Google Cloud Storage vs. Vultr

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Cloud Storage
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Google Cloud Storage is unified object storage for developers and enterprises.N/A
Vultr
Score 6.9 out of 10
N/A
Vultr is an independent cloud computing platform on a mission to provide businesses and developers around the world with unrivaled ease of use, price-to-performance, and global reach.
$1
per month
Pricing
Google Cloud StorageVultr
Editions & Modules
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Block Storage
$1
per month
Cloud Compute
$2.50
per month
Object Storage
$5
per month
Kubernetes Engine
$10
per month
Load Balancers
$10
per month
Managed Databases
$15
per month
Optimized Cloud Compute
$28
per month
Cloud GPU
$90
per month
Bare Metal
$120
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google Cloud StorageVultr
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing is based on specifications chosen in each product category. Bandwidth is also included up to a certain amount per month.
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Community Pulse
Google Cloud StorageVultr
Considered Both Products
Google Cloud Storage
Chose Google Cloud Storage
Google Cloud Storage feels much more intuitive to use versus Amazon S3. I really prefer Google's Node SDK and web interface, and find Google Cloud Platform's access/identity management much more straightforward.
Chose Google Cloud Storage
This software is perfect for the organization where a huge amount of data are generated. The software has the perfect features by which the organization can store their information safely. The software has the features where one can share cloud with colleagues for project …
Chose Google Cloud Storage
Google had the easiest and most secure file sharing abilities, and was a more trusted name for our clients to be assured that their files would remain private.
Chose Google Cloud Storage
We have used Amazon S3 for similar needs, or for solutions that don't support Google Cloud Storage. For us, Google Cloud Storage works much better since it's integrated into Google Cloud Platform. Since we use Google Cloud Platform, Google Cloud Storage is part of our cloud …
Chose Google Cloud Storage
The two services are very comparable, but we have many different services that all run on the Google Cloud Platform and therefore Google Cloud Storage made more sense as our storage solution rather than looking to an outside service like S3. Either one of these options would …
Chose Google Cloud Storage
Google Cloud Storage has been experiencing less technical issues and is more straight forward to use, for our technical team, it saves training time by having a straight forward help and FAQ section. We needed very little training, as opposed to previously used other tools …
Chose Google Cloud Storage
Google Cloud offers Google Cloud Storage, while AWS offers Amazon Simple Storage Services. In Google Cloud services, data transmission is a fully encrypted format on the other hand, in AWS, data transmission is in the general format. Google Cloud volume size is 1 GB to 64 TB …
Chose Google Cloud Storage
The big difference against other competitors that offer a Cloud storage solution, is the fact that Google Cloud Storage and other Google Cloud Platform products are billed in the local currency. This fact saves a lot of money because in some countries we have to pay for …
Chose Google Cloud Storage
Aside from Google Cloud Storage, we've used AWS S3 and have found the two comparable. In fact, GCS is one of a large number of object storage systems that are compatible with S3 (including DigitalOcean Spaces, IBM Cloud Storage, and Azure Blog Storage). When it comes to these …
Chose Google Cloud Storage
Google Cloud Storage effectively outweighs Google Drive's limited capabilities. This software, being a paid version, allows for much room for extra storage space, faster loading times from my experience, and easy sharing features. Compared to Google Drive, Google Cloud Storage …
Chose Google Cloud Storage
I chose Google Cloud Storage due to its implementation with Google Firestore. Both worked off each other and made our connection with Google Firestore a lot simpler.
Chose Google Cloud Storage
Google Cloud Storage is the only right option for media and document files. Unless you need to work with structured information where Cloud SQL or Datastore may be better options, storing files in Cloud Storage is easy and right to the point. Also, prices are worth considering …
Chose Google Cloud Storage
Google Cloud Storage compares very similar to Dropbox. The difference of using Googe Cloud Storage is that it is part of a big bundle of products that you are probably already using. If you are a big Google user then it would make sense to get Google Cloud Storage. This way you …
Chose Google Cloud Storage
Google Cloud Storage is the only one I have tried. But when researching we looked at Google Cloud, as well as Microsoft and Amazon. Google was more expensive, but seemed to be more of what we were looking for. Again, not really my department.
Chose Google Cloud Storage
One drive only offers you 5GB free space when google gives you 15 GB. and google cloud as better performance. even with real-time sync.
Chose Google Cloud Storage
Google Cloud Storage is really a different application. It does not have the data parsing capabilities and it is simply a cold storage option in our use case. This means it is less flexible and has limited uses, but the uses it does have it, performs very well. There is a very …
Chose Google Cloud Storage
Guru and Google Cloud Storage are different in many ways. They are by no means the same product, but our team has begun to move away from Google for our documentation of processes. Guru has a superior system for organizing documents and articles.
Chose Google Cloud Storage
I have used Microsoft One Drive, Dropbox, Box, Amazon Cloud Drive, and Google Cloud Storage. All of this cloud storage software do pretty much does the same thing, but the difference for me is in ease of use— for me the easiest to use is Google Drive. I will say this, I use …
Chose Google Cloud Storage
Easier to set up and has a natural interface that is well known to users so it is easy for them to assimilate. Google Cloud Storage is faster than any other option we tried and works perfectly with our Chromebooks. From an ROI perspective, it is the best option for a medium …
Chose Google Cloud Storage
We tend to only select Google Cloud Storage when we're using other Google products as it makes integration easier -- but we tend not to choose it for situations where we can use a competing offering from Azure or AWS. We tend to implement the most Azure and AWS by far, and …
Chose Google Cloud Storage
We selected GCS vs. others because we decided to use other Google Cloud services. Since we integrated GCS into our tools, we're still using GCS today, even though we've largely transitioned away from Google Compute services. GCS is still a very solid choice, even if your server …
Chose Google Cloud Storage
We ended up with Google Cloud Storage most importantly because we found it far easier to set up, configure, and operate compared to Amazon's offerings. Amazon's many products make it difficult to find just the right one, and from there configuring is overly complicated. In …
Vultr
Chose Vultr
Price to performance ratio and ease of managemenated
Chose Vultr
Cost of bandwidth and network quality for us is what mattered.
Chose Vultr
Vultr is cheaper than most providers. Only contabo is cheaper, but they have lower uptime.
Chose Vultr
Vultr comes in at the lower end of the spectrum in terms of the breadth of the services they provide compared to the larger vendors, but they are consistently demonstrating their commitment to growing their service offering and platform features. We selected Vultr because of …
Chose Vultr
Vultr has a greater offering of servers whilst staying reasonably priced compared to some of the larger infrastructure providers. They may not have all the services as some of the other providers but they don't need it when they can do what they do with the services they provide.
Chose Vultr
On shared services, such as VPS, I have noticed greater confidence of usability and resource availability with Vultr.
Chose Vultr
We did extensive performance comparisons and testing and Vultr was not only better priced, but much better on the performance and speed.
Chose Vultr
AWS and Azure are too complicated and costly for small businesses like ours.
Chose Vultr
Vultr has better support and competitive pricing. The network is solid and globally deployed. IP reputation is clean, and security is tight. Ease of use and documentation is really good. User experience has been the best I ever experienced. Low stress, reliable …
Chose Vultr
The performance beats upcloud. The only thing I really liked about upcloud better was the backup offerings. They had more flexible backup plans, but I love the every other night plan on Vultr as well.
Chose Vultr
Server updates are clear and always noticed on the platform which my last company did not have clear.
Chose Vultr
CloudCo was not listed. In comparison, the pricing of the competition is in a place where I wouldn't retain any margin for smaller customers, that's why I use Vultr for those. Vultr's self serve interface and UI is much better and more customizable for the general architect. If …
Chose Vultr
Vultr has been a more cost effective solution in some areas. Compared to AWS EC2, Vultr has been a lot more cost effective for our environment. Vultr has the right vCPU, RAM, and storage for our needs. In the object storage space, Vultr has not been the best fit for our …
Chose Vultr
Vultr offers the same services as all the major cloud providers however Vulr offers a clear pricing modeling with no hidden fees. This has been incisive in deciding which provider to go with. I have never encountered any downtime with their services Technically, Vultr has the …
Chose Vultr
Incredible performance to cost ratio. I absolutely love Vultr for minimizing costs associated with running a one-man operation.
Chose Vultr
They are very similar but we are more comfortable with Vultr
Chose Vultr
From the perspective of the above, Vultr provides the best balance of cost vs. performance for us. Cloudways stacks a large fee for each VPS you spin up, and this quickly escalates. Linode comes closest (at least when I used it a few years ago) to Vultr, and 3 years ago this …
Chose Vultr
Vultr is much easier to get started with, less things to configure, a simpler interface. To deploy and manage a server is much easier. I am sure for a production SaaS app there are features in AWS and Azure that are needed, but for dev/test environment, I prefer Vultr.
Chose Vultr
It is reliable, stable and very manageable, but, I think, very expensive too
Chose Vultr
Vultr is a dream to use after coming from AWS - the products are intuitively named, don't require gaining a certification to use, and have better documentation.
Vultr's documentation is a little less comprehensive and organized than google cloud's; however, its pricing and …
Chose Vultr
Much easier to deploy and manged than AWS
Chose Vultr
Linode: Similar pricing, changed our business over to Vultr to save credit card fees by using Crypto.
Digital Ocean: Fast and reliable, same pricing didn't stay because the payment methods (Similar case to Linode)
Hetzner: Good pricing, good reputation, limited locations.
Features
Google Cloud StorageVultr
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud Storage
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Ratings
Vultr
2.8
Ratings
97% below category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings2.80 Ratings
Dynamic scaling00 Ratings2.40 Ratings
Elastic load balancing00 Ratings2.60 Ratings
Pre-configured templates00 Ratings2.80 Ratings
Monitoring tools00 Ratings2.00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings2.70 Ratings
Operating system support00 Ratings3.00 Ratings
Security controls00 Ratings4.50 Ratings
Automation00 Ratings2.20 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Google Cloud StorageVultr
Small Businesses
Amazon S3 Glacier
Amazon S3 Glacier
Score 9.1 out of 10
DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets
Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage
Score 9.7 out of 10
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage
Score 9.7 out of 10
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
Google Cloud StorageVultr
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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2.5
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Likelihood to Renew
9.0
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Usability
8.0
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Performance
9.0
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Support Rating
7.8
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Implementation Rating
8.0
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User Testimonials
Google Cloud StorageVultr
Likelihood to Recommend
[Google Cloud Storage is] great for storing and playing large video files, and even sharing them securely with others, whether or not they are part of your organization. No need to download video files before watching, and can also be used to store any other kinds of files.
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Vultr is well suited for South African based organisations as they have a presence here. It makes dev servers for WordPress more feasible. Having to wait on roundtrips from EU or US slow things down.
Ease of setting up new servers, with clear information on what you are getting for what you pay, makes it so easy to spin up just what you need. With a large range of specifications it means you can find that sweet spot of cost vs. performance.
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Pros
  • Really great, easy to use interface helps us manage files easily. Storage is fast and inexpensive, so we don't have to spin up storage instances locally
  • Great set of command-line tools to manage data and storage options via scripts and apps, as well as an SDK means we can build GCS into our orchestration and operations tools
  • Robust integration with other Google cloud tools means that we don't have to think too hard about using GCS for a variety of storage tasks as we interact with other Google services.
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  • The uptime is perfect . If there are any downtimes it is well informed and its in non - production hours to ensure that the systems are not hit
  • Accessibility and the dashboard is amazing where you have full control over the VPS system.
  • The flexibility of OS on which to create your VPS is also amazing .
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Cons
  • Sometimes we would find advice for how to do something that wasn't documented in the API, although this was very early on.
  • When we first started using it, Google Cloud Storage was changing a lot, and some of these changes required us to adapt our code to fit them.
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  • the ability of increasing a specific configuration without the need of upgrading the whole plan, for example i might need to add more memory but i'm satisfied with my current processors and hard disk capacity (or vise versa)
  • Solving the problems of taking an image to the server if the server capacity (hard disk) is bigger than 1TB (which i'm currently facing a big problem because of that)
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Likelihood to Renew
after all of the investment made in the tool and considering how many teams use it I think we would not be likely to move away from this tool. A lot of our information including historical is already here and we are happy with the capabilities of the tool currently
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We’ve been extremely satisfied with the service for many years. After trying other providers, we’ve found nothing that matches the reliability and performance—so we’re not likely to switch anytime soon.
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Usability
Overall I say this product is awesome and very easy to use, and would highly recommend it to other business professionals. I feel that my documents and work product are safe and secure, and that I will find them easily when needed.
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easy to use and configure. great bang for the buck. I need an affordable solution to host in the cloud data from systems installed at our client's site with the ability to drill down and change the configuration remotely. Vultr enabled us to do that in an efficient and affordable way.
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Performance
For performance i give Google Cloud Storage 10 of 10 on performance because even though there are other softwares that do exactly the same thing as Google Drive, it still works exceptionally well. It is very fast, and and far as integration, the only software I have used with it that integrated was Google Docs, and of course it integrates perfectly.
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Support Rating
We have never used official support from Google for our Google Cloud Storage, but there is plenty of documentation in place already. With a small amount of work, anybody should be able to get started. Once needs get more complicated, there is still documentation from Google, but also plenty of community support for common use cases around the internet.
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Because of the 24 hour turnaround timing with servers I need immediate reply
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Implementation Rating
overall I was not directly involved but hears the teams were satisfied with the implementation. the teams that used the tool did not encounter major issues, it was as expected with minor issues and bugs that were resolved later. The more significant learning curve was actually starting to use the tool
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Nothing in particular to share that I did not already discuss
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Alternatives Considered
Google Cloud Storage compares very similar to Dropbox. The difference of using Googe Cloud Storage is that it is part of a big bundle of products that you are probably already using. If you are a big Google user then it would make sense to get Google Cloud Storage. This way you can have all of the tools you need under one roof. I selected Google Cloud Storage because I was already using Google's other products and I was very impressed by those products so it was an easy sale.
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Vultr has better support and competitive pricing. The network is solid and globally deployed. IP reputation is clean, and security is tight. Ease of use and documentation is really good. User experience has been the best I ever experienced. Low stress, reliable hosting I would recommend to anyone. It helped me easily scale and expand my business.
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Return on Investment
  • It allows the use of large Big Query data sets, this enables better data analysis.
  • It helps the business maintain a central storage solution for data.
  • Secure and easy to learn and use, it allows for fast adoption which improves productivity.
  • It does not enable collaboration and has limits on flexibility.
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  • Vultr allowed us to have an online presence without breaking the bank
  • Vultr allows us to offer an online access to the business services that we offer our clients beyond the systems installed on premises.
  • We are planning on using Vultr more in the coming months as a standard feature to our Real-Time Energy Monitoring platform
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ScreenShots

Vultr Screenshots

Screenshot of Vultr's control panel helps users spend less time managing infrastructure.Screenshot of Vultr's services offer additional configuration and inside of the simplified control panel.Screenshot of a display of when peak activity happens on an application. The server health graphs provide insight from the moment the server is created.Screenshot of Vultr's interface, which allows users to deploy high performance servers worldwide from any device.Screenshot of how to reach the 24/7/365 technical support team that is available through Vultr's ticketing system.