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.

What am I actually paying for with Vultr?

The record lists 19 features across 5 areas: core, 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?

Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Vultr to make a useful price comparison.

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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.

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.

Vultr pricing tiers
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/month

The entry tier. It covers 512mb ram, 10gb ssd, 500gb bandwidth, 1 vcpu.

Bare Metal

$32/month

Over 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.

Core

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.

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.

Vultr pricing on the vendor's own site

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.
What am I actually paying for with Vultr?: The record lists 19 features across 5 areas: core, 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?: Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Vultr to make a useful price comparison.

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