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Contabo

unbeatable ram per euro — if you'll prepay two years for it.

€5.50/mo#buyers-who-already-know-#want-maximum-headroom-pe

8 gb and 4 vcpus for hetzner's 4 gb price is the best raw spec on this list — but the price is a two-year commitment wearing a monthly rate's clothes.

contabo's entry plan is oversized for this workload in the best way: 4 vcpus and 8 gb means the agent, its gateway, and whatever tools it grows never brush the ceiling. no other provider here ships half that at the price.

the price needs translating, though. €5.50 is the effective monthly rate on a 24-month prepaid subscription, per contabo's own footnote; month-to-month costs more, and the us-locale price is a materially different number rather than a currency conversion of the eu one.

the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.

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€5.50/mo
our verdict

8 gb and 4 vcpus for hetzner's 4 gb price is the best raw spec on this list — but the price is a two-year commitment wearing a monthly rate's clothes.

we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.

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