How much does UpCloud Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

UpCloud Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores) is €18.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB SSD of storage, and 3 TB of transfer.

How much does Vultr Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores) is $20.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD of storage, and 3 TB of transfer.

What are the specs of UpCloud Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)?

UpCloud Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores) has 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB SSD of storage, and 3 TB of monthly transfer for €18.00/mo.

UpCloud Balanced 2 GB, 2 Cores (€18/mo) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute 4 GB, 2 Cores ($20/mo) Benchmarks

Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from UpCloud and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:00:52 GMT	Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	6.8.0-111-generic	6.8.0-124-generic
MySQL Version	8.0.46-0ubuntu0.24.04.2	8.0.46-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
Redis Version	7.0.15	7.0.15
Location	New York, NY	Newark, NJ
Monthly Price	€18.00	$20.00
RAM (GB)	2	4
CPU Cores	2	2
Storage (TB)	60	80
Storage Type	SSD	SSD
Transfer (TB)	3	3

CPU

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	AuthenticAMD	GenuineIntel
Model Name	AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core Processor	Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz)	3,295.42	2,593.91
CPU Cache Size (KB)	512.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	6,590.84	5,187.81
Events per Second	5,295.68	1,022.39
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.17	0.88
Average Latency (ms)	0.19	0.98
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.89	1.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.21	1.21

Memory Read

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	7,546,419.66	3,523,809.57
Mebibytes per second	7,369.55	3,441.22
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.11	0.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	7,498,404.63	3,568,203.77
Mebibytes per second	7,322.66	3,484.57
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.07	1.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	5,183.60	2,972.63
Writes per Second	3,455.73	1,981.75
Fsyncs per Second	11,067.94	6,347.81
Read Mebibytes per Second	80.99	46.45
Written Mebibytes per Second	54.00	30.96
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.09
Maximum Latency (ms)	24.16	17.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.19	0.33

Mutex

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	536.51	899.28
Average Latency (ms)	604.46	935.93
Maximum Latency (ms)	641.10	969.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	646.19	977.74

MySQL Read-only

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	18,368.00	3,779.00
Queries per second	183,680.00	37,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.34	1.84
Average Latency (ms)	0.54	2.64
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.15	24.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.7	3.82

MySQL Write-only

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,644.00	4,044.00
Queries per second	76,440.00	40,440.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.62	1.4
Average Latency (ms)	1.31	2.47
Maximum Latency (ms)	49.11	13.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.82	3.3

MySQL Read/Write

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,858.00	1,798.00
Queries per second	48,580.00	17,980.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.08	3.86
Average Latency (ms)	2.06	5.56
Maximum Latency (ms)	26.75	27.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.81	6.91

MySQL INSERT

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	9,866.00	6,405.00
Queries per second	98,660.00	64,050.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.42	0.99
Average Latency (ms)	1.01	1.56
Maximum Latency (ms)	49.8	15.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.44	2.03

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,035,967.00	865,805.00
Queries per second	30,359,670.00	8,658,050.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	217.71	538.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	574,196.00	126,618.00
Queries per second	5,741,960.00	1,266,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.01	0.05
Average Latency (ms)	0.02	0.08
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.48	2.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.03	0.11

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	14,389.00	3,674.00
Queries per second	143,890.00	36,740.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.22	1.07
Average Latency (ms)	0.69	2.72
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.75	6.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.06	3.55

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,063.00	2,728.00
Queries per second	160,630.00	27,280.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.18	1.3
Average Latency (ms)	0.62	3.66
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.3	11.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.9	5

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	9,173.00	5,438.00
Queries per second	91,730.00	54,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.43	0.99
Average Latency (ms)	1.09	1.84
Maximum Latency (ms)	84.91	13.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.52	2.71

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	9,191.00	6,370.00
Queries per second	91,910.00	63,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.44	1.01
Average Latency (ms)	1.09	1.57
Maximum Latency (ms)	29.77	8.99
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.52	2.07

MySQL DELETE

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	248,823.00	51,180.00
Queries per second	2,488,230.00	511,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.01	0.05
Average Latency (ms)	0.04	0.19
Maximum Latency (ms)	43.03	6.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.04	1.39

Redis

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	123,152.71	49,677.10
PING_MBULK per Second	118,483.41	45,372.05
SET per Second	124,843.95	45,392.64
GET per Second	107,411.38	53,163.21
INCR per Second	123,456.79	48,732.94
LPUSH per Second	120,481.93	50,327.12
RPUSH per Second	124,533.01	48,285.85
LPOP per Second	125,470.52	48,355.90
RPOP per Second	129,366.11	51,413.88
SADD per Second	127,064.80	48,332.53
HSET per Second	128,700.12	49,285.36
SPOP per Second	125,786.16	48,332.53
ZADD per Second	150,602.42	51,229.51
ZPOPMIN per Second	251,256.28	45,085.66
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	147,275.41	27,122.32
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	65,104.17	12,442.45
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	40,933.28	7,930.21
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	35,536.61	6,902.74
MSET (10 keys) per Second	120,048.02	45,146.73

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.23	0.53
PING_MBULK	0.23	0.57
SET	0.22	0.57
GET	0.25	0.49
INCR	0.22	0.53
LPUSH	0.23	0.51
RPUSH	0.22	0.54
LPOP	0.22	0.54
RPOP	0.22	0.52
SADD	0.21	0.55
HSET	0.21	0.54
SPOP	0.21	0.54
ZADD	0.18	0.52
ZPOPMIN	0.11	0.57
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.24	1.02
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	0.49	2.29
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	0.77	3.27
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	0.93	3.91
MSET (10 keys)	0.27	0.78

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Comparing the benchmarks for the UpCloud and Vultr instances reveals significant differences in performance across various metrics. The UpCloud Balanced instance with 2 CPU cores and 2 GB RAM outperforms the Vultr Cloud Compute instance with 2 CPU cores and 4 GB RAM in several areas, including Redis operations (e.g., higher requests per second with lower latencies), MySQL OLTP operations (better throughput and lower latencies), and file I/O operations (faster read and write speeds). Despite having less RAM, the UpCloud instance handles memory operations more efficiently. Conversely, the Vultr instance has higher thread latencies and overall CPU performance metrics. For CPU-intensive and memory-demanding workloads, the UpCloud instance is more suitable, while the Vultr instance might be preferable for applications that require more RAM and less emphasis on raw computational performance.

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UpCloud Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)