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Contabo vs Fal.ai

Contabo vs Fal.ai

What's good about each

Contabo

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

Fal.ai

Optimized for fast inference, especially for generative media
Cost-effective, pay-as-you-go pricing model
Offers both serverless GPU instances

Price comparison

Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.

Service	Contabo	Fal.ai
Small VM	$6.35 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 4)	-- Not listed
Medium VM	$8.66 /mo 6 vCPU, 12 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 6)	-- Not listed
Large VM	$16.17 /mo 8 vCPU, 24 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 8)	-- Not listed
Object storage	$11.50 /mo 1 TB	-- Not listed
Egress allowance	Unlimited, fair usage policy applies 200 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s port by plan	-- Not listed

Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

GPUs

Contabo offers 4 GPU models, while Fal.ai offers 5. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU	Contabo	Fal.ai	Difference
RTX PRO 6000 2 configs · 2 configs	$2.25 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo)	$1.10 /GPU/hr Custom	2x more expensive on Contabo
H200 3 configs · 2 configs	$2.95 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo)	$2.10 /GPU/hr Custom	29% cheaper on Fal.ai
L40S 2 configs	$1.11 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo)	--	Contabo only
RTX PRO 5000 2 configs	$1.11 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo)	--	Contabo only
H100 2 configs	--	$1.89 /GPU/hr Custom	Fal.ai only
B300 2 configs	--	$4.49 /GPU/hr Custom	Fal.ai only
B200 2 configs	--	$3.49 /GPU/hr Custom	Fal.ai only

All 4 GPUs on Contabo All 5 GPUs on Fal.ai

Contabo bills reserved (1 months); Fal.ai bills on-demand and custom. The line under each price names the billing type shown.

Salad

Access 60,000+ daily active GPUs across 191 countries, from $0.02/hour

Run RTX 50-series and 40-series cards without datacenter pricing

Pick a priority level to balance cost against interruptions

Per-second billing, with no charge for cold starts or image pulls

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Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Service	Contabo	Fal.ai
GPU-powered Servers
Object Storage
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Fact	Contabo	Fal.ai
Founded	2003	2021
Headquarters	Germany	USA
Locations	9	--
Example customers	--	PlayAI, Quora Poe, Genspark, Hedra
Website	contabo.com	fal.ai

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Our data for Contabo was last updated on Aug. 31, 2026, and for Fal.ai on Aug. 31, 2026.