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

UpCloud Balanced (2 GB) is €13.00/mo and includes 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB SSD of storage, and 2 TB of transfer.

How much does Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $18.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe of storage, and 3 TB of transfer.

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

UpCloud Balanced (2 GB) has 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB SSD of storage, and 2 TB of monthly transfer for €13.00/mo.

UpCloud Balanced 2 GB (€13/mo) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from UpCloud and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Wed, 13 May 2026 07:00:52 GMT	Tue, 12 May 2026 22:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	6.8.0-111-generic	6.8.0-111-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	€13.00	$18.00
RAM (GB)	2	2
CPU Cores	1	2
Storage (TB)	50	80
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	2	3

CPU

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	AuthenticAMD	GenuineIntel
Model Name	AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core Processor	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz)	3,295.48	3,792.00
CPU Cache Size (KB)	512.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	6,590.95	7,584.00
Events per Second	5,025.21	1,595.33
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.18	0.61
Average Latency (ms)	0.2	0.63
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.35	3.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.22	0.67

Memory Read

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	5,932,400.60	8,018,179.72
Mebibytes per second	5,793.36	7,830.25
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.22	0.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	6,706,599.41	8,026,354.64
Mebibytes per second	6,549.41	7,838.24
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.56	0.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	3,214.64	4,761.31
Writes per Second	2,143.03	3,174.20
Fsyncs per Second	6,864.71	10,161.05
Read Mebibytes per Second	50.23	74.40
Written Mebibytes per Second	33.48	49.60
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.08	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	20.14	2.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.31	0.17

Mutex

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,349.13	315.69
Average Latency (ms)	1,353.60	517.12
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,361.99	555.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,352.03	559.50

MySQL Read-only

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	19,090.00	10,846.00
Queries per second	190,900.00	108,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.31	0.85
Average Latency (ms)	0.52	0.92
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.34	2.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.64	0.97

MySQL Write-only

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,974.00	9,835.00
Queries per second	39,740.00	98,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.87	0.66
Average Latency (ms)	2.51	1.02
Maximum Latency (ms)	38.67	2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5	1.3

MySQL Read/Write

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,830.00	5,208.00
Queries per second	28,300.00	52,080.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.29	1.59
Average Latency (ms)	3.53	1.92
Maximum Latency (ms)	56.72	3.66
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	6.32	2.18

MySQL INSERT

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,647.00	18,348.00
Queries per second	46,470.00	183,480.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.61	0.37
Average Latency (ms)	2.15	0.54
Maximum Latency (ms)	28.58	2.54
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.41	0.68

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,249,592.00	2,540,842.00
Queries per second	22,495,920.00	25,408,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	207.34	200.43
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	645,161.00	245,434.00
Queries per second	6,451,610.00	2,454,340.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.01	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.02	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.26	1.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.02	0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,546.00	12,340.00
Queries per second	85,460.00	123,400.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.13	0.22
Average Latency (ms)	1.17	0.81
Maximum Latency (ms)	172.57	2.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.58	1.03

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	11,562.00	10,685.00
Queries per second	115,620.00	106,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.22	0.39
Average Latency (ms)	0.86	0.94
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.07	2.9
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.27	1.21

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,711.00	17,447.00
Queries per second	47,110.00	174,470.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.73	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	2.12	0.57
Maximum Latency (ms)	30.41	1.78
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.96	0.75

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,393.00	16,733.00
Queries per second	53,930.00	167,330.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.48	0.37
Average Latency (ms)	1.85	0.6
Maximum Latency (ms)	39	1.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.43	0.77

MySQL DELETE

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	101,195.00	158,104.00
Queries per second	1,011,950.00	1,581,040.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.01	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.1	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	39.3	3.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.17	0.07

Redis

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	130,208.34	85,397.09
PING_MBULK per Second	130,208.34	86,355.79
SET per Second	130,890.05	86,430.43
GET per Second	129,198.97	86,355.79
INCR per Second	128,534.70	86,058.52
LPUSH per Second	128,040.97	87,336.24
RPUSH per Second	126,582.27	87,642.41
LPOP per Second	124,688.28	87,336.24
RPOP per Second	127,226.46	87,032.20
SADD per Second	129,198.97	85,763.29
HSET per Second	133,511.34	87,260.03
SPOP per Second	139,275.77	87,489.06
ZADD per Second	130,039.02	87,336.24
ZPOPMIN per Second	129,701.68	86,355.79
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	55,524.71	65,061.81
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	28,785.26	36,832.41
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	18,942.98	26,171.16
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	17,038.68	23,337.22
MSET (10 keys) per Second	108,225.10	89,525.52

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.25	0.31
PING_MBULK	0.25	0.30
SET	0.26	0.30
GET	0.26	0.30
INCR	0.26	0.30
LPUSH	0.26	0.29
RPUSH	0.27	0.29
LPOP	0.27	0.29
RPOP	0.27	0.30
SADD	0.26	0.30
HSET	0.26	0.30
SPOP	0.24	0.29
ZADD	0.26	0.29
ZPOPMIN	0.26	0.30
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.66	0.39
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.27	0.69
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	1.95	0.97
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	2.16	1.09
MSET (10 keys)	0.34	0.29

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Upon comparing the benchmark results of the UpCloud Balanced (2 GB) instance and the Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) instance, it is evident that both instances offer distinct advantages tailored to different use cases. The UpCloud instance features a single high-performance AMD EPYC 9575F CPU core, providing remarkable performance in Redis operations, especially in read-heavy tasks like LRANGE, and in MySQL operations, which exhibit very low latencies and high throughput. In contrast, the Vultr instance, equipped with two Intel Core processors, excels in handling higher request rates per second for Redis commands, showing superior performance in raw request processing capabilities. However, it tends to perform slightly worse in certain storage-intensive tasks like LRANGE. Therefore, the UpCloud instance is ideal for applications that benefit from high single-threaded performance and low latency, while the Vultr instance is better suited for workloads that require high concurrency and throughput, making it a good choice for environments with many simultaneous connections.

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UpCloud Balanced (2 GB) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)