Vultr

Vultr, founded in 2014, is a cloud infrastructure provider and the world's largest privately-held company in its category, with a valuation of $3.5 billion as of 2024. It positions itself as a leading alternative hyperscaler, offering high-performance cloud computing aimed at enterprises and AI innovators, with an emphasis on accessibility and affordability relative to traditional cloud providers.

The company's engineering work spans cloud computing, cloud GPU and AI infrastructure, bare metal servers, Kubernetes and container orchestration, managed databases, advanced networking, machine learning model deployment and high-performance computing. Its product line includes Cloud Compute instances for general workloads; Cloud GPU for AI and machine learning; dedicated Bare Metal servers for performance-intensive workloads; a managed Kubernetes service; managed databases for data-intensive applications; and advanced networking for globally distributed infrastructure.

Vultr operates 32 data centre locations serving customers in 185 countries, and reports hundreds of thousands of active customers worldwide. Its customer base sits across cloud infrastructure and hosting, artificial intelligence, machine learning, enterprise software, developer tools and data-intensive applications. The company describes its approach as customer-centric and developer- and business-friendly, focused on simplifying deployment and enabling scaling without the complexity or cost constraints of larger providers.