Bare metal, billed by the hour
Updated September 23, 2026
A whole physical machine from $180/mo, paid from a crypto balance with no identity checks. No hypervisor and no neighbours: the CPU, the disks and the network card are yours alone. Billing is hourly, so a machine you keep for two days costs two days.
Dedicated hardware is normally sold by the month, with a setup fee, a contract and an identity check. Here it is the same machine on the same terms as everything else: top up with crypto, take it for as long as the job runs, destroy it when you are done.
Ten configurations are open right now, from $180/mo for a 4-core Xeon to $2175/mo for a 32-core EPYC with 768 GB of memory, across 33 cities.
What you actually get
The server itself. No hypervisor between you and the hardware, which means full access to the CPU features that virtualisation hides: nested virtualisation, your own KVM or Proxmox on top, hardware counters, real NUMA layout.
Nobody else on the machine. On a virtual server the hypervisor shares the host with other tenants, and on a dedicated-CPU instance the cores are yours but the host is not. Here both are.
Root over SSH with the password or key you set at deploy, a dedicated IPv4, and the same panel and API as every other server here.
The two rules that differ from a VPS
There are no snapshots. Vultr has no snapshot API for bare metal at all, so backups, the one-click IP swap and archiving at zero balance do not exist on these machines. The panel refuses those actions rather than pretending they worked.
Because there is no snapshot, a bare metal server is deleted rather than archived when your balance runs out. Keep enough balance for the run, or keep your own backups on a separate server. You get low-balance warnings by email well in advance.
Why hourly matters on hardware
A physical machine normally locks you into a month even when the job is a weekend. Hourly billing removes the commitment: a render that takes 30 hours costs 30 hours, and the machine is gone afterwards.
Installation takes minutes rather than the second or two a virtual machine needs, because the hardware is provisioned and the operating system is written to real disks. In our own live run the machine was ready in five minutes and twenty seconds.
The machines we actually hand out
Ten configurations are allocated to our account and in the catalogue: Xeon E3 and E-series, and AMD EPYC from 4245P up to 9354P. The catalogue lists only what the provider genuinely allocates to us, at the price you see, in one cloud.
Stock is checked live at order time, not from a cached list. Hardware runs out in single locations regularly: our first verification run was refused in New Jersey and the identical machine came up in Los Angeles minutes later, so the panel greys out a location rather than taking your money for something that will not build.
Bare metal sizes & hourly pricing
| Size | vCPU | RAM | NVMe | $/mo from | $/hr from |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E3-1270 | 4 | 32 GB | 240 GB | $180 | $0.247 |
| E-2286G | 6 | 32 GB | 960 GB | $280 | $0.384 |
| EPYC 4245P | 6 | 32 GB | 960 GB | $445 | $0.610 |
| E-2288G | 8 | 128 GB | 1920 GB | $525 | $0.719 |
| E-2388G | 8 | 128 GB | 1920 GB | $525 | $0.719 |
| EPYC 4345P | 8 | 64 GB | 1945 GB | $550 | $0.753 |
| EPYC 4345P | 8 | 123 GB | 1945 GB | $595 | $0.815 |
| EPYC 7443P | 24 | 256 GB | 480 GB | $1090 | $1.49 |
| EPYC 9254 | 24 | 384 GB | 480 GB | $1240 | $1.70 |
| EPYC 9255 | 24 | 384 GB | 480 GB | $1495 | $2.05 |
| EPYC 9354P | 32 | 768 GB | 480 GB | $2175 | $2.98 |
A whole physical machine: no hypervisor, no neighbours. Billing is hourly.
Deploy in 33 cities across 6 continents
🇳🇱 Amsterdam · 🇩🇪 Frankfurt · 🇫🇷 Paris · 🇬🇧 London · 🇬🇧 Manchester · 🇪🇸 Madrid · 🇵🇱 Warsaw · 🇸🇪 Stockholm · 🇫🇮 Helsinki · 🇩🇪 Nuremberg
🇺🇸 New Jersey · 🇺🇸 Chicago · 🇺🇸 Dallas · 🇺🇸 Atlanta · 🇺🇸 Miami · 🇺🇸 Seattle · 🇺🇸 Los Angeles · 🇺🇸 Silicon Valley · 🇨🇦 Toronto · 🇲🇽 Mexico City
🇧🇷 São Paulo · 🇨🇱 Santiago
🇯🇵 Tokyo · 🇯🇵 Osaka · 🇰🇷 Seoul · 🇸🇬 Singapore · 🇮🇳 Bangalore · 🇮🇳 Mumbai · 🇮🇳 Delhi NCR
🇦🇺 Sydney · 🇦🇺 Melbourne
🇿🇦 Johannesburg · 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv
Frequently asked questions
How much does a bare metal server cost?
From $180/mo for a 4-core Xeon E3-1270 with 32 GB of memory and two 240 GB disks, up to $2175/mo for a 32-core EPYC 9354P with 768 GB. Billing is hourly and stops when you destroy the machine.
Do I need to verify my identity?
No. An email address is the whole account, and you pay from a crypto balance. No documents, no phone number, no card on file.
How long does a bare metal server take to deploy?
Minutes rather than seconds, because a physical machine is provisioned and the OS is written to real disks. Our own verification run was ready in five minutes and twenty seconds.
Can I take backups of a bare metal server?
No. The provider has no snapshot API for bare metal, so backups, the one-click IP swap and archiving at zero balance are unavailable on these machines. Keep your own backups on a separate server.
What happens if my balance runs out?
The machine is deleted rather than archived, because there is no snapshot to keep it in. You get low-balance emails in advance, so top up or move your data before that point.
Can I run my own hypervisor on it?
Yes. There is no hypervisor between you and the hardware, so nested virtualisation, KVM, Proxmox and anything else that needs real CPU features work normally.