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 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)?

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 Performance AMD 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up some brand new instance from UpCloud and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Wed, 13 May 2026 07:00:52 GMT	Tue, 12 May 2026 10:00:52 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	60
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	2	4

CPU

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	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)	3,295.48	2,900.01
CPU Cache Size (KB)	512.00	1,024.00
BogoMips	6,590.95	5,800.02
Events per Second	5,025.21	4,626.79
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.18	0.21
Average Latency (ms)	0.2	0.22
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.35	3.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.22	0.23

Memory Read

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	5,932,400.60	7,533,354.82
Mebibytes per second	5,793.36	7,356.79
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.22	0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	6,706,599.41	7,542,644.19
Mebibytes per second	6,549.41	7,365.86
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.56	0.6
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	3,214.64	5,126.68
Writes per Second	2,143.03	3,417.78
Fsyncs per Second	6,864.71	10,937.41
Read Mebibytes per Second	50.23	80.10
Written Mebibytes per Second	33.48	53.40
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.08	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	20.14	2.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.31	0.11

Mutex

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,349.13	612.54
Average Latency (ms)	1,353.60	642.87
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,361.99	659.60
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,352.03	657.93

MySQL Read-only

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	19,090.00	9,926.00
Queries per second	190,900.00	99,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.31	0.75
Average Latency (ms)	0.52	1.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.34	1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.64	1.06

MySQL Write-only

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,974.00	9,968.00
Queries per second	39,740.00	99,680.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.87	0.71
Average Latency (ms)	2.51	1
Maximum Latency (ms)	38.67	2.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5	1.27

MySQL Read/Write

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,830.00	4,907.00
Queries per second	28,300.00	49,070.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.29	1.59
Average Latency (ms)	3.53	2.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	56.72	12.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	6.32	2.39

MySQL INSERT

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,647.00	16,597.00
Queries per second	46,470.00	165,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.61	0.44
Average Latency (ms)	2.15	0.6
Maximum Latency (ms)	28.58	2.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.41	0.72

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,249,592.00	3,065,092.00
Queries per second	22,495,920.00	30,650,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	207.34	202.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	645,161.00	225,864.00
Queries per second	6,451,610.00	2,258,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.01	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.02	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.26	0.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.02	0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,546.00	14,804.00
Queries per second	85,460.00	148,040.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.13	0.25
Average Latency (ms)	1.17	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	172.57	2.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.58	0.86

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	11,562.00	14,246.00
Queries per second	115,620.00	142,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.22	0.23
Average Latency (ms)	0.86	0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.07	1.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.27	0.9

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,711.00	15,609.00
Queries per second	47,110.00	156,090.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.73	0.46
Average Latency (ms)	2.12	0.64
Maximum Latency (ms)	30.41	1.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.96	0.83

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,393.00	16,050.00
Queries per second	53,930.00	160,500.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.48	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	1.85	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	39	1.98
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.43	0.78

MySQL DELETE

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	101,195.00	163,936.00
Queries per second	1,011,950.00	1,639,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.01	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.1	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	39.3	3.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.17	0.08

Redis

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	130,208.34	56,850.48
PING_MBULK per Second	130,208.34	58,616.65
SET per Second	130,890.05	58,858.15
GET per Second	129,198.97	58,513.75
INCR per Second	128,534.70	58,038.30
LPUSH per Second	128,040.97	58,582.31
RPUSH per Second	126,582.27	57,971.02
LPOP per Second	124,688.28	58,719.91
RPOP per Second	127,226.46	58,513.75
SADD per Second	129,198.97	58,927.52
HSET per Second	133,511.34	58,962.27
SPOP per Second	139,275.77	58,411.21
ZADD per Second	130,039.02	58,651.02
ZPOPMIN per Second	129,701.68	58,309.04
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	55,524.71	48,685.49
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	28,785.26	33,134.53
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	18,942.98	25,322.87
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	17,038.68	22,820.63
MSET (10 keys) per Second	108,225.10	58,207.21

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.25	0.46
PING_MBULK	0.25	0.44
SET	0.26	0.44
GET	0.26	0.44
INCR	0.26	0.44
LPUSH	0.26	0.44
RPUSH	0.27	0.44
LPOP	0.27	0.44
RPOP	0.27	0.44
SADD	0.26	0.44
HSET	0.26	0.44
SPOP	0.24	0.44
ZADD	0.26	0.44
ZPOPMIN	0.26	0.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.66	0.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.27	0.77
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	1.95	1.01
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	2.16	1.12
MSET (10 keys)	0.34	0.44

Conclusion

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When comparing the UpCloud Balanced (2 GB) instance and the Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) instance, UpCloud outperforms Vultr in terms of raw Redis performance with higher requests per second (rps) across all operations and lower latencies. The UpCloud instance also shows better CPU, file I/O, and memory performance, evidenced by higher throughput, lower latencies, and more consistent execution times. The Vultr instance, while competitive in certain areas like MySQL OLTP operations and bulk inserts, does not match the UpCloud instance in overall performance metrics. Given these results, the UpCloud instance is better suited for CPU-intensive and I/O-heavy workloads, while the Vultr instance may be more appropriate for applications where slightly lower performance is acceptable in exchange for cost efficiency and the benefits of its NVMe storage.

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