Contabo vs GCP

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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

Google Cloud

Extensive range of managed services with a focus on big data and machine learning
BigQuery and Google Kubernetes Engine are widely considered industry-leading solutions
Strong community and developer tooling
40+ data centers around the world

Price comparison

How do Contabo's prices compare against Google Cloud?

Example configuration	Contabo	Google Cloud
VM Small	$4.68 / mo 4 vCPUs, 6 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 1)	$20.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (E2 custom)
VM Medium	$9.88 / mo 6 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 2)	$90.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)
VM Large	$14.57 / mo 8 vCPUs, 24 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 3)	$179.87 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)
Block Storage	--	$4.10 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$10.36 / mo 1 TB	$24.93 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	--	$29.44 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	--	$93.60 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	--	$35.28 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (Basic)
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$47.62 / mo 25M invocations, 2nd gen, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	10-324 TB per instance	Depends on service
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	Free and unlimited 10-324 TB per instance, then lower bandwidth	$120.00 $0.12 / GB (Premium network)

Contabo offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L40S	4x L40S	192GB	64	512GB	$4.13	Source
H100	4x H100	320GB	64	512GB	$10.11	Source

GCP offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
g2-standard-4	1x L4	24GB	4	16GB	$0.71	Source
g2-standard-8	1x L4	24GB	8	32GB	$0.85	Source
g2-standard-12	1x L4	24GB	12	48GB	$1.00	Source
g2-standard-16	1x L4	24GB	16	64GB	$1.15	Source
g2-standard-32	1x L4	24GB	32	128GB	$1.73	Source
g2-standard-24	2x L4	48GB	24	96GB	$2.00	Source
a2-highgpu-1g	1x A100	40GB	12	85GB	$3.67	Source
g2-standard-48	4x L4	96GB	48	192GB	$4.00	Source
a2-highgpu-2g	2x A100	80GB	24	170GB	$7.35	Source
g2-standard-96	8x L4	192GB	96	384GB	$8.00	Source
a2-highgpu-4g	4x A100	160GB	48	340GB	$14.69	Source
a2-highgpu-8g	8x A100	320GB	96	680GB	$29.39	Source
a2-megagpu-16g	16x A100	640GB	96	1360GB	$55.74	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 Google Cloud offer:

Service	Contabo	Google Cloud
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	Google Cloud
Website	contabo.com	cloud.google.com
Headquarters	Germany 🇩🇪	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2003	2008
Data Center Locations	9	40
Example Customers	--	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank

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

	Google Cloud
Website	cloud.google.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008
Data Center Locations	40
Example Customers	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank