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UpCloud San Jose #1 VPS benchmarks

Plans sold here
10
4 tested here
Runs here
6
Completed benchmarks
Starting price
3.50 EUR/mo
Starter 1 vCPU / 1 GB
Single-core vs other locations
+14%
Median gap across 2 plans
Last tested
Oct 14, 2026
Most recent result

Tested plans

4 plans tested in San Jose #1. Scores are medians over the last 90 days. The gap column compares single-core here with the median of the same plan in UpCloud's other tested locations.

Plan vCPU RAM Price Runs GB7 single GB7 multi 4K IOPS Single-core gap Last tested
Premium
1 shared vCPU 1 GB 6.00 EUR/mo
1 run
n/a n/a 40,090 n/a Oct 7, 2026
Starter
1 shared vCPU 1 GB 3.50 EUR/mo
3 runs
n/a n/a 19,949 n/a Oct 8, 2026
Starter
2 shared vCPU 2 GB 10.00 EUR/mo
1 run
1,298 n/a 19,952 -1%
vs 1 other location
Oct 14, 2026
Premium
4 shared vCPU 8 GB 54.00 EUR/mo
1 run
2,125 7,645 32,881 +29%
vs 1 other location
Oct 14, 2026

Gaps under 5 percent are normal run-to-run variance and aren't highlighted.

Network results are not compared across locations. iperf3 targets are third-party servers, so distance to each target dominates the number.

Performance over time

Every UpCloud plan tested in San Jose #1, including network results to each iperf3 target from here.

Geekbench 7 single-core

One run per plan so far, higher is better

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Geekbench 7 multi-core

One run per plan so far, higher is better

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Disk 4K mixed IOPS

Every run per plan, higher is better

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iperf3 receive over IPv4

Every run per target, in Mbps. Each target is only compared with itself.

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6 runs, newest first.

Benchmark runs
Server Specs Storage Network Single-core Multi-core 4K IOPS Monthly price Tested
UpCloud
Premium 4 vCPU / 8 GB
San Jose #1
2,125
4 vCPU 8 GB 100 GB NVMe
€54.00 EUR/mo
UpCloud
Starter 2 vCPU / 2 GB
San Jose #1
1,298
2 vCPU 2 GB 30 GB
€10.00 EUR/mo
UpCloud
Starter 1 vCPU / 1 GB
San Jose #1
Skipped
1 vCPU 1 GB 10 GB
€3.50 EUR/mo
UpCloud
Premium 1 vCPU / 1 GB
San Jose #1
Skipped
1 vCPU 1 GB 25 GB NVMe
€6.00 EUR/mo
UpCloud
Starter 1 vCPU / 1 GB
San Jose #1
Skipped
1 vCPU 1 GB 10 GB
€3.50 EUR/mo
UpCloud
Starter 1 vCPU / 1 GB
San Jose #1
Skipped
1 vCPU 1 GB 10 GB
€3.50 EUR/mo

Also sold here

Every UpCloud plan

6 plans sold here without a run in San Jose #1 yet.

Plan vCPU RAM Storage Transfer Price
Premium
1 shared vCPU 2 GB 25 GB NVMe 1.02 TB 12.00 EUR/mo
Starter
1 shared vCPU 2 GB 20 GB 512 GB 7.00 EUR/mo
Premium
2 shared vCPU 2 GB 50 GB NVMe 2.05 TB 18.00 EUR/mo
Premium
2 shared vCPU 4 GB 50 GB NVMe 3.07 TB 26.00 EUR/mo
Starter
4 shared vCPU 8 GB 40 GB 2.05 TB 24.00 EUR/mo
Premium
8 shared vCPU 16 GB 200 GB NVMe 8.19 TB 164.00 EUR/mo

Location details

Provider ID
us-sjo1
City
San Jose
Country
US
Status
Active
Location data
Synced from API
Last synced
Oct 14, 2026