ContaboCloud VPS 12 · 12 vCPU · 48 GB
Core VPS
Contabo Cloud VPS 12 costs $28.85/mo for 12 vCPU, 48 GB of RAM and 400 GB SSD, cheaper than 67% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 6 Sept 2026.
Price
$28.85/mo
billed €25/mo
$0.60 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 67% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 48 GB> 93% of offers
- vCPU
- 12 shared> 89% of offers
- Disk
- 400 GB SSD> 86% of offers
- Bandwidth
- Unmetered
Excl. VAT · standard price (site shows a first-term discount) · setup fee may apply on monthly billing; longer terms discounted · unlimited traffic (fair use) · 800 Mbit/s Port
Value score
98/100
- RAM · 48 GB
- 48.0
- vCPU · 12
- 18.0
- Disk · 400 GB SSD
- 12.8
- Traffic · unmetered, as 10 TB
- 3.0
- 81.8 points ÷ $28.85
- 2.84 per $
1 point per GB of RAM, 1.5 per vCPU, 1 per 25 GB of disk up to 500 GB (SSD × 0.8, HDD × 0.4), and 0.3 per TB of traffic up to 20 TB.
The score ranks 2.84 points per dollar against the 524 tracked VPS plans, whose median is 0.43. A higher score means more machine for the money.
Regions · 9
Data provenance
Contabo · Live web — server-rendered plan cards on contabo.com/en/vps/ + /en/vps-performance/
Fetched 6 Sept 2026snapshot
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Where this sits in the market
At $28.85/mo, Cloud VPS 12 · 12 vCPU · 48 GB is cheaper than 67% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 48 GB of RAM at $0.60/GB, 89% below the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 98/100 ranks it #9 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 6th cheapest of Contabo's 11 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen3 32B~1.2–2.4 tok/s
- Qwen2.5-Coder 32B~1.2–2.4 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 32B~1.2–2.4 tok/s
- Gemma 3 27B~1.4–2.9 tok/s
- Mistral Small 3.2 24B~1.6–3.3 tok/s
- Devstral Small 24B~1.7–3.4 tok/s
- gpt-oss-20b (MoE)~5.4–11 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B~2.7–5.4 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 48 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 12 shared vCPU.
