UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance Intel (2 GB)
New day, new benchmarks. Today I've got brand new instances from UpCloud and Vultr and did some benchmarking. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.
Overview
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:42:22 GMT
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:41:06 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
7.0.0-14-generic
7.0.0-27-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)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) takes 4 of 5 categories.
CPU
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
GenuineIntel
Model Name
AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core Processor
Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz)
3,295.46
2,893.17
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
6,590.91
5,786.33
Events per Second
5,281.40
1,021.39
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.17
0.89
Average Latency (ms)
0.19
0.98
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.63
2.88
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.21
1.12
Memory
Memory Read
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second
7,916,721.84
4,986,398.08
Mebibytes per second
7,731.17
4,869.53
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.56
0.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second
7,831,276.08
5,001,584.28
Mebibytes per second
7,647.73
4,884.36
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.33
0.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second
3,918.58
5,577.48
Writes per Second
2,612.35
3,718.32
Fsyncs per Second
8,362.41
11,911.32
Read Mebibytes per Second
61.23
87.15
Written Mebibytes per Second
40.82
58.10
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.07
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
56.19
5.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.2
0.15
Mutex
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,149.76
1,709.06
Average Latency (ms)
1,155.73
1,721.94
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,166.28
1,728.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,170.65
1,739.68
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
7,873.00
Queries per second
0.00
78,730.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
1.05
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.27
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
3.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
1.55
MySQL Write-only
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
9,331.00
Queries per second
0.00
93,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.77
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
6.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
1.47
MySQL Read/Write
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
3,770.00
Queries per second
0.00
37,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
2.02
Average Latency (ms)
0
2.65
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
13.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
3.3
MySQL INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
16,828.00
Queries per second
0.00
168,280.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.43
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.59
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
3.44
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.78
MySQL Bulk INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
1,201,092.00
Queries per second
0.00
12,010,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
343.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
197,771.00
Queries per second
0.00
1,977,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
2.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.08
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
5,632.00
Queries per second
0.00
56,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.64
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.77
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
5.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
2.35
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
7,779.00
Queries per second
0.00
77,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.41
Average Latency (ms)
0
1.28
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
3.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
1.73
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
17,005.00
Queries per second
0.00
170,050.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.43
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.59
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
4.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.81
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
17,369.00
Queries per second
0.00
173,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.42
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.57
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
3.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.75
MySQL DELETE
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
0.00
137,403.00
Queries per second
0.00
1,374,030.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
0
1.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0.14
Redis
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
45,871.56
44,563.28
PING_MBULK per Second
57,870.37
44,014.08
SET per Second
60,096.15
44,782.80
GET per Second
59,347.18
43,440.48
INCR per Second
58,997.05
42,553.19
LPUSH per Second
60,024.01
44,702.73
RPUSH per Second
59,206.63
44,014.08
LPOP per Second
59,952.04
42,863.27
RPOP per Second
59,206.63
43,047.79
SADD per Second
58,754.41
44,345.89
HSET per Second
58,275.06
43,917.44
SPOP per Second
59,559.26
43,554.01
ZADD per Second
61,312.08
44,052.86
ZPOPMIN per Second
61,050.06
44,523.60
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
45,392.64
29,239.77
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
25,859.84
16,025.64
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
16,854.88
11,116.05
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
17,455.05
9,961.15
MSET (10 keys) per Second
49,578.58
40,783.04
Redis Average Latency (ms)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.73
0.68
PING_MBULK
0.51
0.67
SET
0.51
0.68
GET
0.51
0.69
INCR
0.52
0.71
LPUSH
0.52
0.68
RPUSH
0.52
0.70
LPOP
0.52
0.72
RPOP
0.53
0.72
SADD
0.52
0.69
HSET
0.53
0.70
SPOP
0.50
0.70
ZADD
0.51
0.70
ZPOPMIN
0.50
0.68
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.72
1.08
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.24
1.96
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
1.89
2.86
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
1.79
3.15
MSET (10 keys)
0.71
0.80
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The Vultr High Performance Intel (2 GB) instance outperforms the UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) in CPU-heavy tasks, evidenced by its significantly higher Redis SET rate (44782.8 vs 60096.15 requests per second) and MySQL bulk insert throughput (119731.62 vs 49578.58 transactions per second). While the UpCloud instance excels in memory operations and file I/O due to its advanced caching and lower average latency, the overall edge in CPU performance and higher benchmark scores for compute-intensive tasks tilts the balance in favor of the Vultr instance for workloads that demand higher processing power.
From the friendly human:
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