The cheapest bare metal Vultr sells is $120/mo for a 4-core Xeon E3-1270, stocked in just 4 of their regions. Every plan comes with a transfer allowance rather than a port, overage bills at $0.01/GB, and no amount of money buys an unmetered option. Server Room starts at $5/mo on genuinely unmetered ports, hands the server over in about 30 minutes, and answers the phone at any hour.
A capable cloud platform whose bare metal inherited cloud billing. Three places that costs you.
Three pairings at matching core counts, memory and disks - Xeon against Xeon, EPYC against EPYC, and every price in the same currency.
Same memory, same disks, both Intel Xeon - but twice the cores on our side for $28.35 a month less. Their allowance stops at 5 TB; ours doesn't stop.
Eight cores, 128 GB and 2× 1.92 TB on both sides - and $153.53 a month between them. Their E-2388G clocks higher than our Silver 4110; everything else here favours us, including a port with no 10 TB ceiling.
EPYC against EPYC at the same 24 cores, the same 256 GB and the same disks - $282.82 a month cheaper on our side, on registered ECC with hardware RAID and no transfer meter running.
Vultr plan IDs, specifications and prices come straight from Vultr's public plans API, read in September 2026 - their numbers, not ours. Transfer allowances pool across the whole account and overage bills at $0.01/GB, and Vultr sells no unmetered option at any price. Region counts are how many locations stocked each plan at the time of reading. Our figures are configurator totals for custom builds, which add a one-time $29 setup fee; the EPYC line runs in New York and Bucharest, the Xeon builds in all five locations. Their catalog also lists machines up to 128 cores and 2 TB of RAM, though nothing that size was in stock in any region when we looked.
Specs settle half the decision. Bandwidth, locations, what's in the price and who answers settle the rest.
| Server Room | Vultr Bare Metal | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry bare-metal price | From $5 / mo + $13 setup | From $120.00 / mo - a 4-core Xeon E3-1270 |
| Bandwidth | Unmetered options up to 10 Gbps, never oversold | Metered: 5-10 TB per plan, then $0.01/GB, drawn down hourly |
| Unmetered option | Standard on 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps ports | Not offered at any price |
| Deployment time | ~30 minutes; custom builds within 24h | Minutes on stocked plans, subject to regional availability |
| Entry-plan availability | Every configuration in all five locations | Cheapest plan stocked in only 4 regions |
| cPanel | $49.50/mo add-on (Premier, 100 domains) - or the free ISPConfig panel | Licence billed monthly on top of the server |
| Custom hardware | Spec your own CPU, RAM, disks and network - built within 24h | Fixed plan catalog only |
| 24/7 human support | Phone & live chat with dedicated-server engineers | Unmanaged; support by ticket and email only |
| Migration help | Planning free on every tier; hands-on app work is paid - documented plan | Self-service |
Vultr earns its place when you want metal behind a cloud console, with an API and thirty-odd regions to pick from. Server Room earns its place when traffic is the whole point: unmetered ports with no allowance to burn through, twice the cores at the entry price, the IP included, custom builds inside 24 hours, and engineers who actually pick up. From $5/mo, and a documented plan for moving off Vultr.
