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VPS and cloud · 16 alternatives · Vultr iScore 55 (#15/17)

Every VPS and cloud provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Vultr's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Vultr's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.

Ranked by iScore
  1. DigitalOceanEdge network: Limited vs Supported65#1/17
  2. Oracle CloudEntry paid plan: No plan fee; compute is pay-as-you-go. The lowest published per-OCPU rate is the Arm Ampe…65#2/17
  3. Google CloudEntry paid plan: No plan fee; compute is pay-as-you-go. The smallest predefined machine type, e2-micro (2…62#3/17
  4. HetznerContainers: Limited vs Supported62#4/17
  5. netcupContainers: Limited vs Supported59#5/17
  6. LeasewebEntry paid plan: €4.99/month excluding VAT for Leaseweb VPS 1 (4 vCPU, 6 GiB, 100 GB NVMe, 30 TB traffic)…58#6/17
  7. Alibaba CloudEntry paid plan: $4/month for SAS 2vCPU 0.5GiB (2 vCPUs, 0.5 GiB memory, 20 GiB system disk, up to 200 Mbi…58#7/17
  8. KamateraContainers: Limited vs Supported · Managed databases: Limited vs Supported58#8/17
  9. OVHcloudContainers: Limited vs Supported58#9/17
  10. ContaboContainers: Limited vs Supported · Managed databases: Not supported vs Supported58#10/17
  11. Linode (Akamai Cloud)Entry paid plan: $5.00/month for g6-nanode-1, the Nanode 1GB shared-CPU plan. Two regions are priced above…57#11/17
  12. CivoEntry paid plan: $5.43/month ($0.007440/hour) for the xSmall Standard compute instance: 1 core, 1 GB RAM,…57#12/17
  13. UpCloudEntry paid plan: $3.5/month for the cheapest Starter plan: 1 CPU core, 1 GB memory and 10 GB of standard S…56#13/17
  14. IONOS VPSContainers: Limited vs Supported56#14/17
  15. Hostinger VPSEntry paid plan: $11.99/month on renewal for KVM 1, on a two-year term. The advertised $6.49 is an introdu…54#16/17
  16. RackNerdContainers: Limited vs Supported53#17/17

Where Vultr stands against these 16

Vultr's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.

Entry paid plan
$2.50/month for vc2-1c-0.5gb-v6: 1 vCPU, 512 MB memory, 10 GB SSD, 512 GB bandwidth, IPv6 only — and…Cheapest of the 15 that document it. Next: netcup — €2.21/month for VPS pico G11.5s (1 vCore, 1 GB RAM, 30 GB SSD, IPv4 + IPv6), on a 12-month minimum contract…
Egress over allowance
$0.01 per GBJoint 3rd cheapest of the 7 that document it. Cheapest: Civo — Free: Civo charges nothing for egress or ingress, so there is no per-GB overage price.
Storage (entry plan)
10 GB SSD on the cheapest paid Cloud Compute plan ($2.50/month, 1 vCPU, 512 MB, IPv6 only)Joint 14th highest of the 15 that document it. Highest: Contabo — 100 GB SSD on Cloud VPS 4, the smallest plan in the Core VPS line; a paid Storage Extension doubles it.
Memory (entry plan)
0.5 GB on the cheapest paid Cloud Compute plan ($2.50/month, IPv6 only)Joint 13th highest of the 15 that document it. Highest: Contabo — 8 GB RAM on Cloud VPS 4, the smallest plan in the Core VPS line.
File, inode or volume limit
Up to 16 Vultr Block Storage volumes can be attached to the same Cloud Compute instanceJoint 3rd highest of the 4 that document it. Highest: DigitalOcean — Up to 5000 Block Storage volumes per account.
Regions
33 regions across six continents: 11 in North America, 9 in Europe, 8 in Asia, 2 in Australia, 2 in South…Joint 3rd highest of the 15 that document it. Highest: Oracle Cloud — 45 regions in the commercial-realm table of Oracle's Regions and Availability Domains page on 2026-09-25: 44…

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