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 Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores) is $24.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 100 GB NVMe of storage, and 5 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 Intel 4 GB, 2 Cores ($24/mo) Benchmarks

Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've spun up brand new instance from UpCloud and Vultr and did some benchmarking. Each instance was spun up with 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)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Wed, 13 May 2026 07:00:52 GMT	Sun, 10 May 2026 18:00:52 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	$24.00
RAM (GB)	2	4
CPU Cores	1	2
Storage (TB)	50	100
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	2	5

CPU

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	AuthenticAMD	GenuineIntel
Model Name	AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core Processor	Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz)	3,295.48	2,893.17
CPU Cache Size (KB)	512.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	6,590.95	5,786.33
Events per Second	5,025.21	1,132.36
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.18	0.83
Average Latency (ms)	0.2	0.88
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.35	1.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.22	1.04

Memory Read

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	5,932,400.60	5,331,977.06
Mebibytes per second	5,793.36	5,207.01
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.22	0.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	6,706,599.41	5,164,671.77
Mebibytes per second	6,549.41	5,043.62
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.56	0.66
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	3,214.64	6,043.23
Writes per Second	2,143.03	4,028.82
Fsyncs per Second	6,864.71	12,894.52
Read Mebibytes per Second	50.23	94.43
Written Mebibytes per Second	33.48	62.95
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.08	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	20.14	3.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.31	0.14

Mutex

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,349.13	322.02
Average Latency (ms)	1,353.60	806.81
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,361.99	874.99
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,352.03	877.61

MySQL Read-only

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	19,090.00	6,312.00
Queries per second	190,900.00	63,120.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.31	1.13
Average Latency (ms)	0.52	1.58
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.34	10.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.64	2.22

MySQL Write-only

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,974.00	7,529.00
Queries per second	39,740.00	75,290.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.87	0.87
Average Latency (ms)	2.51	1.33
Maximum Latency (ms)	38.67	4.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5	1.89

MySQL Read/Write

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,830.00	2,596.00
Queries per second	28,300.00	25,960.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.29	2.37
Average Latency (ms)	3.53	3.85
Maximum Latency (ms)	56.72	18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	6.32	5.37

MySQL INSERT

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,647.00	10,595.00
Queries per second	46,470.00	105,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.61	0.48
Average Latency (ms)	2.15	0.94
Maximum Latency (ms)	28.58	6.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.41	1.34

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,249,592.00	1,315,784.00
Queries per second	22,495,920.00	13,157,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	207.34	385.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	645,161.00	172,759.00
Queries per second	6,451,610.00	1,727,590.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.01	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.02	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.26	1.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.02	0.09

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,546.00	5,975.00
Queries per second	85,460.00	59,750.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.13	0.52
Average Latency (ms)	1.17	1.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	172.57	7.14
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.58	2.3

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	11,562.00	6,837.00
Queries per second	115,620.00	68,370.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.22	0.52
Average Latency (ms)	0.86	1.46
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.07	3.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.27	2.07

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,711.00	9,797.00
Queries per second	47,110.00	97,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.73	0.48
Average Latency (ms)	2.12	1.02
Maximum Latency (ms)	30.41	6.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.96	1.55

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,393.00	12,322.00
Queries per second	53,930.00	123,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.48	0.43
Average Latency (ms)	1.85	0.81
Maximum Latency (ms)	39	3.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.43	1.12

MySQL DELETE

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	101,195.00	97,102.00
Queries per second	1,011,950.00	971,020.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.01	0.04
Average Latency (ms)	0.1	0.1
Maximum Latency (ms)	39.3	17.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.17	0.17

Redis

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	130,208.34	61,500.61
PING_MBULK per Second	130,208.34	56,274.62
SET per Second	130,890.05	57,736.72
GET per Second	129,198.97	59,031.88
INCR per Second	128,534.70	58,997.05
LPUSH per Second	128,040.97	58,038.30
RPUSH per Second	126,582.27	61,349.70
LPOP per Second	124,688.28	61,842.92
RPOP per Second	127,226.46	58,445.36
SADD per Second	129,198.97	52,219.32
HSET per Second	133,511.34	53,050.40
SPOP per Second	139,275.77	61,199.51
ZADD per Second	130,039.02	59,136.61
ZPOPMIN per Second	129,701.68	59,916.12
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	55,524.71	45,024.77
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	28,785.26	24,295.43
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	18,942.98	16,326.53
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	17,038.68	13,991.88
MSET (10 keys) per Second	108,225.10	58,275.06

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.25	0.43
PING_MBULK	0.25	0.46
SET	0.26	0.45
GET	0.26	0.44
INCR	0.26	0.44
LPUSH	0.26	0.45
RPUSH	0.27	0.43
LPOP	0.27	0.43
RPOP	0.27	0.46
SADD	0.26	0.52
HSET	0.26	0.49
SPOP	0.24	0.43
ZADD	0.26	0.46
ZPOPMIN	0.26	0.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.66	0.62
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.27	1.19
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	1.95	1.83
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	2.16	2.23
MSET (10 keys)	0.34	0.51

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

After analyzing the benchmark performance of the UpCloud Balanced (2 GB) instance and the Vultr High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores) instance, it is evident that both have their distinct strengths and ideal use cases. The UpCloud instance excels in handling CPU-intensive and I/O-heavy workloads, offering superior Redis performance with high RPS and lower latency across various operations, alongside strong MySQL and file I/O performance. This makes it a suitable choice for applications that benefit from a single high-performance CPU core and ample RAM for memory-bound tasks. In contrast, the Vultr instance, while providing more RAM and CPU cores, has slightly lower Redis performance metrics, indicating it may not be as optimal for Redis-heavy workloads. However, it performs well in MySQL operations and offers robust file I/O performance, making it a good fit for applications that require multi-threading capabilities and higher RAM, such as web servers or databases with heavy read/write operations. The Vultr instance's pricing might also make it a more economical choice for developers needing more computational resources.

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UpCloud Balanced (2 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)