61,842.92
HSET per Second
48,685.49
61,162.08
SPOP per Second
46,403.71
63,251.11
ZADD per Second
47,687.18
62,617.41
ZPOPMIN per Second
47,103.16
63,211.12
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
36,114.12
35,997.12
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
23,266.64
17,528.48
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
15,227.65
11,993.28
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
11,837.12
9,791.44
MSET (10 keys) per Second
44,964.03
54,377.38
Redis Average Latency (ms)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.88
0.50
PING_MBULK
0.64
0.47
SET
0.63
0.50
GET
0.61
0.48
INCR
0.62
0.51
LPUSH
0.61
0.50
RPUSH
0.62
0.51
LPOP
0.61
0.50
RPOP
0.62
0.55
SADD
0.63
0.52
HSET
0.62
0.53
SPOP
0.64
0.50
ZADD
0.65
0.51
ZPOPMIN
0.63
0.50
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.87
0.92
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.38
1.84
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
2.08
2.74
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
2.62
3.24
MSET (10 keys)
0.76
0.74
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
Based on the benchmark results, Vultr's High Performance Intel (1 GB) instance outperforms the UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) instance in both Redis and CPU benchmarks. Vultr's instance shows significantly higher request rates per second and lower average latencies across various Redis operations, such as PING_INLINE (63331.22 rps vs. 36218.76 rps) and LPUSH (64557.78 rps vs. 50175.61 rps), as well as in CPU benchmarks where it handles 996.04 events per second compared to UpCloud's 4771.17. This suggests that Vultr's setup is better suited for CPU-intensive and high-throughput applications, while UpCloud may be more appropriate for applications that require a balance of CPU, memory, and I/O capabilities.
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