Vultr
Hourly-billed cloud servers in 33 regions, plus GPUs, bare metal, managed databases and Kubernetes.
Founded 2014
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Vultr is a cloud infrastructure provider founded in 2014. It rents shared and dedicated-CPU virtual servers, GPU instances, bare metal servers, managed databases, Kubernetes and S3-compatible object storage, and lists 33 data center regions, nine of them in the US.
Shared-CPU Cloud Compute starts at $2.50 a month for an IPv6-only server with 512 MB of memory; $5 a month buys 1 vCPU, 1 GB, 25 GB of SSD and 1 TB of transfer. High Performance and High Frequency plans with NVMe storage start at $6. Servers are billed by the hour, most of them capped at 672 hours a month, and a stopped server is billed until it is destroyed. Every account gets 2 TB of free outbound transfer a month on top of its servers' allowances. Automatic backups add 20% to an instance's price, and DDoS protection costs $10 a month per instance.
Best for
Developers and small teams who want low-cost servers in many US and global locations, with GPUs, managed databases and Kubernetes available from the same account.
Pros
- 33 regions, nine in the US: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Miami, New Jersey, Seattle and Silicon Valley
- Free Kubernetes control plane: you pay only for worker nodes, load balancers and block storage
- 2 TB of free outbound transfer per account each month on top of each server's allowance; inbound traffic is not metered
- Cloud GPUs billed by the hour from $0.471 an hour (one NVIDIA A16), with AMD and larger NVIDIA GPUs on the price list
- Managed MySQL, PostgreSQL and Valkey from $15 a month, and Apache Kafka
Cons
- DDoS protection is a paid add-on at $10 a month per instance
- Automatic backups add 20% to the instance price
- The $2.50 server is IPv6-only and, per Vultr's API, offered only in New Jersey and Atlanta
- Stopped servers are billed until they are destroyed
- Some locations cost more: the $5 server is $7.50 a month in São Paulo
Pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly (12-month total) |
|---|---|---|
| Free TierBy application, limited quantities; 1 vCPU, 512 MB RAM, 10 GB SSD, IPv4; Miami, Seattle and Frankfurt only | Free Free plan | |
| VX1 Cloud ComputeFrom $0.060/hour: 2 dedicated vCPUs, 8 GB, 5 TB transfer, storage on Block Storage; billed on hours used, not capped at 672 hours | $43.80/mo | no yearly price |
| Cloud Compute: Regular PerformanceFrom $2.50/month: 1 vCPU, 0.5 GB, 10 GB SSD, 0.5 TB, IPv6 only; $5 for 1 vCPU, 1 GB, 25 GB SSD, 1 TB; billed hourly up to 672 hours a month | $2.50/mo | no yearly price |
| Cloud Compute: High PerformanceFrom $6/month: 1 vCPU, 1 GB, 25 GB NVMe SSD, 2 TB transfer; newer AMD EPYC or Intel Xeon CPUs | $6/mo | no yearly price |
| Cloud Compute: High FrequencyFrom $6/month: 1 vCPU, 1 GB, 32 GB NVMe SSD, 1 TB transfer; 3 GHz+ Intel Xeon CPUs | $6/mo | no yearly price |
| Optimized Cloud ComputeDedicated AMD EPYC vCPUs; from $28/month CPU Optimized (1 vCPU, 2 GB, 25 GB NVMe, 4 TB); General Purpose from $30 (1 vCPU, 4 GB) | $28/mo | no yearly price |
| Cloud GPUFrom $0.471/hour: 1 NVIDIA A16 (16 GB), 6 vCPUs, 60 GB RAM, 350 GB, 6 TB; monthly figure from Vultr's API; GPUs billed up to 730 hours a month | $344/mo | no yearly price |
| Bare MetalSingle-tenant servers from $120/month: Intel E3-1270, 4 cores, 32 GB RAM, 2 x 240 GB SSD, 5 TB transfer | $120/mo | no yearly price |
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Features
In Cloud hosting
| Feature | Vultr |
|---|---|
| Free trial | Yes · Coupons page (July 2026): $200, $250 or $300 credit for new customers on select products; one code per user; credits expire (period not stated); free 512 MB instance by application |
| Managed databases | Yes · MySQL, PostgreSQL and Valkey from $15/month (1 vCPU, 1 GB); Apache Kafka from $475/month (3 brokers) |
| Managed Kubernetes | Yes · Vultr Kubernetes Engine: free control plane; you pay for worker nodes (2 GB RAM or more), load balancers and block storage; node pool autoscaling |
| Object storage | Yes · S3-compatible; Standard $18/month for 1 TB stored and 1 TB transfer; Premium ($36), Performance ($50), Accelerated ($100) and Archival ($6) tiers per TB |
| GPU instances | Yes · Billed hourly from $0.471/hour (1 NVIDIA A16); the pricing page also lists NVIDIA L40S, A40, A100, H100 and B200 and AMD MI300X, MI325X and MI355X |
| Automatic backups | Add-on · +20% of the instance price; daily, every other day, weekly or monthly; attached Block Storage not included; snapshots $0.05/GB a month |
| DDoS protection | Add-on · Optional, $10/month per instance for 10 Gbps of mitigation capacity; offered in all 33 regions |
| Uptime SLA | Yes · 100% uptime guarantee for network and host node; credits from 12 hours to 672 hours (1 month) of service, requested by support ticket |
| Data center regions | Yes · 33 / 9 US: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Miami, New Jersey, Seattle, Silicon Valley |
| Included bandwidth | Yes · Per plan (1 TB on the $5 server, 2 TB on the $6 High Performance) plus 2 TB free per account a month; inbound free; overage $0.01/GB |