Contabo vs Railway

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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

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	$5.09 / mo 4 vCPU, 6 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 1)	$30.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
VM Medium	$10.75 / mo 6 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 2)	$160.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM
VM Large	$15.84 / mo 8 vCPU, 24 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 3)	$320.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM
Block Storage	--	$15.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$11.27 / 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	$50.00 $0.05 / GB

Contabo GPUs

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L40S	1x L40S	48GB	32	106GB	$1.18	Source
H100	1x H100	80GB	32	106GB	$2.90	Source
H200 NVL	1x H200	141GB	32	213GB	$3.38	Source
L40S	4x L40S	192GB	64	512GB	$4.49	Source
H100	4x H100	320GB	64	512GB	$11.00	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)		--