Vultr Customer Portal

1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.
2. Click your target Vultr Optimized Cloud Compute instance to open its management page.
3. Click Stop Server on the top-right navigation menu to stop the instance.
4. Click Stop Server in the confirmation prompt to stop the instance.

Vultr API

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" : [
          "your-instance-id"
        ]
      }'

Vultr CLI

1. List all available instances and note your target instance’s ID.
   console

   $ vultr-cli instance list
   

2. Stop the instance.
   console

   $ vultr-cli instance stop <your-instance-id>