Contabo vs Render

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

Feature	Contabo	Render
Starting price	$3.23/mo	$0.25/mo
Best for	Budget-conscious developers Personal projects Storage-heavy workloads Self-hosters	Developers Startups Full-stack web apps APIs Small teams replacing Heroku
Stated uptime SLA	99.90%	99.95%
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	4	4
Managed Kubernetes	No	No
Support channels	Ticket, Docs, Community forum	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Priority support on Pro/Scale/Enterprise
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	Persistent disk storage billed separately at $0.25/GB/month Bandwidth overage billed per-GB beyond workspace plan allowance (best-available figure ~$0.15/GB, exact current rate not printed on fetched docs page) Additional custom domains beyond plan allowance billed at $0.25/month each Postgres storage overage billed at roughly $0.30/GB/month beyond included storage Instances billed by the second while running, so scale-to-zero / suspended services still show partial-month charges for the time they were up
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18