UpCloud vs Contabo

UpCloud and Contabo can both deliver Linux VMs, but the surrounding products are very different. UpCloud treats the server as one component of a cloud platform. Contabo treats the server itself — VPS, storage-heavy VPS, higher-performance virtual servers or dedicated hardware — as the center of the offer.

Cloud-platform services

UpCloud surrounds compute with Managed Kubernetes, Managed Databases, Private Cloud, load balancing and software-defined networking. It currently operates 15 data centers and markets a 99.999% uptime SLA across its main cloud services.

Server-capacity trade-off

Contabo gives you more server-oriented capacity choices. Its catalog includes multiple VPS families, dedicated servers and storage options, with locations across Europe, the United States, the UK, Singapore, Japan, Australia and India. The operating system and application stack remain yours to manage.

Server-capacity focus

Contabo is attractive for workloads where the VM's RAM, disk or server class matters more than access to managed cloud services. You can choose among different server families and storage options without paying for a broader platform abstraction.

Cloud-platform trade-off

You lose UpCloud's integrated cloud services and the platform-level availability proposition. If the application needs managed databases, managed Kubernetes, first-party load balancing or private-cloud constructs, UpCloud keeps more of those components under one account.