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High performance cloud compute
As of 30 August 2026, Vultr has a free plan and paid plans start at $2.5/month. Vultr is an infrastructure cloud service provider that offers cloud servers, storage, and networking. Softwr lists it under Cloud. Vultr is launched in 2014, available on Web, API.
Overview
What Vultr does
Vultr is an infrastructure cloud service provider that offers cloud servers, storage, and networking. Vultr provides instant deployment of high performance SSD cloud servers, bare metal servers, and block storage.
What people use it for
- High performance computing
- Game servers
- Streaming
- Database hosting
- Application servers
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The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Vultr.
- Vultr Cloud Compute pricing as captured 31 December 2022 started at $5/month (1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 25GB storage, 1TB transfer), scaling to $10/month and $20/month with more vCPU/RAM/storage; bandwidth overage billed at $0.01 to $0.05 per GB depending on plan
Cross-shopped
What people choose instead of Vultr
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- VultrvsGrafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud: Composable observability platform
- VultrvsNeon
Neon: Serverless Postgres for modern developers
- VultrvsAWS (Amazon Web Services)
AWS (Amazon Web Services): The leading cloud computing platform
Pricing
What Vultr costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Cloud Compute
$2.5 /mo
- 512MB RAM
- 10GB SSD
- 500GB bandwidth
- 1 vCPU
Bare Metal
$32 /mo
- Dedicated hardware
- High performance
- Full root access
- No virtualization
Capabilities
Features
Cloud servers
Bare metal servers
Block storage
Object storage
Load balancers
Kubernetes
Firewalls
Private networks
Terraform
Integration with Terraform
Ansible
Integration with Ansible
API
Integration with API
CLI
Integration with CLI
Behind it
Who makes Vultr
- Company
- Vultr
- Based in
- Miami, FL
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Where to go from Vultr
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Compare Vultr with
- AWS (Amazon Web Services)
- Contabo
- DigitalOcean
- Neon
- Grafana Cloud
- Hetzner Cloud
- Linode
- Scaleway
- Zeabur
- Encore
- Google Cloud Platform
- Microsoft Azure
- SST
- Tencent Cloud
- Terragrunt
- Thanos
- Zipkin
- Zeabur
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