Contabo vs Fly.io

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Contabo

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

Fly.io

Excellent tooling and developer experience
Fast deployments, scale to zero, little config needed
Wide range of instance configurations at competitive prices

Price comparison

How do Contabo's prices compare against Fly.io?

Example configuration	Contabo	Fly.io
VM Small	$4.62 / mo 4 vCPUs, 6 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 1)	$10.70 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-1x)
VM Medium	$9.76 / mo 6 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 2)	$42.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-4x)
VM Large	$14.38 / mo 8 vCPUs, 24 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 3)	$328.04 / mo 8 CPU, 32 GB RAM (Performance-8x)
Block Storage	--	$15.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$10.23 / mo 1 TB	$21.00 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	--	Included in plan
Managed PostgreSQL	--	$33.90 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Free egress allowance	10-324 TB per instance	100 GB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	Free and unlimited 10-324 TB per instance, then lower bandwidth	$20.00 $0.02 / GB (Public network North America)

Contabo offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L40S	4x L40S	192GB	64	512GB	$4.08	Source
H100	4x H100	320GB	64	512GB	$9.99	Source

Fly.io offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L40S	1x L40S	48GB	--	--	$1.25	Source
A10	1x A10	24GB	--	--	$1.50	Source
A100 40G PCIe	1x A100	40GB	--	--	$2.50	Source
A100 80G SXM	1x A100	80GB	--	--	$3.50	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 Fly.io offer:

Service	Contabo	Fly.io
Block Storage	--
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer	--
Managed Containers	--
Managed Kubernetes	--
Managed PostgreSQL	--
Object Storage
Static Sites	--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

	Contabo	Fly.io
Website	contabo.com	fly.io
Headquarters	Germany 🇩🇪	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2003	2017
Data Center Locations	9	35
Example Customers	--	Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch

	Contabo
Website	contabo.com
Headquarters	Germany 🇩🇪
Founded	2003
Data Center Locations	9
Example Customers	--

	Fly.io
Website	fly.io
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2017
Data Center Locations	35
Example Customers	Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch