Backblaze vs Contabo

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Backblaze

A fraction of the cost of AWS S3
Easy migration, S3-compatible API
Several data centers in North America and Europe

Contabo

Low-cost VPS and dedicated servers
Offers GPUs and object storage too
Available in 9 regions around the world

Price comparison

How do Backblaze's prices compare against Contabo?

Example configuration	Backblaze	Contabo
VM Small	--	$4.62 / mo 4 vCPUs, 6 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 1)
VM Medium	--	$9.76 / mo 6 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 2)
VM Large	--	$14.38 / mo 8 vCPUs, 24 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 3)
Object Storage	$6.00 / mo 1 TB	$10.23 / mo 1 TB
Free egress allowance	3x the amount of data stored	10-324 TB per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$10.00 $0.01 / GB	Free and unlimited 10-324 TB per instance, then lower bandwidth

Contabo offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L40S	4x L40S	192GB	64	512GB	$4.08	Source
H100	4x H100	320GB	64	512GB	$9.99	Source

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Backblaze and Contabo offer:

Service	Backblaze	Contabo
GPU-powered Servers	--
Object Storage
Virtual Private Server (VPS)	--

Company details

	Backblaze	Contabo
Website	www.backblaze.com	contabo.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	Germany 🇩🇪
Founded	2007	2003
Data Center Locations	4	9
Example Customers	Kanopy, Steamlabs, Canal+, Fortune	--

	Backblaze
Website	www.backblaze.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2007
Data Center Locations	4
Example Customers	Kanopy, Steamlabs, Canal+, Fortune