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Direct Connect · $5/mo
Vultr's Direct Connect 50 Mbps Hosted at $5/mo is reasonably priced for a dedicated cross-region private link, but it faces stiff competition from OVHcloud's Gateway and Load Balancer tiers, which offer similar bandwidth at comparable or lower cost with published SLAs. The main trade-off is feature scope: Vultr's offering is narrowly focused on direct connectivity, while alternatives bundle additional services.
Delivers 200 Mbps public network and 200GB transfer for $2.34/mo, undercutting Vultr by more than half while offering higher throughput and a published 99.99% SLA.
Caveat: Gateway is a public-facing service, not a private direct connect; APAC regions lose free egress after mid-2026; IPv4 addresses billed separately.
Slightly higher at $6.94/mo but includes 200 Mbps, 200GB transfer, load-balancing features (250 conn/s, 10k req/s), and 99.99% SLA for a more feature-rich alternative.
Caveat: Designed for load balancing rather than direct connectivity; IPv4 and Windows licensing billed separately; APAC free-egress phase-out after mid-2026.
Entry-level load balancer at $7.49/mo with TLS termination, 25 services, and 10k connections included; 99.9% SLA and transparent pricing without per-GB overage surprises in EU regions.
Caveat: Prices exclude VAT; traffic overage rates vary sharply by region (as low as 0.5-1 TB in USA/Singapore); load balancer and volume prices rose ~36-39% in April 2026.
Before you switch
| Provider | Plan | Price | Specs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fly.io | Private Networking / Egress · North America / Europe - private cross-region | $0.01/mo | WireGuard (6PN) private cross-region transfer, per GB, North America and Europe. Within-region private transfer is free. | Visit |
| Bunny CDN | CDN · Europe & North America | $0.01/mo | Standard Network CDN, per-GB pay-as-you-go rate for Europe & North America. | Visit |
| Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Outbound Data Transfer · Prior policy: overage to internet | $0.01/mo | Legacy per-GB overage rate beyond the 10TB free allowance, prior to the stated 2026 free-egress policy change | Visit |
| Fly.io | IP Addresses & Certificates · SSL certificate (single hostname) | $0.1/mo | Per custom hostname; first 10 certificates free per organization. | Visit |
| IONOS | Cloud DNS · DNS Zone | $1.65/mo | Priced per zone per 30 days. | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Gateway · Gateway S | $2.34/mo | 200 Mbps public network | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Floating IP · Floating IP IPv4 (/32) | $2.34/mo | Reassignable public IPv4 address, /32. | Visit |
| AWS Lightsail | CDN · 50 GB transfer | $2.5/mo | First year free | Visit |
| DigitalOcean | Container Registry · Basic | $5/mo | 5 repositories, 5 GiB storage, $0.02/GiB overage | Visit |
| IONOS | Additional Static IPv4 · Additional Static IPv4 | $6/mo | Per additional static IPv4 address per 30 days | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Load Balancer · Load Balancer S | $6.94/mo | 200 Mbps, 250 connections/s, 10000 req/s | Visit |
| Hetzner | Load Balancers · LB11 | $7.49/mo | Entry load balancer: up to 25 services, 10,000 connections, HTTP/HTTPS/TCP with TLS termination included. Price raised from 0.0088/h in April 2026 adjustment. | Visit |
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