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  "Windows licence ($16 per vCPU-month on Regular Performance vc2 plans) is now INCLUDED in the size prices. Source: vultr.com/servers/windows 'Plan comparison' table, read from a 2026-06-21 Wayback capture because the live page returns a Cloudflare challenge; the live billing doc still links to that page as the source of licence rates. Whether the licence is prorated hourly with the 672-h cap is not stated (assumed yes).",
  "The /v2/plans API hourly_cost field (e.g. $0.055 for the $40 plan = /730) disagrees with the billing doc and the pricing page ($0.06 = /672); card follows /672.",
  "Bandwidth: 2 TB free per account per month plus each instance's plan quota (2-15 TB/month on these sizes) accrued hourly over 672 h; overage $0.01/GB.",
  "Plan availability varies by location (Windows deployable on vc2 in 18-29 of 33 locations depending on size). Sao Paulo (sao) costs 1.5x base (API location_cost), not modelled.",
  "Automatic backups add 20% to the base monthly/hourly fee; DDoS protection +$10/mo per instance; reserved (portable) IPv4 $3/mo. None modelled.",
  "Windows also deploys on High Performance (vhp), High Frequency (vhf) and Optimized (voc) plans, but Vultr publishes the licence price only for Regular Performance plans, so those families are not modelled."
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  "https://docs.vultr.com/support/platform/billing/how-am-i-billed-for-my-servers",
  "https://api.vultr.com/v2/plans",
  "https://api.vultr.com/v2/os",
  "https://checkthat.ai/brands/vultr/pricing",
  "https://www.vultr.com/servers/windows/",
  "https://www.vultr.com/pricing/",
  "https://docs.vultr.com/products/storage/snapshots/faq",
  "https://docs.vultr.com/products/storage/backups/faq",
  "https://docs.vultr.com/products/network/reserved-ips/faq",
  "https://docs.vultr.com/products/compute/instances/cloud-compute/networking/ipv4",
  "https://api.vultr.com/v2/plans?os=windows",
  "https://docs.vultr.com/platform/iam/single-sign-on/faq"
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  "raise": "ticket",
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  "verification": "Consistent usage and positive billing history; request confirms profile, organization size and use case.",
  "tiers": null,
  "notes": "Console Billing > Limits shows maximum instance count and total instance cost. Request Custom Limit Adjustment or support ticket; initial numeric caps, GPU-specific allowance and turnaround are not published in reviewed guidance.",
  "sources": [
   "https://docs.vultr.com/support/platform/billing/how-can-i-increase-my-account-limits",
   "https://docs.vultr.com/platform/billing/manage-account-limits"
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  "researched": "2026-09-28"
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   "source": "https://docs.vultr.com/products/storage/snapshots/provisioning",
   "quote": "Unlike Automatic Backups for Vultr instances, you must take snapshots manually.",
   "note": "Nothing is captured on stop/halt; disk simply persists. Automatic Backups (+20% of instance price) are scheduled point-in-time images, not stop-triggered.",
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   "value": true,
   "source": "https://docs.vultr.com/products/storage/snapshots/provisioning",
   "quote": "Snapshots for Vultr instances are point-in-time images of your entire Cloud Compute instances hard drives. You can use snapshots to create backups or to replicate Cloud Compute instances.",
   "note": "Console/API/CLI/Terraform; disk only (no memory). New instances can boot from a snapshot (snapshot_id), in any region ('Vultr Snapshots span across all regions'). $0.05/GB-month compressed. Attached Block Storage is not included.",
   "checked": "2026-09-29"
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   "checked": "2026-09-29"
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  "egress_allowlist": {
   "value": false,
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   "quote": "No, Vultr Firewall does not filter outgoing netwok traffic from your instance.",
   "note": "Firewall groups are inbound-only; NAT Gateway firewall rules are inbound port-forward filters. Only coarse provider-side option: a VPC-only instance (no public IP) without a NAT Gateway has no internet path ('isolated from direct internet access'); with a NAT Gateway there is no per-destination egress filtering. The existing card's egress_allowlist=true looks wrong.",
   "checked": "2026-09-29"
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  "egress_http_rules": {
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   "quote": "No, Vultr Firewall does not filter outgoing netwok traffic from your instance.",
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   "checked": "2026-09-29"
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   "quote": "Vultr Firewall rules enable traffic filtering using port numbers and source IP addresses for incoming network requests.",
   "note": "Firewall groups (IPv4/IPv6, protocol, port, source CIDR, service profiles), shared across instances, via Console/API/CLI/Terraform; VPC-only instances with no public IP; NAT Gateway port-forward + firewall rules. No managed HTTPS URLs.",
   "checked": "2026-09-29"
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   "source": null,
   "quote": null,
   "note": "Full KVM VM with Administrator: Windows Defender Firewall works in-guest (Vultr's FAQ describes instance-level firewalls stacking with Vultr Firewall); iptables/nftables on Linux images.",
   "checked": "2026-09-29",
   "derived": true
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   "quote": null,
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   "checked": "2026-09-29"
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   "note": "Block Storage (NVMe min 1 GB, HDD min 40 GB), same location only, movable between instances, not covered by automatic backups.",
   "checked": "2026-09-29"
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   "quote": "Yes, you can attach multiple Vultr Cloud Compute instances to a single Vultr File System volume provided the instance and the volume are in the same Vultr location.",
   "note": "Vultr File System (VFS) over virtiofs, read-write, same location, instance needs Memory Backing = Shared. Windows works via virtio-win + WinFsp with only 'best-effort support'; Windows and Linux instances can share one VFS volume. Block Storage itself is single-attach ('you can only attach a Vultr Block Storage volume to one Vultr Cloud Compute instance at a time').",
   "checked": "2026-09-29"
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   "note": "granularity: account-only; cost: no; Vultr's v2 REST API and CLI tools manage infrastructure but do not expose per-instance billable usage data, cost breakdowns by resource ID, or billing export by tag/label/project. Billing information is account-aggregate only, visible through the console dashboard or invoices, not via programmatic API access per resource.",
   "confidence": "high",
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  {
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  {
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   "state": null,
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  {
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   "self_serve": true,
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  {
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   "state": null,
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   "self_serve": true,
   "choosable": true
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   "self_serve": true,
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  {
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}