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How to Stop a Vultr Cloud Compute Instance

Updated on January 15, 2025

Stopping an instance shuts it down and disables network connectivity until it is restarted. The operating system and all running processes are halted, but billing continues unless the instance is deleted.

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

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  • Vultr CLI

  1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.

  2. Click your target Vultr Cloud Compute instance to open its management page.

  3. Click Stop Server on the top-right navigation menu to stop the instance.s

  4. Click Stop Server in the confirmation prompt to stop the instance.

    Confirm Stop Instance 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 POST request to the Halt Instances endpoint to stop the instance.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances/halt" \
   -X POST \
   -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
   -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
   --data '{
     "instance_ids" : [
       "your-instance-id"
     ]
   }'

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

    console 
    $ vultr-cli instance list

  2. Stop the instance.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli instance stop <your-instance-id>