HostKey vs Vultr Bare Metal
A detailed comparison to help you choose between HostKey and Vultr Bare Metal.
Quick Verdict
3.1/5
HostKey
0 reviews
3.7/5
Vultr Bare Metal
0 reviews
Vultr Bare Metal is rated higher (3.7 vs 3.1). HostKey provides dedicated servers with GPU options in Netherlands and US. RTX and A100 GPU servers available for ML workloads. Custom hardware configurations and anti-DDoS. Vultr's bare metal offering provides dedicated physical servers without virtualization overhead. Ideal for compute-intensive workloads, databases, and applications requiring predictable performance and full hardware control.
HostKey GPU-enabled dedicated servers in EU and US | Vultr Bare Metal High-performance bare metal servers with hourly billing and global deployment | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.1 (0 reviews) | 3.7 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $40/mo | Free tier available |
| Best for | ML and rendering teams wanting dedicated GPU servers in the EU, and buyers who want bare metal with BYOIP and hourly billing at low cost | Teams wanting dedicated hardware with cloud automation - HPC, database clusters, game backends, compliance workloads, and especially on-demand GPU training/inference clusters |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | Amsterdam NL, USA, Turkey, Finland (site also shows FR/DE/UK pickers and legacy RU listings) | — |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | nvme storageipv6ddos protectiongpu availableeu datacenterus datacenter | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectioneu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenter |
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HostKey
Pros
- + GPU pricing is competitive: RTX-class bare metal from €118/mo, GPU VPS from €70/mo, A100/H100 available
- + Cheap bare-metal entry at €40/mo with IPMI/iDRAC and unmetered 1 Gbps on advanced NL servers
- + Hourly and monthly billing on instant servers — rare for dedicated hardware
- + BYOIP/AS announcement free on the instant EPYC line; custom builds up to 190 cores and 4.6TB DDR5
- + Amsterdam base with EU data residency plus US and Turkey options
Cons
- - No published uptime SLA percentage or credit schedule
- - Small provider: thin documentation, sales-led quotes, and listings that mix hardware eras
- - Footprint beyond Amsterdam is thin; no multi-region story
- - Mixed pricing currencies (euro lists, dollar tiers) and 'from' prices that require confirmation
- - Backups and snapshots are add-ons; no free tier
Vultr Bare Metal
Pros
- + Dedicated physical servers with cloud ergonomics: on-demand, hourly, console/API/Terraform provisioning in minutes, no sales cycle
- + Vultr Clusters offers self-service multi-node and GPU bare-metal groups (e.g. 8x L40S nodes) without reservations
- + Full Vultr platform inheritance: S3-compatible object storage, storage gateways, load balancers, DNS, CDN, BGP bring-your-own-IP, L3/L4 DDoS mitigation
- + Single-tenant isolation for HPC, databases, compliance-sensitive and AI/ML workloads, under one account and invoice with the VM fleet
Cons
- - CPU bare-metal pricing is not public - on-demand rates appear only in the console/API and contract rates go through sales
- - Bare-metal availability is a subset of the 34-region platform and the stocked classes per region are not published
- - No refunds per the terms of service; backups are a 20%-of-price add-on and snapshots are not part of the bare-metal flow
- - No published hardware-replacement SLA; ticket-only support and metered egress at high spend levels
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