Contabo vs Railway: Pricing & Features Compared (2026)

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

Billed by the second on actual CPU and memory utilization
App Sleeping reduces costs on low-traffic workloads
Self-owned hardware across US, EU, and Asia
Template directory with a 15% kickback for template authors, 25% with active support

Price comparison

How do Contabo's prices compare against Railway?

VM Small

Contabo

$6.38 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 4)

Railway

$30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM

VM Medium

Contabo

$8.69 /mo 6 vCPU, 12 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 6)

Railway

$160.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM

VM Large

Contabo

$16.23 /mo 8 vCPU, 24 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 8)

Railway

$320.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM

Block Storage

Contabo

Railway

$15.00 /mo 100 GB

Object Storage

Contabo

$11.55 /mo 1 TB

Railway

$15.00 /mo 1 TB

Load Balancer

Contabo

Railway

Included in plan

Managed PostgreSQL

Contabo

Railway

$87.50 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage

Managed Redis®*

Contabo

Railway

$30.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM

Free egress allowance

Contabo

Unlimited, fair usage policy applies 200 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s port by plan

Railway

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Contabo

Railway

$50.00 $0.05 / GB

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Contabo

Reserved (1mo)

Railway

Available Models

Contabo offers 4 GPU models.

Contabo

H200(3)

RTX PRO 6000(2)

L40S(2)

RTX PRO 5000(2)

Railway

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

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