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 0.0412 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
50 GB Storage
Spare SCore
7,331
(All-cores)
3,688
(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
145
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-14T22:35:14.538175

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Sydney #1 (AU) / au-syd1
- 0.0412 USD/h
Frankfurt #1 (DE) / de-fra1
- 0.0412 USD/h
Copenhagen #1 (DK) / dk-cph1
- 0.0412 USD/h
Madrid #1 (ES) / es-mad1
- 0.0412 USD/h
Helsinki #1 (FI) / fi-hel1
- 0.0412 USD/h
Helsinki #2 (FI) / fi-hel2
- 0.0412 USD/h
Amsterdam #1 (NL) / nl-ams1
- 0.0412 USD/h
Stavanger #1 (NO) / no-svg1
- 0.0412 USD/h
Warsaw #1 (PL) / pl-waw1
- 0.0412 USD/h
Stockholm #1 (SE) / se-sto1
- 0.0412 USD/h
Singapore #1 (SG) / sg-sin1
- 0.0412 USD/h
London #1 (GB) / uk-lon1
- 0.0412 USD/h
Chicago #1 (US) / us-chi1
- 0.0412 USD/h
New York #1 (US) / us-nyc1
- 0.0412 USD/h
San Jose #1 (US) / us-sjo1
- 0.0412 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
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    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 shared-CPU virtual server combining high single-core performance with a generous memory allocation for lightweight, memory-intensive workloads.

      Burstable & BudgetMemory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      UpCloud STARTER-2xCPU-16GB is an x86_64 virtual server running on the KVM hypervisor, featuring 2 shared vCPUs from an AMD EPYC 9575F processor clocked at 2.0 GHz. It is equipped with 16.0 GB of RAM and 50 GB of local SSD storage. Benchmarks indicate strong single-core performance, with top-tier results in stress-ng single-core tests and single-threaded gzip compression. However, the shared CPU allocation leads to weaker multi-core and database performance, as evidenced by lower Geekbench and Passmark scores. This server provides a cost-effective option for memory-heavy but compute-light workloads. It is well-suited for lightweight text processing, single-threaded utility scripts, and small-scale development environments, while being less suitable for high-throughput web serving or intensive multi-threaded compilation.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.318Score
      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) 477,979 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.249 50.00% 50.00% -50.10%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,811,220 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.155 20.00% 20.00% -31.10%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,535 2,418 0.635 10.00% 10.00% -4.44%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 52,186 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.483 10.00% 10.00% -7.02%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,525 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.49 10.00% 10.00% +4.07%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,803

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 3,137

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 5761
      Compression
      		 59937
      Encryption
      		 2985
      Extended Instructions
      		 4124
      Floating Point Maths
      		 12762
      Integer Maths
      		 12460
      Physics
      		 599
      Prime Numbers
      		 40
      Single Threaded
      		 3525
      String Sorting
      		 7621

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1535
      Database Operations
      		 1466
      Memory Latency
      		 138
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24579
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 21201
      Memory Write
      		 19529

      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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