What's good about...
Contabo
- Low-cost VPS and dedicated servers
- Offers GPUs and object storage too
- Available in 9 regions around the world
DigitalOcean
- Wide range of managed services: from databases to serverless to Kubernetes
- Many VPS configurations available (GPUs, high memory, dedicated CPU)
- Plenty of datacenter locations around the world
- There's lots of guides, docs and community tutorials online
Price comparison
How do Contabo's prices compare against DigitalOcean?
| Example configuration |
Contabo
|
DigitalOcean
|
|---|---|---|
| VM Small | $4.71 / mo 4 vCPUs, 6 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 1) | $6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic) |
| VM Medium | $9.95 / mo 6 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 2) | $48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) |
| VM Large | $14.66 / mo 8 vCPUs, 24 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 3) | $168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) |
| Block Storage | -- | $10.00 / mo 100 GB |
| Object Storage | $10.43 / mo 1 TB | $20.00 / mo 1 TiB |
| Load Balancer | -- | $12.00 / mo |
| Managed PostgreSQL | -- | $60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage |
| Managed Redis®* | -- | $15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM |
| Serverless 25M Executions | -- | $34.69 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration |
| Free egress allowance | 10-324 TB per instance | 100 GB - 10 TB / mo per instance |
| 1 TB of egress beyond allowance | Free and unlimited 10-324 TB per instance, then lower bandwidth | $10.00 $0.01 / GB |
Contabo offers GPUs in the following configurations:
| Name | GPUs | VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Price/h | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L40S | 4x L40S | 192GB | 64 | 512GB | $4.16 | Source |
| H100 | 4x H100 | 320GB | 64 | 512GB | $10.18 | Source |
DigitalOcean offers GPUs in the following configurations:
| Name | GPUs | VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Price/h | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nvidia H100 SXM | 1x H100 | 80GB | 20 | 240GB | $3.39 | Launch |
| Nvidia H100 SXM | 8x H100 | 640GB | 160 | 1920GB | $23.92 | Launch |
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 Contabo and DigitalOcean offer:
| Service |
Contabo
|
DigitalOcean
|
|---|---|---|
| Block Storage | -- | |
| Content Delivery Network (CDN) | -- | |
| Container Registry | -- | |
| GPU-powered Servers | ||
| Load Balancer | -- | |
| Managed Containers | -- | |
| Managed Kubernetes | -- | |
| Managed MySQL | -- | |
| Managed PostgreSQL | -- | |
| Managed Redis®* | -- | |
| Object Storage | ||
| Serverless Cron Jobs | -- | |
| Serverless Functions | -- | |
| Static Sites | -- | |
| Virtual Private Server (VPS) |
Company details
|
Contabo
|
DigitalOcean
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Website | contabo.com | digitalocean.com |
| Headquarters | Germany 🇩🇪 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2003 | 2011 |
| Data Center Locations | 9 | 14 |
| Example Customers | -- | Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai |
|
Contabo
|
|
|---|---|
| Website | contabo.com |
| Headquarters | Germany 🇩🇪 |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Data Center Locations | 9 |
| Example Customers | -- |
|
DigitalOcean
|
|
|---|---|
| Website | digitalocean.com |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Data Center Locations | 14 |
| Example Customers | Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai |
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Our data for Contabo was last updated on Oct. 7, 2024, and for DigitalOcean on Dec. 12, 2024.