What's good about...
Contabo
- Low-cost VPS and dedicated servers
- Offers GPUs and object storage too
- Available in 9 regions around the world
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 |
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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 | |
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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 |
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Block Storage | -- | |
GPU-powered Servers | -- | |
Managed Containers | -- | |
Managed MySQL | -- | |
Managed PostgreSQL | -- | |
Managed Redis®* | -- | |
Object Storage | -- | |
Serverless Cron Jobs | -- | |
Virtual Private Server (VPS) | -- |
Company details
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Website | contabo.com | railway.app |
Headquarters | Germany 🇩🇪 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2003 | 2020 |
Data Center Locations | 9 | 4 |
Example Customers | -- | -- |
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Website | contabo.com |
Headquarters | Germany 🇩🇪 |
Founded | 2003 |
Data Center Locations | 9 |
Example Customers | -- |
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Website | railway.app |
Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2020 |
Data Center Locations | 4 |
Example Customers | -- |
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More comparisonsOur data for Contabo was last updated on Feb. 14, 2025, and for Railway on Sept. 25, 2024.