STARTER-2xCPU-16GB by UpCloud

STARTER-2xCPU-16GB is a Starter (2 vCPUs, 16 GiB RAM) server offered by UpCloud with 2 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 50 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.04 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
50 GB Storage
Spare SCore
6,733
(All-cores)
3,366
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
upcloud
Name
STARTER-2xCPU-16GB
Description
Starter (2 vCPUs, 16 GiB RAM)
Family
Starter
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
144.25
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-14T12:01:53.707060

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Sydney #1 (AU) / au-syd1
- 0.04 USD/h
Frankfurt #1 (DE) / de-fra1
- 0.04 USD/h
Copenhagen #1 (DK) / dk-cph1
- 0.04 USD/h
Madrid #1 (ES) / es-mad1
- 0.04 USD/h
Helsinki #1 (FI) / fi-hel1
- 0.04 USD/h
Helsinki #2 (FI) / fi-hel2
- 0.04 USD/h
Amsterdam #1 (NL) / nl-ams1
- 0.04 USD/h
Stavanger #1 (NO) / no-svg1
- 0.04 USD/h
Warsaw #1 (PL) / pl-waw1
- 0.04 USD/h
Stockholm #1 (SE) / se-sto1
- 0.04 USD/h
Singapore #1 (SG) / sg-sin1
- 0.04 USD/h
London #1 (GB) / uk-lon1
- 0.04 USD/h
Chicago #1 (US) / us-chi1
- 0.04 USD/h
New York #1 (US) / us-nyc1
- 0.04 USD/h
San Jose #1 (US) / us-sjo1
- 0.04 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Shared
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
9575F
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ht, syscall, nx, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, rep_good, nopl, cpuid, extd_apicid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, perfctr_core, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, vmmcall, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, invpcid, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, clzero, xsaveerptr, wbnoinvd, arat, avx512vbmi, umip, pku, ospke, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, movdiri, movdir64b, avx512_vp2intersect, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
2
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    50 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      2048 GB/month
      IPv4
      1

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A budget-friendly virtual server combining high memory capacity with shared dual-core processing for lightweight, memory-intensive applications.

      Burstable & BudgetMemory Optimized

      The UpCloud STARTER-2xCPU-16GB is an x86_64 virtual server featuring 2 shared vCPUs on an AMD EPYC 9575F processor running at 2.0 GHz, paired with 16.0 GB of RAM and 50 GB of local SSD storage. Operating on the KVM hypervisor, this instance delivers top-tier single-core CPU performance in stress-ng benchmarks, though its multi-core capabilities and memory bandwidth fall into average to weak categories. The 1:8 vCPU-to-RAM ratio provides a cost-efficient profile for memory-heavy applications that do not demand sustained, dedicated multi-core processing. It is well-suited for lightweight database operations, static web serving, caching, and general-purpose development environments.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.36Score
      Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
      Component Score Weight Impact
      Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
      Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 465,315 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.25 50.00% 50.00% -50.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,150,591 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.18 20.00% 20.00% -29.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,831 2,417 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 108,514 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,343 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.4 10.00% 10.00% +3.40%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,626

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,979

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 6245
      Compression
      		 58953
      Encryption
      		 3071
      Extended Instructions
      		 4915
      Floating Point Maths
      		 14559
      Integer Maths
      		 14665
      Physics
      		 734
      Prime Numbers
      		 47
      Single Threaded
      		 3343
      String Sorting
      		 7669

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1831
      Database Operations
      		 2043
      Memory Latency
      		 118
      Memory Read Cached
      		 32519
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 26263
      Memory Write
      		 25872

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

      Redis

      PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

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