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Contabo pricing and plans

German budget VPS with cores and RAM to spare, if you can live with SSD not NVMe

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.

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Plans and derived unit cost

The final two columns are computed from the monthly price, which is how you spot the tier where a provider stops being good value.

  • Contabo

    Cloud VPS 4

    $6.60

    per month

    ex VAT · checked 2026-10-14 (manual) · source
    Specification
    4 vCPU / 8 GB RAM
    Storage
    100 GB SSD
    Included transfer
    Unmetered
    Cost per vCPU
    $1.65
    Cost per GB RAM
    $0.82
    Annual
    $79
    Affiliate
    Pricing page

  • Contabo

    Cloud VPS 6

    $9.00

    per month

    ex VAT · checked 2026-10-14 (manual) · source
    Specification
    6 vCPU / 12 GB RAM
    Storage
    200 GB SSD
    Included transfer
    Unmetered
    Cost per vCPU
    $1.50
    Cost per GB RAM
    $0.75
    Annual
    $108
    Affiliate
    Pricing page

  • Contabo

    Cloud VPS 8

    $16.80

    per month

    ex VAT · checked 2026-10-14 (manual) · source
    Specification
    8 vCPU / 24 GB RAM
    Storage
    300 GB SSD
    Included transfer
    Unmetered
    Cost per vCPU
    $2.10
    Cost per GB RAM
    $0.70
    Annual
    $202
    Affiliate
    Pricing page

  • Contabo

    Cloud VPS 12

    $30.00

    per month

    ex VAT · checked 2026-10-14 (manual) · source
    Specification
    12 vCPU / 48 GB RAM
    Storage
    400 GB SSD
    Included transfer
    Unmetered
    Cost per vCPU
    $2.50
    Cost per GB RAM
    $0.63
    Annual
    $360
    Affiliate
    Pricing page

  • Contabo

    Cloud VPS 16

    $44.50

    per month

    ex VAT · checked 2026-10-14 (manual) · source
    Specification
    16 vCPU / 64 GB RAM
    Storage
    500 GB SSD
    Included transfer
    Unmetered
    Cost per vCPU
    $2.78
    Cost per GB RAM
    $0.70
    Annual
    $534
    Affiliate
    Pricing page

  • Contabo

    Cloud VPS 18

    $58.80

    per month

    ex VAT · checked 2026-10-14 (manual) · source
    Specification
    18 vCPU / 96 GB RAM
    Storage
    600 GB SSD
    Included transfer
    Unmetered
    Cost per vCPU
    $3.27
    Cost per GB RAM
    $0.61
    Annual
    $706
    Affiliate
    Pricing page

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.

What else Contabo charges for

Billed on top of the plan, as Contabo's own pricing pages state it, checked 2026-10-11.

Region: European Union (Germany)
IncludedThe listed prices are for this region.
Region: United Kingdom or US Central
+$1.30 / +$2.00 / +$4.05 / +$7.20 / +$10.60 / +$14.00 a monthFor Cloud VPS 4 / 6 / 8 / 12 / 16 / 18.
Region: US West
+$1.60 / +$2.50 / +$4.95 / +$8.85 / +$13.15 / +$17.35 a monthFor Cloud VPS 4 / 6 / 8 / 12 / 16 / 18.
Region: US East
+$1.90 / +$3.00 / +$5.90 / +$10.60 / +$15.60 / +$20.70 a monthFor Cloud VPS 4 / 6 / 8 / 12 / 16 / 18.
Region: Australia (Sydney)
+$2.65 / +$4.10 / +$8.20 / +$14.70 / +$21.70 / +$28.75 a monthFor Cloud VPS 4 / 6 / 8 / 12 / 16 / 18.
Region: India
+$3.00 / +$4.60 / +$9.20 / +$16.35 / +$24.25 / +$32.05 a monthFor Cloud VPS 4 / 6 / 8 / 12 / 16 / 18.
Region: Singapore
+$3.10 / +$4.90 / +$9.75 / +$17.40 / +$25.75 / +$34.10 a monthFor Cloud VPS 4 / 6 / 8 / 12 / 16 / 18.
Region: Japan
+$3.15 / +$4.95 / +$9.90 / +$17.75 / +$26.25 / +$34.80 a monthFor Cloud VPS 4 / 6 / 8 / 12 / 16 / 18.

Contabo shows prices with or without VAT depending on where you browse from; the prices on this site exclude VAT.

Sources: contabo.com/en/vps/cloud-vps-core-4, contabo.com/en/vps/cloud-vps-core-18.

Where Contabo sells these plans

Germany (EU region), United Kingdom, US East, US Central, US West, Japan, India, Australia (Sydney). List prices include the EU (Germany) region; every other region adds a monthly surcharge, which the country and city pages include. Singapore is out of stock for every Cloud VPS plan, so it is not listed.

Locations checked 2026-10-11 · source

Contabo price history

Daily readings since 2026-10-05. A line appears once a plan has been read on at least two days with different prices; until then the plan shows its current price only.

  • Cloud VPS 4$6.60 · no change recorded
  • Cloud VPS 6$9.00 · no change recorded
  • Cloud VPS 8$16.80 · no change recorded
  • Cloud VPS 12$30.00 · no change recorded
  • Cloud VPS 16$44.50 · no change recorded
  • Cloud VPS 18$58.80 · no change recorded

Where Contabo wins

  • 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

Where it does not

  • 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

Who should actually pick this

Home labs, dev boxes and low-traffic apps where memory and disk matter more than sub-millisecond IOPS.

Support: Ticket support included; response times are slower than DigitalOcean or Vultr under peak load.

Compare Contabo directly

Contabo — frequently asked

Every answer is derived from the dataset above, so it stays honest when we re-verify prices.

What does the cheapest Contabo plan cost?
$6.60 per month (ex VAT) for the Cloud VPS 4 plan (4 vCPU / 8 GB RAM / 100 GB storage), the cheapest one you can order today with a public IPv4 address. From Contabo's own pricing, read 2026-10-14.
Is Contabo managed or unmanaged?
Contabo is an unmanaged cloud VPS: you get root access to your instance and are responsible for the operating system and everything above it.
How many datacenter regions does Contabo publicly list?
9. Notable regions: Germany (EU), United Kingdom, US East, US Central, US West, Singapore, Japan, India, Australia.
What is Contabo's cost per vCPU at the entry tier?
$1.65 per vCPU per month on the Cloud VPS 4 plan ($6.60 / 4 vCPU).
Does Contabo have a free tier?
No free tier.
What is Contabo genuinely bad at?
SSD storage on Core VPS, not NVMe — cheaper providers now match the spec, this one does not Full weakness list appears in the "Where it does not" section above.
How current is this pricing?
The index was last refreshed 2026-10-14. Every price carries the date it was read from Contabo's own pricing page or price API, and an automatically read price that cannot be re-read for seven days is hidden rather than shown stale.