Contabo Review
Contabo in its own words
German server provider | NVMe VPS from €5.99, $8.49 or £6.99 a month | Data Centers in the EU, US, UK, Singapore, Japan, and Australia | 20+ years of experience | 160K+ happy customers | #cloud #hosting #infrastructure
Contabo was founded as a VPS provider in 2003.
It is headquartered in Germany.
It offers Web, Dedicated and VPS hosting products.
- Australia
- Germany
- India
- Japan
- Singapore
- United Kingdom
- United States
Quick Links
| 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
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing 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 Datacenter 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 | No | |
| Firewall | No | |
| Shelving | No |
Pros and Cons
Strengths
- Modern EPYC CPUs in all VDS servers.
Weaknesses
- Setup fee on all new instances.
- Management UI has the minimum set of features.
- Location fee on all locations other than Germany.
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 | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22295s | 210s | 219600s | 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 | Description | Restriction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Object | 0.010€ |
S3-compatibility and built-in redundancy. No charges for data transfer and no long-term commitments. Prices valid for Europe and USA. Higher prices apply to Asia. Contabo object storage |
Minimum 250GB. Sold in 250GB slices (2.49€ / 250GB). |
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. |
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.
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Monthly Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family: Cloud VDS Instance Type: VDS |
Instantly deploy cloud virtual machines with dedicated RAM, CPU and 100% enterprise NVMe storage. |
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| Cloud VDS S NVMe | 3 | 24.0GB | 180GB | 42.99€ / month ($47.29 / month) |
| Cloud VDS M NVMe | 4 | 32.0GB | 240GB | 55.99€ / month ($61.59 / month) |
| Cloud VDS L NVMe | 6 | 48.0GB | 360GB | 79.99€ / month ($87.99 / month) |
| Cloud VDS XL NVMe | 8 | 64.0GB | 480GB | 102.99€ / month ($113.29 / month) |
| Family: Cloud VPS Instance Type: VPS |
High quality virtual private servers at a value (featuring AMD EPYC™ 7282 processors, NVMeSSDs, and a truckload of RAM and traffic). |
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| Cloud VPS 1 | 4 | 6.0GB | 100GB | 4.50€ / month ($4.95 / month) |
| Cloud VPS 2 | 6 | 16.0GB | 200GB | 9.50€ / month ($10.45 / month) |
| Cloud VPS 3 | 8 | 24.0GB | 300GB | 14.00€ / month ($15.40 / month) |
| Cloud VPS 6 | 24 | 120.0GB | 600GB | 61.50€ / month ($67.65 / month) |
| Instance Type: Other |
No description |
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| VDS M Singapore (Off rankings) | 4 | 32.0GB | 240GB | 64.99€ / month ($71.49 / month) |