Vultr at a glance
Vultr is a US cloud provider founded in 2014 by David Aninowsky and headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida. It sells cloud servers, GPUs, bare metal, storage and networking services with hourly billing and no long-term contracts.
The company says it serves more than 1.5 million customers in over 150 countries and has deployed more than 80 million cloud instances. It raised financing at a $3.5 billion valuation in December 2024 and secured $329 million in credit financing in 2025. In practice it sits between budget hosts and the big three clouds: broad coverage, but simpler pricing than AWS or Azure.
Data centers and locations
Vultr lists 33 regions on six continents. Nine are in the United States (New Jersey, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Seattle and Honolulu), with Toronto, Mexico City, Sao Paulo and Santiago rounding out the Americas.
Europe covers Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Manchester, Paris, Madrid, Milan, Warsaw and Stockholm. Asia Pacific includes Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Bangalore, Sydney and Melbourne, plus Tel Aviv and Johannesburg. That reach is one of Vultr's strongest points: few providers at this price level offer Honolulu, Santiago or Johannesburg. Note that the cheapest plans are only stocked in some regions.
Servers and plan lineup
The core product is Cloud Compute. Regular Performance plans run on shared previous-generation Intel CPUs with standard SSD storage, while High Performance and High Frequency plans use newer AMD and Intel processors with NVMe. Dedicated-CPU instances, cloud GPUs and bare metal cover heavier workloads.
One detail worth knowing: the entry-level plan is IPv6-only, with no public IPv4 address, and the IPv4 version costs a little more. Every plan includes an outbound transfer allowance, and extra traffic is billed per GB. Linux, Windows and BSD images are available, and you can upload your own ISO. Current prices are in the table below.
Control panel, API and support
Vultr uses its own web control panel, where you deploy instances and manage snapshots, VPC networks, firewall groups, DNS and load balancers. Automation is well covered with API v2, a CLI, an official Terraform provider and Ansible modules.
A marketplace offers one-click apps for common stacks. Support is ticket-based, and the documentation at docs.vultr.com is extensive, which suits developers who prefer to self-serve.
Payment and terms
Billing is in US dollars and runs hourly, capped at 672 hours per month, so a server that runs all month never costs more than its monthly rate. Vultr accepts Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover and JCB cards, PayPal, Alipay, UnionPay, and cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and others) through BitPay.
Several extras are paid add-ons: automatic backups add 20% to the instance price, snapshots are billed per GB, and enhanced DDoS protection costs a fixed monthly fee per instance. Factor these in when comparing Vultr with hosts that bundle backups or DDoS filtering.
Who it suits and who it doesn't
Vultr fits developers and teams who need servers in many countries, hourly billing for test and short-lived environments, and solid automation through the API and Terraform. It is a strong option when users are spread across North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia.
It is less attractive if you want backups and DDoS protection included in the base price, or the cheapest possible long-term rate, since annual-deal budget hosts often undercut it. The IPv6-only entry plan also limits what you can run at the lowest tier.