Contabo

contabo.com · 11 records in Compute, Storage · JSON

Records 11

caveatContabo (Cloud VPS 4)USD 4.92/month
Computeno free tieridentity cardlimit per-ip-shapingevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24disagrees
caveatContabo Object Storage (S3-compatible)USD 11.16/TB-month
Storageidentity cardlimit per-object-capevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05disagrees
paidContabo (compute/contabo)USD 6.6/month
Computeidentity cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24disagrees
paidContabo (windows)USD 47.01/month
Computeidentity cardlimit per-ip-shapingevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-26disagrees
paidcontabo storage vpsUSD 12.54/TB-month
Storageidentity email?card?limit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04disagrees
paidContabo Storage VPS 30USD 16.8/TB-month
Storageidentity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
paidhetzner storage box / contabo storage vps
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
fails: egresscontabo object storage
Storageidentity email?card?limit per-ip-shapingevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-18disagrees
fails: egresscontabo storage vps line (all tiers)
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
fails: quotaContabo Storage VPS — unlimited traffic, 300 GB–1.4 TB
Storageidentity cardlimit per-ip-shapingevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05disagrees
deadContabo (black friday)
Computeidentity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24disagrees

Contabo (Cloud VPS 4)

Compute

contabo.com/en-us/vps/cloud-vps-core-4VPScompute/contabo-cloud-vps-4JSON compare report an error

Sibling records disagree:

verdict: compute/contabo-black-friday says dead, compute/contabo-cloud-vps-4 says qualifies-with-caveat
verdict: compute/contabo says paid-only, compute/contabo-cloud-vps-4 says qualifies-with-caveat
verdict: compute/contabo-cloud-vps-4 says qualifies-with-caveat, compute/contabo-windows says paid-only

Free allowance: No free tier; Cloud VPS 4 is the entry rung of the Core VPS range
Verdict: caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost: USD 4.92/monthparsed from the record, in USD
Identity: cardcard required, no phone
Binding limit: per-ip-shaping200 Mbit/s port on Cloud VPS 4, the slowest in the range
Evidence: documented9 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-24checked 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-24

Free tier	no free tier; Cloud VPS 4 is the entry rung of the Core VPS range unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Limits	per-ip-shaping (binding) 200 Mbit/s port on Cloud VPS 4, the slowest in the range source
Binding	per-ip-shaping the 200 Mbit/s port is the real ceiling on this rung; traffic is unlimited but the pipe is the narrowest in the range.
Identity	card the checkout takes card, PayPal or SEPA and stores the card with the payment provider for future renewals. The page states 'No identity verification required. No order notes accepted. Automated payments only.' No ID document and no company. Card hold not stated: unverified rather than none.
Egress	'Unlimited Traffic' on a '200 Mbit/s Port' for Cloud VPS 4 free allowance: unlimited
Retention	the disk persists while the plan is paid; the contract auto-renews monthly at standard prices after the initial term
Interface	ssh root SSH, snapshots (one included), the vendor's control panel
Tooling	any SSH client
Composes with	8 GiB and 100 GB for about USD 6, but on a 200 Mbit/s port with a two-year price lock, which is a different machine from a 1 Gbps host
Reliability	no reliability event observed; the vendor advertises 99.9% uptime
Notes	The price is the whole difficulty and the arithmetic decides the verdict. The page prints EUR 5.50 for the 1, 3 and 6 month terms, EUR 4.68 on 12 months and EUR 4.40 on 24 months, all marked 'for the first 24 months'. At the ECB rate EUR 4.40 = USD 4.92, which is under the line by 8 cents. But Contabo's own JSON-LD publishes a USD price for the same product of USD 6.60 against EUR 5.50, which implies a rate of 1.20 rather than 1.1193; at that rate EUR 4.40 = USD 5.28, over the line. So the row is under the line or over it depending on which of the vendor's two published conversions is used, and that is the caveat. The second caveat is the discount: 'for the first 24 months' means the EUR 4.40 is a first-term price, and the vendor's own checkout text says the contract 'automatically renews on a monthly basis at the standard prices' after the initial term, which is EUR 5.50 = USD 6.16 at the ECB rate. Worst case exposure is 6.16 / 4.92 = 1.25x. Third: whether a non-EU buyer pays the 'Including VAT' or 'Excluding VAT' figure is not settled here, because the card prints both against the same EUR 5.50.
Evidence note	documented the EUR figures, the term ladder and the 24-month discount are quoted from the vendor's own product page read. The USD figure rests on the vendor's own JSON-LD, which implies a EUR/USD rate of 1.20 rather than the ECB's 1.1193; both are recorded.
Parsed numbers	price USD 4.92 10 hours a day / month price USD 4.92 / month price USD 6.16 / month has-free-tier 0

Evidence 9

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-24	contabo.com/en-us/vps/	product data on the page: 'Cloud VPS 4', '4 vCPU Cores, 8 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD, 1 Snapshot, unlimited Traffic', with offers at 'priceCurrency EUR lowPrice 5.5' and 'priceCurrency USD lowPrice 6.6'
2026-10-24	contabo.com/en-us/vps/	quoted from the plan card: 'Cloud VPS 4 EUR 5.50 ... for the first 24 months'
2026-10-24	contabo.com/en-us/vps/	quoted: '200 Mbit/s Port' on the first rung, '300 Mbit/s Port' on the second, '600 Mbit/s Port' on the third
2026-10-24	contabo.com/en-us/vps/	quoted from the Cloud VPS 4 card: 'Cloud VPS 4 / EUR 5.50 / 4 / 40 / month / Including VAT / Excluding VAT / for the first 24 months', with the spec row '4 vCPU Cores / 8 GB RAM / 100 GB SSD'
2026-10-24	contabo.com/en-us/vps/cloud-vps-core-4	quoted term ladder: '1 Month EUR 5.50 / month No Setup Fee', '3 Months EUR 5.50', '6 Months EUR 5.50', 'SAVE 15% 12 Months EUR 5.50 / month EUR 4.68 / month', 'SAVE 20% 24 Months EUR 5.50 / month EUR 4.40 / month'
2026-10-24	contabo.com/en-us/vps/cloud-vps-core-4	not published
2026-10-24	contabo.com/en-us/vps/	JSON-LD for Cloud VPS 4: three AggregateOffers, {priceCurrency EUR, lowPrice 5.5}, {priceCurrency USD, lowPrice 6.6}, {priceCurrency GBP, lowPrice 5.4}, all availability InStock
2026-10-24	contabo.com/en-us/vps/cloud-vps-core-4	quoted config: '4 vCPU Cores / 8 GB RAM / 100 GB SSD / 1 Snapshot / 200 Mbit/s Port', with 'No Setup Fee' on every term
2026-10-24	www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml	time='2026-10-23' currency='USD' rate='1.1193'

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shape	`{"vcpu": 4,"ram_gib": 8,"disk_gib": 100,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}`
billing model	monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, annual or 24-month
term	24 months for the EUR 4.40 figure; 12 months at EUR 4.68
m10h usd	4.92
m24h usd	4.92
price arithmetic	EUR 4.40 a month on the 24-month term x 1.1193 (ECB reference, 2026-10-23) = USD 4.925, rounded USD 4.92. The 12-month term is EUR 4.68 = USD 5.24, over the line. The monthly term is EUR 5.50 = USD 6.16. Contabo's own JSON-LD implies EUR/USD 1.20 (USD 6.60 against EUR 5.50), at which the 24-month figure is USD 5.28 and over the line. It is a VPS, so no 730-hour multiplication.
out of pocket usd	118.2
renewal usd	6.16
promo	yes
over line	yes
fx	`{"pair": "EUR/USD","rate": 1.1193,"date": "2026-10-23","source": "ECB reference via frankfurter.app"}`
port mbps	200
ipv4 included	yes
ipv6	not stated on the card
free tier kind	none
network out	`{"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": true,"ports": "all","static_ip": true,"ipv6": false,"per_session_bytes": null}`
session cap	`{"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "none; it is a VPS"}`
signup url	https://contabo.com/en-us/vps/cloud-vps-core-4
cart url	https://contabo.com/en-us/vps/cloud-vps-core-4
worst case exposure x	1.25
worst case note	6.16 / 4.92 = 1.25x when the 24-month term ends and the plan falls back to the EUR 5.50 monthly standard price.
vendor implied fx	`{"pair": "EUR/USD","rate": 1.2,"derivation": "the vendor's JSON-LD lists EUR lowPrice 5.5 and USD lowPrice 6.6 for the same product; 6.6 / 5.5 = 1.20","why_it_matters": "at 1.20 the 24-month EUR 4.40 is USD 5.28 and the row is over the line, so the two published conversions disagree about the verdict"}`
payment methods	card, PayPal, SEPA direct debit and bank transfer, from the checkout's own payment tabs ('Use Credit Card to pay ... any future subscription renewals automatically', 'Use PayPal to pay ...')
stock	in stock: the JSON-LD states availability InStock for all three currency offers, and the configurator renders every term with a selectable control. Read at https://contabo.com/en-us/vps/cloud-vps-core-4
vat	the card prints both 'Including VAT' and 'Excluding VAT' against the same EUR 5.50 and the toggle's default state was not readable in the static HTML; the checkout applies VAT by tax country. If EUR 4.40 is net, it is USD 4.92; if 19% VAT is added it is USD 5.86, over the line. So the VAT basis alone can flip this row

Unknown values 1

per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer

Contabo Object Storage (S3-compatible)

Storage

contabo.com/en/object-storage/S3 compatible object storage, 250 GB slicesstorage/contabo-object-storageJSON compare report an error

Sibling records disagree:

identity_kind: storage/contabo-object-storage says card, storage/contabo-object-storage-2 says email
verdict: storage/contabo-object-storage says qualifies-with-caveat, storage/contabo-object-storage-2 says fails-egress

Free allowance: 250 GB increments, up to 25 TB, 5 TB max object size
Verdict: caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost: USD 11.16/TB-monthparsed from the record, in USD
Identity: cardcard required, phone unknown
Binding limit: per-object-cap5 TB per object, with no object size minimum
Evidence: reported10 sources; a third party said so
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05

Free tier	250 GB increments, up to 25 TB, 5 TB max object size unit TB; metered on unstated
Price	€9.96/TB/mo (€2.49 per 250 GB × 4) ≈ $11.55 — flat at 1, 5, 10 and 20 TB, no volume discount. Free egress is real but does not rescue a 5× storage premium.
Limits	per-object-cap (binding) 5 TB per object, with no object size minimum source Slice granularity of 250 GB means you cannot right-size. 5 TB max object size. Regions: EU, US Central, Singapore (+€0.50). No egress fees, no request fees, no retrieval fees — the pricing model is genuinely simple.
Identity	card the order form's Personal Data fields are listed as a first and last name, an email address, a phone number and a postal address, and the vendor words them as fields these may include, so a phone number is asked and whether it is required is not stated. Payment is by credit card, PayPal, Skrill, bank transfer or direct debit, and every rail other than credit card needs the first payment done manually
Egress	Truly free and unlimited — page title is 'S3-Compatible & Free Egress'; body: 'unlimited transfer included in the flat monthly rate', 'no hidden traffic or download' charges, 'retrieval is not billed separately'. Requests also included.
Per-object cap	5 TB per object, with no object size minimum (5000000000000 bytes)
Retention	not stated
Interface	s3-compatible, rclone, cli
Tooling	rclone, aws-cli, any S3 SDK
Composes with	direct origin, Cloudflare-friendly
Reliability	Triple-replicated Ceph per their docs. The structural oddity: this is the ONLY mainstream S3 provider here with free egress AND no retrieval fee AND no minimum storage duration — but the per-TB price is 2.5× Datalix and 5× Hetzner.
Parsed numbers	per-object-cap 5 TB price-per-tb EUR 9.96 TB / month

Evidence 10

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	contabo.com/en/object-storage/	'S3-compatible object storage at a fraction of AWS pricing. Unlimited free egress, end-to-end encryption'; 'Prices from €2.49/month'; 'no hidden traffic or download' charges
2026-10-21	contabo.com/en/object-storage/order/?qty=1&region=european-u	'Monthly Base Price €2.49', region EU, Singapore +€0.50
2026-10-21	contabo.com/blog/introducing-all-inclusive-object-storage/	'$2.99/€2.49 per month for each slice of 250 GB with unlimited traffic'
2026-10-21	docs.contabo.com/docs/storage/object-storage/	max object size 5 TB, 100 buckets default, 250 GB capacity increments
2026-11-01	help.contabo.com/en/support/solutions/articles/103000394299-	a new-customer order form takes an email address and a telephone number
2026-11-01	help.contabo.com/en/support/solutions/articles/103000269311-	payment is by credit card, PayPal, Skrill, bank transfer or direct debit
2026-11-01	contabo.com/en/object-storage/	every payment rail other than credit card needs a manual first payment
2026-11-01	contabo.com/en/object-storage/	the largest single object is 5 TB
2026-11-01	contabo.com/en/object-storage/	the per-object cap is 5 TB
2026-11-01	help.contabo.com/en/support/solutions/articles/103000394299-	a new-customer order needs personal details including a telephone number

More fields 1

price verbatim	€9.96/TB/mo (€2.49 per 250 GB × 4) ≈ $11.55 — flat at 1, 5, 10 and 20 TB, no volume discount. Free egress is real but does not rescue a 5× storage premium.

Unknown values 3

per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read

Contabo (compute/contabo)

Compute

contabo.com/en-us/pricing/Cloud VMcompute/contaboJSON compare report an error

Sibling records disagree:

verdict: compute/contabo says paid-only, compute/contabo-black-friday says dead
verdict: compute/contabo says paid-only, compute/contabo-cloud-vps-4 says qualifies-with-caveat

Free allowance: No free tier; Cloud VPS 4 is USD 6.60 a month with 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM and 100 GB SSD
Verdict: paidno free allowance; listed for its price
Cost: USD 6.6/monthparsed from the record, in USD
Identity: cardcard required, no phone
Binding limit: request-ratetraffic is stated unlimited; no rate is published, which is a discretionary throttle rather than a quota
Evidence: documented10 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-24checked 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-24

Free tier	no free tier; Cloud VPS 4 is USD 6.60 a month with 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM and 100 GB SSD unit none; metered on wall-clock; the schema.org AggregateOffer carries lowPrice 6.6 in USD; a lower visible figure is a 24-month introductory term
Price	none stated
Limits	per-object-cap Cloud VPS 4: 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD, 1 snapshot source request-rate (binding) traffic is stated unlimited; no rate is published, which is a discretionary throttle rather than a quota source unlimited traffic with no published rate is the weakest kind of term: no ceiling to design against
Binding	request-rate traffic is stated unlimited with no published rate, which is a discretionary throttle and not a ceiling to design against
Identity	card card at order; EUR 1 pre-authorisation hold, reserved and released, never charged; the vendor's accepted-methods list names 'Credit Card' for USD and GBP and adds Direct Debit only for EUR, and names no debit card, so debit is not stated; prepaid is not stated; no identity document is named on the pages read
Egress	unlimited traffic, stated in the product description free allowance: unlimited price per tb: USD 0
Retention	the server is rented for a term; the disk persists for the term
Interface	rest, cli SSH and a control panel; no native API on the page read
Tooling	SSH, the Contabo control panel; no first-party CLI was found on the page
Composes with	the largest disk and RAM per dollar at this price, with traffic stated unlimited
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	USD 6.60 is the bill. The unlimited-traffic term has no rate, so it is a discretionary throttle and not a quota. The EUR 1 hold is confirmed verbatim on the vendor's own blog, and the accepted-methods list is confirmed on the help centre. The list names 'Credit Card' only, so debit is not claimed.
Evidence note	documented Payment facts re-read on 2026-10-24: the card types, the hold and the identity gate each come from a first-party page quoted in evidence[].
Parsed numbers	price USD 6.6 10 hours a day / month price USD 6.6 / month has-free-tier 0 per-object-cap 8 GB

Evidence 10

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	contabo.com/en-us/pricing/	schema.org AggregateOffer for Cloud VPS 4 carries lowPrice 6.6 USD
2026-10-22	contabo.com/en-us/pricing/	the description reads 4 vCPU Cores, 8 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD, 1 Snapshot, unlimited Traffic
2026-10-22	contabo.com/en-us/pricing/	Cloud VPS 4 row: 4 vCPU Cores, 8 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD, 200 Mbit/s Port, Unlimited Traffic, USD 5.28 per month, with 'for a 24-month term' printed after the table, quoted
2026-10-22	contabo.com/en-us/pricing/	JSON-LD AggregateOffer for Cloud VPS 4 gives lowPrice 6.6 USD, 5.5 EUR and 5.4 GBP, so USD 6.60 is the list price and 5.28 is 20 per cent below it
2026-10-22	contabo.com/en-us/pricing/	Cloud VPS 6 at USD 7.20/month (6 vCPU, 12 GB, 200 GB SSD plus 100 GB NVMe, 300 Mbit/s); Cloud VPS 8 at USD 13.44/month (8 vCPU, 24 GB, 300 GB SSD plus 150 GB NVMe, 600 Mbit/s)
2026-10-22	contabo.com/en/storage-vps/	quoted per plan: 'Storage VPS 10', 'EUR 5.50', '4', '40 / month', 'for the first 24 months', '2 vCPU Cores', '4 GB RAM', '300GB SSD / 150GB NVMe', '200 Mbit/s Port', 'Unlimited Traffic'
2026-10-22	contabo.com/en/storage-vps/	the same two-figure pattern repeats on every plan: 7.50/6.00, 14.00/11.20, 25.00/20.00, 37.00/29.60
2026-10-22	contabo.com/en/storage-vps/?currency=USD	the currency parameter did not change the figures: the page still printed EUR 5.50 and 4.40 for Storage VPS 10, so no USD rate is published on this path
2026-10-24	help.contabo.com/en/support/solutions/articles/103000226600-	quoted, a list flattened from the page's own lines: 'Which Payment Methods are Accepted by Contabo?' then 'EUR (€) Credit Card PayPal Skrill Bank Transfer Direct Debit (for qualifying customers) USD ($) Credit Card PayPal GBP (£) Credit Card PayPal' and 'Payments in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are not accepted.'
2026-10-24	contabo.com/blog/enable-automatic-payments-contabo/	quoted, the hold: 'You might see a temporary €1 (or equivalent in your currency) hold on your account. This is known as pre-authorization.' and 'This small hold is never charged, just temporarily reserved and then released.'

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shape	`{"vcpu": 4,"ram_gib": 8,"disk_gib": 100,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}`
billing model	flat-pool
granularity	`{"min_billed_s": 3600,"rounding_s": null}`
session cap	`{"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "none"}`
keep rate	`{"value": 1.0,"basis": "a rented server bills for the term","source": "https://contabo.com/en-us/pricing/"}`
persistent storage	`{"included_gib": 100,"price_gib_month": "included","durability": "local SSD","survives_stop": true,"survives_destroy": false,"max_retention": "the term"}`
network out	`{"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": true,"ports": "all","static_ip": true,"ipv6": true,"per_session_bytes": "unlimited, no published rate"}`
free tier kind	none
m10h usd	6.6
m24h usd	6.6
price arithmetic	USD 6.60 a month is the bill at any duty cycle; dividing by 730 h gives 0.009 an hour, which is a rate and not a price
burst x	1.0
burst bill	min 1 h
benchmark	`[{"plan": "Cloud VPS 10 (4 vCPU / 8 GiB)","cpu_model": "AMD EPYC Processor (with IBPB)","dedicated_or_shared": "shared","gb6_single": 841,"gb6_multi": 2275,"gb5_single": null,"gb5_multi": null,"source_url": "https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/yabs/contabo-4c-8gb-20260909-15add6","source_date": "2026-09-09","rung": "reported","note": "EPYC at 2.79 GHz. 4 vCPU that a 1 vCPU box beats on single core."}]`
payment methods	`{"card_at_signup": "yes","debit": "not-stated","prepaid": "not-stated","virtual": "not-stated","hold_amount": "EUR 1","hold_detail": "pre-authorisation, released, never charged","identity": "no identity document named on the pages read","source_url": "https://contabo.com/blog/enable-automatic-payments-contabo/","read_on": "2026-10-24"}`

Unknown values 2

per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed

Contabo (windows)

Compute

contabo.com/en-us/vps/cloud-vps-core-8Windows VPScompute/contabo-windowsJSON compare report an error

Sibling records disagree:

verdict: compute/contabo-black-friday says dead, compute/contabo-windows says paid-only
verdict: compute/contabo-cloud-vps-4 says qualifies-with-caveat, compute/contabo-windows says paid-only

Free allowance: No free tier; Cloud VPS 8 is EUR 14.00/month on the 1, 3 and 6 month terms, and the Windows Server Datacenter licence is EUR 28.00/month more
Verdict: paidno free allowance; listed for its price
Cost: USD 47.01/monthparsed from the record, in USD
Identity: cardcard required, no phone
Binding limit: per-ip-shaping600 Mbit/s port on Cloud VPS 8
Evidence: documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-26checked 2026-10-26 (live); stale on 2026-11-26

Free tier	no free tier; Cloud VPS 8 is EUR 14.00/month on the 1, 3 and 6 month terms, and the Windows Server Datacenter licence is EUR 28.00/month more unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Limits	per-ip-shaping (binding) 600 Mbit/s port on Cloud VPS 8 source volume-quota traffic is called unlimited and no rate is published, which is a discretionary policy rather than a quota source the Windows Server Datacenter option is EUR 28.00/month on every term and EUR 0.00 setup; the landing page's card price is the base VPS price and does not include it
Binding	per-ip-shaping the 600 Mbit/s port is the first hard ceiling; traffic is unlimited without a published rate, so there is no byte quota to design against.
Identity	card an account and a payment method at order; the checkout accepts card, PayPal and SEPA, and the plan page states no identity document
Egress	unlimited traffic on a 600 Mbit/s port; no rate and no byte quota are published free allowance: unlimited
Retention	the disk persists while the plan is paid; a 24-month term lowers the base rate to EUR 11.20/month but commits the term
Interface	rest, cli RDP over a public IPv4; the vendor control panel and API exist
Tooling	any RDP client; Contabo's control panel and API
Composes with	24 GiB and 8 vCPU for about USD 47 a month with the licence, which is the second-cheapest qualifying row and the cheapest one whose licence is printed as a separate line
Reliability	no reliability event observed; the vendor advertises 99.9% uptime
Notes	The Windows landing page prints the base VPS price on its card, not the Windows total: CLOUD VPS 8 is EUR 14.00 and the licence is a separate EUR 28.00. At the monthly term the bill is EUR 42.00; at the 24-month term it is EUR 39.20 a month but the first payment is EUR 940.80. The 12-month term is EUR 39.90 a month. A reader who quotes the card price understates the bill by 67 per cent.
Evidence note	documented the base price, every term, the EUR 28.00 licence line and the shape are printed on the product page read. The USD figures are arithmetic at the ECB rate of 2026-10-23.
Parsed numbers	price USD 47.01 / month has-free-tier 0

Evidence 3

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-26	contabo.com/en-us/vps/cloud-vps-core-8	quoted: '8 vCPU Cores', '24 GB RAM', '300 GB SSD', '3 Snapshots', '600 Mbit/s Port', 'Unlimited Traffic'
2026-10-26	contabo.com/en-us/vps/cloud-vps-core-8	quoted term ladder: '1 Month EUR 14.00/month No Setup Fee', '3 Months EUR 14.00', '6 Months EUR 14.00', '12 Months EUR 14.00 EUR 11.90', '24 Months EUR 14.00 EUR 11.20'
2026-10-26	contabo.com/en-us/vps/cloud-vps-core-8	quoted Windows option: 'Windows Server Datacenter 2025 EUR 28.00/month EUR 0.00 Setup fee', with the same EUR 28.00 on 2016, 2019 and 2022

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shape	`{"vcpu": 8,"ram_gib": 24,"disk_gib": 300}`
billing model	monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, annual or 24-month
term	monthly; 24-month lowers the base rate
base eur monthly	14.0
base eur 12mo	11.9
base eur 24mo	11.2
licence eur monthly	28.0
total eur monthly	42.0
total eur 12mo	39.9
total eur 24mo	39.2
monthly usd	47.01
monthly 12mo usd	44.66
monthly 24mo usd	43.88
first month usd	47.01
first payment 24mo usd	1053.09
first payment note	EUR 39.20 x 24 = EUR 940.80, converted at 1.1193; the monthly term has no commitment
setup fee eur	0.0
renewal eur	42.0
renewal note	the base returns to the 1-month EUR 14.00 after the term; the licence is EUR 28.00
fx	`{"pair": "EUR/USD","rate": 1.1193,"date": "2026-10-23","source": "ECB reference via frankfurter.app"}`
windows licence	add-on, EUR 28.00/month, printed
ipv4 included	yes
additional ipv4 eur	3.5
port mbps	600
traffic	unlimited, no published rate
stock	InStock, schema.org Offer
cart url	https://contabo.com/en-us/vps/cloud-vps-core-8

Unknown values 1

per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer

contabo storage vps

Storage

contabo.com/en/storage-vps/storage/contabo-storage-vpsJSON compare report an error

Sibling records disagree:

identity_kind: storage/contabo-storage-vps says email, storage/contabo-storage-vps-unlimited-traffic-300-gb-1-4-tb says card
verdict: storage/contabo-storage-vps says paid-only, storage/contabo-storage-vps-unlimited-traffic-300-gb-1-4-tb says fails-quota

Free allowance: None: Storage VPS is a paid plan only.
Verdict: paidno free allowance; listed for its price
Cost: USD 12.54/TB-monthparsed from the record, in USD
Identity: email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit: volume-quotadisk is fixed per plan at 300 GB to 1.4 TB SSD; hardware specs cannot be customized
Evidence: documented7 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04

Free tier	none: Storage VPS is a paid plan only. Storage VPS 30 includes 1 TB SSD, priced EUR 14.00 with 11.20 per month shown for the first 24 months. unit none; metered on none
Price	EUR 11.20 per TB per month for the first 24 months (Storage VPS 30, 1 TB SSD).
Limits	volume-quota (binding) disk is fixed per plan at 300 GB to 1.4 TB SSD; hardware specs cannot be customized source
Binding	volume-quota disk is fixed per plan at up to 1.4 TB SSD, so a larger stored volume needs several plans; the price is a paid monthly fee
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Egress	Unlimited outgoing and unlimited inbound data transfer at 200 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s port speeds; fair usage policies apply.
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Reliability	Traffic is unlimited under fair usage policies; the port is 200 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s depending on the plan.
Notes	Paid plans only. Storage VPS 30 includes 1 TB SSD, priced EUR 14.00 with 11.20 per month shown for the first 24 months.
Evidence note	documented the vendor pages of the 2026-11-03 evidence rows were read and captured (https://contabo.com/en/storage-vps/); every field that decides the verdict cites one of those captures
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 0 volume-quota 300 GB price-per-tb EUR 11.2 TB / month

Evidence 7

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	contabo.com/en/storage-vps/	Worst $/TB of any storage VPS checked, and the advertised price is explicitly a 24-month teaser. Storage VPS 30 gives 1 TB for €11.20/mo = €11.20/TB — five to six times the price floor…
2026-10-21	lowendtalk.com/discussion/211559/looking-for-cheaper-storage	cited as the basis of the rejection: Worst $/TB of any storage VPS checked, and the advertised price is explicitly a 24-month teaser. Storage VPS 30 gives 1 TB for €11.20/mo = €11.20/TB — five to six times the price floor — and
2026-11-03	contabo.com/en/storage-vps/	Storage VPS 30 is 1 TB SSD priced EUR 14.00 with 11 and 20 / month for the first 24 months
2026-11-03	contabo.com/en/storage-vps/	plan hardware, including disk, is fixed per plan
2026-11-03	contabo.com/en/storage-vps/	a Storage VPS offers up to 1.4 TB SSD
2026-11-03	contabo.com/en/storage-vps/	traffic is unlimited at 200 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s, subject to fair usage
2026-11-03	contabo.com/en/storage-vps/	Storage VPS 30 is 1 TB SSD priced EUR 14.00 with 11.20 per month shown for the first 24 months

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dead end	`{"failure_class": "quota","why": "Worst $/TB of any storage VPS checked, and the advertised price is explicitly a 24-month teaser. Storage VPS 30 gives 1 TB for €11.20/mo = €11.20/TB — five to six times the price floor…","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"}`

Unknown values 6

chaining: no value was recorded for this field
interface: the access interface was not established
per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
tooling: no value was recorded for this field

Contabo Storage VPS 30

Storage

contabo.com/en-us/pricing/Storage VPSstorage/contabo-storage-vps-30JSON compare report an error

Free allowance: None: Storage VPS is a paid plan; Storage VPS 30 includes 1 TB SSD
Verdict: paidno free allowance; listed for its price
Cost: USD 16.8/TB-monthparsed from the record, in USD
Identity: cardcard required, no phone
Binding limit: volume-quota1.4 TB SSD on the largest Storage VPS plan (Storage VPS 50)
Evidence: documented11 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04

Free tier	none: Storage VPS is a paid plan; Storage VPS 30 includes 1 TB SSD unit none; metered on none
Price	USD 16.8 per TB per month (Storage VPS 30, 1 TB SSD, USD 16.8 per month in the page's structured data; the same plan is listed at EUR 14 per month)
Limits	volume-quota (binding) 1.4 TB SSD on the largest Storage VPS plan (Storage VPS 50) source Port speeds are the real ceiling: 200 Mbit (VPS 10), 300 (20), 600 (30), 800 (40), 1 Gbit (50). No S3, no managed redundancy.
Binding	volume-quota the SSD of one plan is at most 1.4 TB (Storage VPS 50), so a 10 TiB set needs several plans, each at its own price
Identity	card card
Egress	'Unlimited Traffic*'. The asterisk resolves to: 'Incoming traffic is unlimited and unmetered. No extra charges apply. To ensure fair network performance for all customers, traffic usage must align with typical server workloads. If usage is exceptionally high or disruptive, Contabo reserves the right to throttle servers at its own discretion.' Port is 600 Mbit on this tier. No published egress overage rate — throttling, not billing, is the enforcement.
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Interface	unknown full root
Tooling	unrestricted
Composes with	MinIO/SFTP/NFS
Reliability	Contabo's storage VPS line is poor €/TB — it is a compute VPS with a big SSD attached, not a storage product. Widely discussed on LET as a value play for compute, not for bulk bytes.
Notes	Paid Storage VPS plan with 1 TB SSD; no free allowance.
Evidence note	documented the verdict rests on the vendor pricing page, read on 2026-11-03: it lists Storage VPS 30 with 1 TB SSD as a priced product (14 EUR, 16.8 USD), Storage VPS 50 with 1.4 TB SSD as the largest Storage VPS plan, and the throttle clause on traffic
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 0 volume-quota 1.4 TB price-per-tb USD 16.8 TB / month

Evidence 11

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	contabo.com/en-us/pricing/	Storage VPS 10 $5.28 (300GB SSD, 200 Mbit), 20 $7.20 (400GB, 300 Mbit), 30 $13.44 (1TB, 600 Mbit), 40 $24.00 (1.2TB, 800 Mbit), 50 $35.60 (1.4TB, 1 Gbit); all 'Unlimited Traffic*'
2026-10-21	source not published	same page, footnote — throttle-on-excess-use clause quoted verbatim above
2026-11-03	contabo.com/en-us/pricing/	Storage VPS 30 includes 1 TB SSD and is listed as a priced product
2026-11-03	contabo.com/en-us/pricing/	the plan has a price; the page lists no free plan
2026-11-03	contabo.com/en-us/pricing/	Storage VPS 30 is listed at 16.8 USD
2026-11-03	contabo.com/en-us/pricing/	the same plan is listed at 14 EUR
2026-11-03	contabo.com/en-us/pricing/	the largest Storage VPS plan has 1.4 TB SSD
2026-11-03	contabo.com/en-us/pricing/	the largest plan has 1.4 TB SSD
2026-11-03	contabo.com/en-us/pricing/	part of the text of Free tier, above
2026-11-03	contabo.com/en-us/pricing/	the record is a priced plan
2026-11-03	contabo.com/en-us/pricing/	the throttle clause on traffic is as recorded

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dead end	`{"failure_class": "quota","why": "1 TB SSD (Storage VPS 10/20: 300/400 GB)","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"}`
price verbatim	$13.44/TB/mo (Storage VPS 30). $17.60/TB (VPS 10 at $5.28/300GB). $17.14/TB (VPS 50). Every tier is 4–8× the Hetzner equivalent — the 'unlimited traffic' is real but the storage price is not competitive at any tier.

Unknown values 5

interface: the access interface was not established
per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read

hetzner storage box / contabo storage vps

Storage

contabo.com/en/storage-vps/storage/hetzner-storage-box-contabo-storage-vpsJSON compare report an error

Free allowance: Neither has a free tier or a trial.
Verdict: paidno free allowance; listed for its price
Cost: no price stated
Identity: email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit: noneno named constraint binds
Evidence: reported2 sources; a third party said so
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05

Free tier	Neither has a free tier or a trial. Contabo's cheapest storage VPS is EUR 5.50/mo for 300 GB SSD; Hetzner's Storage Box page returned no free offer. This is the 'free VPS with big disk'… unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Egress	not recorded
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 0

Evidence 2

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	contabo.com/en/storage-vps/	the text of Free tier, above
2026-10-21	www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/	cited as the basis of the rejection: Neither has a free tier or a trial. Contabo's cheapest storage VPS is EUR 5.50/mo for 300 GB SSD; Hetzner's Storage Box page returned no free offer. This is the 'free VPS with big disk' sub-

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dead end	`{"failure_class": "paid","why": "Neither has a free tier or a trial. Contabo's cheapest storage VPS is EUR 5.50/mo for 300 GB SSD; Hetzner's Storage Box page returned no free offer. This is the 'free VPS with big disk'…","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"}`

Unknown values 7

chaining: no value was recorded for this field
egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
interface: the access interface was not established
per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
tooling: no value was recorded for this field

contabo object storage

Storage

contabo.com/en/object-storage/order/storage/contabo-object-storage-2JSON compare report an error

Sibling records disagree:

identity_kind: storage/contabo-object-storage says card, storage/contabo-object-storage-2 says email
verdict: storage/contabo-object-storage says qualifies-with-caveat, storage/contabo-object-storage-2 says fails-egress

Free allowance: The 'unlimited free egress' claim is real but the price is €2.49 per 250 GB slice = €9.96/TB/mo, roughly 5× Hetzner Storage Box and 10× the 1fichier floor.
Verdict: fails: egressdata cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
Cost: not stated
Identity: email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit: per-ip-shapingdefault bandwidth 10 MB/s (80 Mbit/s), about 864 GB per day
Evidence: reported5 sources; a third party said so
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-18checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-11-18

Free tier	The 'unlimited free egress' claim is real but the price is €2.49 per 250 GB slice = €9.96/TB/mo, roughly 5× Hetzner Storage Box and 10× the 1fichier floor. Independent trackers split on… unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Limits	per-ip-shaping (binding) default bandwidth 10 MB/s (80 Mbit/s), about 864 GB per day source
Binding	per-ip-shaping The default bandwidth of 10 MB/s (80 Mbit/s) is a throughput limit that holds a day of transfer to about 864 GB; the vendor limits table lists no way to raise it, only storage and object count.
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Egress	Data transfer is free and unlimited, with no download fees. The default bandwidth limit is 10 MB/s (80 Mbit/s), which is about 864 GB per day, below 1 TiB per day.
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Evidence note	reported re-read on 2026-11-03: the vendor limits article quotes the default bandwidth of 10 MB/s (80 Mbit/s) and the vendor product page quotes free, unlimited data transfer; the storage price is not quoted from a vendor page, so the rung stays reported
Parsed numbers	per-ip-shaping 10 MB

Evidence 5

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	contabo.com/en/object-storage/order/	the text of Free tier, above
2026-10-21	onedollarvps.com/pricing/contabo-pricing	cited as the basis of the rejection: The 'unlimited free egress' claim is real but the price is €2.49 per 250 GB slice = €9.96/TB/mo, roughly 5× Hetzner Storage Box and 10× the 1fichier floor. Independent trackers split on whet
2026-10-21	s3providers.com/providers/contabo-object-storage	cited as the basis of the rejection: The 'unlimited free egress' claim is real but the price is €2.49 per 250 GB slice = €9.96/TB/mo, roughly 5× Hetzner Storage Box and 10× the 1fichier floor. Independent trackers split on whet
2026-11-03	help.contabo.com/en/support/solutions/articles/103000411100-	the default bandwidth limit of Contabo Object Storage is 10 MB/s (80 Mbit/s)
2026-11-03	contabo.com/en/object-storage/	data transfer carries no price and no volume cap

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dead end	`{"failure_class": "egress","why": "The 'unlimited free egress' claim is real but the price is €2.49 per 250 GB slice = €9.96/TB/mo, roughly 5× Hetzner Storage Box and 10× the 1fichier floor. Independent trackers split on…","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"}`

Unknown values 6

chaining: no value was recorded for this field
interface: the access interface was not established
per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
tooling: no value was recorded for this field

contabo storage vps line (all tiers)

Storage

contabo.com/en-us/pricing/storage/contabo-storage-vps-lineJSON compare report an error

Free allowance: Checked and rejected on price, not availability: $13.44/TB at the 1 TB tier versus €2.03/TB at Hetzner BX41.
Verdict: fails: egressdata cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
Cost: not stated
Identity: email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit: noneno named constraint binds
Evidence: reported1 source; a third party said so
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05

Free tier	Checked and rejected on price, not availability: $13.44/TB at the 1 TB tier versus €2.03/TB at Hetzner BX41. The 'Unlimited Traffic*' asterisk is a discretionary-throttle clause, not a… unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Egress	not recorded
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded

Evidence 1

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	contabo.com/en-us/pricing/	the text of Free tier, above

More fields 1

dead end	`{"failure_class": "egress","why": "Checked and rejected on price, not availability: $13.44/TB at the 1 TB tier versus €2.03/TB at Hetzner BX41. The 'Unlimited Traffic*' asterisk is a discretionary-throttle clause, not a…","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"}`

Unknown values 7

chaining: no value was recorded for this field
egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
interface: the access interface was not established
per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
tooling: no value was recorded for this field

Contabo Storage VPS — unlimited traffic, 300 GB–1.4 TB

Storage

contabo.com/en/storage-vps/IaaSstorage/contabo-storage-vps-unlimited-traffic-300-gb-1-4-tbJSON compare report an error

Sibling records disagree:

identity_kind: storage/contabo-storage-vps says email, storage/contabo-storage-vps-unlimited-traffic-300-gb-1-4-tb says card
verdict: storage/contabo-storage-vps says paid-only, storage/contabo-storage-vps-unlimited-traffic-300-gb-1-4-tb says fails-quota

Free allowance: Storage VPS 10: 300 GB SSD (150 GB NVMe option), 2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM, €5.50/mo for the first 24 months.
Verdict: fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
Cost: not stated
Identity: cardcard required, no phone
Binding limit: per-ip-shaping200 Mbit/s; 2 TB/day
Evidence: reported2 sources; a third party said so
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05

Free tier	Storage VPS 10: 300 GB SSD (150 GB NVMe option), 2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM, €5.50/mo for the first 24 months. Top tier 1.4 TB SSD at €37/mo. Higher tiers listed as 'More storage available'. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Limits	per-ip-shaping (binding) 200 Mbit/s source per-ip-shaping (binding) 2 TB/day source Setup fee applies on some terms.
Identity	card card
Egress	Unmetered — quoted verbatim: 'Unlimited Traffic* … Unlimited outgoing and unlimited inbound data transfer with 200 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s speeds. Fair usage policies apply.' This is the single most useful egress term in the slot: no byte meter, only a port-speed ceiling and a FUP.
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Interface	sftp, rsync, ssh, rclone sftp
Tooling	Root KVM — SSH/SFTP/rsync/rclone. No object API.
Composes with	No free tier. But 'unlimited traffic + capacity-priced' means the composition move is a single large instance rather than many free ones: 1.4 TB unmetered for €37/mo beats ten free tiers that all clamp.
Reliability	Hostloc thread evidence: a user running Contabo at 3 TB says '现在用的contabo已经只剩1.4t了' — capacity creep on a shared storage volume is the reported failure mode, not deletion. Widely used, oversold reputation.
Parsed numbers	per-ip-shaping 2 TB / day

Evidence 2

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	contabo.com/en/storage-vps/	'Storage VPS 10 … €5.50 … 300GB SSD / 150GB NVMe … 200 Mbit/s Port … Unlimited Traffic*'; 'Unlimited outgoing and unlimited inbound data transfer with 200 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s speeds. Fair usage policies apply.'
2026-10-21	hostloc.com/thread-1427211-1-1.html	'要3t以上的，现在用的contabo已经只剩1.4t了'

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dead end	`{"failure_class": "quota","why": "Storage VPS 10: 300 GB SSD (150 GB NVMe option), 2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM, €5.50/mo for the first 24 months. Top tier 1.4 TB SSD at €37/mo. Higher tiers listed as 'More storage available'.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"}`

Unknown values 4

per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read

Contabo (black friday)

Compute

contabo.com/en/black-friday/VPScompute/contabo-black-fridayJSON compare report an error

Sibling records disagree:

verdict: compute/contabo-black-friday says dead, compute/contabo-windows says paid-only
verdict: compute/contabo-black-friday says dead, compute/contabo-cloud-vps-4 says qualifies-with-caveat
verdict: compute/contabo says paid-only, compute/contabo-black-friday says dead

Free allowance: No offer: the page reads 'Contabo Black Friday Deals Coming Soon!' and asks for an email address
Verdict: deadthe offer or the service no longer exists
Cost: no price stated
Identity: cardcard required, no phone
Binding limit: volume-quotatotal stored or transferred volume
Evidence: documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: checked 2026-10-24checked 2026-10-24 (live)

Free tier	no offer: the page reads 'Contabo Black Friday Deals Coming Soon!' and asks for an email address unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Binding	volume-quota There is no cart. The page is a newsletter form with a 'coming soon' heading.
Identity	card not applicable; the page only collects an email address for a reminder
Egress	not applicable; no seasonal offer is served
Retention	not applicable; no offer is served
Interface	ssh not applicable to the seasonal page; the linked regular VPS starts at USD 5.28 a month
Tooling	part of the text of Interface, above
Composes with	Nothing seasonal to chain. The regular VPS the page links starts at USD 5.28 a month for 4 vCPU and 8 GB, which is above line.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	A placeholder, not a fossil: it advertises a future event rather than an old one. The USD 5.28 figure is Contabo's ordinary first-24-months price and is not a Black Friday price.
Evidence note	documented The page was read and the heading is quoted.
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 0

Evidence 2

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-24	contabo.com/en/black-friday/	quoted: 'Ready for Black Friday deals that live up to the hype? High-value hosting that delivers - coming soon.' with a name and email form below it; no price and no order link on the page
2026-10-24	contabo.com/en/black-friday/	the only prices on the page belong to the regular catalogue: 'Core VPS ... from $6.60 $5.28 / month ... for the first 24 months'

More fields 8

shape	`{"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"disk_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}`
billing model	none
term	none
price arithmetic	no seasonal price on this URL; the regular Core VPS is USD 5.28 a month for the first 24 months
free tier kind	none
network out	`{"allow_outbound": null,"allow_inbound_listen": null,"ports": null,"static_ip": null,"ipv6": null,"per_session_bytes": null}`
session cap	`{"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "not applicable"}`
sale page year	none; it points forward, not back

Unknown values 2

per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed