Vultr
A leaner DigitalOcean clone with more regions and competitive pricing.
Vultr is what you pick when you want DigitalOcean's UX in a region DigitalOcean doesn't have. Their 32-region footprint covers Mumbai, Seoul, Tokyo, Stockholm, Mexico City, and Johannesburg — useful if your users are distributed and you want compute close to them.
Their High Frequency plan (3+ GHz Intel CPU + NVMe) consistently benchmarks ahead of equivalent DO droplets. Pricing is roughly identical, so the choice usually comes down to which dashboard you prefer and whether your target region exists on each provider.
Pros & cons
- + 32 global regions — denser footprint than DO or Linode
- + High-frequency CPU plans (3+ GHz Intel) are genuinely fast for bursty workloads
- + Bare-metal and GPU plans on the same dashboard
- − Documentation is thinner than DigitalOcean's
- − Support tickets can take 24h+ on weekends
- − The dashboard feels dated next to Hetzner / Railway
Plans & pricing
| Plan | Price | CPU | RAM | Disk | Bandwidth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud Compute 1 GB | $6/mo | 1 vCPU | 1 GB | 25 GB | 1 TB |
| Cloud Compute 2 GB | $12/mo | 1 vCPU | 2 GB | 55 GB | 2 TB |
| High Frequency 4 GB | $24/mo | 2 vCPU (3+ GHz) | 4 GB | 128 GB | 3 TB |
Features at a glance
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