TrackVPS › Contabo review
Contabo gives you the most RAM per euro of any provider we track: 8 GB for €4.40 a month. The catch: prices are 24-month promos, and reviewers report oversold CPUs and slow support during outages.
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| Plan | vCPU | RAM | Disk | Monthly | After promo | Per GB RAM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud VPS 4Promo for first 24 months | 4 | 8 GB | 100 GB | €4.40 | not shown | €0.55 | See plan |
| Cloud VPS 6Promo for first 24 months | 6 | 12 GB | 200 GB | €6.00 | €9.00 | €0.50 | See plan |
| Cloud VPS 8Promo for first 24 months | 8 | 24 GB | 300 GB | €11.20 | €16.80 | €0.47 | See plan |
| Cloud VPS 12Promo for first 24 months | 12 | 48 GB | 400 GB | €20.00 | €30.00 | €0.42 | See plan |
Monthly prices excluding VAT for a 24-month term, as shown on contabo.com on 3 October 2026. Locations: EU, US and Asia.
| Plan | vCPU | Monthly | Contract |
|---|---|---|---|
 Contabo4.6TrustpilotCloud VPS 4 | 4 | €4.40 | Promo for first 24 months |
 Netcup3.8TrustpilotVPS 1000 G12.5 | 4 | €12.18 | 12-month term |
 Hetzner3.0TrustpilotCPX32 | 4 | €35.99 | Hourly, cancel anytime |
 Hostinger4.6TrustpilotKVM 2 | 2 | €8.01 | 24 months paid upfront |
 DigitalOcean4.6TrustpilotBasic Droplet 8 GB | 4 | €42.76 | Monthly, billed hourly |
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For price per GB of RAM, nothing we track comes close: Contabo's 8 GB plan costs €4.40/month (€0.55 per GB), against €0.72 per GB for the cheapest other provider. The trade-off is consistency: reviewers report oversold CPUs, outages and slow support during them. Good for side projects, dev boxes and bots; think twice for anything where downtime costs you money.
It's the most common complaint. Contabo sells shared vCPUs at very low prices, and many users report that CPU speed varies through the day. If your workload is mostly idle (bots, small sites, agents waiting on APIs) you'll rarely notice. For steady heavy CPU use, a dedicated-CPU plan elsewhere is safer.
The low prices are promo prices for the first 24 months. Check the price after the promo before you buy: for Cloud VPS 6, 8 and 12 it's 50% higher in our data.
Contabo has 4.6 from 11,293 reviews, but it's on a paid Trustpilot plan that invites customers to review, which usually lifts scores. Read the complaints, not just the stars.
After Hetzner's 2026 price increase, Contabo is far cheaper: 24 GB at Contabo costs €11.20/month, while Hetzner's 8 GB CPX32 costs €35.99. Hetzner's cheap CX plans were unavailable when we checked. Hetzner bills hourly and is more consistent; Contabo wins on raw resources per euro.
Yes, in the sense that it is a long-running German hosting company, not a scam: you get the server you pay for. The risks people report are about quality, not safety: CPU speed that varies, outages, and slow support while they last. Keep backups and don't host anything critical on a single Contabo server.
Some users on r/VPS and LowEndTalk report that performance starts fine and drops later as the host fills up, and that a support ticket gets them moved to another host. Others run small projects on Contabo for years without trouble. Test your own workload in the first weeks.