Vultr Review
Vultr was founded as a VPS provider in 2014.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers VPS and Dedicated hosting products.
- Australia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- France
- Germany
- India
- Israel
- Japan
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Singapore
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Sweden
- United Kingdom
- United States
Quick Links
| Vultr plans specs and prices | Plans |
| Vultr instance types | Instance Types |
| How fast are Vultr servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of Vultr trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in Vultr trials | CPUs |
| Performance variations of Vultr VPS over the long term | Consistency |
| List of Vultr yabs.sh results | Yabs |
Vultr VPS Features
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
| Feature | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly Billing | Yes | |
| DDOS Protection | No |
Available for $10/month, up to 10Gbps. See https://www.vultr.com/products/ddos-protection/. |
| Backups | No |
Backups are available for a fee: |
| Control Panel | Builtin | |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 31 | |
| Number of Datacenter Continents | 5 | |
| Monitoring Charts | Yes |
Network bandwidth, CPU usage, Disk I/O. |
| Admin REST API | Yes | |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | Yes | |
| Mobile Friendly UI | Yes | |
| Reverse DNS | Yes | |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Paypal, credit card, crypto, Alipay | |
| Hidden CPU Model | Yes | |
| Affiliate Program | Yes | |
| IPv6 support | Yes | |
| Firewall | Yes | |
| Shelving | No |
Pros and Cons
Strengths
- Fast and modern UI.
- Large choice of datacenters.
- Large choice of instance types.
Vultr Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, Vultr 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 Vultr 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 88s | 70s | 130s | 11 |
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 |
Actual price is 20% of the instance. Backups are automatically scheduled and the 2 most recent ones are preserved at all times. Vultr backups storage |
Prices vary depending on instance size |
| Block | $0.100 |
Each volume is replicated 3 times across a highly available cluster.
Vultr block storage |
10GB minimum |
| Snapshots | $0.050 | Vultr snapshots storage | |
| Object | $0.006 |
Includes 1TB of bandwidth.
Vultr object storage |
250GB minimum |
Network Bandwidth Prices
These are the network bandwidth prices charged by Vultr 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: 3 TB / month
(for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available)
Transfer pool: no
Bandwidth usage is based on the highest of either your inbound traffic or your outbound traffic.
Vultr networking |
$0.010/GB |
This provider offers the following promotion:
Referred customer must link a valid credit card or Paypal method to be eligible for the $100 credit. Unused portion of $100 credit expires after 14 days.
Vultr 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: Cloud Compute Instance Type: High Performance |
These virtual machines run atop shared vCPUs, and are suitable for many business and personal applications: low traffic websites, blogs, CMS, dev/test environments, small databases, and much more. Powered by new generations of AMD EPYC or Intel Xeon CPUs and NVMe SSD. |
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| High Performance 1GB | 1 | 1.0GB | 25GB | $6.00 / month |
| High Performance 4GB | 2 | 4.0GB | 100GB | $24.00 / month |
| High Performance 16GB | 8 | 16.0GB | 350GB | $96.00 / month |
| Family: Cloud Compute Instance Type: Regular Performance |
Powered by previous generation Intel CPUs and regular SSD. |
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| Regular 1GB 1 core | 1 | 1.0GB | 25GB | $5.00 / month |
| Regular 2GB 1 core | 1 | 2.0GB | 55GB | $10.00 / month |
| Regular 4GB 2 cores | 2 | 4.0GB | 80GB | $20.00 / month |
| Regular 8GB 4 cores | 4 | 8.0GB | 160GB | $40.00 / month |
| Regular 16GB 6 cores | 6 | 16.0GB | 320GB | $80.00 / month |
| Family: Cloud Compute Instance Type: High Frequency |
Powered by 3GHz+ Intel Xeon CPUs and NVMe SSD. |
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| High Frequency 1GB | 1 | 1.0GB | 32GB | $6.00 / month |
| High Frequency 2GB | 1 | 2.0GB | 64GB | $12.00 / month |
| High Frequency 4GB | 2 | 4.0GB | 128GB | $24.00 / month |
| High Frequency 8GB (Off rankings) | 3 | 8.0GB | 256GB | $48.00 / month |
| High Frequency 16GB | 4 | 16.0GB | 384GB | $96.00 / month |
| Family: Optimized Cloud Compute Instance Type: General purpose |
These virtual machines run atop fully dedicated, new generation AMD EPYC vCPUs. Dedicated vCPUs ensure that these machines deliver the fast, consistent performance that many business applications require. Often a good starting point, these VMs provide a typical balance of CPU, RAM, and NVMe SSD resources. |
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| General Purpose 4GB | 1 | 4.0GB | 40GB | $30.00 / month |
| Family: Optimized Cloud Compute Instance Type: Memory optimized |
These virtual machines run atop fully dedicated, new generation AMD EPYC vCPUs. Dedicated vCPUs ensure that these machines deliver the fast, consistent performance that many business applications require. For memory bound applications, these VMs provide proportionally more RAM than they do CPU and NVMe SSD. |
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| VPSBenchmarks has not tested any plan for this instance type yet. | ||||
| Family: Optimized Cloud Compute Instance Type: CPU optimized |
These virtual machines run atop fully dedicated, new generation AMD EPYC vCPUs. Dedicated vCPUs ensure that these machines deliver the fast, consistent performance that many business applications require. For compute bound applications, these VMs provide proportionally more CPU than they do RAM and NVMe SSD. |
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| CPU Optimized 1-2-25 | 1 | 2.0GB | 25GB | $28.00 / month |
| Instance Type: Other |
No description |
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| High Performance 2GB | 1 | 2.0GB | 50GB | $12.00 / month |
| CPU Optimized 2-4-50 | 2 | 4.0GB | 50GB | $40.00 / month |
| High Performance 8GB | 4 | 8.0GB | 180GB | $48.00 / month |