What's good about...

Contabo logo Contabo

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

Contabo logo Exoscale

  • Wide range of managed services at competitive prices
  • Offers GPUs such as the Nvidia A40, P100, and V100
  • Based in Switzerland, may ease compliance requirements

Price comparison

How do Contabo's prices compare against Exoscale?

Example configuration Contabo Exoscale
VM Small $4.76 / mo 4 vCPUs, 6 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 1) $10.50 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Tiny)
VM Medium $10.05 / mo 6 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 2) $67.20 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large)
VM Large $14.81 / mo 8 vCPUs, 24 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 3) $168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-optimized XL)
Block Storage -- $10.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $10.54 / mo 1 TB $19.80 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer -- $25.00 / mo Network Load Balancer
Managed PostgreSQL -- $98.49 / mo 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Startup-4)
Managed Redis®* -- $42.44 / mo 2 GB RAM (Hobbyist-2)
Free egress allowance 10-324 TB per instance 1 TB / mo per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance Free and unlimited 10-324 TB per instance, then lower bandwidth $20.00 $0.02 / GB

Contabo offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
L40S 4x L40S 192GB 64 512GB $4.20 Source
H100 4x H100 320GB 64 512GB $10.28 Source

Exoscale offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
Small 1x P100 16GB 12 56GB $1.17 Source
Small 1x V100 16GB 12 56GB $1.38 Source
Medium 2x P100 32GB 16 90GB $1.71 Source
Medium 2x V100 32GB 16 90GB $2.01 Source
Small 1x A40 48GB 12 56GB $2.14 Source
Large 3x P100 48GB 24 120GB $2.25 Source
Large 3x V100 48GB 24 120GB $2.65 Source
Huge 4x P100 64GB 48 225GB $2.82 Source
Huge 4x V100 64GB 48 225GB $3.32 Source
Medium 2x A40 96GB 24 120GB $4.27 Source
Large 4x A40 192GB 48 224GB $8.54 Source
Huge 8x A40 384GB 96 448GB $17.06 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 Contabo and Exoscale offer:

Service Contabo Exoscale
Block Storage --
Content Delivery Network (CDN) --
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer --
Managed Kubernetes --
Managed MySQL --
Managed PostgreSQL --
Managed Redis®* --
Object Storage
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Contabo
Website contabo.com
Headquarters Germany 🇩🇪
Founded 2003
Data Center Locations 9
Example Customers --
Exoscale
Website www.exoscale.com
Headquarters Switzerland 🇨🇭
Founded 2011
Data Center Locations 7
Example Customers --

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Our data for Contabo was last updated on Oct. 7, 2024, and for Exoscale on Nov. 18, 2024.