Vultr achieves NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud status by meeting performance targets on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, validating its infrastructure for demanding AI training workloads and next-generation AI applications.
Vultr, the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company, has been named an NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud. This validation confirms that Vultr meets the rigorous performance standards of NVIDIA reference designs on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, reinforcing its capability to support the next generation of AI-native applications.
Vultr’s Exemplar Cloud achievement involved extensive testing on a 512-node NVIDIA HGX B200 cluster. Benchmarks covered AI training workloads using 11 leading models, including NVIDIA Nemotron-H, Nemotron-4 15B and 340B, Grok-1 314B, Llama 3.1 8B, 70B and 405B, Qwen3 30B and 235B, and DeepSeek-v3-TorchTitan 671B.
As enterprises scale strategic AI initiatives, consistent performance and predictable total cost of ownership become critical. The NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud initiative delivers standardized, reproducible benchmarking across cloud providers, helping organizations confidently select infrastructure that reliably supports real-world AI workloads.
“Our NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud validation confirms Vultr’s ability to deliver industry-leading performance for today’s most demanding AI workloads,” said J.J. Kardwell, CEO of Vultr. “This recognition reflects the strength of our infrastructure design and our commitment to providing enterprises with reliable, production-ready AI compute.”
Vultr’s Cloud GPU platform delivers the power of NVIDIA AI infrastructure at an affordable price point. In addition to high-performance GPUs, Vultr provides a complete practical stack featuring Kubernetes enablement, GPU-enabled images, container repositories, and model workflows that accelerate AI development from prototype through production.
Vultr’s NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud status highlights its operational excellence and positions the company as a trusted partner for enterprises and AI innovators seeking high-performance, scalable cloud infrastructure optimized for demanding AI training and inference workloads.
About Vultr
Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. In December 2024 Vultr announced an equity financing at a $3.5 billion valuation. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company.