Contabo vs Fluidstack

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What's good about...

Contabo

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

Fluidstack

Managed Slurm and Kubernetes clusters on bare metal
Active and passive cluster health checks with observability
ClusterMAX Gold rating from SemiAnalysis
Custom data centers built for a single customer's workload

Price comparison

How do Contabo's prices compare against Fluidstack?

VM Small

Contabo

$6.38 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 4)

Fluidstack

VM Medium

Contabo

$8.69 /mo 6 vCPU, 12 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 6)

Fluidstack

VM Large

Contabo

$16.23 /mo 8 vCPU, 24 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 8)

Fluidstack

Object Storage

Contabo

$11.55 /mo 1 TB

Fluidstack

Free egress allowance

Contabo

Unlimited, fair usage policy applies 200 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s port by plan

Fluidstack

Fluidstack Pricing Details

Fluidstack publishes no public rates. Capacity is contracted directly and quoted per deal, and there is no self-serve hourly option or online signup.

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Contabo

Reserved (1mo)

Fluidstack

Available Models

Contabo offers 4 GPU models.

Contabo

H200(3)

RTX PRO 6000(2)

L40S(2)

RTX PRO 5000(2)

Fluidstack

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Lium

Built for agents: CLI, SDK and MCP server. Your agent rents and runs GPUs itself.

A permissionless marketplace. 1000+ nodes from independent providers worldwide.

Hard to find nodes available; B200 and B300 Blackwell nodes listed now.

Consumer + DC grade cards for cheap. H100s from $1/hr, RTX 5090s from $0.35/hr.

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