Contabo vs OVHcloud

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

Feature	Contabo	OVHcloud
Starting price	$3.23/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	Budget-conscious developers Personal projects Storage-heavy workloads Self-hosters	European data residency Cost-conscious scale-outs Managed databases Kubernetes AI/GPU workloads
Stated uptime SLA	99.90%	99.99% (Public Cloud instances, region dependent)
Storage	NVME	NVME
Regions	4	33
Managed Kubernetes	No	Yes
Support channels	Ticket, Docs, Community forum	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Phone (paid plans)
Compliance	GDPR	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (France), HDS (health data hosting, France)
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	IPv4 addresses billed separately per instance/Local Zone Windows license surcharge of $0.039/vCore/hour on top of base instance price APAC region (India, Singapore, Australia) outbound traffic loses free-egress status after 2026-06-01/2026-12-31 depending on product Object Storage Infrequent Access / Cold Archive / Active Archive have data-retrieval fees and minimum storage durations (30-180 days) with early-deletion penalties
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18