APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA Battery Backup and Surge Protector vs Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra
What separates them
These two differ on 3 recorded specifications. The APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA Battery Backup and Surge Protector is $100.99 dearer. They are different kinds of product — line interactive ups against network gateway and controller — so read the table as two spec sheets rather than a like-for-like.
APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA Battery Backup and Surge Protector vs Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra
APC
APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA Battery Backup and Surge Protector
$229.99
A consumer-grade sibling of the Smart-UPS at a third of the price, and the difference is where it matters: 900 W against 1000 W, and a much shorter warranty on the electronics.
Full details →Ubiquiti
Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra
$129.00
It is a router and the UniFi controller in one box, which removes the separate Cloud Key from a small deployment and is the main reason to choose it.
Full details →Who the APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA Battery Backup and Surge Protector is for
Buy it if: Workstations and small NAS units that need sine wave backup without a rack-grade unit.
Avoid it if: Server closets, where the shorter warranty and lighter build are a poor trade.
Who the Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra is for
Buy it if: Small sites wanting routing, firewalling and the UniFi controller from one appliance.
Avoid it if: Deployments heading past about 30 UniFi devices, which need a Dream Machine Pro or a separate controller.
Specifications, side by side
3 of 17 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA Battery Backup and Surge Protector | Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $229.99 | $129.00 |
| Annual energy use | About 219 kWh a year running continuously, roughly $37 at $0.17 per kWh | About 105 kWh a year running continuously, roughly $18 at $0.17 per kWh |
| Rated power | About 25 W self-consumption at idle | About 12 W |
| Warranty | 3-year limited warranty | 1-year limited hardware warranty |
| Client capacity | not published | About 300 concurrent clients |
| Cooling | not published | Fanless |
| Input plug | NEMA 5-15P, 120 V | not published |
| LAN ports | not published | 4 x Gigabit Ethernet |
| Managed devices | not published | About 30 UniFi devices |
| Output rating | 1500 VA / 900 W | not published |
| Output receptacles | 10 x NEMA 5-15R, 5 battery backed | not published |
| Output waveform | True sine wave | not published |
| Routing throughput | not published | About 1 Gbps with IDS and IPS enabled |
| Storage | not published | 128 GB internal for logs and controller data |
| Topology | Line interactive with automatic voltage regulation | not published |
| Typical runtime | About 6 minutes at 900 W, about 19 minutes at 450 W | not published |
| USB charging | 2 ports, 5 V | not published |
| WAN port | not published | 1 x 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet |
Every row is a figure one or both products record. A blank is a figure the catalogue does not hold, not a zero.
Compare the APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA Battery Backup and Surge Protector with something else →