Contabo slashes dedicated server price 18% in flash promo
What happened
Between the Aug 17, 2026 and Aug 24, 2026 captures of Contabo's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: AMD Ryzen 12 Cores dedicated server gained a 'Limited Special Offer' badge and its monthly price dropped from 134.10 to 109.65, an ~18% promotional discount on the same plan/URL. Pulse files it as a pricing change (discount added) with a neutral direction. Pulse's latest capture (Oct 12, 2026) lists Cloud VPS 4 at $5.28, Cloud VPS 6 at $7.2, Cloud VPS 8 at $13.44, Cloud VPS 12 at $24 and Cloud VPS 16 at $35.6.
It lands 28 days after Contabo's previous change, "Contabo Main: VPS/VDS/Storage VPS prices cut ~5-11% across the board" (Jul 27, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Contabo Main hikes all 4 dedicated server tiers, axes Turin32's 87% launch di" (Jul 13, 2026), "Contabo Main: Cloud VPS 10/20 price hikes, Storage VPS 20 discontinued" (Jul 2, 2026) and "Contabo Main raises VPS prices up to 22% across storage tiers" (Jun 15, 2026). Contabo has been tracked since 2026-03-20.
In the same window Vultr, OVHcloud, Digitalocean and Google Cloud also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- — · Discount−18%134.10109.65
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Discount | 134.10 | 109.65 | −18% |
Values as written on Contabo's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Contabo's pricing page (contabo.com) from Aug 17, 2026 and Aug 24, 2026; the change is marked in the lower part of the page, where discount reads 134.10 and then 109.65.
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Contabo, the last 90 days
Full history- Oct 12, 2026improvedContabo Main adds NVMe storage to Cloud VPS 6-18 plans at unchanged prices
- Sep 14, 2026packagingContabo Main: Cloud VPS 18 & Performance VPS tier prices cut ~17% + 24-month term
- Aug 24, 2026packagingContabo slashes dedicated server price 18% in flash promo · this change
- Jul 27, 2026decreaseContabo Main: VPS/VDS/Storage VPS prices cut ~5-11% across the board
- Jul 13, 2026increaseContabo Main hikes all 4 dedicated server tiers, axes Turin32's 87% launch di...
- Jul 2, 2026increaseContabo Main: Cloud VPS 10/20 price hikes, Storage VPS 20 discontinued
- Jun 15, 2026increaseContabo Main raises VPS prices up to 22% across storage tiers
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changes- VultrAug 5Vultr: new Audit Logs add-on ($0.50/GB ingestion + $0.01/GB/mo retention)
- OVHcloudAug 4OVHcloud Publiccloud: MongoDB Discovery database service to be discontinued 31/08/2026
- DigitaloceanJul 28DigitalOcean: GPU Droplets starting price up ($1.88→$1.91/GPU/hour)
- Google CloudJun 15Google Cloud Datastudio pools AI tokens per platform, adds Thinking mode
Questions about this change
Did Contabo raise prices in August 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Aug 17, 2026 and Aug 24, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a pricing change: discount added.
What changed on Contabo's pricing page between Aug 17, 2026 and Aug 24, 2026?
Discount: 134.10 → 109.65 (−18%). Pulse compared the captures it took on Aug 17, 2026 and Aug 24, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Contabo change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 4 other pricing-page changes for Contabo in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Contabo Main: VPS/VDS/Storage VPS prices cut ~5-11% across the board" on Jul 27, 2026; Contabo has been tracked since 2026-03-20.