UpCloud Review
UpCloud in its own words
World's fastest cloud servers
Sign up for a free trial and experience faster-than-SSD cloud servers!
Our simple but powerful control panel and API lets you spend more time coding and less time managing your cloud infrastructure. Together with the community, we develop and maintain a large library of open source API-clients and tools.
Features and Usability
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
Last updated on November 29 2018.
In VPSBenchmark's opinion
UpCloud Extra Services
In addition to features included in the VPS plan, UpCloud also offers the following services (possibly for a fee):
| Backups | Block Storage | Object Storage | Load Balancer | Floating Ips |
| Teams | Datastores | Serverless | Ddos Protection |
Admin UI Screenshots
Cloud Storage Prices
For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage page.
| Storage Type | Price / GB / month | Restriction | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Block | $0.220 |
UpCloud storage is MaxIOPS, it offers the performance of multiple enterprise-grade SSDs for the price of one.
https://www.upcloud.com/pricing/ |
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| Backups | $0.060 |
UpCloud offers a scheduling function on top of its backups. Users can also create snapshots manually (same price). https://www.upcloud.com/pricing/ |
This provider offers the following promotion:
Sign up with the following link and receive a $25 credit into your UpCloud account.
Compare all UpCloud plans in the Screener
The Screener shows all UpCloud plans side by side with their grades in 5 categories.
UpCloud Plans
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://www.upcloud.com/pricing/ |
|---|---|
| Price per month | $20.00 |
| Discount for long term use | No |
| Disk GB | 80 |
| Num Cores | 2 |
| Memory GB | 4.0 |
| Hourly Billing | Yes |
| Virtualization | KVM |
| Data Transfer GB | 4000 |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 75
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests for UpCloud - 4GB 2 cores. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the 4GB 2 cores plan
This plan was tested 3 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the 4GB 2 cores plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | Web Results | Sysbench Results | Avg web response time | P99 web response time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 07 2018 | Web | Sysbench | 51ms | 104ms |
| May 23 2018 | Web | Sysbench | 56ms | 260ms |
| Sep 17 2017 | Web | Sysbench | 48ms | 240ms |
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://www.upcloud.com/pricing/ |
|---|---|
| Price per month | $5.00 |
| Discount for long term use | No |
| Disk GB | 25 |
| Num Cores | 1 |
| Memory GB | 1.0 |
| Hourly Billing | Yes |
| Virtualization | KVM |
| Data Transfer GB | 1000 |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 58
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests for UpCloud - 1GB 1core. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the 1GB 1core plan
This plan was tested 3 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the 1GB 1core plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | Web Results | Sysbench Results | Avg web response time | P99 web response time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22 2019 | Web | Sysbench | 60ms | 171ms |
| Sep 02 2018 | Web | Sysbench | 55ms | 153ms |
| Apr 08 2018 | Web | Sysbench | 58ms | 240ms |
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://www.upcloud.com/pricing/ |
|---|---|
| Price per month | $10.00 |
| Discount for long term use | No |
| Disk GB | 50 |
| Num Cores | 1 |
| Memory GB | 2.0 |
| Hourly Billing | Yes |
| Virtualization | KVM |
| Data Transfer GB | 2000 |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 61
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests for UpCloud - 2GB 1core. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the 2GB 1core plan
This plan was tested 2 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the 2GB 1core plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | Web Results | Sysbench Results | Avg web response time | P99 web response time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23 2019 | Web | Sysbench | 63ms | 175ms |
| Jun 22 2018 | Web | Sysbench | 52ms | 250ms |
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://www.upcloud.com/pricing/ |
|---|---|
| Price per month | $40.00 |
| Discount for long term use | No |
| Disk GB | 160 |
| Num Cores | 4 |
| Memory GB | 8.0 |
| Hourly Billing | Yes |
| Virtualization | KVM |
| Data Transfer GB | 5000 |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 78
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests for UpCloud - 8GB 4 cores. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the 8GB 4 cores plan
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the 8GB 4 cores plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | Web Results | Sysbench Results | Avg web response time | P99 web response time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31 2018 | Web | Sysbench | 53ms | 110ms |
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://upcloud.com/pricing/ |
|---|---|
| Price per month | $80.00 |
| Discount for long term use | No |
| Disk GB | 320 |
| Num Cores | 6 |
| Memory GB | 16.0 |
| Hourly Billing | Yes |
| Virtualization | KVM |
| Data Transfer GB | 6000 |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 84
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests for UpCloud - 16GB 6 cores. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the 16GB 6 cores plan
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the 16GB 6 cores plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | Web Results | Sysbench Results | Avg web response time | P99 web response time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 09 2019 | Web | Sysbench | 54ms | 115ms |
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