Vultr vs 3HCloud: Which Is Better?
We track Vultr and 3HCloud prices, uptime and specs 24/7. Here's the live head-to-head for September 2026 — no paid rankings, just the data.
About VultrVultr, operated by Constant Company LLC, is a US-based cloud provider with the largest global footprint of any independent cloud (32 locations across 6 continents). Founded in 2014 with a focus on simplicity and global reach, Vultr competes directly with DigitalOcean and Linode, offering cloud compute, bare metal, GPU instances, block storage, and Kubernetes.
About 3HCloud3HCloud is a US-registered provider (3HCLOUD LLC, Hollywood, Florida) that launched in 2020 and runs OpenStack-based cloud servers from five locations: Miami, Dallas, San Francisco, Warsaw and Manila.
The catalogue is a single published price list: four instance families (shared vCPU, plus dedicated-vCPU general-purpose, CPU-optimized and memory-optimized), block storage sold separately by IOPS class, network load balancers and elastic bandwidth. Dedicated servers and colocation are quote-only through sales.
Comparison Table
| Feature | Vultr | 3HCloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price / mo | $2.50 | $1.50 win |
| Renewal price | Same as initial | Same as initial |
| Datacenters | 32 win | 5 |
| NVMe storage | ✓ Yes win | ✗ No |
| Free domain | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Backups | Paid | Paid |
| CDN | ✓ Yes win | ✗ No |
| Support | 24/7 chat | — |
| Uptime · 30d | — | 99.31% |
Price History
Vultr · Cloud Compute 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB (IPv6-only)Collecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
3HCloud · 1 GB 1 vCPU Shared PoolCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Uptime & Performance
Vultr —Daily uptime appears once our monitor has collected enough data.
3HCloud 99.31%Pros & Cons
Vultr- Industry-leading 32 data center locations worldwide
- Deploy in under 60 seconds with custom ISOs
- GPU instances (NVIDIA A100, A40, L40S) for AI/ML
- Bare metal dedicated servers with root access
- Simple hourly billing тАФ spin up and destroy anytime
- Free $250 credit for new users to test the platform
- No live chat support on basic plans
- No managed databases or managed Kubernetes
- No free domain or email hosting addons
- Backups and snapshots are paid addons
- Windows Server licenses are expensive addons ($23.50+/mo)
3HCloud- Full public price list - every instance, hourly and monthly, on one page
- Hourly billing on every plan, not just the entry tier
- Dedicated-vCPU families for CPU-bound and memory-bound workloads
- 1 Gbit/s per instance with no traffic volume cap
- OpenStack API, Terraform and SSH-key access
- Five regions across the US, EU and APAC
- Storage is not included - disks are billed separately from $0.01/GB per month
- A public IPv4 address costs $1/month on top of the plan price
- Windows images add $3 per core per month and need at least 2 vCPUs
- No refunds - SLA downtime is repaid in service credits only
- No published ISO/SOC certifications
- Dedicated servers are quote-only, not self-serve
The Verdict
On the data we track, Vultr wins more rows in the comparison table above (3 vs 1). That said, the right pick depends on which rows matter most for your use case — price, uptime, datacenters or backups.
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FAQ
Right now 3HCloud has the lower entry price across the plans we track. Prices update every few hours — the live snapshot above always shows the current starting price for both.
Yes. Both run standard KVM virtualization, so you can snapshot your server, export the image, and import it on the other provider. For most stacks a fresh deploy plus a data copy is simpler.
It depends on your priority: pick the one that wins on the rows that matter most to you in the table above (price, uptime, datacenters, backups). For latency-sensitive apps favour uptime and network; for value favour price and specs.