Contabo vs Vultr

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

Feature	Contabo	Vultr
Starting price	$3.23/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	Budget-conscious developers Personal projects Storage-heavy workloads Self-hosters	Developers GPU/AI workloads Price-sensitive scaling
Stated uptime SLA	99.90%	100% network uptime SLA
Storage	NVME	NVME
Regions	4	32
Managed Kubernetes	No	Yes
Support channels	Ticket, Docs, Community forum	Ticket, Docs, Community
Compliance	GDPR	SOC 2, 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	Bandwidth overage rate varies by data center location Windows license cost not included in base price
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18