Contabo
Budget German cloud provider offering some of the lowest per-core/GB VPS pricing in the market.
Last updated 2026-07-18
- Starting price
- $5.28/mo
- Uptime SLA
- 99.90%
- Storage
- NVME
- Regions
- 4
- Managed K8s
- No
- Compliance
- GDPR
Best forBudget-conscious developersPersonal projectsStorage-heavy workloadsSelf-hosters
Price history
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- Current
- $5.28/mo
- Lowest tracked
- $5.28/mo
- Highest tracked
- $5.94/mo
- Price changes
- 1
- Last checked
- Sep 26, 2026
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Products and pricing
32 tiers
Entry-level SSD-backed virtual private servers optimized for cost efficiency on lighter workloads.
| Tier | Price | RAM | vCPU | Disk | Transfer | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud VPS 4 | $5.28/mo | 8 GB | 4 vCPU | 100 GB SSD | - | |
| Cloud VPS 6 | $7.2/mo | 12 GB | 6 vCPU | 200 GB SSD | - | |
| Cloud VPS 8 | $13.44/mo | 24 GB | 8 vCPU | 300 GB SSD | - | |
| Cloud VPS 12 | $24/mo | 48 GB | 12 vCPU | 400 GB SSD | - | |
| Cloud VPS 16 | $35.6/mo | 64 GB | 16 vCPU | 500 GB SSD | - | |
| Cloud VPS 18 | $47.04/mo | 96 GB | 18 vCPU | 600 GB SSD | - |
Hidden costs
- 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
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