Contabo alternatives
ServerDB compares the 27 Contabo plans (Dedicated servers, VPS, and GPU servers) with the current plans of 28 other providers. The cheapest comparable plan costs $5.15 per month (Server4You, “VPS STANDARD 200 GB SSD (St. Louis)”).
Comparable means: the same product type, at least the same vCPU/cores, RAM and storage but at most twice the vCPU/cores and RAM, and for GPU plans the same GPU model. For 3 of the 28 providers the cheapest comparable plans cost less than the matching Contabo plans (median).
- Alternative providers
- 28
- Comparable plans
- 959
- Contabo plans compared
- 27
- Cheapest comparable (per month)
- $5.15
Prices in USD. Offers priced in other currencies are converted at the ECB rate of Oct 23, 2026 and rounded (≈).
Providers with plans comparable to Contabo
| Provider | Comparable plans | Contabo plans covered | Cheapest comparable plan | Price vs. Contabo (median) | Locations | Hourly billing | In stock |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hetzner Online Dedicated servers, VPS, GPU servers | 43 | 19 of 27 | CPX32 ≈ $40.39 | 268% more expensive cheaper for 1 of 19 plans | Finland, Germany, Singapore and 1 more | 43 plans | 42 plans |
| DigitalOcean VPS | 93 | 18 of 27 | Basic 8GB-2vCPU Premium Intel $48.00 | 678% more expensive cheaper for 0 of 18 plans | Australia, Canada, Germany and 5 more | no | not reported |
| Netcup VPS | 14 | 17 of 27 | VPS 1000 ARM G12.5 ≈ $15.16 | 74% more expensive cheaper for 1 of 17 plans | Austria, Germany, United States and 2 more | no | not reported |
| Linode (Akamai) VPS | 12 | 17 of 27 | Linode 8GB $48.00 | 480% more expensive cheaper for 0 of 17 plans | Australia, Brazil, Canada and 12 more | no | not reported |
| AWS Lightsail VPS | 23 | 14 of 27 | Lightsail Compute Optimized 4 GB $42.00 | 760% more expensive cheaper for 0 of 14 plans | Australia, Canada, France and 14 more | 23 plans | not reported |
| Atlantic.Net VPS | 14 | 14 of 27 | General Purpose G3.8GB, 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM $40.00 | 548% more expensive cheaper for 0 of 14 plans | Canada, Singapore, United Kingdom and 1 more | 14 plans | not reported |
| Hostwinds VPS | 6 | 14 of 27 | Unmanaged Linux VPS SSD Cloud 5 $38.99 | 334% more expensive cheaper for 0 of 14 plans | Netherlands and United States | 6 plans | not reported |
| Gcore Dedicated servers, VPS | 80 | 13 of 27 | KVM-SSD-5-ANX (Ashburn) $26.20 | 73% more expensive cheaper for 2 of 13 plans | United States, Israel, Netherlands and 26 more | no | not reported |
| Cherry Servers Dedicated servers, VPS | 13 | 13 of 27 | Cloud VDS 2 ≈ $55.00 | 153% more expensive cheaper for 0 of 13 plans | United States, Singapore, Lithuania and 3 more | 13 plans | 13 plans |
| Cloudzy VPS | 11 | 12 of 27 | High Frequency VPS 8 GB $52.95 | 758% more expensive cheaper for 0 of 12 plans | United States, Netherlands, Australia and 4 more | 11 plans | 11 plans |
| UpCloud VPS, GPU servers | 32 | 11 of 27 | Premium 8 GB 4CPU ≈ $58.36 | 581% more expensive cheaper for 0 of 11 plans | Australia, Denmark, Finland and 9 more | 32 plans | not reported |
| Worldstream Dedicated servers, VPS, GPU servers | 15 | 11 of 27 | Flexible VPS Standard Medium ≈ $23.31 | 134% more expensive cheaper for 1 of 11 plans | Netherlands and Germany | no | 8 plans |
| BandwagonHost VPS | 31 | 8 of 27 | 160G KVM - PROMO $39.99 | 684% more expensive cheaper for 0 of 8 plans | United States, Japan, Canada and 4 more | no | 31 plans |
| Hivelocity Dedicated servers, VPS | 20 | 8 of 27 | Virtual Shared VPS pro.lg.amd, 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM $39.00 | 297% more expensive cheaper for 0 of 8 plans | United States, Netherlands, and Germany | no | 20 plans |
| RackNerd Dedicated servers, VPS | 22 | 7 of 27 | KVM VPS 8 GB $36.59 | 163% more expensive cheaper for 0 of 7 plans | United States, Canada, United Kingdom and 3 more | no | not reported |
| Civo VPS | 11 | 7 of 27 | Standard Large $43.45 | 932% more expensive cheaper for 0 of 7 plans | Germany, India, United Kingdom and 1 more | 11 plans | not reported |
| Exoscale VPS, GPU servers | 16 | 6 of 27 | Storage Optimized Huge (Vienna) ≈ $229 | 1,822% more expensive cheaper for 0 of 6 plans | Austria, Bulgaria, Germany and 1 more | 16 plans | not reported |
| Sharktech Dedicated servers, VPS | 6 | 6 of 27 | SmartVPS M, 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM $25.95 | 98% more expensive cheaper for 1 of 6 plans | United States and Netherlands | no | 3 plans |
| Verda VPS, GPU servers | 13 | 5 of 27 | AMD Rome+ 8 vCPU / 32 GB (CPU.8V.32G) $70.08 | 346% more expensive cheaper for 0 of 5 plans | Finland | 13 plans | not reported |
| Ikoula Dedicated servers, VPS | 6 | 5 of 27 | Linux VPS 8vCPU 16GB 25GB ≈ $27.51 | 188% more expensive cheaper for 1 of 5 plans | France | no | not reported |
| OVHcloud Dedicated servers | 35 | 4 of 27 | KS-7 (Beauharnois) ≈ $69.79 | 42% cheaper cheaper for 3 of 4 plans | France, Germany, Poland and 5 more | no | 13 plans |
| Server4You Dedicated servers, VPS | 5 | 4 of 27 | VPS STANDARD 200 GB SSD (St. Louis) $5.15 | 27% cheaper cheaper for 3 of 4 plans | United States and France | no | not reported |
| IONOS Dedicated servers, VPS | 4 | 4 of 27 | VPS XL+ (Berlin) $44.00 | 291% more expensive cheaper for 0 of 4 plans | France, Germany, Spain and 2 more | no | not reported |
| Melbicom Dedicated servers | 360 | 3 of 27 | 2xXeon E5-2630 v3 2.40 GHz (64GB, Amsterdam) ≈ $254 | 52% more expensive cheaper for 0 of 3 plans | Netherlands, Germany, Singapore and 9 more | no | not reported |
| Leaseweb Dedicated servers | 62 | 3 of 27 | Supermicro 826BA-R920LPB-X10DRHCT 2x Intel Xeon E5-2670V3 ≈ $102 | 39% cheaper cheaper for 3 of 3 plans | Netherlands, Germany, United States and 6 more | no | 62 plans |
| PrepaidHoster VPS | 6 | 3 of 27 | Smart Value Basic 2 ≈ $10.94 | 34% more expensive cheaper for 0 of 3 plans | Germany | no | 6 plans |
| Hostinger VPS | 2 | 3 of 27 | KVM 4 $28.99 | 218% more expensive cheaper for 0 of 3 plans | Brazil, India, Indonesia and 3 more | no | not reported |
| RunPod GPU servers | 4 | 1 of 27 | 1x RTX PRO 6000 MaxQ (Community Cloud) $1,197 | 7% more expensive cheaper for 0 of 1 plans | Czech Republic, Iceland, Romania and 3 more | 4 plans | not reported |
Dedicated servers: Contabo plans and their cheapest alternative
| Contabo plan | Cheapest comparable plan | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 12 Core 12 cores · 64 GB RAM · 1 TB ≈ $167 | Hetzner Online: EX44 (64GB) 14 cores · 64 GB RAM · 1 TB ≈ $66.22 | 60% cheaper |
| AMD Genoa 24 Core 24 cores · 128 GB RAM · 2 TB ≈ $223 | OVHcloud: KS-7 (Beauharnois) 24 cores · 128 GB RAM · 8 TB ≈ $69.79 | 69% cheaper |
| AMD Turin 32 Core 32 cores · 128 GB RAM · 2 TB ≈ $448 | Leaseweb: HP DL380 G10 (12 LFF) 2x Intel Xeon 5218 32 cores · 128 GB RAM · 4.1 TB ≈ $223 | 50% cheaper |
| AMD Turin 64 Core 64 cores · 192 GB RAM · 2 TB ≈ $785 | Cherry Servers: AMD EPYC 9554P 64 cores · 384 GB RAM · 2 TB ≈ $829 | 6% more expensive |
VPS: Contabo plans and their cheapest alternative
| Contabo plan | Cheapest comparable plan | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud VPS 4 4 cores · 8 GB RAM · 100 GB ≈ $6.17 | Server4You: VPS PROFESSIONAL 300 GB SSD (St. Louis) 4 cores · 16 GB RAM · 300 GB $9.45 | 53% more expensive |
| Storage VPS 10 2 cores · 4 GB RAM · 150 GB ≈ $6.17 | Server4You: VPS STANDARD 200 GB SSD (St. Louis) 2 cores · 8 GB RAM · 200 GB $5.15 | 17% cheaper |
| Cloud VPS 6 6 cores · 12 GB RAM ≈ $8.42 | PrepaidHoster: Essential 12 6 cores · 12 GB RAM · 50 GB ≈ $11.31 | 34% more expensive |
| Storage VPS 20 3 cores · 8 GB RAM · 400 GB ≈ $8.42 | Gcore: KVM-HIGHCPU-SSD-4-SCL2 (Santa Clara) 6 cores · 8 GB RAM · 400 GB $44.85 | 433% more expensive |
| Cloud VPS Plus 4 4 cores · 8 GB RAM · 150 GB ≈ $15.15 | Server4You: VPS PROFESSIONAL 300 GB SSD (St. Louis) 4 cores · 16 GB RAM · 300 GB $9.45 | 38% cheaper |
GPU servers: Contabo plans and their cheapest alternative
| Contabo plan | Cheapest comparable plan | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| GPU VPS 18 cores · 96 GB RAM · 900 GB ≈ $1,121 | Hetzner Online: GEX63 (128GB) 20 cores · 128 GB RAM · 3.9 TB ≈ $1,121 | same price |
How the comparison works
- Plans are compared per product type (VPS, dedicated, GPU). Each provider plan counts once, with its cheapest location.
- A plan is comparable when it has at least the same vCPU/cores, RAM and storage, at most twice the vCPU/cores and RAM. SSD or NVMe plans are not replaced by HDD-only plans, and dedicated vCPUs stay dedicated.
- GPU plans are comparable when they use the same GPU model and, if both plans state it, the same number of GPUs.
- Only plans that are available now count. Refurbished Hetzner auction servers are left out because they are single machines.
- Prices are compared per month in US dollars at the ECB rate; cores and vCPUs are counted as the providers state them.
- Providers are listed by how many of the original plans they can replace, then by number of comparable plans and price difference.
Frequently asked questions
Which providers are comparable to Contabo?
ServerDB finds 28 providers with plans comparable to Contabo. Most Contabo plans are covered by (plans covered / compared): Hetzner Online (19/27), DigitalOcean (18/27), Netcup (17/27), Linode (Akamai) (17/27), and AWS Lightsail (14/27).
Which Contabo alternative is the cheapest?
Among the providers that cover at least 3 Contabo plans, OVHcloud has the lowest median price difference: its cheapest comparable plans are 42% cheaper than the matching Contabo plans (median over 4 plans). The cheapest single comparable plan is “VPS STANDARD 200 GB SSD (St. Louis)” from Server4You at $5.15 per month.
Which Contabo alternatives offer hourly billing?
These providers have comparable plans that can be billed per hour: Hetzner Online, UpCloud, AWS Lightsail, Exoscale, Atlantic.Net, and Cherry Servers.
Where are the alternatives located?
Comparable plans are offered in 45 countries. Most providers have them in United States, Germany, Netherlands, Singapore, and United Kingdom.
What counts as a comparable plan?
A comparable plan is the same product type with at least the same vCPU/cores, RAM and storage (at most twice the vCPU/cores and RAM). GPU plans need the same GPU model. The prices are compared per month.