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 Render

  • Offers managed services from caches to databases to cron jobs to background workers
  • Managed PostgreSQL supports point-in-time recovery
  • Generous free tier

Price comparison

How do Contabo's prices compare against Render?

Example configuration Contabo Render
VM Small $4.71 / mo 4 vCPUs, 6 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 1) $25.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Web Service)
VM Medium $9.95 / mo 6 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 2) $175.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Web Service)
VM Large $14.66 / mo 8 vCPUs, 24 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 3) $450.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (Web Service)
Block Storage -- $25.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $10.43 / mo 1 TB --
Load Balancer -- Included in plan
Managed PostgreSQL -- $95.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®* -- $32.00 / mo 1 GB RAM
Free egress allowance 10-324 TB per instance 100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan
1 TB of egress beyond allowance Free and unlimited 10-324 TB per instance, then lower bandwidth $300.00 Billed $30 / 100 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 Render offer:

Service Contabo Render
Block Storage --
Content Delivery Network (CDN) --
GPU-powered Servers --
Managed Containers --
Managed MySQL --
Managed PostgreSQL --
Managed Redis®* --
Object Storage --
Serverless Cron Jobs --
Static Sites --
Virtual Private Server (VPS) --

Company details

Contabo
Website contabo.com
Headquarters Germany 🇩🇪
Founded 2003
Data Center Locations 9
Example Customers --
Render
Website render.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2018
Data Center Locations 4
Example Customers Red Bull, Watershed, Equals, Felt

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Our data for Contabo was last updated on Oct. 7, 2024, and for Render on Nov. 12, 2024.