Contabo vs SwissGPU: Pricing, Specs, Strengths & Weaknesses

Contabo is a German budget cloud provider offering VPS and dedicated servers with unusually high core counts and RAM at very competitive prices, making it popular for CPU-intensive workloads and teams that need large amounts of RAM without paying hyperscaler rates. While not a dedicated GPU cloud, Contabo offers some GPU-enabled VPS configurations for teams that need affordable compute with GPU access at budget pricing.

SwissGPU rents full dedicated physical machines (bare metal) in Switzerland, giving customers exclusive access to the hardware over SSH with no hypervisor overhead. Billing is per minute and stops the moment the server is powered off, with electricity metered separately at CHF 0.30/kWh. The catalog covers consumer and prosumer NVIDIA RTX cards — from the RTX 3090 and RTX 4080 through the RTX 5090 and up to the RTX PRO 6000 (96GB VRAM) — making it a practical choice for teams that want dedicated Swiss hardware for AI training, rendering, or compute workloads without sharing resources with other tenants. All machines include NVMe SSD storage and network at no extra charge. Prices are published in CHF; USD equivalents on this page are approximate conversions at ~1.13.