Vultr

Vultr (The Constant Company, LLC, West Palm Beach, Florida, founded 2014, private, self-described as the largest privately held cloud infrastructure company) sells more cloud, in more places, for less money than anyone else in this comparison. Its own API lists 33 regions: London and Manchester in the UK, Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan, Stockholm and Warsaw in the EU, twelve US cities and the rest of the world from Tokyo to Johannesburg. The instance range runs from a $2.50 IPv6-only VM to shared Cloud Compute, High Frequency and High Performance NVMe lines, dedicated-vCPU Optimized Cloud Compute, the new VX1 line, bare metal and a long list of NVIDIA and AMD GPUs by the hour. Around the servers sit NVMe block storage from $1 per 10 GB, S3-compatible object storage at $18 a month for a terabyte, managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, Valkey and Kafka from $15 a month, load balancers at $10, a CDN, NAT gateways, VPCs, a free Kubernetes control plane (the hyperscalers charge about $70 a month for theirs), an official Terraform provider and CLI, and a first-party MCP server that ships read-only by default, which is the right default for anyone connecting an AI agent to production. The trust centre lists ISO 27001, ISO 20000, SOC 2 with HIPAA controls and PCI DSS.

Prices in US dollars as shown to a UK visitor on 8 September 2026 (no GBP; VAT not mentioned on the page; some locations carry a premium visible only in the control panel). The smallest general-purpose instance is 1 vCPU, 1 GB and 25 GB SSD with 1 TB of transfer for $5 a month ($0.007 an hour). The reference 2 vCPU, 4 GB, 80 GB SSD with 3 TB of transfer is $20 a month on the Regular Performance line, or $24 on High Frequency or High Performance NVMe. Vultr's own FAQ gives the add-ons: automatic backups add 20% to the instance price, stored snapshots are $0.05 per GB a month, DDoS protection is $10 a month per instance, bandwidth beyond the quota is $0.01 per GB, and the public IPv4 is included from the 1 GB plan up. So the real monthly cost of the reference server with backups on is $20 plus $4, $24 a month, plus $10 if you want DDoS mitigation. Billing is hourly with no long-term contract, and the SLA is a 100% uptime guarantee with credits from 12 hours for an outage under nine minutes to 672 hours for one over seven hours.

Now the two things Vultr's marketing does not lead with. First, sovereignty. Every customer, UK and EU included, contracts with The Constant Company, LLC, a US entity; transfers of UK and EU personal data to the US rely on standard contractual clauses; the terms and the GDPR notice do not mention the CLOUD Act, and there is no sovereign-cloud line or local contracting entity. What Vultr gives you is data residency, a UK or EU data centre of your choosing, not jurisdictional independence from US law, and the grid's "Owned in" column says so for every US-owned provider here. Second, the reviews. Trustpilot is 1.6 on 579 reviews, 69% one-star, with no recent history of asking for reviews, and the 2026 themes are account suspensions with little warning, charges after cancellation, slow generic support and intrusive identity checks. Support is by ticket and email; there is no phone line. That is the trade at this price, and it is why the paragraph below says what we have seen ourselves.

In our experience: Vultr hosts Saaskly's own server and Fractional Teams client workloads. We chose it for the price, the range of instances and the number of places we can put a server, and it has been reliable for us. On sovereignty, the honest version is above: a UK or EU data centre on a US company's cloud. Saaskly has a referral link for Vultr; the verdict came first and the link does not affect the score.