Vultr Pricing — Vultr Cloud Compute, Vultr Object Storage, Vultr Managed Databases & Egress Costs (2026)
Vultr is the widest-footprint independent cloud in this catalog: 33 published regions, flat hourly billing with a monthly cap, and no long-term contracts to sign. Kubernetes control planes are free on every cluster. Every figure below is computed from Vultr published rates by the same engine as the live estimator.
- 33 global data-center regions with flat hourly billing and no long-term contracts.
- Vultr Kubernetes Engine ships the control plane free — you pay only for worker nodes.
What a Vultr architecture costs
Four reference architectures, priced for Vultr alone by the same engine that powers the live estimator — list prices in USD, us-east-1 baseline, on-demand unless noted.
SaaS Starter MVP
Ideal for early-stage startups and production web apps with up to 25k monthly active users.
- Virtual Machines / Compute
- $40.00/mo
- Object & Block Storage
- $18.35/mo
- Managed Relational Database
- $107.82/mo
- Networking & Data Egress
- $12.92/mo
High-Traffic E-Commerce
Engineered for high concurrent checkouts, product catalogs, and intensive flash sales.
- Virtual Machines / Compute
- $575.97/mo
- Object & Block Storage
- $37.30/mo
- Managed Relational Database
- $608.66/mo
- Networking & Data Egress
- $25.84/mo
Enterprise Microservices (K8s)
Multi-service containerized architecture with managed Kubernetes clusters and service mesh.
- Object & Block Storage
- $93.20/mo
- Managed Relational Database
- $1216.38/mo
- Networking & Data Egress
- $38.76/mo
- Managed Kubernetes
- $767.96/mo
AI / ML Inference & Pipeline
Compute and memory-optimized instances designed for low-latency LLM serving and vector retrieval.
- Virtual Machines / Compute
- $1280.13/mo
- Object & Block Storage
- $148.80/mo
- Managed Relational Database
- $1116.38/mo
- Networking & Data Egress
- $93.92/mo
Vultr Cloud Compute instance pricing
Every published shape in the catalog, priced at 730 hours/month in USD list rates.
| Instance | Shape | On-demand | 1-year reserved | 3-year reserved | Spot / preemptible |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
vc2-2c-4gb Cloud Compute (Regular) | 2 vCPU / 4 GB | $20.00/mo | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
voc-g-2c-8gb-50s-amd Optimized Cloud Compute | 2 vCPU / 8 GB | $60.01/mo | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
vhf-4c-16gb Cloud Compute (High Frequency) | 4 vCPU / 16 GB | $96.00/mo | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
vc2-8c-32gb Cloud Compute (Regular) | 8 vCPU / 32 GB | $160.02/mo | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
voc-c-16c-32gb-300s-amd Optimized Cloud Compute | 16 vCPU / 32 GB | $320.03/mo | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
voc-m-16c-128gb-800s-amd Optimized Cloud Compute | 16 vCPU / 128 GB | $639.99/mo | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
voc-g-32c-128gb-640s-amd Optimized Cloud Compute | 32 vCPU / 128 GB | $960.02/mo | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
Vultr Object Storage storage tiers
| Hot / standard | $0.0176/GB-mo $17.60 per TB-month · $0.0040/10k reads · $0.0500/10k writes · $18.00/mo minimum |
|---|---|
| Cool / infrequent | Not offered Vultr Object Storage has a single storage class — no Cool/Cold/Archive tiering. |
| Cold | Not offered Vultr Object Storage has a single storage class — no Cool/Cold/Archive tiering. |
| Archive | Not offered Vultr Object Storage has a single storage class — no Cool/Cold/Archive tiering. |
Vultr Managed Databases pricing
| vultr-pg-1c-4gb (1 vCPU / 4 GB) | PostgreSQL $97.82/mo · MySQL $97.82/mo · SQL Server Not offered Storage $0.1000/GB-mo · multi-AZ multiplies the instance rate by 2× |
|---|---|
| vultr-pg-2c-8gb (2 vCPU / 8 GB) | PostgreSQL $195.64/mo · MySQL $195.64/mo · SQL Server Not offered Storage $0.1000/GB-mo · multi-AZ multiplies the instance rate by 2× |
| vultr-pg-4c-16gb (4 vCPU / 16 GB) | PostgreSQL $391.28/mo · MySQL $391.28/mo · SQL Server Not offered Storage $0.1000/GB-mo · multi-AZ multiplies the instance rate by 2× |
| vultr-pg-8c-32gb (8 vCPU / 32 GB) | PostgreSQL $781.83/mo · MySQL $781.83/mo · SQL Server Not offered Storage $0.1000/GB-mo · multi-AZ multiplies the instance rate by 2× |
Networking & egress
| Internet egress | $0.0100/GB (first 10 TB) Then $0.0100/GB up to 40 TB. No standing free allowance. |
|---|---|
| Load balancer | $10.00/mo |
| Static IPv4 address | $2.92/mo |
| Bundled transfer per instance | 2,048 GB/mo $0.0100/GB beyond the pooled allowance. |
| Egress policy detail | Each instance bundles a monthly transfer allowance (0.5–15 TB depending on plan); overage is billed at $0.01/GB in North America and Europe. |
Vultr Kubernetes Engine (VKE)
| Control plane (first cluster) | Free Billed at $0.000/hr; the first cluster is waived. |
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Where Vultr ranks
- Entry-level compute: #1 of 10 ($20.00/mo (vc2-2c-4gb))
- Egress at 20 TB/month: #5 of 10 ($143.36/mo)
Full ranked tables live in the cost guides.
Lowering a Vultr bill
Vultr Flat Pricing & Free VKE Control Plane
Vultr bills compute hourly with a monthly cap and no commitment tiers, so budgeting stays predictable. Every Vultr Kubernetes Engine cluster includes the control plane at no charge — only worker nodes and any attached storage or load balancers are billable.
Pair the free control plane with High Frequency plans for the best price/performance on small clusters.
- Vultr Kubernetes Engine never bills for the control plane — only worker nodes and attached resources.
- Every instance bundles a monthly transfer allowance (0.5–15 TB by plan); size instances so pooled usage stays inside it.
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Vultr pricing — frequently asked questions
Is Vultr cheaper than DigitalOcean and Linode?
The developer clouds cluster tightly on price, and the comparison is usually settled on region coverage and bandwidth allowances rather than on the instance rate. Vultr’s differentiator is reach: 33 regions, which is more than several hyperscalers offer, at flat hourly rates with a monthly cap so a full month billed hourly never costs more than the monthly price.
What is the cheapest way to run a workload on Vultr?
Match the plan family to the workload rather than defaulting to the largest general-purpose shape — High Frequency and High Performance plans price differently for the same vCPU count. Keep Kubernetes on VKE, where the control plane is free, and size instances so pooled monthly transfer allowances (which range from 0.5 TB to 15 TB by plan) cover the estate’s traffic. There is no reserved or spot tier, so there is no commitment discount to weigh.
Who is Vultr the right choice for?
Teams that need many regions at low cost — localized deployments, edge-adjacent workloads, test fleets across geographies — and anyone who wants hourly flexibility without contracts. Its managed-database and object-storage catalogs are narrower than a hyperscaler’s, and it is US-headquartered, which matters for EU residency decisions.
What does the cheapest comparable instance cost on Vultr?
For a 4 vCPU / 16 GB Linux instance at 730 hours a month on demand, the engine matches Vultr Cloud Compute to vhf-4c-16gb at $96.00/month. Instance shapes differ between providers, so the matched shape matters as much as the price — the compute table below lists every published shape with its reserved and spot rates.
How does Vultr charge for data transfer?
Internet egress is metered from the first gigabyte — there is no standing free transfer allowance. Load balancers bill at $10.00/month and static IPv4 addresses at $2.92/month in this catalog, both metered hourly.
What storage tiers and managed database engines does Vultr offer?
Object storage is available in 1 tier (hot) — see the storage table for per-GB rates. Managed databases cover POSTGRES, MYSQL (SQL Server is not offered as a managed service). The managed Kubernetes control plane is free on the first cluster.
Provenance for every figure on this page is listed on the methodology page.