Contabo vs Hetzner

Contabo is strongest for budget-conscious developers. Hetzner is strongest for budget-conscious developers. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Contabo	Hetzner
Starting price	$3.23/mo	$0.6/mo
Best for	Budget-conscious developers Personal projects Storage-heavy workloads Self-hosters	Budget-conscious developers EU-based workloads Self-hosters High-performance dedicated servers
Stated uptime SLA	99.90%	99.9%
Storage	NVME	NVME
Regions	4	6
Managed Kubernetes	No	No
Support channels	Ticket, Docs, Community forum	Ticket, Docs, Community forum
Compliance	GDPR	GDPR, ISO 27001
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	Setup fees on dedicated servers (e.g. AX42/AX102 setup fee raised from 39 EUR to 79 EUR in 2026; AX162-R/S setup fee raised from 79 EUR to 159 EUR) Traffic overage billed per GB beyond included pool (20 TB EU, as little as 0.5-1 TB in USA/Singapore regions for some lines) CPX and CCX cloud lines saw very large price increases in the 15 June 2026 adjustment (CCX +2.1x to +2.73x, CPX +2.4x to +2.75x monthly in EU); CX and CAX rose a smaller ~1.3x-1.4x Load Balancer and Volume prices separately increased ~36-39% in an April 2026 adjustment VAT excluded from all listed prices
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18