UpCloud Balanced (2 GB) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've got brand new instances from UpCloud and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. All instances were running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.
Overview
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:32:51 GMT
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:35:06 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
€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)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Evenly matched across 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)
3,295.48
3,791.97
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
6,590.95
7,583.94
Events per Second
4,956.10
1,438.92
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.18
0.65
Average Latency (ms)
0.2
0.69
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.23
4.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.21
0.75
Memory
Memory Read
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second
7,348,809.99
7,522,138.15
Mebibytes per second
7,176.57
7,345.84
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.4
0.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second
7,078,785.07
7,678,825.83
Mebibytes per second
6,912.88
7,498.85
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.2
0.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Reads per Second
3,766.66
4,258.17
Writes per Second
2,511.11
2,838.78
Fsyncs per Second
8,036.14
9,093.60
Read Mebibytes per Second
58.85
66.53
Written Mebibytes per Second
39.24
44.36
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.07
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
19.19
9.54
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.24
0.19
Mutex
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,248.77
1,111.88
Average Latency (ms)
1,256.62
1,119.47
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,260.30
1,123.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,258.08
1,129.24
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
16,759.00
10,279.00
Queries per second
167,590.00
102,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.41
0.9
Average Latency (ms)
0.6
0.97
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.26
11.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.75
1.06
MySQL Write-only
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
6,115.00
10,923.00
Queries per second
61,150.00
109,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.73
0.66
Average Latency (ms)
1.63
0.91
Maximum Latency (ms)
30.18
14.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.76
1.18
MySQL Read/Write
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,692.00
4,879.00
Queries per second
46,920.00
48,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.24
1.72
Average Latency (ms)
2.13
2.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
23.43
8.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.86
2.35
MySQL INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
8,886.00
18,630.00
Queries per second
88,860.00
186,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.5
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
1.12
0.54
Maximum Latency (ms)
26.84
14.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.93
0.69
MySQL Bulk INSERT
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,278,717.00
1,900,092.00
Queries per second
22,787,170.00
19,000,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
236.89
218.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
425,431.00
216,614.00
Queries per second
4,254,310.00
2,166,140.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.02
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.02
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.3
4.96
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
9,684.00
8,497.00
Queries per second
96,840.00
84,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.29
0.29
Average Latency (ms)
1.03
1.18
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.24
3.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.37
1.5
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
15,489.00
11,456.00
Queries per second
154,890.00
114,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.15
0.3
Average Latency (ms)
0.64
0.87
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.79
3.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.99
1.12
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
10,759.00
18,358.00
Queries per second
107,590.00
183,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.46
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
0.93
0.54
Maximum Latency (ms)
34.7
7.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.39
0.72
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
11,023.00
18,692.00
Queries per second
110,230.00
186,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.45
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
0.91
0.53
Maximum Latency (ms)
33.4
9.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.32
0.69
MySQL DELETE
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
212,798.00
158,377.00
Queries per second
2,127,980.00
1,583,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.02
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.05
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
19.8
4.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.05
0.09
Redis
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
55,126.79
54,259.36
PING_MBULK per Second
54,794.52
53,504.55
SET per Second
55,710.31
54,854.64
GET per Second
55,340.34
54,288.82
INCR per Second
54,734.54
54,704.60
LPUSH per Second
52,994.17
53,050.40
RPUSH per Second
56,689.34
53,908.36
LPOP per Second
57,240.98
53,333.33
RPOP per Second
57,110.22
52,521.01
SADD per Second
55,401.66
52,994.17
HSET per Second
55,218.11
52,410.90
SPOP per Second
55,524.71
50,761.42
ZADD per Second
56,561.09
47,528.52
ZPOPMIN per Second
53,191.49
50,075.11
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
45,998.16
32,992.41
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
24,987.51
21,404.11
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
18,031.01
15,762.93
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
16,369.29
13,661.20
MSET (10 keys) per Second
54,884.74
51,519.84
Redis Average Latency (ms)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.54
0.56
PING_MBULK
0.53
0.56
SET
0.55
0.56
GET
0.55
0.57
INCR
0.56
0.56
LPUSH
0.58
0.58
RPUSH
0.54
0.57
LPOP
0.54
0.58
RPOP
0.54
0.59
SADD
0.55
0.58
HSET
0.56
0.59
SPOP
0.54
0.60
ZADD
0.55
0.65
ZPOPMIN
0.56
0.61
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.71
0.96
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.29
1.52
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
1.77
2.06
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
2.06
2.40
MSET (10 keys)
0.65
0.64
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The UpCloud Balanced instance leads overall, driven by its superior Redis and CPU performance benchmarks. It achieves a higher Redis RPS for both LPUSH and RPUSH, and more CPU events per second at 4956.1 compared to Vultr's 1438.92. Opt for UpCloud if you need robust CPU and memory handling, suitable for CPU-heavy applications and high concurrency workloads.
From the friendly human:
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