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 High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $18.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB NVMe of storage, and 4 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 High Performance AMD 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up brand new instance from UpCloud and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Fri, 29 May 2026 19:00:52 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	€18.00	$18.00
RAM (GB)	2	2
CPU Cores	2	2
Storage (TB)	60	60
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	3	4

CPU

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	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	5,545.37	4,648.14
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.16	0.2
Average Latency (ms)	0.18	0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.93	1.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.2	0.23

Memory Read

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	7,732,677.38	7,548,502.85
Mebibytes per second	7,551.44	7,371.58
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.17	0.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	7,756,433.87	7,544,807.09
Mebibytes per second	7,574.64	7,367.98
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.39	0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	4,838.07	5,114.79
Writes per Second	3,225.38	3,409.86
Fsyncs per Second	10,322.92	10,914.44
Read Mebibytes per Second	75.59	79.92
Written Mebibytes per Second	50.40	53.28
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	39.37	3.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.21	0.12

Mutex

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	283.80	574.03
Average Latency (ms)	586.77	637.47
Maximum Latency (ms)	655.13	663.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	657.93	657.93

MySQL Read-only

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	20,314.00	9,622.00
Queries per second	203,140.00	96,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.29	0.73
Average Latency (ms)	0.49	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.7	2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.67	1.12

MySQL Write-only

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	6,498.00	9,585.00
Queries per second	64,980.00	95,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.75	0.8
Average Latency (ms)	1.54	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	25.75	2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.18	1.32

MySQL Read/Write

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,282.00	4,686.00
Queries per second	42,820.00	46,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.07	1.57
Average Latency (ms)	2.33	2.13
Maximum Latency (ms)	42.94	4.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.33	2.52

MySQL INSERT

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,570.00	15,965.00
Queries per second	85,700.00	159,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.45	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	1.16	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	60.39	2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.82	0.74

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,278,717.00	3,065,092.00
Queries per second	22,787,170.00	30,650,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	3138.92	208.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	633,330.00	217,035.00
Queries per second	6,333,300.00	2,170,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.01	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.02	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.01	0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.02	0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	14,817.00	14,818.00
Queries per second	148,170.00	148,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.14	0.24
Average Latency (ms)	0.67	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.16	1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.03	0.86

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,892.00	14,341.00
Queries per second	168,920.00	143,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.14	0.27
Average Latency (ms)	0.59	0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.43	1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.9	0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,405.00	14,864.00
Queries per second	84,050.00	148,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.51	0.47
Average Latency (ms)	1.19	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	31.61	2.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.67	0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,098.00	15,284.00
Queries per second	80,980.00	152,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.48	0.46
Average Latency (ms)	1.23	0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)	343.38	1.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.7	0.83

MySQL DELETE

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	178,682.00	151,536.00
Queries per second	1,786,820.00	1,515,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.01	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	1540.67	4.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.05	0.08

Redis

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	194,552.53	55,991.04
PING_MBULK per Second	241,545.89	57,903.88
SET per Second	257,731.95	57,703.40
GET per Second	263,157.91	57,703.40
INCR per Second	263,852.25	57,372.34
LPUSH per Second	258,397.94	57,836.90
RPUSH per Second	246,913.58	58,173.36
LPOP per Second	260,416.67	58,343.06
RPOP per Second	268,817.19	58,343.06
SADD per Second	216,919.73	58,241.12
HSET per Second	123,304.56	58,858.15
SPOP per Second	158,478.61	58,892.82
ZADD per Second	147,710.48	57,504.31
ZPOPMIN per Second	127,064.80	57,870.37
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	87,260.03	49,236.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	62,735.26	34,818.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	39,370.08	26,766.60
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	31,959.09	24,207.21
MSET (10 keys) per Second	223,214.28	58,548.01

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.15	0.48
PING_MBULK	0.11	0.44
SET	0.10	0.45
GET	0.10	0.45
INCR	0.10	0.45
LPUSH	0.10	0.44
RPUSH	0.11	0.44
LPOP	0.10	0.44
RPOP	0.10	0.44
SADD	0.13	0.44
HSET	0.24	0.44
SPOP	0.18	0.44
ZADD	0.18	0.45
ZPOPMIN	0.21	0.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.33	0.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	0.50	0.74
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	0.77	0.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	0.97	1.05
MSET (10 keys)	0.16	0.44

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Upon comparing the benchmark results from both UpCloud's Balanced (2 GB, 2 Cores) and Vultr's High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores), it is evident that UpCloud demonstrates higher performance in most metrics, particularly in Redis operations where it shows significantly higher requests per second and lower latency. Vultr's instance, while still strong, shows less impressive numbers in the same tests. CPU performance, measured in events per second, is also slightly higher in UpCloud. In terms of file I/O, UpCloud exhibits lower latencies and higher throughput rates, indicating superior disk performance. MySQL operations in UpCloud generally perform better in terms of throughput and latency. Considering these metrics, UpCloud's instance is better suited for workloads that benefit from higher throughput and lower latency, such as web servers, databases, and cache services, whereas Vultr might be more suitable for less demanding tasks or scenarios where cost is a primary concern and slightly lower performance can be tolerated.

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