Contabo VPS pricing

The most RAM and disk per dollar in the category, with unlimited traffic. Single-thread performance and network consistency are noticeably weaker than the price suggests.

List prices checked

By Contabo · Cloud compute & VPS

Rate card

What Contabo charges, by billing axis.

AxisPriceApplies to
Entry plan$5.50/moCheapest paid plan or typical entry configuration
Data transfer outFreeStandard tier, cheapest common region
Free tierYesUnlimited traffic, throttled after 32 TB

Source: Contabo pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

What it costs per month

Contabo VPS billed against three workload profiles, using the rates above. Every line shows its arithmetic.

Side project

A personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.

$5.50/mo

  • 1 × entry plan at $5.5/month (this provider sells flat-rate plans, not vCPU-hours)$5.50
  • 100 GB at $0/GB$0

Growing SaaS

A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.

$11/mo

  • 2 × entry plan at $5.5/month (this provider sells flat-rate plans, not vCPU-hours)$11
  • 1 TB at $0/GB$0

Media-heavy site

A publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.

$5.50/mo

  • 1 × entry plan at $5.5/month (this provider sells flat-rate plans, not vCPU-hours)$5.50
  • 10 TB at $0/GB$0

Contabo VPS vs the alternatives

The closest compute providers on price, with the difference on cloud compute & vps's headline axis.

ServicePer vCPU-hrvs Contabo VPSCompare
AWS Lightsail——Head to head
OVHcloud VPS——Head to head
IONOS Cloud Servers——Head to head
Azure Virtual Machines$0.052—Head to head
Google Compute Engine$0.048—Head to head
AWS EC2$0.042—Head to head

Questions about pricing

How much does Contabo VPS cost in 2026?
Contabo VPS charges $5.50 per month for the entry plan, per Contabo's published pricing page. There is also a free tier: Unlimited traffic, throttled after 32 TB. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
Does Contabo VPS have a free tier?
Yes — Unlimited traffic, throttled after 32 TB. Check whether it is permanent or a trial before you build a budget around it; the two are often presented identically.
What does Contabo VPS charge for egress?
Nothing. Contabo VPS does not meter data transfer out, which for read-heavy workloads is usually the single largest saving available in this category.
Are these Contabo VPS prices current?
They were checked against Contabo's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.

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