IDrive Compute vs Kamatera

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We have tested 16 VPS plans from IDrive Compute and Kamatera. We'll show which one is best based on a detailed performance analysis, on features and prices.


IDrive Compute

IDriveCompute

IDrive Compute was founded in 2021.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers VPS and Storage hosting products.

It has datacenters in:
  • Germany
  • Ireland
  • Netherlands
  • Spain
  • United Kingdoms
  • United States

Kamatera

Kamatera

Kamatera was founded in 1995.
It is headquartered in Israel.
It offers VPS managed and unmanaged hosting products.

It has datacenters in:
  • Canada
  • Germany
  • Hong Kong
  • Israel
  • Netherlands
  • United Kingdom
  • United States

VPS Plans

Plan Name Monthly Price CPU cores Memory (GB) Disk Space (GB) Data Transfer (GB) Latest trial
Availability 1GB 1core $4.00 1 1.0 20 5000 Nov 01 2022
Shared 1 core 1GB (Off rankings) $5.00 1 1.0 40 1000 Oct 28 2022
Availability 2GB 1 core $6.00 1 2.0 20 5000 Aug 02 2022
General 1GB 1 core $9.00 1 1.0 20 5000 Feb 02 2023
Shared 1 core 2GB (Off rankings) $10.00 1 2.0 60 2000 Jan 29 2022
General 2GB 1 core $15.00 1 2.0 20 5000 Jun 17 2022
Availability 4GB 2 cores $19.00 2 4.0 40 5000 Mar 20 2023
Shared 2 cores 4GB (Off rankings) $20.00 2 4.0 80 4000 Apr 29 2022
Dedicated 2 cores 4GB (Off rankings) $40.00 2 4.0 80 10000 Jul 28 2022
Shared 4 cores 8GB (Off rankings) $40.00 4 8.0 160 5000 Sep 13 2022
General 4GB 2 cores $42.00 2 4.0 40 5000 Sep 17 2022
Shared 8 cores 16GB (Off rankings) $80.00 8 16.0 320 6000 Mar 14 2022
Dedicated 4cores 8GB (Off rankings) $80.00 4 8.0 120 20000 Dec 13 2022
General 8GB 4 cores $90.00 4 8.0 80 5000 Dec 17 2022
Availability 16GB 8 cores $99.00 8 16.0 150 5000 May 03 2022
Shared 10 cores 20GB (Off rankings) $100.00 10 20.0 400 6500 Jun 14 2022

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Note: "Off rankings" plans are not included in the Screener and are not considered for Best VPS rankings. They may either be previews where the VPS have been directly provisioned by the provider, they may be too old or they may exceed the maximum number of plans that can be listed for each provider.

Performance Grades

To summarize the performance of each VPS plan, we generated grades based on the various tests that were run: web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Each grade focuses on one aspect of the VPS speed or stability (cpu, disk IO, network IO...) and is made of one or more metrics measured during the tests.

Grades are evenly distributed between A and F. A is best, F is worst.

Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.

How are grades calculated?

Screen all VPS from IDrive Compute and Kamatera
Plan Name Web Perf Raw CPU Power Perf Stability Disk IO Perf Network Perf
Availability 1GB 1core
$4.00
C E E D C
Shared 1 core 1GB (Off rankings)
$5.00
C E B C C
Availability 2GB 1 core
$6.00
D E E C D
General 1GB 1 core
$9.00
D E C B C
Shared 1 core 2GB (Off rankings)
$10.00
D E E E C
General 2GB 1 core
$15.00
C E D C C
Availability 4GB 2 cores
$19.00
E E F E D
Shared 2 cores 4GB (Off rankings)
$20.00
D C C C D
Dedicated 2 cores 4GB (Off rankings)
$40.00
C D B C B
Shared 4 cores 8GB (Off rankings)
$40.00
B B C B B
General 4GB 2 cores
$42.00
F D E C B
Shared 8 cores 16GB (Off rankings)
$80.00
C A C A B
Dedicated 4cores 8GB (Off rankings)
$80.00
C B B C B
General 8GB 4 cores
$90.00
C C D C B
Availability 16GB 8 cores
$99.00
D A D A C
Shared 10 cores 20GB (Off rankings)
$100.00
C A C A B
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Features and Datacenters

This list is a subset of the features each provider may offer.

Kamatera IDrive Compute
Backups  Yes Yes
Block storage  Yes Yes
Object storage  No Yes
Load balancer  Yes No
DDoS protection  Yes No
Hourly Billing  Yes Yes
SSH Keys Setup  No Yes
Total Number of Datacenters  14 26
Number of Datacenter Continents  4 2
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CPUs

These are the CPUs we have seen in IDrive Compute and Kamatera instances in the past 18 months.

All IDrive Compute CPUs All Kamatera CPUs
AMD EPYC Processor (with IBPB) Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8358P CPU @ 2.60GHz

Performance Consistency

The provider consistency score shows how much variation can be expected between 2 servers of the same type at the same provider. A high consistency score (>65) means the performance of all servers of the provider is consistent over many trials and many plans.

Providers who don't have enough data yet at VPSBenchmarks don't have a consistency score.

IDrive Compute Kamatera
Consistency Score 60 47

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VPS Instance Provisioning Time

This is the average time it took to create an instance for IDrive Compute and Kamatera from instance order to instance accepting connections.

All VPS provisioning times

IDrive Compute Kamatera
Number of instance creations in sample 10 12
Average provisioning time 37s 280s

Performance in Depth...

These are some of the test results that are used to determine the grades above.

Web Response Times

We ran a database intensive web application at various levels of load on cloud servers from IDrive Compute and Kamatera. This is the average response time measured locally on the VPS for each plan we tested.



Local Response Time per Plan

Lower is better


Maximum HTTP Load

We ran a database intensive web application at various levels of load on cloud servers from IDrive Compute and Kamatera. This is the maximum rate of HTTP requests that each server handled without timing out.



Maximum HTTP request rate

Higher is better


During the Web Test, we collect response time metrics, rate metrics and CPU metrics. All of those are measured locally on the VPS running the web server. All metrics can be compared on the Web Performance Comparison page.

Sysbench CPU Performance

We ran the full suite of Sysbench tests on VPS plans of IDrive Compute and Kamatera. These are the Sysbench CPU test results:



Rate of operations

Higher is better


Sysbench Disk IO Performance

We ran the full suite of Sysbench tests on VPS plans of IDrive Compute and Kamatera. These are the Sysbench Disk IO Random Read test results:



Rate of operations

Higher is better

Sysbench test results are also available for random disk IO tests, sequential disk IO tests and memory tests.
Review and compare all Sysbench numbers on the Sysbench Comparison page for IDrive Compute and Kamatera.

Network Transfers

We have performed large file transfers from the IDrive Compute and Kamatera VPS and we measured the speed of downloads and uploads.

The transfers involve multiple files, 10 threads and last for at least 10 seconds at maximum speed. The transfers are repeated 3 times from different servers and only the fastest transfer is reported here.


Download Speed per Plan

Higher is better

Network Transfers measurements including download and upload speeds can be compared for IDrive Compute and Kamatera on the Network Transfers Comparison page.

Sustained CPU Endurance Tests

We pushed the CPU of those VPS plans hard for 24 hours straight.

This test shows how fast the VPS can go for long periods of time, how stable the performance is and it also gives clues on how overallocated the VPSs may be.


Average number of operations per hour

Higher is better

Review and compare endurance test results for IDrive Compute and Kamatera on the Sustained CPU Endurance Comparison page.

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