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 Railway

  • Super fast to deploy a container-based stack
  • You pay for actual usage, may result in big savings
  • Offers many deployment templates for common use cases

Price comparison

How do Contabo's prices compare against Railway?

Example configuration Contabo Railway
VM Small $4.72 / mo 4 vCPU, 6 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 1) $30.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
VM Medium $9.95 / mo 6 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 2) $160.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM
VM Large $14.67 / mo 8 vCPU, 24 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 3) $320.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM
Block Storage -- $25.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $10.44 / mo 1 TB --
Load Balancer -- Included in plan
Managed PostgreSQL -- $92.50 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®* -- $30.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
Free egress allowance 10-324 TB per instance --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance Free and unlimited 10-324 TB per instance, then lower bandwidth $100.00 $0.1 / GB

Contabo offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
L40S 4x L40S 192GB 64 512GB $4.16 Source
H100 4x H100 320GB 64 512GB $10.18 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 Railway offer:

Service Contabo Railway
Block Storage --
GPU-powered Servers --
Managed Containers --
Managed MySQL --
Managed PostgreSQL --
Managed Redis®* --
Object Storage --
Serverless Cron Jobs --
Virtual Private Server (VPS) --

Company details

Contabo
Website contabo.com
Headquarters Germany 🇩🇪
Founded 2003
Data Center Locations 9
Example Customers --
Railway
Website railway.app
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2020
Data Center Locations 4
Example Customers --

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Our data for Contabo was last updated on Feb. 14, 2025, and for Railway on Sept. 25, 2024.