Price: long contracts vs pay per hour
Contabo is known for large amounts of memory and disk for the money. Cloud VPS 4, the entry Core VPS plan, combines 4 vCPU and 8 GB of memory with 100 GB SSD at €5.50 a month. Contabo notes this is the effective monthly rate when you subscribe for 24 months, applicable taxes included, so shorter terms can cost more.
Our counterpart, VPS-4, also has 4 vCPU and 8 GB of memory, with 128 GB NVMe, at $12.16 a month. For one machine kept two years where every euro of memory counts, Contabo is cheaper. For a machine you need for days or weeks, paying by the hour means you cover only that time.
Contract terms and cancellation
Contabo sells VPS plans on contract terms. The minimum initial contract length is one month, and the following contract length equals the initial one. Cancellation notice is none for prepaid orders and four weeks for postpaid orders. That model rewards committing in advance and suits machines meant to stay up for years.
DataPasa skips contracts entirely, so there is no notice period either. Ordering takes the first hour, and later hours follow one by one. Deleting the machine ends charges at once. Hours already used are not refunded. Money still on the balance from a card payment can return to that card, whereas crypto deposits are final. Testing a stack, a short campaign or a new OS therefore costs little.
Payments and customer verification
For EUR accounts Contabo takes credit cards, PayPal, Skrill, bank transfer and direct debit, and for USD and GBP accounts credit cards and PayPal. Its help center says cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are not accepted. Contabo adds that the law obliges it to check customer data, so an order under review can require an ID document or a utility bill as a scan.
DataPasa offers two routes into your balance: Stripe for cards plus Apple Pay and Google Pay, Cryptomus for crypto. An email opens the account, and a funded balance is all a deployment needs. Incoming crypto is checked for sanctions exposure and illicit origin, and identity documents come up only if that check flags a deposit.
When Contabo is the better choice
With nine regions and eleven locations spread over the EU, the UK, the US, Singapore, Japan, India and Australia, Contabo has a reach that our single German site cannot match. Core VPS plans also bundle a snapshot and traffic that is unlimited within fair use, and the long term prices give a lot of resources to storage heavy or memory hungry workloads.
DataPasa wins when flexibility outweighs the lowest two year price: machines created and deleted often, crypto funded projects, faster NVMe on small plans or registration without documents. Let the server lifetime, the location of your users and your payment habits decide.