Contabo vs HIGHRESO

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

HIGHRESO

GPUs from A4000 and A100 to H200 and B200
Four company-owned GPU datacenters across Japan
Data transfer included in instance pricing
Japanese-language engineering support

Price comparison

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

Service	Contabo	HIGHRESO
Small VM	$6.27 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 4)	-- Not listed
Medium VM	$8.55 /mo 6 vCPU, 12 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 6)	-- Not listed
Large VM	$15.96 /mo 8 vCPU, 24 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 8)	-- Not listed
Object storage	$11.36 /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 and HIGHRESO each offer 4 GPU models. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU	Contabo	HIGHRESO	Difference
H200 3 configs · 1 config	$2.91 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo)	-- On request
RTX PRO 6000 2 configs	$2.22 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo)	--	Contabo only
L40S 2 configs	$1.09 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo)	--	Contabo only
RTX PRO 5000 2 configs	$1.09 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo)	--	Contabo only
B200 1 config	--	-- On request	HIGHRESO only
A100 4 configs	--	-- On request	HIGHRESO only
A4000 1 config	--	-- On request	HIGHRESO only

All 4 GPUs on Contabo All 4 GPUs on HIGHRESO

Contabo bills reserved (1 months). The line under each price names the billing type shown.

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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Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Service	Contabo	HIGHRESO
GPU-powered Servers
Object Storage
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Compliance

Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.

Framework	Contabo	HIGHRESO
GDPR	Yes	--

Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.

Company details

Fact	Contabo	HIGHRESO
Founded	2003	2007
Headquarters	Germany	Japan
Locations	9	4
Example customers	--	Senju Pharmaceutical, Nagase & Co., Tohoku University, Kyoto University, Waseda University, NTT PC Communications
Website	contabo.com	highreso.jp

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Our data for Contabo was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for HIGHRESO on Sept. 18, 2026.