Vultr Customer Portal

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