Contabo's cheapest dedicated server is a 12-core Ryzen at €129/mo excluding VAT on promotion (€149 list), cPanel is a paid add-on, streaming isn't offered at all, and in their US East region that Ryzen currently shows out of stock. Primcast starts at $5/mo and runs radio and video on the same network, and our AMD EPYC line undercuts theirs where it matters: 32 cores for $347.78 against €399.00, 64 cores with a third more memory for $472.98 against €699.00.
Contabo sells budget hardware. Primcast sells a running platform, on both sides of the Atlantic.
Contabo sells AMD exclusively, so every card below pits our AMD EPYC builds against theirs at a matching core count - not a Xeon against a Ryzen.
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Contabo's smallest dedicated server is the AMD Ryzen 12 Cores at €129.00/mo excl. VAT on promotion (€149.00 list) - 64 GB and 1 TB NVMe whether you need it or not, plus €8.10-€11.25/mo if you want it in a US data center. Below that price they only sell shared-host VPS instances.
Same core count, same memory, and we come in over €50 lower before their US location fee - with radio and live video on the same network.
64 cores either way - but ours carries 256 GB against their 192 GB and still lands more than €200 below them.
Specs and prices above were taken from contabo.com and its configurator in September 2026. Contabo quotes before VAT and adds your local rate at checkout, which turns the €129.00 promotional rate (€149.00 list) into €153.51 in Germany and the twelve-month prepaid €109.65 into €132.68 in Romania - €122.55 if you prepay three. Their dedicated range carries no setup fee, though non-EU regions add €8.10-€36.00 a month; our custom builds carry a one-time $29 setup fee. One place they win outright: the 24-core Genoa at €199.00, against $337.78 for ours. Our EPYC builds ship from New York and Bucharest.
Where the platforms really differ: geography, what's in the box, streaming and who you can call.
| Primcast | Contabo | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry dedicated server | From $5 / mo + $13 setup on real single-tenant hardware | From €129.00 / mo excl. VAT on promotion (€149.00 list) - nothing smaller in the dedicated range |
| 32-core AMD, 128 GB | EPYC 7513 at $347.78 / mo | EPYC 9355P at €399.00 / mo excl. VAT, plus location fee |
| Location pricing | Identical in New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Bucharest | EU is free; UK and US Central €8.10/mo, US West €9.60, US East €11.25, Australia €20.55, Asia €34.00-€36.00 |
| cPanel | $49.50/mo add-on (Premier, 100 domains) - or the free ISPConfig panel | Paid add-on |
| Streaming platform | Radio & live video on the same network - AutoDJ included, up to 5,000 listeners at once and 1.5 million listener hours a month | Not offered - separate provider needed |
| Deployment time | ~30 minutes in every location; custom builds within 24h | ~90 minutes quoted for a standard EU build; the entry Ryzen currently shows out of stock in US East. Fast-track Setup is a €34.49 add-on |
| Pricing terms | Month to month at the listed price | Month to month at €129.00 net on the current promotion (€149.00 list); €122.55 at three months, €109.65 prepaid twelve - VAT added at your local rate on top |
| Bandwidth | Unmetered options up to 20 Gbps on EPYC, 100 Gbps on Xeon, never oversold | "Unlimited" under a Fair Usage Policy on 1 Gbit/s; 10 Gbit/s only on the larger Turin models |
| Support | 24/7 phone & live chat, included for everyone | 24/7 support by chat, phone and ticket - but the server itself is unmanaged |
| Migration help | Free on every plan: planning, rebuilds and the cutover call - how it works | Self-service |
Contabo is a strong pick at one specific point - their 24-core Genoa is the cheapest way to rent that many cores in a German rack, and we'll say so. Primcast is what you pick when you want a running platform instead of a box: radio and live video on the same network with no per-viewer fees, an entry server at $5 instead of €129, a US machine live in 30 minutes rather than out of stock and with no location fee, and 32- and 64-core EPYC that costs less than theirs. From $5/mo, with free help moving off Contabo - planning, rebuilds and the cutover call for your sites, workloads and streams.
