Which is cheaper, Contabo Cloud VPS 8 or HOSTKEY vm.v2-medium?

Neither: both cost $16.15/mo (excl. VAT) as of 16 Sept 2026.

Which offers more RAM per dollar?

Contabo Cloud VPS 8: $0.67 per GB of RAM per month versus $1.01 for HOSTKEY vm.v2-medium.

No. The two plans have no country in common, so location alone may decide it.

plan vs plan · prices as of 16 Sept 2026 · Contabo as of 6 Sept 2026

Contabo Cloud VPS 8 takes 4 of 6 spec rounds against HOSTKEY vm.v2-medium. Both cost $16.15/mo.

Contabowins 4 rounds

$16.15/mo

checked 10 days ago

8 vCPU shared · 24 GB · 300 GB SSD

HOSTKEY

$16.15/mo

8 vCPU shared · 16 GB · 160 GB NVMe

Monthly price (lower wins)

$16.15/mo

$ per GB RAM (lower wins)

$0.67

$1.01

RAM

24 GB

16 GB

vCPU

8 shared

Disk

300 GB SSD

160 GB NVMe

Bandwidth

unmetered

3 TB/mo

Value score

99/100

95/100

Regions

Countries served by both · 0

No overlap. If location matters, that alone may decide it.

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Which is cheaper, Contabo Cloud VPS 8 or HOSTKEY vm.v2-medium?: Neither: both cost $16.15/mo (excl. VAT) as of 16 Sept 2026.
Which offers more RAM per dollar?: Contabo Cloud VPS 8: $0.67 per GB of RAM per month versus $1.01 for HOSTKEY vm.v2-medium.
Can I deploy both in the same country?: No. The two plans have no country in common, so location alone may decide it.

Prices exclude VAT, fetched 16 Sept 2026 from each provider's own API or public price page. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.