The cheapest bare metal Vultr sells is $120/mo, and it runs a Xeon E3-1270 - silicon that first shipped in 2011 - stocked in just 7 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 up to 10 Gbps, hands the server over in about five 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 less, and on current silicon rather than a Xeon from 2011. 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 August 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 the builds shown; the EPYC line runs in New York and Bucharest, the Xeon builds in all five locations. Where Vultr wins: their catalog climbs to 128 cores and 2 TB of RAM, well past our largest single build.
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 $5.00 / mo | From $120.00 / mo - a 2011-era 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 | ~5 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 7 regions |
| cPanel | Included on every plan above the $5 entry server | 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; ticket-first, paid tiers for more |
| Migration help | Free - we move you from Vultr with little to no downtime | 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 to 10 Gbps with no allowance to burn through, current CPUs at the entry price instead of 2011 parts, the IP included, custom builds inside 24 hours, and engineers who actually pick up. From $5/mo, and we'll move you off Vultr for free with little to no downtime.
