Contabo vs Kinsta

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

Feature	Contabo	Kinsta
Starting price	$3.23/mo	$35/mo
Best for	Budget-conscious developers Personal projects Storage-heavy workloads Self-hosters	Managed WordPress Agencies High-traffic WordPress sites Enterprise WordPress
Stated uptime SLA	99.90%	99.9%
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	4	37
Managed Kubernetes	No	No
Support channels	Ticket, Docs, Community forum	24/7 live chat, Ticket, Docs, MyKinsta dashboard
Compliance	GDPR	GDPR
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	Overage per extra 1,000 visits above plan allowance billed per Kinsta overage schedule (not itemized on public pricing page) Premium Staging Environment add-on reported at $20/month per extra environment beyond the included free staging environment (figure from secondary source, not independently verified on a primary Kinsta page) CDN bandwidth overage reported at approximately $0.05/GB past plan allowance (figure from secondary source, not independently verified) Sevalla Application Hosting: egress bandwidth billed at $0.10/GB (ingress free); build time billed at $0.0003333/second ($0.02/minute) Sevalla Database Hosting: disk space add-ons sold in 10 GB increments at $10/month per 10 GB; external egress bandwidth billed at $0.10/GB (internal app-to-db connections free)
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18