Vultr Named a Strong Performer in Public Cloud Platforms, Q3 2026 Analyst Evaluation

Vultr was ranked a Strong Performer in the evaluation of top vendors’ strength of strategy and current offerings in meeting today’s complex cloud infrastructure demands

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vultr, the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company, today announced it has been named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Public Cloud Platforms, Q3 2026 report. With this distinction among 10 top providers in the Public Cloud Platforms market, Vultr believes its acknowledgment underscores the company’s consistent delivery of high-performance cloud compute and AI infrastructure at global scale.

Vultr has the ability to bring robust cloud-native infrastructure, including next-generation GPU and CPU architecture, to 33 global cloud data center regions. Combined with Vultr’s open ecosystem of technology partners via the Vultr Cloud Alliance, Vultr delivers the full-stack infrastructure to help enterprises operationalize AI at scale.

“The AI boom changed the cloud landscape virtually overnight, and Vultr has risen to the challenge consistently, on a global scale,” said Kevin Cochrane, CMO of Vultr. “By eliminating unnecessary complexity and unlocking an open cloud ecosystem, we’ve expanded access to high-performance enterprise AI infrastructure that’s secure, efficient, and scalable. To us, our designation as a Strong Performer in this 2026 report from Forrester is a testament to our ability to adapt to market shifts and ensure our customers can keep building.”

The Forrester Wave evaluates vendors based on the strength of their strategy and current offerings to help enterprises make more informed buying decisions. The report notes that, “in a public cloud platform market challenged by specialist GPU-focused neoclouds, Vultr’s vision combines elements of both, betting that a mix of commodity offerings and GPUs can compete with hyperscalers on both price and performance for AI use cases. Rather than following the larger providers in rolling out proprietary services, Vultr differentiates by leveraging the open-source Kubernetes ecosystem and AI open-source projects throughout its stack to maximize composability among its users, underpinned by partnerships with NVIDIA and AMD.”

To meet accelerating demand for agentic AI infrastructure and strengthen its commitment to removing the barriers to innovation, Vultr has deepened its ongoing partnerships with NVIDIA and AMD to deliver on-demand access to the latest-generation hardware. Vultr is among the first providers to offer NVIDIA Vera Rubin architecture and AMD Helios rackscale solution, with enhanced accessibility on account of Vultr’s straightforward platform and seamless cloud delivery.

Industry analysts and key enterprise partners continually recognize Vultr as an innovator in cloud infrastructure for both core enterprise and AI use cases. Earlier this year, Vultr received NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud status for surpassing key AI training performance standards on NVIDIA HGX™ B200 systems. In addition, Vultr was named a winner in the Best Cloud Infrastructure category of the 2026 Cloud Awards for its potent combination of performance, transparent pricing, and rapid provisioning; and took home ‘Most Innovative Cloud Infrastructure Solution’ in 2026 Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards.

To learn more about how Vultr is bringing the power of the open cloud ecosystem to innovators across the globe, visit vultr.com.

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About Vultr

Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. In December 2024 Vultr announced an equity financing at a $3.5 billion valuation. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company.

Learn more at: www.vultr.com.