Cloudways vs Vultr

Cloudways is strongest for WordPress agencies. Vultr is strongest for developers. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Cloudways	Vultr
Starting price	$0.03/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	WordPress agencies E-commerce (WooCommerce/Magento) Developers wanting managed infra without lock-in to one cloud	Developers GPU/AI workloads Price-sensitive scaling
Stated uptime SLA	99.99%	100% network uptime SLA
Storage	SSD	NVME
Regions	30	32
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	Yes
Support channels	Ticket, Live chat, Docs, Advanced Support (paid, $100/mo, 75% lifetime discount promo to $25/mo)	Ticket, Docs, Community
Compliance	GDPR	SOC 2, GDPR
Hidden costs to watch for	Bandwidth overages billed per-GB and vary by underlying cloud: DigitalOcean $0.02/GB, AWS $0.12/GB, GCP $0.10-$0.17/GB Offsite backup storage billed at $0.033/GB per server Cloudways Autonomous disk overage $1/GB and bandwidth overage $0.04/GB beyond plan baseline Cloudways Autonomous autoscaling billed $0.07-$0.12/hour/server depending on tier Add-ons (Cloudflare Enterprise CDN, Site Manager, Malware Protection, Rackspace Email, DNS Made Easy, Advanced Support) are all separate recurring fees not included in base server price	Bandwidth overage rate varies by data center location Windows license cost not included in base price
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18