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 Hetzner

  • High performance VPS configurations at affordable prices (shared, high memory, dedicated CPU)
  • Easy to use web console & developer tooling (Terraform SDKs, official CLI)
  • EU-based company, may simplify GDPR compliance for some

Price comparison

How do Contabo's prices compare against Hetzner?

Example configuration Contabo Hetzner
VM Small $4.90 / mo 4 vCPUs, 6 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 1) $4.91 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (CX22)
VM Medium $10.35 / mo 6 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 2) $8.82 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CX32)
VM Large $15.26 / mo 8 vCPUs, 24 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 3) $21.27 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CX42)
Block Storage -- $5.66 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $10.85 / mo 1 TB $5.45 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer -- $6.93 / mo LB11
Free egress allowance 10-324 TB per instance 20-60 TB / mo per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance Free and unlimited 10-324 TB per instance, then lower bandwidth $1.09 €1 / TB

Contabo offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
L40S 4x L40S 192GB 64 512GB $4.33
H100 4x H100 320GB 64 512GB $10.59

Hetzner offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
GEX44 1x RTX4000 20GB 14 64GB $0.38
GEX130 1x A6000 48GB 24 128GB $1.74

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 of the managed services that Contabo and Hetzner offer:

Service Contabo Hetzner
Block Storage --
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer --
Object Storage
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Contabo
Website contabo.com
Headquarters Germany 🇩🇪
Founded 2003
Data Center Locations 9
Example Customers --
Hetzner
Website hetzner.com
Headquarters Germany 🇩🇪
Founded 1997
Data Center Locations 6
Example Customers Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc

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Our data for Contabo was last updated on Oct. 7, 2024, and for Hetzner on Oct. 7, 2024.