Contabo Review
Contabo in its own words
Contabo is a German cloud provider offering high-performance VPS with physical CPU cores, NVMe storage, and generous RAM, starting at just €4.50 / $5.50 / £4.50 per month. With 12 global locations across the EU, US, UK, Singapore, Japan, Australia and India, Contabo delivers low-latency, reliable infrastructure for developers, startups, and businesses worldwide.
Trusted by over 200,000 customers in 21+ years of service.
Learn more at contabo.com
Contabo was founded as a VPS provider in 2003.
It is headquartered in Germany.
It offers Web, Dedicated and VPS hosting products.
- Australia
- France
- Germany
- India
- Japan
- Singapore
- United Kingdom
- United States
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Contabo plans specs and prices
Plans
Contabo instance types
Instance Types
How fast are Contabo servers? Check them out in the Screener
Screener
List of Contabo trials
Trials
Review CPU models found in Contabo trials
CPUs
Performance variations of Contabo VPS over the long term
Consistency
List of Contabo yabs.sh results
Yabs
Contabo VPS Features
| Contabo plans specs and prices | Plans |
| Contabo instance types | Instance Types |
| How fast are Contabo servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of Contabo trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in Contabo trials | CPUs |
| Performance variations of Contabo VPS over the long term | Consistency |
| List of Contabo yabs.sh results | Yabs |
Features not included in VPS prices or that can't be managed from the provider control panel are marked as missing in the table below.
| Feature | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly Billing | No | |
| DDOS Protection | Yes |
Included in server price. https://contabo.com/?show=ddos_protection |
| Backups | Yes |
VPS snapshots are available for free. |
| Control Panel | custom | |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 12 | |
| Number of Data Center Continents | 4 | |
| Monitoring Charts | No |
No chart. |
| Admin REST API | Yes | |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | Yes | |
| Mobile Friendly UI | No | |
| Reverse DNS | Yes | |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit cards, Paypal, bank transfers, Skrilla | |
| Hidden CPU Model | No | |
| Affiliate Program | Yes | |
| IPv6 support | Yes | |
| Firewall | No | |
| Shelving | No |
Contabo Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, Contabo also sells the services marked green in the following table:
| Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer |
| Floating IP addresses | Team Management | Managed databases | Serverless |
| DDoS protection | Kubernetes | GPU instances | Private network |
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
For each Contabo VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server from the moment it was ordered to the moment it accepted SSH connections.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
| Average Provisioning Time | Median Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81s | 70s | 45s | 160s | 10 |
Control Panel Screenshots
Cloud Storage Prices
For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage Prices page.
| Storage Type | Price / GB / month & Request Pricing | Description |
Restriction
Extra capacity provisioning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Object | 0.010€ |
S3-compatibility and built-in redundancy. No charges for data transfer and no long-term commitments. Contabo object storage |
Minimum 250GB. Sold in 250GB slices (2.49€ / 250GB).
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Network Bandwidth Prices
These are the network bandwidth prices charged by Contabo for outbound transfers from VPS to the internet.
For a comparison of bandwidth prices from all providers, go to the Network Bandwitdh Prices page.
| Description | Price / GB |
|---|---|
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Pricing model: Allowance Then Throttled
(the provider gives a free bandwidth allowance with each server. Bandwidth above the free allowance is throttled.)
Free allowance: 32 TB / month
(for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available)
Transfer pool: no
Contabo networking
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This provider does not charge for bandwidth. |
Recent Performance Trials
| Instance Type | Plan | Date | Score | PW Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud VDS / VDS | Cloud VDS M 2025 (Off rankings) | Jun 11 2026 | 54 | 87 |
| Cloud VPS / VPS | Cloud VPS 20 (Off rankings) | Apr 27 2026 | 23 | 54 |
| Cloud VDS / VDS | Cloud VDS XL 2025 (Off rankings) | Mar 12 2026 | 61 | 90 |
| Cloud VDS / VDS | Cloud VDS S NVMe (Off rankings) | Jan 26 2026 | 55 | 86 |
Contabo Instance Types and Plans
Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions unless noted otherwise. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.
Cloud Server Plans
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Monthly Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family: Cloud VPS | ||||
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Instance Type: Performance VPS |
High-performance VPS with AMD EPYC CPUs, NVMe storage, and high bandwidth for compute-focused workloads. |
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| Cloud VPS Plus 4 | 4 | 8.0GB | 150GB | 13.50€ / month ($15.80 / month) |
| Cloud VPS Plus 8 | 8 | 24.0GB | 450GB | 35.00€ / month ($40.95 / month) |
| Cloud VPS Plus 16 | 16 | 64.0GB | 750GB | 79.00€ / month ($92.43 / month) |
| Cloud VPS Plus 18 | 18 | 96.0GB | 900GB | 99.00€ / month ($115.83 / month) |
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Instance Type: Core VPS |
Contabo's entry level product line with high vCPU, high RAM over cost ratio. All plans come with free snapshots and unlimited traffic. |
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| Cloud VPS 4 | 4 | 8.0GB | 100GB | 5.50€ / month ($6.44 / month) |
| Cloud VPS 8 | 8 | 24.0GB | 300GB | 14.00€ / month ($16.38 / month) |
| Cloud VPS 16 | 16 | 64.0GB | 500GB | 37.00€ / month ($43.29 / month) |
| Cloud VPS 18 | 18 | 96.0GB | 600GB | 49.00€ / month ($57.33 / month) |
| Family: Cloud VDS | ||||
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Instance Type: Max Performance VPS |
Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) with dedicated AMD EPYC cores, guaranteed RAM, and NVMe storage. No noisy neighbors. |
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| Cloud VDS S | 6 | 24.0GB | 180GB | 39.00€ / month ($45.63 / month) |
| Cloud VDS M | 8 | 32.0GB | 240GB | 49.00€ / month ($57.33 / month) |
| Cloud VDS XL | 16 | 64.0GB | 480GB | 94.00€ / month ($109.98 / month) |