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How to Stop a Vultr VX1™ Cloud Compute Instance

Updated on 21 November, 2025

Stop your Vultr VX1™ Cloud Compute instance using the Customer Portal or API to perform a clean shutdown while preserving all data.

Stopping an instance performs a graceful shutdown, halting all running processes and disabling network connectivity until it is restarted. The instance’s data and configuration remain intact. However, billing continues while the instance is stopped unless it is deleted.

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

  • 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 Stop Server on the top-right navigation menu to stop the instance.
  4. In the confirmation dialog, click Stop Server again to confirm.

  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" : [
       "instance_id"
     ]
   }'

    If successful, you receive a 200 HTTP response.

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