Vultr is a cloud infrastructure company founded in 2014 and headquartered in the United States. It operates 32 data centres worldwide and serves hundreds of thousands of customers across 185 countries. As of 2024, the company carried a reported valuation of $3.5 billion and describes itself as the world's largest privately held cloud infrastructure provider.
The company's platform spans a broad range of infrastructure services:
- Cloud Compute - general-purpose virtual instances for applications and workloads
- Cloud GPU - GPU-accelerated compute designed for AI and machine learning tasks
- Bare Metal - dedicated single-tenant servers for high-performance use cases
- Kubernetes - managed container orchestration and deployment
- Managed Databases - hosted database services for production environments
- Advanced Networking - networking solutions built for enterprise and AI workloads
Vultr positions itself as an alternative to the major hyperscalers, with an emphasis on accessibility and cost. Its customer base spans individual developers, enterprises, and organisations running data-intensive or AI-driven workloads. The company is led by CEO J.J. Kardwell and was founded by David Aninowsky.