STARTER-2xCPU-4GB by UpCloud

STARTER-2xCPU-4GB is a Starter (2 vCPUs, 4 GiB RAM) server offered by UpCloud with 2 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 30 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.02 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
30 GB Storage
Spare SCore
7,545
(All-cores)
3,802
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
upcloud
Name
STARTER-2xCPU-4GB
Description
Starter (2 vCPUs, 4 GiB RAM)
Family
Starter
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
116
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-15T01:47:08.758453

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Sydney #1 (AU) / au-syd1
- 0.02 USD/h
Frankfurt #1 (DE) / de-fra1
- 0.02 USD/h
Copenhagen #1 (DK) / dk-cph1
- 0.02 USD/h
Madrid #1 (ES) / es-mad1
- 0.02 USD/h
Helsinki #1 (FI) / fi-hel1
- 0.02 USD/h
Helsinki #2 (FI) / fi-hel2
- 0.02 USD/h
Amsterdam #1 (NL) / nl-ams1
- 0.02 USD/h
Stavanger #1 (NO) / no-svg1
- 0.02 USD/h
Warsaw #1 (PL) / pl-waw1
- 0.02 USD/h
Stockholm #1 (SE) / se-sto1
- 0.02 USD/h
Singapore #1 (SG) / sg-sin1
- 0.02 USD/h
London #1 (GB) / uk-lon1
- 0.02 USD/h
Chicago #1 (US) / us-chi1
- 0.02 USD/h
New York #1 (US) / us-nyc1
- 0.02 USD/h
San Jose #1 (US) / us-sjo1
- 0.02 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
4 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
4 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    30 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      1536 GB/month
      IPv4
      1

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A budget-friendly shared-CPU instance delivering strong single-threaded performance and bundled SSD storage for lightweight utility workloads.

      Burstable & BudgetGeneral Purpose

      UpCloud STARTER-2xCPU-4GB is an entry-level virtual machine featuring 2 shared vCPUs on an AMD EPYC 9575F processor (x86_64 architecture, 2.0 GHz) and 4.0 GB of RAM. Running on the KVM hypervisor, it includes a 30 GB local SSD and one public IPv4 address. Performance benchmarks reveal a stark contrast between single-core and multi-core capabilities: single-threaded tasks like gzip compression and stress-ng single-core CPU tests rank in the top 10%, whereas multi-threaded operations, software compilation, and database benchmarks fall into the bottom 25%. This resource profile represents a cost-efficient option for lightweight workloads, such as static web serving and Redis caching, where single-core performance is prioritized over heavy multi-threaded execution.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.47Score
      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) 691,087 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.36 50.00% 50.00% -40.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,734,738 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.31 20.00% 20.00% -21.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,279 2,417 0.54 10.00% 10.00% -6.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 114,184 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,882 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.6 10.00% 10.00% +4.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,058

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 3,603

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 6892
      Compression
      		 68493
      Encryption
      		 3274
      Extended Instructions
      		 5455
      Floating Point Maths
      		 15613
      Integer Maths
      		 14898
      Physics
      		 919
      Prime Numbers
      		 56
      Single Threaded
      		 3882
      String Sorting
      		 8900

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1279
      Database Operations
      		 2458
      Memory Latency
      		 108
      Memory Read Cached
      		 34213
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 28844
      Memory Write
      		 27957

      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

      Alternatives

      Servers of the Same Family

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYAccelerators
      STARTER-1xCPU-1GB 11 GiB0
      STARTER-1xCPU-2GB 12 GiB0
      STARTER-1xCPU-4GB 14 GiB0
      STARTER-2xCPU-2GB 22 GiB0
      STARTER-2xCPU-8GB 28 GiB0
      STARTER-2xCPU-16GB 216 GiB0
      STARTER-4xCPU-8GB 48 GiB0

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