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OVHcloud vs Vultr
Vultr starts $1.85 per month cheaper at the entry tier. Vultr lists more regions, which matters if latency to a specific city is your constraint. OVHcloud is the better pick for bandwidth-heavy workloads that would blow through a metered-transfer plan at another provider.
OVHcloud
$5.35/mo entry
Bandwidth-heavy workloads that would blow through a metered-transfer plan at another provider.
Vultr
$3.50/mo entry
Latency-sensitive projects that need a specific city, and price-driven builders comfortable alone.
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Specification differences
Entry plans compared line by line. Rows marked with a dash are preferences rather than measurable wins, so we do not pick a side on them.
| Attribute | OVHcloud | Vultr | Better |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry plan price / month | $5.35 | $3.50 | Vultr |
| Entry plan vCPU | 2 | 1 | OVHcloud |
| Entry plan RAM | 4 GB | 0.5 GB | OVHcloud |
| Entry plan storage | 40 GB | 10 GB | OVHcloud |
| Listed regions | 15 | 32 | Vultr |
| Management model | Unmanaged (you run the OS) | Unmanaged (you run the OS) | |
| Support | Ticket support included; paid Business and Enterprise support tiers via the OVHcloud Control Panel. | Ticket support; documentation is sparse relative to competitors. | |
| Billing | Month-to-month on the US VPS range, with lower per-month rates for 6- and 12-month commitments. Public Cloud instances are a separate, hourly-billed product. | Hourly metering, capped at the listed monthly price. | |
| Free tier | No free tier on the VPS range. | No free tier. |
Same size, side by side
The cheapest plan from each provider that meets each size, so the comparison is between equal servers rather than two entry plans. Prices include a separately-billed IPv4 address where the provider charges for one.
| Size | OVHcloud | Vultr | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 vCPU / 1 GB | $5.35VPS-1 · 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 40 GBTwo vCPUs and 4GB for about five dollars. Unlimited traffic at 500 Mbps public bandwidth. Month-to-month price; a 12-month commitment lowers it to $4.54. | $5.00Regular 1GB · 1 vCPU · 1 GB · 25 GBEntry plan with a public IPv4 address and 1GB of RAM. | Vultr cheaper by $0.35 |
| 2 vCPU / 4 GB | $5.35VPS-1 · 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 40 GBTwo vCPUs and 4GB for about five dollars. Unlimited traffic at 500 Mbps public bandwidth. Month-to-month price; a 12-month commitment lowers it to $4.54. | $20.00Regular 4GB · 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GBDirect competitor to the DigitalOcean 4GB Droplet, priced below it. | OVHcloud cheaper by $14.65 |
| 4 vCPU / 8 GB | $10.00VPS-2 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB · 75 GBFour cores and 8GB for ten dollars, at 1 Gbps with unlimited traffic. Month-to-month price; a 12-month commitment lowers it to $8.50. The tier that most directly undercuts DigitalOcean. | $40.00Regular 8GB · 4 vCPU · 8 GB · 160 GBFour cores at a lower list price than most rivals here. | OVHcloud cheaper by $30.00 |
| 8 vCPU / 16 GB | $27.50VPS-4 · 8 vCPU · 24 GB · 200 GBEight cores and 24GB of RAM, unlimited traffic at 3 Gbps. Month-to-month price; a 12-month commitment lowers it to $23.37. | $160.00Regular 32GB · 8 vCPU · 32 GB · 640 GBEight shared cores and 32GB on the Regular Performance line. | OVHcloud cheaper by $132.50 |
Every provider at these sizes, ranked: 1 GB RAM · 4 GB RAM · 8 GB RAM · 16 GB RAM
Where each one wins and loses
OVHcloud
OVHcloud runs its own datacentres and its own network, which is why the VPS list price is denominated in USD and includes unmetered traffic rather than a monthly transfer allowance. The 2027 range replaces the older Value/Essential/Comfort/Elite naming with plain VPS-1 through VPS-4 tiers, all on NVMe storage. It is a serious alternative to Hetzner if you want unmetered egress and a wider region map, and it runs its own data centres in North America as well as Europe.
Strengths
- Unlimited traffic at 500 Mbps–3 Gbps depending on tier
- Prices set in USD on the North American site, no FX drift for the invoice
- NVMe storage across the whole VPS range
- Datacentres OVHcloud actually owns, including US and EU footprints
Weaknesses
- Two vCPUs on the cheapest tier is generous, but shared and inconsistent under load
- Support quality has an uneven reputation; documentation is thinner than DigitalOcean’s
- Add-ons like backups are billed separately (from about a dollar per month)
- Historic outage record (Strasbourg fire, 2021) is worth knowing about before you rely on a single region
Support: Ticket support included; paid Business and Enterprise support tiers via the OVHcloud Control Panel.
Billing: Month-to-month on the US VPS range, with lower per-month rates for 6- and 12-month commitments. Public Cloud instances are a separate, hourly-billed product.
Free tier: No free tier on the VPS range.
Vultr
Vultr competes on footprint and price rather than on hand-holding. It lists more data-centre locations than any other cloud server provider we track, which matters if latency to a specific city is your binding constraint. The trade-off is a thinner documentation library and a support experience aimed at people who already know what a kernel panic is.
Strengths
- Largest region list here, including several markets rivals do not cover
- High Frequency instances put NVMe and faster clocks at a low price point
- Hourly billing with no minimum commitment
Weaknesses
- Unmanaged, with noticeably less tutorial content than DigitalOcean
- Support is functional rather than educational
- Cheapest plans are IPv6-only in some regions - check before you commit
Support: Ticket support; documentation is sparse relative to competitors.
Billing: Hourly metering, capped at the listed monthly price.
Free tier: No free tier.
The full cost stack
What a server costs beyond its sticker price, shown for 2 vCPU / 4 GB. Only figures read from each provider's own documentation appear; a gap says “not captured yet”.
| Item | OVHcloud | Vultr |
|---|---|---|
| Plan (2 vCPU / 4 GB) | $5.35 | $20.00 |
| Automatic backups | not captured yet | 20% = +$4.00 ($24.00 total) |
| Outbound traffic beyond the allowance | not captured yet | $0.01/GB over allowance |
| Smallest managed load balancer | not captured yet | $10.00/mo |
Sources: docs.vultr.com · docs.vultr.com · www.vultr.com
Price changes we have logged
No tracked price change for either provider yet.
Full record at the change log.
Every plan
The complete plan ladders, with the date and source of every price, are on each provider's page: OVHcloud and Vultr.
All figures are the providers' own published list prices in USD, on-demand monthly. The index was last refreshed 2026-10-14, and every row shows the date its own price was read. Nothing here is live or negotiated pricing. Where a provider bills a public IPv4 address on top, it is added to the monthly price, the ranking and every cost per vCPU or per GB, and the row shows the parts: the server, any disk priced apart, and the IPv4 charge. Some prices exclude VAT or need a commitment; the plan notes say which. Check the provider's pricing page before you commit.
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OVHcloud vs Vultr — frequently asked
Every answer is computed from this pair's own prices and costs.
- Which is cheaper for 1 vCPU / 1 GB, OVHcloud or Vultr?
- Vultr Regular 1GB at $5.00/mo, which is $0.35 (7%) less than OVHcloud VPS-1 at $5.35/mo.
- How many datacentre locations do OVHcloud and Vultr have?
- OVHcloud lists 15 and Vultr lists 32.
- What do backups add at OVHcloud and Vultr?
- OVHcloud: not captured yet; Vultr: 20% of the plan price.