
Vultr Cloud Compute
Vultr
Vultr, run by The Constant Company in Florida, rents hourly-billed cloud servers in 33 regions on six continents.
- Cheapest, with IPv4
- $3.50/mo
- Regular Performance 0.5 GB, 1 vCPU, 0.5 GB, 10 GB SSD
- Public IPv4
- Not stated
- Automatic backups
- 20% of the plan price
- Billing
- Hourly
- Billed in US dollars
- Datacenters
- 33 in 20 countries
- North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa, Oceania
- Run by
- The Constant Company, LLC
- United States
Entry plans and the real monthly bill
In US dollars, per month, as listed by Vultr (Most regions). IPv4 added where it's charged separately.
Swipe the table sideways for the price and the bill.
| Plan | Server | Traffic | Plan price | With IPv4 | The bill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular Performance 0.5 GB (IPv6 only)Sandbox plan for testing, IPv6 only, at most 2 per account | 1 vCPU, 0.5 GB, 10 GB SSDShared CPU | 0.5 TB | $2.50Billed hourly, excl. VAT | IPv4 price not stated | plan $2.50IPv4 not stated |
| Regular Performance 0.5 GBPrevious-generation Intel CPUs | 1 vCPU, 0.5 GB, 10 GB SSDShared CPU | 0.5 TB | $3.50Billed hourly, excl. VAT | $3.50 | plan $3.50IPv4 included |
| Regular Performance 1 GBPrevious-generation Intel CPUs | 1 vCPU, 1 GB, 25 GB SSDShared CPU | 1 TB | $5.00Billed hourly, excl. VAT | $5.00 | plan $5.00IPv4 included |
| Regular Performance 2 GBPrevious-generation Intel CPUs | 1 vCPU, 2 GB, 55 GB SSDShared CPU | 2 TB | $10.00Billed hourly, excl. VAT | $10.00 | plan $10.00IPv4 included |
Good to know
- Billed by the hour, so a test server costs cents
- Always-free server: Free Tier by application: 1 vCPU, 512 MB RAM, 10 GB SSD with IPv4, limited regions and quantity
- Listed prices exclude VAT
Where Vultr has datacenters
33 in 20 countries, as listed by Vultr.
Europe 9
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- London, United Kingdom
- Manchester, United Kingdom
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Paris, France
- Madrid, Spain
- Milan, Italy
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Warsaw, Poland
North America 11
- Toronto, Canada
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Atlanta, United States
- Honolulu, United States
- Chicago, United States
- Dallas, United States
- Los Angeles, United States
- Miami, United States
- New York Area, United States
- San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Seattle, United States
South America 2
- São Paulo, Brazil
- Santiago, Chile
Asia 7
- Tokyo, Japan
- Osaka, Japan
- Seoul, South Korea
- Singapore, Singapore
- Bangalore, India
- Mumbai, India
- Delhi NCR, India
Oceania 2
- Sydney, Australia
- Melbourne, Australia
Africa 1
- Johannesburg, South Africa
Middle East 1
- Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Where it stands among 43
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Charged on top 5
Not stated 2
Price after the first term
Same price
Same price 28
Goes up on renewal 11
Hourly billing
Billed by the hour
Billed by the hour 19
Monthly or longer 21
Not stated 3
Dedicated CPU in entry plans
Shared CPU only
A dedicated-CPU plan 6
Shared CPU only 13
Datacenters on
4 or more
One continent 10
2 or 3 continents 13
ARM servers
Not offered
Add-ons and extra charges
- Public IPv4
- Not stated One IPv4 is included on every listed plan except the IPv6-only sandbox; the price of extra addresses isn't stated
- Automatic backups
- 20% of the plan price Daily automated backups
- Snapshots
- $0.05 per GB-month Pricing subject to change
- Extra traffic
- $10.00 per TB Stated as $0.01 per GB
How you pay
- Hourly billing
- YesYes One-hour minimum; stopped instances are billed until destroyed
- Minimum term
- None (hourly) No long-term contracts
- Setup fee
- Not stated No setup fee is mentioned on the pricing pages
- Always-free server
- Free Tier by application: 1 vCPU, 512 MB RAM, 10 GB SSD with IPv4, limited regions and quantity Admission is randomised; duration not stated
- New-account credit
- Promo credit for new customers ($200, $250 or $300 codes; expiry not stated) or a deposit match up to $100 that expires after 12 months
- Payment methods
- Card, PayPal, Crypto, Alipay, Bank transfer, Prepaid credit Crypto through BitPay; ACH and wire transfer; funds can be added in advance
- Signup checks
- Email verification and a linked card or PayPal; a card can be linked with a $0 deposit Vultr may verify accounts
- Refunds
- No refunds
What you get
- Processors
- Intel, AMD EPYC Regular Performance runs on previous-generation Intel; High Performance on newer AMD and Intel; VX1 on AMD EPYC. Models not named
- ARM servers
- NoNo No Arm plan on the pricing page
- IPv6 included
- YesYes Available in all 33 regions
What comes with it
- Block storage
- YesYes HDD tier; NVMe block storage is $0.10/GB-month
- Object storage
- YesYes S3 API; tiers from Archival to Accelerated
- Private network
- YesYes VPC; no charge for traffic between instances in a VPC
- Cloud firewall
- YesYes Vultr Firewall groups
- Load balancers
- YesYes $10/month
- DDoS protection included
- NoNo DDoS mitigation is a $10/month add-on per instance
- Managed databases
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey, Kafka
- Managed Kubernetes
- YesYes VKE; the managed control plane is free
- API
- YesYes
- Terraform provider
- Not statedNot stated Only cited on the Terraform Registry (vultr/vultr namespace), not on a Vultr page
- Custom ISO
- YesYes Upload ISO in all 33 regions
- Windows
- Extra licence fee Varies by plan; not in the base price
Who you're renting from
- Company
- The Constant Company, LLC Vultr is its registered trademark
- Owned by
- Independent No parent company named
- Based in
- United States West Palm Beach, Florida
- Founded
- 2014
- Support
- Tickets 24/7 Live chat, phone and paid support tiers aren't stated
- Certifications
- SOC 2+ (HIPAA), ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 20000-1, PCI DSS (merchant), CSA STAR Level 1
Where we recommend it
Best VPS with hourly billing
The 0.5 GB Regular Performance plan is $3.50 a month with IPv4 ($2.50 without it), billed by the hour, in 33 datacenters on every inhabited continent.
Free VPS: always-free tiers and trial credit
A Free Tier by application: 1 vCPU, 512 MB and 10 GB SSD with IPv4, in limited regions and quantities. Paid servers are billed by the hour from $3.50 a month.
Best VPS with datacenters in Asia
Seven Asian locations: Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi NCR. Servers from $3.50 a month with IPv4, billed by the hour.