Contabo vs Hetzner ARM (Ampere)
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Contabo and Hetzner ARM (Ampere).
Quick Verdict
3.4/5
Contabo
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4.3/5
Hetzner ARM (Ampere)
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Hetzner ARM (Ampere) is rated higher (4.3 vs 3.4). German budget host known for lots of RAM and CPU for the money. Cloud VPS from about €5.50/month (4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM) on a 24-month term; performance reviews are mixed. CAX plans start at 2 vCPU / 4GB RAM / 40GB NVMe; launch pricing was €3.79/month incl. IPv4 (April 2023), currently listed from €6.49/month incl. IPv4
Contabo Affordable VPS hosting with generous resources at predictable pricing | Hetzner ARM (Ampere) Arm64 cloud servers on Ampere Altra cores in Hetzner Cloud's cost-optimized line | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.4 (0 reviews) | 4.3 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $5.5/mo✓ | From $6.49/mo |
| Best for | Budget-conscious developers, self-hosters and teams running dev/staging, side projects or bulk capacity where specs-per-euro and unlimited traffic matter more than guaranteed IOPS and fast support. | Containerised, open-source, scale-out workloads in Europe — web farms, CI runners, build machines, dev environments — where price per core beats single-thread speed |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | 4 vCPU✓ | 2 vCPU |
| RAM | 8 GB✓ | 4 GB |
| Storage | 100 GB✓ | 40 GB |
| Bandwidth | — | 20 TB/mo |
| SLA uptime | 99.9% | 99.9% |
| Data-center count | 13✓ | 3 |
| €/vCPU/mo | €1.38✓ | €3.25 |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €0.69✓ | €1.62 |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ✓ | |
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | Germany (5 facilities), UK (Portsmouth), US (New York, St. Louis, Seattle), Singapore, Japan (Tokyo), Australia (Sydney), India | NurembergFalkensteinHelsinki |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | nvme storageipv6ddos protectioneu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenterwindows available | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedsnapshotseu datacentergdpr compliantapi accessarm processors |
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Contabo
Pros
- + Best raw specs-per-euro in the budget class: 4 vCPU / 8 GB / 100 GB SSD from €5.50/month including VAT
- + Unlimited data transfer and free always-on DDoS protection on every plan
- + Nine regions including Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, India, three US regions, UK and Germany (five facilities)
- + Independent uptime monitoring repeatedly shows 100% availability over multi-week windows
- + Two decades of continuous operation (2003, ex Giga-International) with 450,000 servers running
Cons
- - Aggressive oversubscription: third-party testing grades disk I/O and performance stability weakly (D/F on contended plans)
- - Location fees of up to ~€2.35/month on entry plans (scaling with size) outside the EU change the price comparison
- - Unmanaged only, with ticket-based support and widely reported slow response times
- - Intro rates are for the first 24 months — renewal pricing steps up
- - Recycled IP addresses with abuse history occasionally trigger immediate suspension workflows on new accounts
Hetzner ARM (Ampere)
Pros
- + Cheapest way to buy Hetzner compute per core
- + Real server silicon — Ampere Altra (Neoverse-N1), ECC RAM, NVMe
- + Hourly billing with monthly cap, 20TB included traffic, free IPv6
- + Free automated DDoS protection and the full Hetzner Cloud API/platform
- + Mature arm64 software ecosystem covers most open-source stacks
Cons
- - x86 and Arm are separate worlds — no rescale, backup or snapshot crossover
- - Cost-Optimized placement means limited stock and EU-only locations for CAX
- - Launch-era pricing is gone; entry cost has risen
- - Shared vCPUs and modest single-core speed
- - Backups and snapshots cost extra; unmanaged servers
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