Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra vs APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA Battery Backup and Surge Protector
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 — network gateway and controller against line interactive ups — so read the table as two spec sheets rather than a like-for-like.
Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra vs APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA Battery Backup and Surge Protector
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 →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 →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.
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.
Specifications, side by side
3 of 17 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra | APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA Battery Backup and Surge Protector |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $129.00 | $229.99 |
| Annual energy use | About 105 kWh a year running continuously, roughly $18 at $0.17 per kWh | About 219 kWh a year running continuously, roughly $37 at $0.17 per kWh |
| Rated power | About 12 W | About 25 W self-consumption at idle |
| Warranty | 1-year limited hardware warranty | 3-year limited warranty |
| Client capacity | About 300 concurrent clients | not published |
| Cooling | Fanless | not published |
| Input plug | not published | NEMA 5-15P, 120 V |
| LAN ports | 4 x Gigabit Ethernet | not published |
| Managed devices | About 30 UniFi devices | not published |
| Output rating | not published | 1500 VA / 900 W |
| Output receptacles | not published | 10 x NEMA 5-15R, 5 battery backed |
| Output waveform | not published | True sine wave |
| Routing throughput | About 1 Gbps with IDS and IPS enabled | not published |
| Storage | 128 GB internal for logs and controller data | not published |
| Topology | not published | Line interactive with automatic voltage regulation |
| Typical runtime | not published | About 6 minutes at 900 W, about 19 minutes at 450 W |
| USB charging | not published | 2 ports, 5 V |
| WAN port | 1 x 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet | not published |
Every row is a figure one or both products record. A blank is a figure the catalogue does not hold, not a zero.
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