What's good about...

Cloudflare logo Cloudflare

  • Consolidates many edge services under one platform: DNS, Load Balancing, caching, image optimization, serverless functions
  • Massive edge network that can handle large DDoS attacks
  • Very generous free tier, affordable paid plans

Cloudflare logo Contabo

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

Price comparison

How do Cloudflare's prices compare against Contabo?

Example configuration Cloudflare Contabo
VM Small -- $4.90 / mo 4 vCPUs, 6 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 1)
VM Medium -- $10.35 / mo 6 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 2)
VM Large -- $15.26 / mo 8 vCPUs, 24 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 3)
Object Storage $19.86 / mo 1 TB $10.85 / mo 1 TB
Serverless 25M Executions $82.50 / mo 25M invocations, 150 ms duration --
Free egress allowance -- 10-324 TB per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance Free for most services 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 $4.33
H100 4x H100 320GB 64 512GB $10.59

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 of the managed services that Cloudflare and Contabo offer:

Service Cloudflare Contabo
Content Delivery Network (CDN) --
GPU-powered Servers --
Load Balancer --
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs --
Serverless Functions --
Static Sites --
Virtual Private Server (VPS) --

Company details

Cloudflare
Website cloudflare.com
Headquarters United States of America πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
Founded 2009
Data Center Locations 285
Example Customers Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify
Contabo
Website contabo.com
Headquarters Germany πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ
Founded 2003
Data Center Locations 9
Example Customers --

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Our data for Cloudflare was last updated on July 24, 2024, and for Contabo on Oct. 7, 2024.