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Contabo vs Hostinger
Entry prices are within a dollar of each other (Contabo $6.60, Hostinger $6.49), so price alone does not decide it. Hostinger's entry price needs a 24-month commitment; Contabo's does not. Hostinger lists more regions, which matters if latency to a specific city is your constraint. Contabo is the better pick for home labs, dev boxes and low-traffic apps where memory and disk matter more than sub-millisecond IOPS.
Contabo
$6.60/mo entry
Home labs, dev boxes and low-traffic apps where memory and disk matter more than sub-millisecond IOPS.
Hostinger
$6.49/mo entry
Buyers ready to prepay two years who want the most RAM for the upfront price.
Specification differences
Entry plans compared line by line. Rows marked with a dash are preferences rather than measurable wins, so we do not pick a side on them.
| Attribute | Contabo | Hostinger | Better |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry plan price / month | $6.60 | $6.49 | Hostinger |
| Entry plan vCPU | 4 | 1 | Contabo |
| Entry plan RAM | 8 GB | 4 GB | Contabo |
| Entry plan storage | 100 GB | 50 GB | Contabo |
| Listed regions | 9 | 10 | Hostinger |
| Management model | Unmanaged (you run the OS) | Unmanaged (you run the OS) | |
| Support | Ticket support included; response times are slower than DigitalOcean or Vultr under peak load. | See Hostinger for its support terms. | |
| Billing | Monthly subscription (1, 3, 6, 12 or 24 months); price displayed excludes VAT. | Paid up front for 24 months at the advertised price; renews at a higher monthly rate. | |
| Free tier | No free tier. | No free tier. |
Same size, side by side
The cheapest plan from each provider that meets each size, so the comparison is between equal servers rather than two entry plans. Prices include a separately-billed IPv4 address where the provider charges for one.
| Size | Contabo | Hostinger | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 vCPU / 1 GB | $6.60Cloud VPS 4 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GBFour cores and 8 GB RAM on a rolling monthly contract. Unlimited traffic under a fair-use policy, 200 Mbps port. | $6.49KVM 1 · 1 vCPU · 4 GB · 50 GBAdvertised price, paid up front for 24 months; renews at $11.99/mo. Excludes VAT. Dedicated IPv4 included. | Hostinger cheaper by $0.11 |
| 2 vCPU / 4 GB | $6.60Cloud VPS 4 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GBFour cores and 8 GB RAM on a rolling monthly contract. Unlimited traffic under a fair-use policy, 200 Mbps port. | $8.99KVM 2 · 2 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GBAdvertised price, paid up front for 24 months; renews at $14.99/mo. Excludes VAT. Dedicated IPv4 included. | Contabo cheaper by $2.39 |
| 4 vCPU / 8 GB | $6.60Cloud VPS 4 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GBFour cores and 8 GB RAM on a rolling monthly contract. Unlimited traffic under a fair-use policy, 200 Mbps port. | $12.99KVM 4 · 4 vCPU · 16 GB · 200 GBAdvertised price, paid up front for 24 months; renews at $28.99/mo. Excludes VAT. Dedicated IPv4 included. | Contabo cheaper by $6.39 |
| 8 vCPU / 16 GB | $16.80Cloud VPS 8 · 8 vCPU · 24 GB · 300 GBEight cores, 24 GB RAM and 300 GB SSD. Unlimited traffic under a fair-use policy at 600 Mbps. | $25.99KVM 8 · 8 vCPU · 32 GB · 400 GBAdvertised price, paid up front for 24 months; renews at $49.99/mo. Excludes VAT. Dedicated IPv4 included. | Contabo cheaper by $9.19 |
Every provider at these sizes, ranked: 1 GB RAM · 4 GB RAM · 8 GB RAM · 16 GB RAM
Where each one wins and loses
Contabo
Contabo prices its Cloud VPS range on a plan-per-month basis rather than by-the-hour, and the resulting month-to-month prices are the lowest we track at most memory sizes from 8 GB up. The trade-off is upfront: the storage is SSD rather than NVMe, minimum contract is one month, and the effective monthly price falls further only if you pre-pay 24 months.
Strengths
- Cheapest RAM-per-dollar in this list at every tier from 8 GB up
- Unlimited traffic on every plan, subject to a fair-use policy that allows throttling
- One-month minimum contract; longer terms cut the effective monthly cost further
- Adequate US, EU and APAC datacentre coverage for a budget provider
Weaknesses
- SSD storage on Core VPS, not NVMe — cheaper providers now match the spec, this one does not
- Reputation for setup queues on new accounts, especially outside the EU
- Public bandwidth is capped at 200–800 Mbps depending on the plan
- Historically underinvested control panel; API surface is thinner than DigitalOcean’s
Support: Ticket support included; response times are slower than DigitalOcean or Vultr under peak load.
Billing: Monthly subscription (1, 3, 6, 12 or 24 months); price displayed excludes VAT.
Free tier: No free tier.
Hostinger
Hostinger advertises KVM VPS plans with AMD EPYC and NVMe at low monthly prices, but those prices require paying 24 months up front and renew at a higher monthly rate. Prices exclude VAT. This index lists the advertised price with its term and the renewal price in each plan note.
Strengths
- High RAM and disk for the advertised price (4 GB and 50 GB NVMe on the smallest plan)
- AMD EPYC and NVMe on every plan listed
- A dedicated IPv4 address on every plan
Weaknesses
- The advertised price needs a 24-month prepayment
- Renewal prices are much higher than the advertised price
- No month-to-month price is published on the pricing page
Support: See Hostinger for its support terms.
Billing: Paid up front for 24 months at the advertised price; renews at a higher monthly rate.
Free tier: No free tier.
The full cost stack
What a server costs beyond its sticker price, shown for 2 vCPU / 4 GB. Only figures read from each provider's own documentation appear; a gap says “not captured yet”.
| Item | Contabo | Hostinger |
|---|---|---|
| Plan (2 vCPU / 4 GB) | $6.60 | $8.99 |
| Automatic backups | not captured yet | not captured yet |
| Outbound traffic beyond the allowance | not captured yet | not captured yet |
| Smallest managed load balancer | not captured yet | not captured yet |
Sources: none captured yet for this pair.
Price changes we have logged
No tracked price change for either provider yet.
Full record at the change log.
Every plan
The complete plan ladders, with the date and source of every price, are on each provider's page: Contabo and Hostinger.
All figures are the providers' own published list prices in USD, on-demand monthly. The index was last refreshed 2026-10-14, and every row shows the date its own price was read. Nothing here is live or negotiated pricing. Where a provider bills a public IPv4 address on top, it is added to the monthly price, the ranking and every cost per vCPU or per GB, and the row shows the parts: the server, any disk priced apart, and the IPv4 charge. Some prices exclude VAT or need a commitment; the plan notes say which. Check the provider's pricing page before you commit.
Related comparisons
Where both sell
Contabo and Hostinger both have data centres in these places. Each page ranks every provider there at the price charged in that location.
Contabo vs Hostinger — frequently asked
Every answer is computed from this pair's own prices and costs.
- Which is cheaper for 1 vCPU / 1 GB, Contabo or Hostinger?
- Hostinger KVM 1 at $6.49/mo, which is $0.11 (2%) less than Contabo Cloud VPS 4 at $6.60/mo.
- How many datacentre locations do Contabo and Hostinger have?
- Contabo lists 9 and Hostinger lists 10.