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How to Resize a Vultr Cloud Compute Instance

Updated on 11 September, 2025

Learn how to increase or decrease the resources of your Vultr Cloud Compute instance to match your workload requirements.

Resizing an instance activates a new plan with more vCPUs, RAM, and storage to match your needs. Downgrading is not supported while upgrading the instance enables a higher plan without changes to the instance's data or file system.

Follow this guide to resize a Vultr Cloud Compute instance using the Vultr Customer Portal, API, CLI, or Terraform.

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  • Vultr CLI
  • Terraform
  1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.
  2. Click your target Vultr Cloud Compute instance to open its management page.
  3. Navigate to the Settings tab.
  4. Find and click Change Plan on the left navigation menu.
  5. Click the Change Plan drop-down and select a new instance plan.
  6. Click Upgrade to resize your instance.
  7. Check the confirmation prompt and click Change Plan to apply changes.

  1. Send a GET request to the List Instances endpoint and note your target instance's ID.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances" \
  -X GET \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  2. Send a PATCH request to the Update Instance endpoint to resize the instance with a new plan and note the Job ID.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances/{instance-id}" \
-X PATCH \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
  "plan" : "instance_plan_id"
}'

  3. Send a GET request to the Get Instance Job endpoint to monitor and get availble information for the upgrade plan instance job.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances/jobs/{job-id}" \
    -X GET \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  1. List all available instances and note your target instance's ID.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli instance list

  2. List all available plans the instance can resize to.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli instance plan list <instance-id>

  3. Resize the instance to a new plan.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli instance plan upgrade <instance-id> --plan <instance_plan_id>

  1. Open your Terraform configuration and locate the Cloud Compute instance resource.

  2. Update the plan attribute with the new instance plan ID.

    terraform 
    resource "vultr_instance" "cc" {
    label    = "cc-instance-1"
    region   = "del"
    plan     = "vc2-4c-8gb" # Updated plan ID for more vCPUs/RAM/Storage
    os_id    = 2284
    hostname = "cc-instance-1"
}

  3. Apply the configuration and observe the following output:

    Apply complete! Resources: 0 added, 1 changed, 0 destroyed.

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