Contabo vs Scaleway.

vps pricing compared · prices as of 16 Sept 2026 · Contabo as of 6 Sept 2026

On today's data, Contabo undercuts Scaleway on memory pricing, with a median RAM price of $1.19/GB against $5.97/GB. The cheapest way in is Scaleway at $0.51/mo (STARDUST1-S). Contabo counters with broader reach: 9 locations vs 4.

At 4 GB of RAM the cheaper of the two is Contabo Cloud VPS 4 at $6.35/mo, against Scaleway at $17.01/mo, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Contaboall plans →

• Cheapest · best value

  Cloud VPS 4 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB

  4 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GB SSD

  $6.35/mochecked 10 days agoView at Contabo ↗

Scalewayall plans →

• Cheapest · best value

  STARDUST1-S

  1 vCPU · 1 GB · 10 GB SSD

  $0.51/moView at Scaleway ↗

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MetricContaboScaleway

Plans tracked1159

Cheapest plan$6.35/mo$0.51/mo

Median $/GB RAM$1.19/GB$5.97/GB

Avg value score92/10026/100

Locations94

Dedicated-vCPU plans024

NVMe share55%0%

Unmetered bandwidth100% of plans100% of plans

One-click stacks (of 10 tracked)53

Cheapest plan at each RAM tier

≥ 2 GB RAM

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Contabowins

Cloud VPS 4 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB

4 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GB SSD · $6.35/mo checked 10 days ago

Scaleway

DEV1-S

2 vCPU · 2 GB · 20 GB SSD · $7.56/mo

≥ 4 GB RAM

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Contabowins

Cloud VPS 4 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB

4 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GB SSD · $6.35/mo checked 10 days ago

Scaleway

DEV1-M

3 vCPU · 4 GB · 40 GB SSD · $17.01/mo

≥ 8 GB RAM

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Contabowins

Cloud VPS 4 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB

4 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GB SSD · $6.35/mo checked 10 days ago

Scaleway

BASIC2-A2C-8G

2 vCPU · 8 GB · no disk · $29.07/mo

Top value plans from each

Contabo

• Cloud VPS 4 · 4 vCPU · 8 GBvalue 99/100$6.35
• Cloud VPS 6 · 6 vCPU · 12 GBvalue 99/100$8.65
• Cloud VPS 8 · 8 vCPU · 24 GBvalue 99/100$16.15
• Cloud VPS 12 · 12 vCPU · 48 GBvalue 98/100$28.85
• Cloud VPS 16 · 16 vCPU · 64 GBvalue 97/100$42.69

Scaleway

• STARDUST1-Svalue 100/100$0.51
• DEV1-Svalue 84/100$7.56
• DEV1-Mvalue 77/100$17.01
• PLAY2-PICOvalue 66/100$12.02
• DEV1-Lvalue 66/100$36.08

Prices exclude VAT, fetched 16 Sept 2026 from each provider's own API or public price page. Contabo data: Live web — server-rendered plan cards on contabo.com/en/vps/ + /en/vps-performance/. Scaleway data: Public API · api.scaleway.com/instance/v1/zones/{zone}/products/servers.