Vultr vs phoenixNAP
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Vultr and phoenixNAP.
Quick Verdict
4.0/5
Vultr
0 reviews
3.9/5
phoenixNAP
0 reviews
Vultr is rated higher (4.0 vs 3.9). Vultr is a cloud platform offering VPS, bare metal servers, and Kubernetes hosting across 32 data centers worldwide. Built for developers and businesses needing scalable, reliable compute resources with transparent billing. phoenixNAP offers on-demand bare metal servers, colocation, and IaaS in Phoenix, Ashburn, Atlanta, Amsterdam, and Singapore. HIPAA-compliant infrastructure available. From $100/month.
Vultr High-performance cloud infrastructure with global data centers and competitive pricing | phoenixNAP Bare metal cloud in North America and Europe | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 4.0 (0 reviews)✓ | 3.9 (0 reviews) |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $2.5/mo✓ | From $38.81/mo |
| Best for | Teams needing low-latency compute across multiple continents, API-first fleets, and self-serve GPU or bare metal with predictable billing | Teams that need dedicated-server performance with cloud-style hourly provisioning — CI/CD fleets, game servers, database nodes, and Kubernetes on bare metal in the US, EU, or Singapore |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | 1 vCPU | 4 vCPU✓ |
| RAM | 1 GB | 16 GB✓ |
| Storage | 10 GB | 480 GB✓ |
| Bandwidth | 1 TB/mo | 15 TB/mo✓ |
| SLA uptime | 100% | 100% |
| Data-center count | 34✓ | 6 |
| €/vCPU/mo | €2.50✓ | €9.70 |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €2.50 | €2.43✓ |
| Performance | ||
| CPU score (sysbench) | 4,100 | — |
| Disk read (fio) | 1,800 MB/s | — |
| Disk IOPS (4K random) | 38,000 | — |
| Network out | 1 Gbps | — |
| Latency (TTFB) | 24 ms | — |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | 34 regions across North/South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa (see locations page) | Phoenix, Ashburn, Chicago, Seattle, Amsterdam, Singapore |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedsnapshotsbare metalgpu availables3 compatibleeu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenterterraform providerapi accesswindows available | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedeu datacenterus datacenterapi access |
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Vultr
Pros
- + Truly global: 34 regions on six continents from one console, one API, one price list - with per-region test IPs published
- + Fully published hourly and monthly pricing from $2.50/mo, mature REST API and Terraform provider
- + 100% network and host-node uptime SLA with credits; standardized platform behavior across every region
- + Broad self-serve catalog: NVMe optimized VMs, NVIDIA/AMD GPUs, bare metal, managed databases/Kafka, S3-compatible object storage, VKE
Cons
- - Price-performance trails European leaders: our measured HF 2GB (Amsterdam) had the slowest NVMe storage of six tested providers at a mid-range price
- - Backups cost 20% of instance price, snapshots bill per GB, Windows and extra egress are add-ons
- - No refunds in the terms of service; support is ticket-only for self-serve customers
- - Overlapping instance families (Cloud Compute, VX1, Optimized) make it easy to pick a stale SKU; region count differs across Vultr's own pages (32/33/34)
phoenixNAP
Pros
- + Dedicated physical hardware provisioned in about a minute via API, CLI, or Terraform
- + Transparent pricing: hourly billing, published per-instance rates, $0.01/GB bandwidth overage
- + 15 TB bandwidth and 20 Gbps DDoS protection included; 20/50 Gbps bonded network ports
- + Network depth: BYO IPv4/IPv6, BGP local and global, Anycast, Netris VPC-like networking
- + Concrete SLAs — 100% power/network target with service credits, defined hardware replacement terms
Cons
- - Only six BMC deployment locations despite a larger company network footprint
- - Entry s0.d1.small runs a Haswell-era Xeon E3-1240v3; modern instances cost several times more
- - No snapshots, no included backups, no resizing — scaling means redeploying
- - Public IPv4 allocations billed separately and reserved instances keep billing after deletion
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