Pay for Vultr

Vultr’s public list prices (checked 2026-09-21) start very low. The cheapest Regular Performance Cloud Compute plan is $2.50 a month ($0.004 an hour) for 1 vCPU, 0.5 GB RAM, 10 GB SSD and 0.5 TB of traffic, but it is IPv6-only; the same size with an IPv4 address is $3.50 a month. A more usable 1 vCPU / 1 GB / 25 GB server is $5 a month, and the High Performance line with newer AMD EPYC or Intel Xeon CPUs and NVMe storage starts at $6 a month. Cloud GPU starts at $0.471 an hour for an NVIDIA A16 slice, and Bare Metal starts at $120 a month. Vultr notes that prices can differ between data center locations, so check the price the control panel shows for the region you pick.

Billing is hourly with a monthly cap: a standard instance never costs more than its monthly price, because Vultr stops counting after 672 hours in a month. A server that exists is billed whether it is running or powered off, so destroy instances you no longer need instead of just stopping them. Extras add up too: automatic backups raise an instance’s price by 20%, stored snapshots cost $0.05 per GB a month, and traffic above your quota is $0.01 per GB. Vultr’s prices exclude tax — where Vultr has to collect VAT or sales tax, it appears as a separate line on the invoice — and invoices are always in US dollars.

The simplest way to pay is to prepay. Top up your Mehbit card, then in the Vultr console go to Billing → Make a Payment, choose Credit Card and add a round amount of credit. Your servers use that balance hour by hour, and the Billing page shows what is left. When you first link the card, Vultr places a small temporary authorisation to check that the card is real; Vultr says this is not a charge, and your bank releases it within a few days, so keep a little extra on the card when you sign up.

Keep an eye on the balance. Vultr’s own billing guide asks you to keep the account funded to keep services running and avoid data loss, and its terms allow it to suspend or terminate services when it cannot collect payment. Prepaid credit is not guaranteed to be refundable: the terms say Vultr may keep remaining prepaid fees when you cancel, and any refund goes back only to the original payment method. So add what you expect to use over the next month or two rather than a large lump sum.

A note on who can use Vultr. Vultr is a US company and its terms (section 25) bind customers to US export rules, and Vultr reserves the right to verify accounts. We did not find a clause in Vultr’s terms that names Iran, but a US provider is subject to US sanctions, and an account can be reviewed or closed under those rules. Register with accurate details and read Vultr’s terms before you rely on it for anything important — they are between you and Vultr, and paying with a working card does not change them.