I found this by spelunking deeply into..

… I found this by spelunking deeply into... the main menu where there's a Pricing option. I'm not a Vultr customer and I don't have an account with them. I was curious and I made an account. And the "enter credit card" thing you complain about is just part of the onboarding flow, along with things like "set up your profile". Is it so crazy that you might want a fast track to put your card in for a hosting service? It's all optional anyway. Ignoring that (I didn't enter a credit card), there's a prominent Deploy button you can hit. The issue you see about pricing is that they only offer that cheap price in some data centers. Atlanta has it, but the current default selection of Miami does not. They could definitely do better to make this obvious since they are advertising that minimum, but this is not at all surprising to me who has used tons of cloud provisioning UIs. I don't think it's reasonable to expect the same pricing in all regions, no one actually does that. Once Atlanta is selected, they also auto select a better compute class by default ("AMD High Performance"). …