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How to Delete a Vultr VX1™ Cloud Compute Instance

Updated on 21 November, 2025

Delete a Vultr VX1™ Cloud Compute instance using the Customer Portal or API while preserving any attached bootable Block Storage volumes.

Deleting a VX1™ Cloud Compute instance removes the server and returns its IP address to the Vultr IP pool. However, if the instance is booted from a Vultr Block Storage (VBS) bootable volume, the data stored on that volume remains intact.

Follow this guide to delete a Vultr VX1™ Cloud Compute instance using the Vultr Customer Portal, or API.

Note
Deleting an Vultr VX1™ instance that is booted from a Vultr Block Storage (VBS) bootable volume does not delete the underlying VBS volume. You must manually remove the bootable VBS volume from the Block Storage section if you wish to delete it.
  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.
  2. Click your target Vultr VX1™ Cloud Compute instance to open its management page.
  3. Click Destroy Server on the top-right navigation menu.
  4. Check the confirmation prompt and click Destroy Server 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 DELETE request to the Delete Instance endpoint to delete the instance.

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

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