# Vultr

**Vultr** is an independent cloud infrastructure provider headquartered in [West Palm Beach, Florida](https://www.edgepedia.org/west-palm-beach-florida), offering virtual private servers, bare metal servers, cloud GPUs, storage, and networking services from 32 data center regions across six continents<sup>[1](https://blogs.vultr.com/financing2024)</sup>. It was launched in 2014 as the flagship product of Constant, a company founded by David Aninowsky in 1996, and operated as a self-funded business for a decade before taking its first outside investment<sup>[2](https://blogs.vultr.com/Announcing-Additions-To-Constants-Executive-Leadership-Team)</sup>. The company positions itself as a lower-cost alternative to the hyperscale clouds, with CEO J.J. Kardwell stating that its services are typically half the price of what hyperscalers charge<sup>[3](https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/vultr-to-invest-1-billion-in-ohio-ai-cluster-using-amd-chips-4386808)</sup>.

| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Founded | Vultr launched 2014 by parent company Constant (founded 1996 by David Aninowsky); headquarters in West Palm Beach, Florida<sup>[2](https://blogs.vultr.com/Announcing-Additions-To-Constants-Executive-Leadership-Team)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[3](https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/vultr-to-invest-1-billion-in-ohio-ai-cluster-using-amd-chips-4386808)</sup> |
| Scale | 32 cloud data center regions across six continents; more than 1.3 million customers; more than 30 million cloud servers launched<sup>[1](https://blogs.vultr.com/financing2024)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[2](https://blogs.vultr.com/Announcing-Additions-To-Constants-Executive-Leadership-Team)</sup> |
| First equity financing | $333 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, December 2024, led by LuminArx Capital Management and AMD Ventures<sup>[1](https://blogs.vultr.com/financing2024)</sup> |
| Credit financing | $329 million total announced June 2025: a $255 million syndicated facility led by J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, plus $74 million of lease financing<sup>[4](https://s24.q4cdn.com/538403808/files/doc_news/Vultr-Secures-329-Million-in-Credit-Financing-to-Expand-Global-AI-Infrastructure-and-Cloud-Computing-Platform-2025.pdf)</sup> |
| AI expansion | More than $1 billion committed in December 2025 to a 50 MW, 24,000-GPU AMD Instinct MI355X cluster in Springfield, Ohio, forecast to come online in early 2026<sup>[3](https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/vultr-to-invest-1-billion-in-ohio-ai-cluster-using-amd-chips-4386808)</sup> |
| Entry pricing | Shared Cloud Compute from $2.50/month (512 MB RAM, 10 GB SSD); High Performance 1 vCPU/1 GB instance at $6/month<sup>[5](https://myunix.org/cloud/vultr-review-2025/)</sup> |
| Bandwidth billing | Only outbound transfer counts toward limits; inbound traffic is unmetered<sup>[6](https://docs.vultr.com/support/platform/billing/how-is-bandwidth-usage-calculated)</sup> |

## History and ownership

Constant Company, LLC was founded by David Aninowsky in 1996 and grew from managed infrastructure hosting into cloud computing. In 2014 it launched Vultr with a developer-first focus on automating cloud infrastructure<sup>[2](https://blogs.vultr.com/Announcing-Additions-To-Constants-Executive-Leadership-Team)</sup>. The company remained founder-owned and self-funded for over a decade, which it describes as a rarity at its scale<sup>[2](https://blogs.vultr.com/Announcing-Additions-To-Constants-Executive-Leadership-Team)</sup>.

**First outside capital.** In December 2024 Vultr completed a $333 million growth financing round at a $3.5 billion valuation, led by the hedge fund LuminArx Capital Management and AMD Ventures, the investment arm of Advanced Micro Devices<sup>[1](https://blogs.vultr.com/financing2024)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[7](https://thetechcapital.com/infraai-giant-vultr-attracts-luminarx-amd-ventures-in-3-5bn-valuation-deal/)</sup>. In June 2025 the company followed with $329 million of credit financing, a $255 million syndicated facility led by J.P. Morgan, [Bank of America](https://www.edgepedia.org/bank-of-america), and [Wells Fargo](https://www.edgepedia.org/wells-fargo) with participation from Citi, Goldman Sachs, and [KeyBank](https://www.edgepedia.org/keybank), plus $74 million of lease financing led by Bank of America<sup>[4](https://s24.q4cdn.com/538403808/files/doc_news/Vultr-Secures-329-Million-in-Credit-Financing-to-Expand-Global-AI-Infrastructure-and-Cloud-Computing-Platform-2025.pdf)</sup>.

## Products

Vultr's catalog covers compute, storage, networking, and platform services<sup>[8](https://docs.vultr.com/support/products)</sup>:

- **Compute**: Cloud Compute virtual machines with customizable configurations, Bare Metal servers, and Cloud GPU instances accelerated by AMD and NVIDIA, including the AMD Instinct MI355X and NVIDIA HGX B200<sup>[8](https://docs.vultr.com/support/products)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[9](https://discover.vultr.com/cloud-gpu-overview-datasheet)</sup>.
- **Storage**: Block Storage volumes, S3-compatible Object Storage, shared File System storage, and Storage Gateway; block storage volumes cannot be attached to bare metal servers because they are not virtualized<sup>[10](https://docs.vultr.com/introduction-to-object-block-file-system-and-local-storage)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[11](https://docs.vultr.com/products)</sup>.
- **Networking**: VPC networks, Load Balancer, Firewall Groups, BGP, CDN pull and push zones, DNS, and Reserved IPs<sup>[12](https://docs.vultr.com/products/network)</sup>.
- **Platform services**: Vultr Kubernetes Engine (VKE), Managed Databases, Container Registry, Serverless computing with support for machine learning inference, and orchestration tooling<sup>[8](https://docs.vultr.com/support/products)</sup>.

According to independent reviewers, Vultr groups its computing offerings into five categories: Cloud Compute (vCPU shared), High Performance (AMD EPYC), High Frequency (Intel with NVMe), Optimized Cloud Compute (vCPU dedicated), and Bare Metal.<sup>[5](https://myunix.org/cloud/vultr-review-2025/)</sup> The service is unmanaged: support is by ticket and knowledge base during business hours, with no live chat or phone, and customers handle their own server administration<sup>[13](https://www.hostingtweaks.com/reviews/vultr)</sup>.

## Network

Vultr operates its own network under AS20473 with a selective settlement-free peering policy, weighing current and anticipated traffic levels, shared sites, mutual benefit, and technical and legal compliance<sup>[14](https://docs.vultr.com/peering)</sup>. It maintains active peering sessions with Internet Exchange Point route servers at all peering locations, and advertises only local routes at each IXP<sup>[14](https://docs.vultr.com/peering)</sup>. Private peering is recommended when traffic between autonomous systems exceeds 3 Gbps with at least two shared sites, with a minimum link speed of 10 Gbps<sup>[14](https://docs.vultr.com/peering)</sup>. For dedicated private connectivity, Vultr Direct Connect offers physical Ethernet connections at 10 and 100 Gbps for customers with a presence in its data centers, and hosted layer 2 and layer 3 connections via [PacketFabric](https://www.edgepedia.org/packetfabric) and Megaport for others<sup>[15](https://docs.vultr.com/vultr-direct-connect)</sup>.

Bandwidth is billed on outbound transfer only; inbound traffic does not count toward limits<sup>[6](https://docs.vultr.com/support/platform/billing/how-is-bandwidth-usage-calculated)</sup>.

## AI infrastructure and the AMD partnership

Vultr provided CPU cloud instances from 2014 and began integrating GPUs in 2021; over the two years before December 2025, AI infrastructure became the majority contributor to its revenue<sup>[3](https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/vultr-to-invest-1-billion-in-ohio-ai-cluster-using-amd-chips-4386808)</sup>. The company says it was the first cloud provider to offer the [AMD Instinct MI300X](https://www.edgepedia.org/amd-instinct-mi300x), MI325X, and MI355X<sup>[16](https://blogs.vultr.com/amd-gpu-preemptible)</sup>. The MI355X, built on AMD's CDNA 4 architecture with 288 GB of HBM3E memory and support for FP4 and FP6 precision formats, is available on Vultr both as bare metal servers and as 8-GPU Cloud GPU virtual machines<sup>[17](https://blogs.vultr.com/amd-instinct-mi355x-available)</sup>. In November 2025 Vultr added on-demand preemptible instances for the MI355X and MI325X, which use surplus capacity and can be shut off when the capacity is needed elsewhere<sup>[16](https://blogs.vultr.com/amd-gpu-preemptible)</sup>.

**Springfield, Ohio cluster.** On December 2, 2025, Vultr announced it would invest more than $1 billion in a 50-megawatt AI cluster at a new data center in [Springfield, Ohio](https://www.edgepedia.org/springfield-ohio), deploying about 24,000 AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs interconnected with Ethernet-based fabric<sup>[3](https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/vultr-to-invest-1-billion-in-ohio-ai-cluster-using-amd-chips-4386808)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[18](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/vultr-plans-50mw-amd-mi355x-cluster-in-springfield-ohio/)</sup>. The company forecast the cluster to come online in early 2026 and said it expected the capacity to be sold before launch, with existing AMD-powered customers including Chai and LiquidMetal AI<sup>[3](https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/vultr-to-invest-1-billion-in-ohio-ai-cluster-using-amd-chips-4386808)</sup>. Vultr buys chips from AMD and Nvidia and operates them from leased data center space<sup>[3](https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/vultr-to-invest-1-billion-in-ohio-ai-cluster-using-amd-chips-4386808)</sup>. In July 2026 the company announced a collaboration with AMD to deploy the AMD Helios rackscale solution, powered by MI455X GPUs, with 72-GPU racks pairing 18 EPYC CPUs, Pensando networking, and up to 1.67 PB/s of memory bandwidth and 31 TB of HBM4 memory per rack<sup>[19](https://blogs.vultr.com/amd-advancing-ai-san-francisco-2026)</sup>.

## Performance and market position

Benchmarks place Vultr's value proposition differently from budget European competitors. Vultr's High Performance AMD tier uses newer EPYC-Genoa processors with higher clocks than the AMD EPYC-Rome silicon in Hetzner's shared-vCPU entry plans, translating to roughly double the Geekbench single-core score at the same vCPU and RAM specification, but at roughly four times the price; per dollar, Hetzner wins on CPU, while Vultr's High Performance tier is faster in absolute terms<sup>[20](https://github.com/pnywdf390/hetzner-vultr-comparison)</sup>. In VPSBenchmarks tests of 11 plans from both companies, Hetzner scored 71 on consistency against Vultr's 61, indicating that servers with identical specifications are more uniform at Hetzner than at Vultr<sup>[20](https://github.com/pnywdf390/hetzner-vultr-comparison)</sup>.

The company serves latency-sensitive workloads through case studies such as Edgegap, a game-server edge computing company that cited Vultr's geographic coverage, simplified billing, and API-driven integration<sup>[21](https://discover.vultr.com/edgegap-case-study)</sup>.

## References

1. [Vultr Secures $3.5 Billion Valuation in Financing from LuminArx and AMD Ventures, Vultr Blogs](https://blogs.vultr.com/financing2024)
2. [Announcing Additions To Constant's Executive Leadership Team, Vultr Blogs](https://blogs.vultr.com/Announcing-Additions-To-Constants-Executive-Leadership-Team)
3. [Vultr to invest $1 billion in Ohio AI cluster using AMD chips, Reuters via Investing.com](https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/vultr-to-invest-1-billion-in-ohio-ai-cluster-using-amd-chips-4386808)
4. [Vultr Secures $329 Million in Credit Financing to Expand Global AI Infrastructure and Cloud Computing Platform, Vultr press release (June 2025)](https://s24.q4cdn.com/538403808/files/doc_news/Vultr-Secures-329-Million-in-Credit-Financing-to-Expand-Global-AI-Infrastructure-and-Cloud-Computing-Platform-2025.pdf)
5. [Vultr Review 2025: Performance, Pricing & Real Benchmarks, MyUnix.org](https://myunix.org/cloud/vultr-review-2025/)
6. [How Is Bandwidth Usage Calculated?, Vultr Docs](https://docs.vultr.com/support/platform/billing/how-is-bandwidth-usage-calculated)
7. [InfraAI giant Vultr attracts LuminArx, AMD Ventures in $3.5bn valuation deal, The Tech Capital](https://thetechcapital.com/infraai-giant-vultr-attracts-luminarx-amd-ventures-in-3-5bn-valuation-deal/)
8. [Products, Vultr Docs](https://docs.vultr.com/support/products)
9. [Vultr Cloud GPU Accelerated by AMD and NVIDIA, Vultr Discover](https://discover.vultr.com/cloud-gpu-overview-datasheet)
10. [Understanding Object, Block, File System & Local Storage Types, Vultr Docs](https://docs.vultr.com/introduction-to-object-block-file-system-and-local-storage)
11. [Product Documentation, Vultr Docs](https://docs.vultr.com/products)
12. [Network, Vultr Docs](https://docs.vultr.com/products/network)
13. [Vultr Review and Performance Test, HostingTweaks](https://www.hostingtweaks.com/reviews/vultr)
14. [Peering Policy Guide, Vultr Docs](https://docs.vultr.com/peering)
15. [Vultr Direct Connect, Vultr Docs](https://docs.vultr.com/vultr-direct-connect)
16. [AMD Instinct GPU Preemptible Instances at Vultr, Vultr Blogs](https://blogs.vultr.com/amd-gpu-preemptible)
17. [AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs Now Available at Vultr, Vultr Blogs](https://blogs.vultr.com/amd-instinct-mi355x-available)
18. [Vultr plans 50MW AMD MI355X cluster in Springfield, Ohio, Data Center Dynamics](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/vultr-plans-50mw-amd-mi355x-cluster-in-springfield-ohio/)
19. [Vultr at AMD Advancing AI 2026, Vultr Blogs](https://blogs.vultr.com/amd-advancing-ai-san-francisco-2026)
20. [Hetzner vs Vultr In-Depth Comparison, GitHub](https://github.com/pnywdf390/hetzner-vultr-comparison)
21. [Edgegap + Vultr: Global, Low-Latency Game Server Deployment, Vultr Discover](https://discover.vultr.com/edgegap-case-study)

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