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Vultr

About Vultr

Vultr provides cloud infrastructure, including public cloud, storage, and single-tenant bare metal servers. The company operates data centers in 34 global regions. It also provides a marketplace of plug-and-play SaaS applications for deployment on its cloud. Vultr was founded in 2014 with a mission to simplify infrastructure deployment for developers and businesses.

Products

Cloud Compute: Builds a composable cloud according to business needs.
Kubernetes: Deploys and scales containerized applications with a fully managed service.
Optimized Cloud Compute: Runs virtual machines powered by latest-generation AMD and Intel CPUs for general purpose or optimized configurations.
Managed Databases: Provides managed databases for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, and Valkey.
Bare Metal: Provides single-tenant dedicated servers accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs and AMD/Intel CPUs.
Storage: Offers block storage and object storage solutions.

Used for

Training and running large-scale AI inference and agentic AI
Deploying and scaling containerized applications
Combining simulation, data analytics, and AI for scientific progress
Running virtual desktops and workstations
Launching WordPress blogs, game servers, and development environments with one click

Who it is for

Developers
Businesses
Researchers and scientists

From Vultr's own website, read 2026-10-23. How we build listings.

How to evaluate Cloud Platforms & IaaS

This is how the CIOPages Research Team evaluates this category. It is not an assessment of Vultr. It comes from our Cloud Infrastructure & IaaS buyer guide.

25%

Compute, AI Silicon & Scaling

Instance-family breadth (general, compute, memory, ARM/Graviton-class), serverless and container compute, spot/preemptible pricing, and — increasingly decisive — GPU and custom-accelerator availability (Nvidia plus Trainium/TPU/Maia), reserved AI capacity, and queue priority for scarce silicon

20%

Networking & Data Egress

VPC/VNet design, private connectivity (Direct Connect / ExpressRoute / Interconnect / FastConnect), DDoS and edge protection, and the egress and inter-region transfer model — per-GB rates, free allowances, and how the provider prices moving data out, which is where multicloud and chatty architectures get expensive

20%

Storage & Data Services

Object/block/file storage with durability and lifecycle tiering, managed relational/NoSQL/in-memory databases, data-lake and warehouse integration, cross-region replication and backup/DR — and how deeply these proprietary services would entangle your applications

15%

Security, Compliance & Sovereignty

Identity and key-management depth, zero-trust networking, certification breadth (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS), and data-residency and sovereign options — EU-operated entities, sovereign regions, national qualifications — plus a clear-eyed view of which jurisdiction’s law can compel access

10%

Management, Operations & FinOps

Console and API quality, Infrastructure-as-Code support (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation/Bicep), observability, and native cost-management, tagging, and commitment-tracking tooling — because operating and governing the spend is a daily cost, not a one-time setup

10%

Ecosystem, Support & Commercial Fit

Partner and marketplace depth, training and talent availability, enterprise support tiers and their real cost, region/availability-zone footprint where you operate, and the commercial terms underneath it all — committed-use discount structure, enterprise agreement leverage, and exit/portability clauses

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