Contabo changed its Cloud VPS line three times between early June and early August 2026, and it published no announcement for any of it. The plan names changed, the two cheapest plans went up, the term behind the headline price doubled, and NVMe storage left the entry line altogether. If you priced Contabo in the spring and have not looked since, four of the six plans still cost what they did. The two you were most likely to buy do not.
Answer in one table
| What changed | When | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Entry plan price | Between 4 June and 5 July | 4 vCPU / 8 GB went from €3.60 to €4.40 a month, +22.2% |
| Second plan price | Between 4 June and 5 July | 6 vCPU / 12 GB went from €5.60 to €6.00, +7.1% |
| Four larger plans | No change | 8, 12, 16 and 18 vCPU still at €11.20, €20.00, €29.60 and €39.20 |
| Subscription term | Between 5 July and 6 August | The legal note under the table went from 12-month to 24-month subscription |
| Storage | Between 5 July and 6 August | NVMe left the Core line. Entry plan went from 75 GB NVMe or 150 GB SSD to 100 GB SSD |
| Plan names | Between 5 July and 6 August | Cloud VPS 10 to 60 became Cloud VPS 4 to 18, numbered by vCPU count |
How we dated the changes
Contabo did not post a price notice, so the dates here come from three Wayback Machine captures of its own pricing page, plus the page as it stands today. Anyone can open the same captures and check the numbers.
- 4 June 2026, capture
20260604160819 - 5 July 2026, capture
20260705090207 - 6 August 2026, capture
20260806021723
The euro figures below are what those captures show. The dollar figures further down are what the page shows today with its currency control set to dollars. We are not converting between them, because a vendor sets each currency independently and the two rarely track each other day to day.
The price move, plan by plan
Each plan card shows two numbers: a struck-through figure and the price you actually pay. Both moved by the same percentage, so the table below uses the payable figure.
| Spec | 4 June plan and price | 5 July onward | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 vCPU, 8 GB | Cloud VPS 10, €3.60 | €4.40 | +22.2% |
| 6 vCPU, 12 GB | Cloud VPS 20, €5.60 | €6.00 | +7.1% |
| 8 vCPU, 24 GB | Cloud VPS 30, €11.20 | €11.20 | none |
| 12 vCPU, 48 GB | Cloud VPS 40, €20.00 | €20.00 | none |
| 16 vCPU, 64 GB | Cloud VPS 50, €29.60 | €29.60 | none |
| 18 vCPU, 96 GB | Cloud VPS 60, €39.20 | €39.20 | none |
The two that moved are the two at the bottom of the range, and on the June page the 6 vCPU plan carried a Best Selling VPS badge. A rise concentrated on the cheapest plans is a rise concentrated on most of the customers.
The term doubled, and it is one word in the small print
Under the pricing table sits a single sentence that defines what the headline number means. On 5 July it read:
The price displayed is the effective monthly rate for a 12-month subscription including applicable taxes.
Today the same sentence reads 24-month subscription. Nothing else in it changed. The contract terms beside it are unchanged too: minimum initial contract one month, each following term equal to the initial one, cancellation notice none if pre-paid or four weeks if post-paid.
So the advertised rate is now the rate for committing to two years instead of one. Contabo’s page does not say what a shorter term costs, and it does not state a renewal rate either way. If a twelve month commitment was the length you were comfortable with, the price you see is no longer the price you get, and you will only find out what you do get at checkout.
NVMe left the entry line
In June and July, every Core plan offered a choice of two disks, for example 75 GB NVMe or 150 GB SSD on the entry plan. Today the Core line lists one SSD figure per plan and no NVMe option at all.
| Spec | 5 July storage | Core line today |
|---|---|---|
| 4 vCPU, 8 GB | 75 GB NVMe or 150 GB SSD | 100 GB SSD |
| 6 vCPU, 12 GB | 100 GB NVMe or 200 GB SSD | 200 GB SSD |
| 8 vCPU, 24 GB | 200 GB NVMe or 400 GB SSD | 300 GB SSD |
| 12 vCPU, 48 GB | 250 GB NVMe or 500 GB SSD | 400 GB SSD |
| 16 vCPU, 64 GB | 300 GB NVMe or 600 GB SSD | 500 GB SSD |
| 18 vCPU, 96 GB | 350 GB NVMe or 700 GB SSD | 600 GB SSD |
NVMe did not disappear from Contabo. It moved to a separate line called Performance VPS, sold as Cloud VPS Plus on its own page, with AMD EPYC cores and five snapshots instead of one. Cloud VPS Plus 4 is 4 vCPU, 8 GB and 150 GB NVMe at $13.00 a month against $5.28 for the Core plan with the same cores and memory.
That is a better machine, so it is not a like for like comparison. The point is narrower: in June you could take NVMe on the cheapest plan Contabo sold, and today the cheapest plan with NVMe costs about two and a half times as much.
What the Core line costs today
Prices as shown on the pricing page with the currency control set to dollars. The struck-through column is what the page displays as the pre-discount figure. Both are stated as the effective monthly rate for a 24-month subscription including applicable taxes.
| Plan | vCPU | RAM | SSD | Struck through | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud VPS 4 | 4 | 8 GB | 100 GB | $6.60 | $5.28 |
| Cloud VPS 6 | 6 | 12 GB | 200 GB | $9.00 | $7.20 |
| Cloud VPS 8 | 8 | 24 GB | 300 GB | $16.80 | $13.44 |
| Cloud VPS 12 | 12 | 48 GB | 400 GB | $30.00 | $24.00 |
| Cloud VPS 16 | 16 | 64 GB | 500 GB | $44.50 | $35.60 |
| Cloud VPS 18 | 18 | 96 GB | 600 GB | $58.80 | $47.04 |
Who this actually costs
Buying 4 or 6 vCPU now. You pay 22.2% or 7.1% more than a June buyer for the same cores and memory, on a term twice as long, with less disk in the entry plan. Nothing about the older price is available.
Buying 8 vCPU or above. The price is what it was in June. The term and the disk changed, the number did not.
Already on an old plan. We could not confirm what happens to you. Contabo’s pricing page says nothing about existing contracts, and its terms only say that a following contract runs as long as the initial one. If you are on a Cloud VPS 10 or 20, the useful thing to check is your own control panel, not the marketing page.
Wanting NVMe cheaply. That option is gone from the Core line. The Performance line starts at $13.00 for 4 vCPU and 8 GB.
What we could not confirm
There is no announcement. We searched Contabo’s blog and its Company News category and found nothing about the line change or the price move, so the dates above are bounded by captures rather than stated by the vendor. The real change happened somewhere inside each window, not necessarily on the capture date.
We also could not confirm the renewal rate. Widely read reviews say Contabo does not raise prices at renewal, and the pricing page neither confirms nor contradicts that. It states no renewal figure at all.
Finally, the currency control matters. The same page shows a euro set and a dollar set of numbers, and switching it changes what you read. The euro figures here come from captures taken with euros selected; the dollar table is today’s page with dollars selected.
Sources
- Contabo Cloud VPS pricing page, read 13 September 2026
- Contabo Performance VPS page, read 13 September 2026
- Wayback Machine captures of the Cloud VPS page:
20260604160819,20260705090207,20260806021723 - Our price per GB of RAM table, which uses the current Core figures
- The 2026 infrastructure price change ledger