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How to Resize a Vultr Optimized Cloud Compute Instance

Updated on 10 September, 2025

Learn how to increase or decrease the resources of your Vultr Optimized Cloud Compute instance.

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 Optimized 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 Optimized 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 for the existing Optimized Cloud Compute instance.

  2. Update the plan value in the instance resource to the new Optimized Cloud Compute plan code.

    terraform 
    resource "vultr_instance" "occ" {
    # ...existing fields (region, os_id, label, etc.)

    plan = "vhp-4c-8gb"  # Example: upgrade from vhp-2c-4gb to vhp-4c-8gb
}

  3. Apply the configuration and observe the following output:

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

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