Vultr accepts Bitcoin, then still asks for a government ID. NordBastion is end-to-end KYC-free — no card, no phone verification, no ID upload — paid in crypto and pinned to one of four Nordic constitutional jurisdictions.
Vultr accepts crypto but still runs full KYC at signup. NordBastion runs zero KYC — no card, no phone, no government ID, ever.
Better per-spec price: a Sentinel at $5.90/mo (2 vCPU, 4 GB, 120 GB NVMe) versus Vultr's $6/mo Cloud Compute at 1 vCPU and 1 GB.
Pinned cores on every tier — not Vultr's standard burstable vCPU shares — under one of four Nordic constitutional jurisdictions.
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| KYC | None — email + password only | Required at signup despite crypto acceptance — name, address, phone, often ID |
| Billing | Crypto prepaid — BTC, XMR, ETH, LTC, USDT, USDC + more | Crypto accepted (BitPay) + card / PayPal — all behind verified account |
| Entry tier | $5.90 / mo · 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 120 GB NVMe | Cloud Compute · $6 / mo · 1 vCPU · 1 GB · 25 GB SSD |
| Larger tier (~8 GB) | $23.90 / mo · Ravelin · 8 vCPU · 16 GB · 480 GB NVMe | Vultr 8 GB · $48 / mo · 4 vCPU · 8 GB · 160 GB SSD |
| vCPU policy | Pinned, reserved | Standard burstable vCPU; High Performance / Optimized cost more |
| Storage | Local NVMe included in tier | SSD-backed local volume |
| Bandwidth | Unmetered, 1–10 Gbps uplink by tier | 1 TB / mo entry, scales by tier, overage billed |
| Regions | 4 Nordic bastions · STO, HEL, OSL, RKV | 32 global regions |
| Dedicated bare-metal | $99 – $1,099 / mo · 5 tiers, 30 min deploy | Yes — broader global footprint |
| DDoS mitigation | Always-on, included | Add-on, ~$10 / mo per IP |
| Warrant canary | Yes — monthly, PGP-signed | No |
| Managed services | No — infrastructure only by doctrine | Object Storage, VKE, Managed Databases, Load Balancers |
Vultr prices and policies reflect publicly listed values in early 2026 and may have changed since.
If \"crypto\" alone was your filter and you got past Vultr's identity gate, you already know it is not enough. NordBastion removes the gate entirely: no name, no address, no phone, no document. Pinned cores at half the price as a bonus.
Object Storage, VKE managed Kubernetes, Managed Databases, Load Balancers, and bare metal across 32 regions. NordBastion is deliberately infrastructure-only — by doctrine, not by absence of engineering. If you depend on those, stay or split.
32 global regions including Tokyo, Sydney, São Paulo, Johannesburg. NordBastion runs four Nordic bastions on purpose — jurisdictional focus is the whole point. If your latency target is outside Europe, NordBastion is wrong for you today.
Create a snapshot via the Vultr API or panel, then download it as a raw image to your laptop or to a temporary object-storage bucket.
Create the NordBastion account (email + password), top up a prepaid balance in Bitcoin or Monero, no identity check.
Pick the Nordic bastion of your choice, order the equivalent NordBastion tier (the spec table above maps Vultr sizes directly) and supply the snapshot URL for a custom-image install.
Lower the TTL on the affected A/AAAA records 24 h before the move. At cut-over, swap the A record to the NordBastion IPv4 — propagation typically completes in minutes.
Destroy the Vultr instance once you have confirmed the NordBastion server is serving production traffic. Delete any Object Storage / Load Balancer add-ons — they bill independently.
Vultr is the canonical \"accepts crypto, still does KYC\" cloud, and it is the case most worth naming: a Bitcoin badge in the footer does not change a verified identity at the door. If KYC was the thing you actually wanted to avoid, Vultr does not solve it.
Move the compute. If you depend on Object Storage, VKE or Managed Databases, keep those on Vultr for now — there is no managed-services equivalent on NordBastion, by doctrine. As your stack moves from “PaaS-everywhere” to “infrastructure-I-own”, the bridge shortens; some teams complete the move in a quarter, others run a hybrid indefinitely.
NordBastion will not be everything Vultr is. It will be a faster, cheaper, truly KYC-free VPS pinned in one of four Nordic legal regimes with a published canary, and that is exactly the part you came here for.
The questions privacy-seeking teams actually ask before moving a workload away from Vultr.
This is the catch most people discover after signing up. Vultr publishes Bitcoin as a payment option, which makes it look like a privacy-friendly host. In practice the signup flow still requires a verified identity — full legal name, address, sometimes a government-ID photo or a verified phone number — and Vultr explicitly reserves the right to suspend an account pending re-verification. Crypto is allowed; KYC-free it is not. NordBastion is end-to-end KYC-free: email and password, that is all.
At equivalent specs, by a wide margin. A NordBastion Sentinel at $5.90/mo ships 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM and 120 GB NVMe. The closest Vultr Cloud Compute is $6/mo for 1 vCPU, 1 GB and 25 GB. The next real comparison point — Vultr 8 GB at $48/mo (4 vCPU, 8 GB) — is roughly twice the price of a NordBastion Ravelin ($23.90/mo) that ships 8 vCPU and 16 GB.
Yes. NordBastion has no KYC layer anywhere in the funnel: no card on file, no phone verification, no ID upload, no address verification. Create an account with an email and a password, top up a prepaid balance in Bitcoin, Monero or any of the supported coins, and order. The whole pipeline is designed so we never have the information in the first place.
Snapshot the source instance via the Vultr API or panel, download the snapshot as a raw disk image, top up a NordBastion balance in crypto, order an equivalent NordBastion tier and supply the snapshot URL for a custom-image install. Re-point DNS, destroy the source Vultr instance. Total wall-clock for a small instance: about 30 minutes.
Better at the entry tier. Vultr Cloud Compute uses standard burstable vCPU shares; NordBastion ships pinned vCPU cores (not bursty), reserved memory and local NVMe at every tier. For workloads sensitive to steady-state CPU — small databases, real-time backends, build runners — the NordBastion floor is more predictable.
Object Storage and Managed Kubernetes: no, by doctrine. Bare metal: yes, $99–$1,099/mo across five tiers in the Nordic bastions, deployed in about 30 minutes. Vultr has Object Storage (S3-compatible), Managed Kubernetes (VKE) and a much wider bare-metal footprint across 32 global regions. If those are non-negotiable, stay or split.
Vultr runs 32 global regions across six continents. NordBastion runs four Nordic bastions on purpose — jurisdictional focus is the product. If your latency target is Tokyo, Sydney or São Paulo, NordBastion is wrong for you today. If your target is European users with constitutional jurisdiction guarantees, the four Nordic locations are precisely the point.
Terraform and Ansible: yes — NordBastion exposes a REST API v1 with first-class server / snapshot / SSH-key / network resources, plus a Terraform provider in development and SDKs in Python, TypeScript, Go and Rust. The CLI is `nb` instead of `vultr-cli` and reads NB_API_KEY from the environment. If you script Vultr today, you will script NordBastion the same way tomorrow.
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The developer-friendly cloud.
New-York-founded, KYC by card, 15 global regions; $4/mo entry droplet.
The hyperscaler default.
Amazon Web Services, 33 regions, identity-bound billing, t4g.nano from $3.06/mo.
The veteran independent, acquired.
Founded 2003, acquired by Akamai 2022; 11 regions, $5/mo entry, card-only.
The European low-cost giant.
Germany / Finland / US, EU corporate KYC, dedicated from €39, CX22 VPS from €3.79.
The French dedicated-server giant.
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