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Vultr pricing
Vultr publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 30 August 2026, Vultr pricing is free, then $2.5/month across 2 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free, then $2.5/month
- Model
- Usage-based
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Vultr plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud Compute | $2.5/month | 4 | Entry tier |
| Bare Metal | $32/month | 4 | +$29.5/month, 4 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Cloud Compute
$2.5/monthThe entry tier. It covers 512mb ram, 10gb ssd, 500gb bandwidth, 1 vcpu.
Bare Metal
$32/monthOver Cloud Compute, this tier adds:
- Dedicated hardware
- High performance
- Full root access
- No virtualization
What the product covers
The full Vultr feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Cloud servers
- Bare metal servers
- Block storage
- Object storage
- Load balancers
- Kubernetes
- Firewalls
- Private networks
Integrations
- Terraform
- Ansible
- API
- CLI
Security
- Firewall
- DDoS protection
- Private networks
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Api support
- Cli support
People bring Vultr in for high performance computing, game servers, streaming, database hosting, application servers. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Vultr are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Cloud
Across the 3 cloud tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $5/month. Vultr starts at $2.5/month, which puts it below the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vultr (this page) | Free, then $2.5/month | usage-based | - | |
| Rook | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Vultr |
| OpenEBS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Vultr |
| Portworx | $0.33/node hour | Per node hour | - | vs Vultr |
| Longhorn | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Vultr |
| Qovery | On request | quote | - | vs Vultr |
| Dokku | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Vultr |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Vultr badges page.
Before you pay for Vultr
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between $2.5/month and $32/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Vultr runs on web, api, cli, and is published by Vultr of Miami, FL. The full record is on the Vultr review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud tools.
Vultr pricing questions
- How much does Vultr cost?
- Vultr publishes 2 tiers, from $2.5/month for Cloud Compute up to $32/month for Bare Metal. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Vultr have a free plan?
- Yes, Vultr is recorded as usage-based, so it can be used without paying.
- What is the difference between Cloud Compute and Bare Metal on Vultr?
- Bare Metal costs $32/month against $2.5/month, and adds dedicated hardware, high performance, full root access, no virtualization.
- Is the Bare Metal plan on Vultr worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is dedicated hardware, high performance, full root access, no virtualization. It costs $32/month against $2.5/month for Cloud Compute. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is Vultr expensive for a cloud tool?
- It starts below the middle of its category. Across the 3 cloud tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $5/month; Vultr starts at $2.5/month.
- Which cloud tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Vultr have a free tier: Rook, OpenEBS, Longhorn, Dokku, Coolify.
- What am I actually paying for with Vultr?
- The record lists 19 features across 5 areas: other, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for high performance computing, game servers, streaming.
- Does Vultr charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Vultr prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Vultr against before paying?
- The closest cloud tools in this directory are Rook, OpenEBS, Portworx, Longhorn. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Vultr covering price, platforms and features.