No free plan

Vultr pricing and free alternatives

Low-cost hourly-billed VPS in many regions; it has no free plan.

Checked against Vultr's official pages on 1 Nov 2026. Free tiers change, so confirm before you commit.

What Vultr's free plan gives you

No free tier is listed; the cheapest server is $2.50/month (1 vCPU, 0.5 GB RAM).

Vultr free plan limits
Limit	Free plan
Cheapest plan	$2.50/mo - 1 vCPU, 0.5 GB RAM
Storage	10 GB
Bandwidth	0.5 TB / month

The catch

Nothing is free: you pay from the first hour.

Pros and cons

Good

Very low entry price
Hourly billing
Many regions

Watch out

No free plan
Payment method needed
Cheapest plan has only 0.5 GB RAM

How to start on Vultr

1
Create an account and add a payment method
2
Pick Cloud Compute, Regular Performance
3
Choose the region closest to users
4
Deploy and SSH in
5
Destroy it when done to stop charges

Vultr compared

DigitalOcean vs Vultr

Vultr: questions

Is Vultr free?

No, Vultr has no free plan. No free tier is listed; the cheapest server is $2.50/month (1 vCPU, 0.5 GB RAM).

Does Vultr need a credit card?

Yes, Vultr asks for a card when you sign up.

What is the catch with Vultr's free plan?

Nothing is free: you pay from the first hour.

What are the best free alternatives to Vultr?

Google Cloud Free Tier, Oracle Cloud Free Tier, AWS Free Tier. Compare their limits on this page or open each one for details.

Alternatives to Vultr

Google Cloud Free Tier
Cloud / IaaS
85
Google's cloud with one small always-free VM, free Cloud Run usage and a 90-day trial credit.
Trial credit
$300 for 90 days
VM
1 e2-micro (us-west1, us-central1, us-east1)
Disk
30 GB-months standard persistent disk
The catch: Only 1 GB of outbound traffic per month is free, and the VM must be in one of three US regions.
Card neededNo end date
Paid from Usage-based
Oracle Cloud Free Tier
Always-free VPS
80
Oracle's cloud with a set of always-free virtual machines and storage, plus a short trial credit.
Arm VM (A1)
2 OCPUs + 12 GB RAM total (1,500 OCPU-h / 9,000 GB-h per month)
AMD micro VMs
Up to 2, each 1/8 OCPU + 1 GB RAM
Block storage
200 GB total (boot + block)
The catch: Free VMs must be in your home region, Arm capacity is often unavailable, and idle instances can be reclaimed.
Card neededNo end dateSleeps when idle
Paid from Usage-based
AWS Free Tier
Cloud credits
70
Amazon's cloud gives new accounts credits and a 6-month free plan instead of the old 12-month tier.
Sign-up credit
$100
Extra credit
Up to $100 more for trying services
Free plan length
6 months or until credits run out
The catch: The free plan account closes after 6 months (or when credits are gone) unless you upgrade to a paid plan.
Card neededCredits: up to $200, free plan ends after 6 months
Paid from Usage-based
Microsoft Azure Free Account
Cloud / IaaS
62
Microsoft's cloud with a 30-day credit, 12 months of small free VMs and a set of always-free services.
Credit
$200 for 30 days
VMs (12 months)
750 h/month each of B1s, B2pts v2, B2ats v2
Managed DB (12 months)
750 h B1MS PostgreSQL / MySQL, 32 GB storage
The catch: After 30 days you must switch to pay-as-you-go to keep the 12-month free services, or the account is disabled.
Card needed12 months (credit: $200 for 30 days)
Paid from Usage-based
DigitalOcean
Cloud VPS
Paid
Simple VPS (Droplets) and App Platform; there is no free VPS, only small always-free extras and sign-up promos.
Free static sites
3 on App Platform
Functions
90,000 GiB-seconds / month
Cheapest Droplet
$4/mo: 1 vCPU, 512 MiB, 10 GiB SSD, 500 GiB transfer
The catch: There is no free VPS: Droplets are billed from the first hour.
No free plan
Paid from $4/mo (Basic Droplet)

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