Vultr Bare Metal vs Constant (Choopa)
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Vultr Bare Metal and Constant (Choopa).
Quick Verdict
3.7/5
Vultr Bare Metal
0 reviews
3.6/5
Constant (Choopa)
0 reviews
Vultr Bare Metal is rated higher (3.7 vs 3.6). 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. Constant provides dedicated servers with customizable hardware, DDoS protection, and 24/7 support. Built for applications requiring guaranteed resources and low latency.
Vultr Bare Metal High-performance bare metal servers with hourly billing and global deployment | Constant (Choopa) Bare metal servers with full control and predictable performance | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.7 (0 reviews)✓ | 3.6 (0 reviews) |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | Free tier available | From $120/mo |
| Best for | Teams wanting dedicated hardware with cloud automation - HPC, database clusters, game backends, compliance workloads, and especially on-demand GPU training/inference clusters | Teams wanting a single API and bill across global regions for mixed VM, bare metal, and GPU capacity, with an SLA strong enough for production |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | — | 4 vCPU |
| RAM | — | 32 GB |
| Storage | — | 480 GB |
| Bandwidth | — | 5 TB/mo |
| SLA uptime | 100% | 100% |
| Data-center count | — | 33 |
| €/vCPU/mo | — | €30.00 |
| €/GB RAM/mo | — | €3.75 |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ✓ | |
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | — | 33 regions on six continents (list in specs) |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectioneu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenter | nvme storageipv6ddos protectioneu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenter |
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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
Constant (Choopa)
Pros
- + One platform across 33 regions: VMs, bare metal, GPU clusters, storage, managed databases, Kubernetes
- + Credit-backed 100% uptime SLA covering network and host node — stronger than most rivals on paper
- + Public, consistent pricing with hourly billing capped at 672 hours/month; mature API, CLI, Terraform support
- + Real bare metal range from 4-core E3 boxes to 128-core EPYC and 8-way H100/B200 GPU systems
- + BGP sessions with full tables, BYOIP, IPv6 in every region, free Anycast DNS
Cons
- - The brand in this listing is retired — Choopa was folded into Vultr in 2022 and no longer sells under its own name
- - Bare metal entry (~$120/mo) costs more than European specialists for comparable-era hardware
- - DDoS filtering beyond built-in mitigation is a $10/mo per-instance add-on; snapshots and backups also cost extra
- - Ticket-based big-platform support rather than the named-account service old Choopa customers knew
- - Billing edge cases: stopped instances can still bill on some lines, and percentage-based backups add up
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