How much does UpCloud Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores) cost per month?

UpCloud Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores) is €52.00/mo and includes 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD of storage, and 5 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 (8 GB, 4 Cores)?

UpCloud Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores) has 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD of storage, and 5 TB of monthly transfer for €52.00/mo.

UpCloud Balanced 8 GB, 4 Cores (€52/mo) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I've spun up brand new instance from UpCloud and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were 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 (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Thu, 28 May 2026 17:00:52 GMT	Sun, 31 May 2026 07:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	6.8.0-111-generic	6.8.0-117-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	€52.00	$18.00
RAM (GB)	8	2
CPU Cores	4	2
Storage (TB)	160	60
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	5	4

CPU

	UpCloud – Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores)	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)	3,295.46	2,899.99
CPU Cache Size (KB)	512.00	1,024.00
BogoMips	6,590.91	5,799.98
Events per Second	5,556.97	4,648.14
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.17	0.2
Average Latency (ms)	0.18	0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.78	1.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.19	0.23

Memory Read

	UpCloud – Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	7,754,345.65	7,548,502.85
Mebibytes per second	7,572.60	7,371.58
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.11	0.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	UpCloud – Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	7,640,039.61	7,544,807.09
Mebibytes per second	7,460.98	7,367.98
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.11	0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	UpCloud – Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	5,449.77	5,114.79
Writes per Second	3,633.18	3,409.86
Fsyncs per Second	11,630.88	10,914.44
Read Mebibytes per Second	85.15	79.92
Written Mebibytes per Second	56.77	53.28
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	29.58	3.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.24	0.12

Mutex

	UpCloud – Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	246.76	574.03
Average Latency (ms)	325.48	637.47
Maximum Latency (ms)	414.66	663.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	411.96	657.93

MySQL Read-only

	UpCloud – Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,928.00	9,622.00
Queries per second	169,280.00	96,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.34	0.73
Average Latency (ms)	0.59	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	23.06	2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.78	1.12

MySQL Write-only

	UpCloud – Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,184.00	9,585.00
Queries per second	51,840.00	95,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.87	0.8
Average Latency (ms)	1.93	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	22.86	2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.66	1.32

MySQL Read/Write

	UpCloud – Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,565.00	4,686.00
Queries per second	35,650.00	46,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.36	1.57
Average Latency (ms)	2.8	2.13
Maximum Latency (ms)	25.63	4.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.89	2.52

MySQL INSERT

	UpCloud – Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	6,778.00	15,965.00
Queries per second	67,780.00	159,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.57	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	1.47	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	23.28	2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.07	0.74

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	UpCloud – Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,381,074.00	3,065,092.00
Queries per second	33,810,740.00	30,650,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	164.15	208.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	UpCloud – Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	570,285.00	217,035.00
Queries per second	5,702,850.00	2,170,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.01	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.02	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.69	0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.03	0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	UpCloud – Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	14,629.00	14,818.00
Queries per second	146,290.00	148,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.15	0.24
Average Latency (ms)	0.68	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.68	1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.06	0.86

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	UpCloud – Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	14,171.00	14,341.00
Queries per second	141,710.00	143,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.19	0.27
Average Latency (ms)	0.7	0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)	14	1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.16	0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	UpCloud – Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,892.00	14,864.00
Queries per second	58,920.00	148,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.7	0.47
Average Latency (ms)	1.7	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	16.99	2.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.43	0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	UpCloud – Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	6,107.00	15,284.00
Queries per second	61,070.00	152,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.65	0.46
Average Latency (ms)	1.64	0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)	15.97	1.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.3	0.83

MySQL DELETE

	UpCloud – Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	148,404.00	151,536.00
Queries per second	1,484,040.00	1,515,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.01	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	25.33	4.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.07	0.08

Redis

	UpCloud – Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	213,219.61	55,991.04
PING_MBULK per Second	191,570.88	57,903.88
SET per Second	184,842.88	57,703.40
GET per Second	235,849.06	57,703.40
INCR per Second	241,545.89	57,372.34
LPUSH per Second	253,807.11	57,836.90
RPUSH per Second	240,384.61	58,173.36
LPOP per Second	242,130.77	58,343.06
RPOP per Second	159,489.64	58,343.06
SADD per Second	220,264.31	58,241.12
HSET per Second	257,069.41	58,858.15
SPOP per Second	250,626.58	58,892.82
ZADD per Second	259,067.36	57,504.31
ZPOPMIN per Second	259,067.36	57,870.37
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	137,362.64	49,236.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	59,311.98	34,818.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	37,188.55	26,766.60
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	27,166.53	24,207.21
MSET (10 keys) per Second	209,643.61	58,548.01

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	UpCloud – Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.13	0.48
PING_MBULK	0.14	0.44
SET	0.17	0.45
GET	0.11	0.45
INCR	0.11	0.45
LPUSH	0.10	0.44
RPUSH	0.11	0.44
LPOP	0.11	0.44
RPOP	0.19	0.44
SADD	0.12	0.44
HSET	0.12	0.44
SPOP	0.10	0.44
ZADD	0.10	0.45
ZPOPMIN	0.10	0.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.23	0.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	0.49	0.74
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	0.73	0.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	0.97	1.05
MSET (10 keys)	0.17	0.44

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

After comparing the benchmarks from the UpCloud and Vultr instances, it's clear that the UpCloud "Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores)" outperforms the Vultr "High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)" in most metrics, especially for memory and CPU-intensive tasks. The UpCloud instance shows significantly higher Redis performance rates, better CPU event throughput, lower file I/O latency, and superior memory access rates, indicating it can handle more demanding workloads more efficiently. On the other hand, the Vultr instance excels in cost efficiency but lags behind in terms of raw performance metrics, making it suitable for less demanding applications that prioritize budget over speed. Therefore, the UpCloud instance is ideal for CPU-intensive, I/O-heavy, and memory-intensive workloads, while the Vultr instance may be more appropriate for budget-conscious users with less demanding requirements.

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UpCloud Balanced (8 GB, 4 Cores) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)