Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB) vs. UpCloud Balanced (1 GB)
Same showdown, different day. Today I spun up fresh instances from UpCloud and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Time to see who showed up today.
Overview
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:30:37 GMT
Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:42:22 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
7.0.0-27-generic
7.0.0-14-generic
MySQL Version
8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
Redis Version
8.0.5
8.0.5
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
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category
Winner
CPU (events/sec)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) takes 5 of 5 categories.
CPU
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vendor
GenuineIntel
AuthenticAMD
Model Name
Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS)
AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,394.45
3,295.46
CPU Cache Size (KB)
16,384.00
512.00
BogoMips
4,788.90
6,590.91
Events per Second
704.30
5,281.40
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.23
0.17
Average Latency (ms)
1.42
0.19
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.04
5.63
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.73
0.21
Memory
Memory Read
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Operations per second
3,595,908.88
7,916,721.84
Mebibytes per second
3,511.63
7,731.17
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.61
0.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Operations per second
3,455,305.83
7,831,276.08
Mebibytes per second
3,374.32
7,647.73
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.29
0.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Reads per Second
1,878.82
3,918.58
Writes per Second
1,252.51
2,612.35
Fsyncs per Second
4,014.75
8,362.41
Read Mebibytes per Second
29.36
61.23
Written Mebibytes per Second
19.57
40.82
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.14
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.08
56.19
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.4
0.2
Mutex
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,084.67
1,149.76
Average Latency (ms)
2,093.52
1,155.73
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,098.38
1,166.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,082.91
1,170.65
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,684.00
0.00
Queries per second
46,840.00
0.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.71
0
Average Latency (ms)
2.13
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
9.23
0
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.02
0
MySQL Write-only
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
3,785.00
0.00
Queries per second
37,850.00
0.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.46
0
Average Latency (ms)
2.64
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
33.7
0
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.82
0
MySQL Read/Write
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,104.00
0.00
Queries per second
21,040.00
0.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.41
0
Average Latency (ms)
4.75
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
10.72
0
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.91
0
MySQL INSERT
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,970.00
0.00
Queries per second
79,700.00
0.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.8
0
Average Latency (ms)
1.25
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
22.57
0
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.7
0
MySQL Bulk INSERT
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
734,741.00
0.00
Queries per second
7,347,410.00
0.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
700.22
0
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
107,531.00
0.00
Queries per second
1,075,310.00
0.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.07
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.09
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.82
0
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.13
0
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
3,796.00
0.00
Queries per second
37,960.00
0.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.93
0
Average Latency (ms)
2.63
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.47
0
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.82
0
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
5,117.00
0.00
Queries per second
51,170.00
0.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.67
0
Average Latency (ms)
1.95
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.04
0
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.19
0
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,164.00
0.00
Queries per second
71,640.00
0.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.82
0
Average Latency (ms)
1.39
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
28.24
0
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.03
0
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,738.00
0.00
Queries per second
77,380.00
0.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.78
0
Average Latency (ms)
1.29
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
17.75
0
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.76
0
MySQL DELETE
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second
52,919.00
0.00
Queries per second
529,190.00
0.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.07
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.19
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
26.33
0
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.04
0
Redis
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
28,835.06
45,871.56
PING_MBULK per Second
30,778.70
57,870.37
SET per Second
28,918.45
60,096.15
GET per Second
28,669.72
59,347.18
INCR per Second
30,656.04
58,997.05
LPUSH per Second
30,911.90
60,024.01
RPUSH per Second
26,968.72
59,206.63
LPOP per Second
30,618.49
59,952.04
RPOP per Second
31,123.56
59,206.63
SADD per Second
30,358.23
58,754.41
HSET per Second
29,299.74
58,275.06
SPOP per Second
30,627.87
59,559.26
ZADD per Second
30,358.23
61,312.08
ZPOPMIN per Second
31,367.63
61,050.06
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
22,138.59
45,392.64
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
11,909.01
25,859.84
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
7,708.32
16,854.88
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
7,203.57
17,455.05
MSET (10 keys) per Second
30,312.21
49,578.58
Redis Average Latency (ms)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
1.04
0.73
PING_MBULK
0.96
0.51
SET
1.05
0.51
GET
1.05
0.51
INCR
0.98
0.52
LPUSH
0.98
0.52
RPUSH
1.15
0.52
LPOP
1.00
0.52
RPOP
0.98
0.53
SADD
0.99
0.52
HSET
1.03
0.53
SPOP
0.97
0.50
ZADD
1.00
0.51
ZPOPMIN
0.95
0.50
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.44
0.72
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
2.62
1.24
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
3.84
1.89
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
4.05
1.79
MSET (10 keys)
1.07
0.71
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
Based on the benchmark results, UpCloud's Balanced (1 GB) instance outshines Vultr's Cloud Compute (1 GB) across a wide range of metrics, especially in Redis performance where it achieves higher requests per second (rps) and lower latencies. The UpCloud instance performed significantly better in operations like LPUSH and LRANGE, and also scored higher in CPU and file I/O benchmarks, demonstrating better overall throughput and lower latency. For those needing robust Redis performance, CPU efficiency, and I/O operations, the UpCloud instance is the better choice, even at a higher monthly cost.
From the friendly human:
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