Contabo Cloud VDS

Budget German host. VDS plans give dedicated EPYC cores and unlimited traffic at a fraction of cloud prices, with fewer cloud features.

VDS plans provide dedicated EPYC cores and unlimited traffic under fair use. Ports range from 250 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s. A 24-month term reduces the plan price by 20%, but some locations and terms add setup fees. Contabo is based in Munich and owned by US private-equity firm KKR, so we list its parent jurisdiction as the US.

Headquarters: 🇩🇪 Germany
Parent jurisdiction: 🇺🇸 United States (parent: KKR)
EU self-serve plan: Available; check eligible plans and regions
GDPR DPA: Yes
Provider type: Budget & bare metal. Servers with few managed services. You run more yourself: databases, backups, failover and monitoring.
Billing: subscription
Open source: No
Website: contabo.com
Source last checked: 2026-10-06
Pricing evidence: Published rates

Pricing

Calculated from the listed vendor rates; exclusions still apply. How to read these estimates.

Plan	vCPUs / instance	RAM / instance (GB)	Instance / month
Cloud VDS S	6	24	$54.88
Cloud VDS M	8	32	$69.44
Cloud VDS XL	16	64	$132.16
Cloud VDS XXL	24	96	$194.88

Allowances, plan limits & calculation details

Rates are shown at their recorded precision. A zero means no charge in this calculation; the vendor may charge for things we leave out. See the notes for usage assumptions and currency conversions.

Cloud VDS S

vCPUs / instance: 6
RAM / instance (GB): 24
Instance / month: $54.88
Included egress / instance (TB): 0
Free egress / account (TB): 0
Internet egress / TB: $0

Cloud VDS M

vCPUs / instance: 8
RAM / instance (GB): 32
Instance / month: $69.44
Included egress / instance (TB): 0
Free egress / account (TB): 0
Internet egress / TB: $0

Cloud VDS XL

vCPUs / instance: 16
RAM / instance (GB): 64
Instance / month: $132.16
Included egress / instance (TB): 0
Free egress / account (TB): 0
Internet egress / TB: $0

Cloud VDS XXL

vCPUs / instance: 24
RAM / instance (GB): 96
Instance / month: $194.88
Included egress / instance (TB): 0
Free egress / account (TB): 0
Internet egress / TB: $0

Regular monthly net prices converted at 1.12 USD/EUR; the 24-month term shown by default is 20% cheaper. A "core" is a dedicated physical EPYC 7282 core here; counted as one vCPU, which understates it slightly. Traffic is unlimited under a fair-use policy, with port speeds of 250 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s, so egress is modelled at $0. Some locations and terms add setup or location fees. Contabo GmbH (Munich) is owned by the US private-equity firm KKR, so it's listed under US jurisdiction; data centres are in Germany, the US, the UK and Asia.

Managed alternatives

At 32 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM, 10 TB egress to internet / month. Adjust usage and requirements.

Contabo Cloud VDS: $3,172/yr estimated.

Contabo Cloud VPS (shared vCPU): $995/yr estimated · $2,177/yr bill differencePublished rates
Hetzner Cloud CX (shared vCPU): $1,708/yr estimated · $1,464/yr bill differencePublished rates
OVHcloud bare metal: $1,747/yr estimated · $1,425/yr bill differencePublished rates
Hetzner dedicated servers (AX): $2,856/yr estimated · $316/yr bill differencePublished rates

The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you’d need to replace.

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