Contabo vs Fly.io

Contabo is strongest for budget-conscious developers. Fly.io is strongest for full-stack apps needing global low latency. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Contabo	Fly.io
Starting price	$3.23/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	Budget-conscious developers Personal projects Storage-heavy workloads Self-hosters	Full-stack apps needing global low latency Docker-native deploys Small teams wanting per-second billing Postgres close to compute
Stated uptime SLA	99.90%	No blanket platform SLA published; Enterprise support plans include custom SLAs
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	4	35
Managed Kubernetes	No	Yes
Support channels	Ticket, Docs, Community forum	Community forum, Docs, Ticket (paid support plans), Enterprise Slack (Enterprise plan)
Compliance	GDPR	SOC 2
Hidden costs to watch for	Quoted monthly prices are the effective rate for a 24-month prepaid/contract term; shorter terms (1 or 12 months) cost more per month Additional IPv4 addresses, extra backup slots, and storage extensions are billed as add-ons Outgoing traffic is technically unlimited but subject to a fair usage policy that can throttle abusive/sustained high-bandwidth usage Support is ticket-only on lower tiers; phone support requires add-on	Machine prices vary by region -- the reference/base rates in this dataset are for the Amsterdam (ams) region; several regions carry a price premium Extra RAM beyond a preset's base allocation is billed separately (~$5 per 30 days per additional GB, prorated per-second) Stopped Machines still incur a rootfs storage charge of $0.15/GB per month Volume snapshots are billed at $0.08/GB per month above the first 10GB free per month Dedicated (non-shared) egress IPs are billed hourly (~$0.005/hr, ~$3.60/mo) in addition to the free shared IPv4 Cross-region private networking traffic is billed per GB and varies sharply by region group (Africa/India up to $0.12/GB egress) Wildcard/extra SSL certificates beyond the first 10 free per org are billed monthly
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18