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Vultr
Global VPS and bare-metal provider with a large region footprint and GPU instances.
NOT REALLY
why this verdict
Keep paying — OpenAI has not replaced it
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the dev tools job, so this one still earns its $5/mo.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- Serverless and edge platforms removing the need to think about a virtual machine. OpenAI, June 3, 2025 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers not the job editorial call
- Parts of it. The job still needs the tool to get finished.
- Is there a free way to do it? paid only
- 3 replacements listed, all paid.
- What the call is worth $60/yr
- $5/mo at the entry paid tier — $60 a year per seat.
Reason composed from the fields above missing: announcement linked missing: free replacement listed recorded: two or more escape hatches
- Threatened by
- OpenAI
- Since
- June 3, 2025
- List price
- $5/mo
- Per year
- $60
The backstory
Vultr sells straightforward compute in more cities than most rivals, which matters when latency or data residency dictates where a workload sits. The generic pressure on VPS providers is that agent-built apps deploy to platforms where no machine is ever named. Vultr's answer was to chase the AI buildout directly, renting GPU capacity to teams priced out of the hyperscalers, so the same wave that commoditises its low end is currently paying for its high end.
