Katapult Review
Katapult was founded as a VPS provider in 2020.
It is headquartered in the United Kingdom.
It employs 65 people.
It offers Virtual machines, Storage and Networking hosting products.
- Netherlands
- United Kingdom
- United States
Quick Links
| Katapult plans specs and prices | Plans |
| Katapult instance types | Instance Types |
| How fast are Katapult servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of Katapult trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in Katapult trials | CPUs |
| Performance variations of Katapult VPS over the long term | Consistency |
| List of Katapult yabs.sh results | Yabs |
Katapult VPS Features
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
| Feature | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly Billing | Yes | |
| DDOS Protection | Yes |
Katapult DDoS protection combines local Corero scrubbing appliances with up-stream in-line filtering to offer real-time and fully automated attack mitigation well in excess of 1Tbps. See https://katapult.io/technology/. |
| Backups | No |
Available for a fee (see https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/storage_prices#backups). |
| Control Panel | Custom | |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 4 | |
| Number of Datacenter Continents | 2 | |
| Monitoring Charts | Yes |
CPU usage, network, disks |
| Admin REST API | Yes | |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | Yes | |
| Mobile Friendly UI | No | |
| Reverse DNS | Yes | |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit, debit cards | |
| Hidden CPU Model | No | |
| Affiliate Program | No | |
| IPv6 support | Yes | |
| Firewall | Yes |
Called Security Group at Katapult. |
| Shelving | Yes |
When a is VM shutdown only storage space for the VM's disk(s) is billed. |
Katapult Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, Katapult also sells the services marked green in the following table:
| Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer |
| Floating IP addresses | Team Management | Managed databases | Serverless |
| DDoS protection | Kubernetes | GPU instances | Private network |
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
For each Katapult VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server from the moment it was ordered to the moment it accepted SSH connections.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
| Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37s | 30s | 50s | 5 |
Control Panel Screenshots
Cloud Storage Prices
For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage Prices page.
| Storage Type | Price / GB / month | Description | Restriction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backups | £0.050 |
Secure backups are stored offsite and you are only charged for the data stored. Snapshots are included for free.
Katapult backups storage |
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| Block | £0.150 |
Incredibly fast and entirely NVMe-based storage with triple-copy redundancy as standard.
Katapult block storage |
Network Bandwidth Prices
These are the network bandwidth prices charged by Katapult for outbound transfers from VPS to the internet.
For a comparison of bandwidth prices from all providers, go to the Network Bandwitdh Prices page.
| Description | Price / GB |
|---|---|
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Pricing model: Allowance Then Charged
(the provider gives a free bandwidth allowance with each server. Bandwidth above the free allowance is charged by the provider.)
Free allowance: 3000 TB / month
(for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available)
Transfer pool: yes
Inbound is free and internal virtual network transfers are free.
Katapult networking |
£0.020/GB |
Katapult Instance Types and Plans
Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions unless noted otherwise. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Monthly Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family: General Purpose Instance Type: CPU Optimized |
Harnessing the true potential of 2nd generation AMD EPYC CPUs, with up to 96 vCores, our Rock packages are ideally suited to CPU-intensive applications.
Provider page for instance type:
https://katapult.io/pricing/#cpu-optimized
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| ROCK-3 | 1 | 3.0GB | 25GB | £15.00 / month ($18.90 / month) |
| ROCK-3 Dedicated | 1 | 3.0GB | 25GB | £26.25 / month ($33.08 / month) |
| ROCK-6 | 2 | 6.0GB | 50GB | £30.00 / month ($37.80 / month) |
| ROCK-6 Dedicated | 2 | 6.0GB | 50GB | £52.50 / month ($66.15 / month) |
| ROCK-12 | 4 | 12.0GB | 100GB | £60.00 / month ($75.60 / month) |
| Family: General Purpose Instance Type: Memory Optimized |
Offering up to 960GB of memory, Boulder virtual machines are perfect for real-time data processing, databases and frequent in-memory applications.
Provider page for instance type:
https://katapult.io/pricing/#memory-optimized
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| BOULDER-20 | 2 | 20.0GB | 25GB | £70.00 / month ($88.20 / month) |