Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB) vs. UpCloud Balanced (1 GB)

New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up brand new instance from UpCloud and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked	Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:00:52 GMT	Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	6.8.0-107-generic	6.8.0-106-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	Newark, NJ	New York, NY
Monthly Price	$5.00	€7.00
RAM (GB)	1	1
CPU Cores	1	1
Storage (TB)	25	25
Storage Type	SSD	SSD
Transfer (TB)	1	1

CPU

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	AuthenticAMD
Model Name	Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX, IBRS)	AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,400.00	3,295.48
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	512.00
BogoMips	4,799.99	6,590.95
Events per Second	820.77	5,498.48
Minimum Latency (ms)	1	0.16
Average Latency (ms)	1.22	0.18
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.71	1.19
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.32	0.2

Memory Read

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Operations per second	4,183,460.82	7,536,293.91
Mebibytes per second	4,085.41	7,359.66
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.32	0.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Operations per second	4,091,149.16	7,610,312.91
Mebibytes per second	3,995.26	7,431.95
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.91	0.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Reads per Second	2,036.96	4,958.78
Writes per Second	1,357.97	3,305.85
Fsyncs per Second	4,346.01	10,581.62
Read Mebibytes per Second	31.83	77.48
Written Mebibytes per Second	21.22	51.65
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.13	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.89	23.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.3	0.2

Mutex

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,927.10	1,200.46
Average Latency (ms)	1,939.45	1,205.89
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,950.93	1,209.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,938.16	1,213.57

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	5,023.00	23,913.00
Queries per second	50,230.00	239,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.72	0.29
Average Latency (ms)	1.99	0.42
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.42	3.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.18	0.55

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	3,626.00	7,390.00
Queries per second	36,260.00	73,900.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.75	0.59
Average Latency (ms)	2.76	1.35
Maximum Latency (ms)	26.81	151.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.41	2.18

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	1,959.00	5,643.00
Queries per second	19,590.00	56,430.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	4.12	1.07
Average Latency (ms)	5.1	1.77
Maximum Latency (ms)	10.97	18.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	6.21	2.39

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	6,524.00	10,691.00
Queries per second	65,240.00	106,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.08	0.4
Average Latency (ms)	1.53	0.93
Maximum Latency (ms)	15.83	28.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.03	1.52

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	996,869.00	2,861,217.00
Queries per second	9,968,690.00	28,612,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	477.16	190.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	104,020.00	797,057.00
Queries per second	1,040,200.00	7,970,570.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.07	0.01
Average Latency (ms)	0.1	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.02	1.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.14	0.02

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	5,526.00	14,716.00
Queries per second	55,260.00	147,160.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.63	0.19
Average Latency (ms)	1.81	0.68
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.77	5.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.35	1.01

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	6,273.00	18,683.00
Queries per second	62,730.00	186,830.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.5	0.15
Average Latency (ms)	1.59	0.53
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.53	2.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.07	0.77

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	6,371.00	11,777.00
Queries per second	63,710.00	117,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.03	0.39
Average Latency (ms)	1.57	0.85
Maximum Latency (ms)	7.68	16.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.14	1.23

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	6,541.00	11,468.00
Queries per second	65,410.00	114,680.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.91	0.35
Average Latency (ms)	1.53	0.87
Maximum Latency (ms)	24.84	15.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.96	1.23

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second	43,573.00	397,047.00
Queries per second	435,730.00	3,970,470.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.07	0.01
Average Latency (ms)	0.23	0.02
Maximum Latency (ms)	7.55	12.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.42	0.03

Redis

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second	35,050.82	163,132.14
PING_MBULK per Second	33,534.54	146,412.88
SET per Second	36,010.08	168,067.22
GET per Second	35,149.38	163,666.12
INCR per Second	36,523.01	168,067.22
LPUSH per Second	37,369.21	158,730.16
RPUSH per Second	38,774.72	166,666.66
LPOP per Second	36,982.25	157,232.70
RPOP per Second	36,724.20	157,232.70
SADD per Second	36,563.07	161,030.59
HSET per Second	32,701.11	157,977.88
SPOP per Second	36,205.65	165,562.92
ZADD per Second	37,467.22	158,730.16
ZPOPMIN per Second	37,495.31	167,785.23
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	24,801.59	89,285.71
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	13,208.29	42,354.93
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	9,684.29	28,042.62
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	7,718.43	23,635.07
MSET (10 keys) per Second	33,602.15	140,845.08

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)	UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
PING_INLINE	0.93	0.21
PING_MBULK	0.96	0.22
SET	0.91	0.20
GET	0.92	0.20
INCR	0.90	0.20
LPUSH	0.88	0.21
RPUSH	0.85	0.20
LPOP	0.89	0.22
RPOP	0.90	0.22
SADD	0.89	0.21
HSET	1.01	0.21
SPOP	0.89	0.20
ZADD	0.88	0.21
ZPOPMIN	0.87	0.20
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	1.35	0.40
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	2.57	0.84
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	3.54	1.26
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	4.41	1.52
MSET (10 keys)	1.02	0.26

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Comparing the benchmark results of UpCloud's Balanced (1 GB) and Vultr's Cloud Compute (1 GB), UpCloud's instance exhibits slightly higher performance in Redis operations, demonstrating stronger read and write operations per second alongside better CPU and file I/O benchmarks. On the other hand, Vultr shows superior performance in handling memory and CPU operations, evidenced by higher events per second and lower average latencies in memory operations. Given these results, UpCloud's instance would be more suitable for workloads emphasizing high throughput and lower latency in database operations, whereas Vultr's instance would be preferable for tasks that require efficient memory and CPU usage.

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