How to Stop a Vultr Bare Metal Instance

1 min readUpdated 4 November 2026

Stop a Vultr Bare Metal instance and disable its main network interface. Normal billing continues until you destroy it.

Stopping an instance shuts it down and disables connectivity to the main network interface. The operating system and all running processes are stopped, but billing for the instance continues until you destroy it.

Follow this guide to stop a Vultr Bare Metal instance using the Vultr Console, API, or CLI.

Navigate to Compute and click Instances.
Click your target Bare Metal instance to open its management page.
Click the Server Stop icon in the top-right corner of the management page.
Click Stop Server in the confirmation prompt to hard power off the instance. To start the instance again, click the Server Restart icon.

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