UpCloud Balanced (2 GB) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I spun up fresh instances from UpCloud and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. All instances were running 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 (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:05:17 GMT
Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:07:32 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
7.0.0-27-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
€13.00
$6.00
RAM (GB)
2
1
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
50
32
Storage Type
SSD
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
2
1
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category
Winner
CPU (events/sec)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) takes 4 of 6 categories.
CPU
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
GenuineIntel
Model Name
AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core Processor
Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz)
3,295.42
3,792.05
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
6,590.84
7,584.09
Events per Second
4,736.09
1,418.80
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.19
0.67
Average Latency (ms)
0.21
0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.23
3.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.24
0.74
Memory
Memory Read
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second
7,122,400.62
7,260,754.36
Mebibytes per second
6,955.47
7,090.58
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.37
1.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second
7,139,007.40
7,520,415.11
Mebibytes per second
6,971.69
7,344.16
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.29
0.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Reads per Second
3,511.30
4,675.97
Writes per Second
2,340.87
3,117.32
Fsyncs per Second
7,490.87
9,977.97
Read Mebibytes per Second
54.86
73.06
Written Mebibytes per Second
36.58
48.71
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.07
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
29.46
3.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.26
0.16
Mutex
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,305.60
1,149.56
Average Latency (ms)
1,313.28
1,155.82
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,319.54
1,161.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,327.91
1,170.65
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
15,488.00
10,055.00
Queries per second
154,880.00
100,550.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.44
0.89
Average Latency (ms)
0.64
0.99
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.13
3.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.77
1.16
MySQL Write-only
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
5,617.00
12,149.00
Queries per second
56,170.00
121,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.87
0.64
Average Latency (ms)
1.78
0.82
Maximum Latency (ms)
47.05
8.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.81
1.03
MySQL Read/Write
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
3,612.00
4,295.00
Queries per second
36,120.00
42,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.68
1.71
Average Latency (ms)
2.76
2.33
Maximum Latency (ms)
29.34
9.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.96
2.76
MySQL INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
8,793.00
21,088.00
Queries per second
87,930.00
210,880.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.53
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
1.13
0.47
Maximum Latency (ms)
33.56
6.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.79
0.62
MySQL Bulk INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,016,592.00
1,783,592.00
Queries per second
20,165,920.00
17,835,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
214.98
439.57
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
421,834.00
224,934.00
Queries per second
4,218,340.00
2,249,340.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.02
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.02
0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.13
1.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.03
0.06
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
8,876.00
7,840.00
Queries per second
88,760.00
78,400.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.3
0.48
Average Latency (ms)
1.13
1.27
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.11
3.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.55
1.67
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
14,529.00
10,489.00
Queries per second
145,290.00
104,890.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.2
0.3
Average Latency (ms)
0.69
0.95
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.02
4.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.99
1.3
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,318.00
20,766.00
Queries per second
73,180.00
207,660.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.57
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
1.36
0.48
Maximum Latency (ms)
38.29
4.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.14
0.62
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
8,495.00
21,906.00
Queries per second
84,950.00
219,060.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.57
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
1.18
0.46
Maximum Latency (ms)
20.17
2.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.86
0.55
MySQL DELETE
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
150,571.00
164,853.00
Queries per second
1,505,710.00
1,648,530.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.02
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.07
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
73.25
4.54
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.08
0.09
Redis
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
51,626.23
52,246.60
PING_MBULK per Second
51,203.28
52,826.20
SET per Second
51,786.64
52,083.34
GET per Second
52,356.02
53,134.96
INCR per Second
52,882.07
52,603.89
LPUSH per Second
53,390.28
51,652.89
RPUSH per Second
50,479.56
51,282.05
LPOP per Second
54,318.30
50,684.23
RPOP per Second
52,603.89
51,361.07
SADD per Second
51,679.59
51,413.88
HSET per Second
49,091.80
51,308.36
SPOP per Second
47,169.81
51,948.05
ZADD per Second
50,505.05
50,787.20
ZPOPMIN per Second
50,890.59
51,124.75
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
38,080.73
35,650.62
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
24,125.45
21,385.80
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
18,611.58
15,246.23
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
16,837.85
13,271.40
MSET (10 keys) per Second
49,578.58
49,603.17
Redis Average Latency (ms)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.57
0.58
PING_MBULK
0.57
0.58
SET
0.59
0.59
GET
0.57
0.58
INCR
0.57
0.58
LPUSH
0.57
0.59
RPUSH
0.60
0.59
LPOP
0.57
0.61
RPOP
0.59
0.60
SADD
0.58
0.59
HSET
0.62
0.59
SPOP
0.63
0.58
ZADD
0.61
0.60
ZPOPMIN
0.58
0.59
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.83
0.87
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.35
1.51
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
1.72
2.11
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
1.90
2.47
MSET (10 keys)
0.73
0.66
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The UpCloud Balanced instance wins overall with superior performance metrics, especially in memory operations and Redis benchmarks where it achieved up to 51,786.64 RPS in SET operations compared to Vultr's 52,083.34 RPS in the same benchmark. If your use case prioritizes memory throughput and low-latency Redis operations, this instance would be more suitable, although Vultr performs well in memory operations and MySQL bulk inserts with 73.06 MiB/s read throughput and 177,195 TPS for bulk inserts respectively.
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