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  "DIY infrastructure rather than an agent-managed sandbox: guest installation, HTTPS/domain setup, abuse controls and operations are customer responsibilities. Linux guest administrative capabilities are not preinstalled agent features. 30% guest CPU utilization does not reduce allocated-compute charges. Unknowns remain null; a partial subtotal is not a complete invoice.",
  "Core Cloud VPS 4 is 4vCPU/8GB/100GB SSD at native catalog $6.60/month before term discounts/location extras. Old Cloud VPS 10 product price/specs are not substituted.",
  "Current family traffic is unlimited subject to fair use, throttling on disruptive usage. Old 32TB allowance documents are superseded for current catalog.",
  "One IPv4 and IPv6 subnet included. Region surcharges, paid images, Auto Backup and add-on storage are additional.",
  "The 8vCPU Core configurator shows no setup fee on inspected term options; other product/term setup remains null rather than generalized free.",
  "Shared vCPU (Cloud VPS / VPS Plus): Contabo does not publish a CPU guarantee for these tiers; oversold vCPU can see steal under sustained load. Only Cloud VDS gives dedicated physical cores. Encoded as cpu_class shared (not burstable: no published baseline).",
  "Monthly billing only (contabo.com/en-us/vps, checked 2026-10-14): \"Minimum initial contract length: 1 month\"; listed prices are \"the effective monthly rate for a 24-month subscription\"; the page offers no hourly billing and no per-session create/delete API economics. The estimate prices whole monthly rentals; bursty workloads must keep machines rented.",
  "Snapshots: Cloud VPS 4 includes 1 snapshot slot, VPS 6 2, VPS 8-18 3, VPS Plus 5 (catalog); VDS none listed. No per-GiB price for retained snapshots or extra slots is published, so snapshot_gib_month is null (was 0).",
  "Setup fee: the product catalog flags a setup fee as displayed for 1-month terms (oneMonthSetupFeeDisplaySettings) but no amount is published in the catalog or on the VPS page; left unpriced (unknown, not zero).",
  "Boot time not measured; boot_overhead_s unset.",
  "VPS Auto Backup (paid add-on, Core and Performance VPS only; not Storage VPS, VDS, GPU VPS or dedicated): daily, up to 10 backups kept for at most 10 days; price not captured.",
  "GPU VPS (Dedicated NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, 96 GB VRAM) is sold at contabo.com/en-us/gpu-vps/ in Europe and US Central only; it is not priced as a mode in this card (checked 2026-10-14)."
 ],
 "sources": [
  "https://contabo.com/en-us/pricing/",
  "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
  "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/max-performance-vps/",
  "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps-auto-backup/",
  "https://contabo.com/en-us/vps/",
  "https://contabo.com/en-us/configurator/cloud-vps-core-8/",
  "https://contabo.com/en-us/configurator/cloud-vps-core-4/",
  "https://contabo.com/en-us/gpu-vps/"
 ],
 "fleet": {
  "default_max_instances": null,
  "default_max_vcpu": null,
  "default_max_gpus": null,
  "raise": null,
  "raise_time_days": null,
  "verification": "Customer-data verification; manual review may request passport, driving licence or national identity card.",
  "tiers": null,
  "notes": "Order-verification documentation supplies no universal new-account VPS/server count or quota-increase schedule. Ordering many servers is subject to verification and provisioning availability, not proven unlimited.",
  "sources": [
   "https://help.contabo.com/en/support/solutions/articles/103000268796-how-can-i-check-the-status-of-my-order-",
   "https://help.contabo.com/en/support/solutions/articles/103000348466-why-do-i-need-to-verify-my-purchase-"
  ],
  "researched": "2026-09-28"
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 "audit_2026_09_29": {
  "applied": 8,
  "source": "checked against the provider's live pricing and docs pages",
  "reviewed": 1
 },
 "feature_evidence": {
  "snapshot_auto": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps-auto-backup/",
   "quote": "Schedule: one backup per day, incremental after the initial full backup, with at least 8 hours between backups.",
   "note": "Plain monthly-rented KVM VPS; nothing is saved on stop (disk simply persists). The only automatic mechanism is the paid Auto Backup add-on (Core/Performance VPS): daily off-server incremental backups, up to 10 kept for 10 days, whole-VPS restore in place. Not a stop/idle snapshot.",
   "checked": "2026-09-29"
  },
  "snapshot_on_demand": {
   "value": true,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "Snapshots\tImage of the VPS disk, retained for 30 days; slots per family as in Products at a Glance",
   "note": "Disk only, no memory. Create/list/update/delete/rollback via Control Panel, API (POST /v1/compute/instances/{id}/snapshots, .../rollback) and cntb CLI. Slots: Cloud VPS 4: 1, VPS 6: 2, VPS 8-18: 3, VPS Plus: 5; Storage VPS none; VDS/dedicated none listed. Restore is an in-place rollback of the same instance; no documented create-instance-from-snapshot (custom images come from a URL).",
   "checked": "2026-09-29"
  },
  "harness_api": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": null,
   "note": "Plain VPS; the API/CLI/Terraform only manage instances, images, snapshots, networks, firewalls and object storage. No agent harness integration.",
   "checked": "2026-09-29"
  },
  "egress_allowlist": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/network-services/firewall/",
   "quote": "Default policy: all inbound traffic is dropped by a permanent default rule; outbound traffic is unrestricted.",
   "note": "The API spec also says: 'Currently only inbound rules are allowed to be configured.' Egress filtering only possible with an in-guest firewall.",
   "checked": "2026-09-29"
  },
  "egress_http_rules": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/network-services/firewall/",
   "quote": "Default policy: all inbound traffic is dropped by a permanent default rule; outbound traffic is unrestricted.",
   "note": "No provider-side outbound controls at any level.",
   "checked": "2026-09-29"
  },
  "ingress_rules": {
   "value": true,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/network-services/firewall/",
   "quote": "A firewall is attached to one or more instances; rules take effect immediately.",
   "note": "Network-level Contabo Firewall for VPS/VDS/GPU VPS: default-drop inbound once activated, allow rules by TCP/UDP/ICMP, source IP/CIDR (v4/v6), port/list/range; managed via Control Panel, API, CLI. Docs page says 'Included' but the API spec says each protected instance 'requires a paid firewall add-on' (conflict). Not available for dedicated servers; does not cover private networks. Each VPS has a public IPv4 + /64 IPv6, all ports open unless a firewall is attached.",
   "checked": "2026-09-29"
  },
  "guest_firewall": {
   "value": true,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/network-services/firewall/",
   "quote": "Private networks are not covered — use the OS firewall inside a private network.",
   "note": "KVM VMs with root; Contabo explicitly directs customers to the in-OS firewall (also for dedicated servers).",
   "checked": "2026-09-29"
  },
  "secret_proxy": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "Contabo VPS are KVM-based virtual servers with shared vCPU cores and a fixed RAM allocation",
   "note": "Plain VPS with root access; no credential-injection HTTP proxy or secret-management product is documented anywhere in the docs. Secrets are managed entirely by the customer inside the guest OS (matches feature_evidence already in the card).",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "volume_attach": {
   "value": true,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "Storage Extension: adds storage of the plan’s type (Core VPS and Performance VPS only).",
   "note": "Paid Storage Extension add-on (an additional SSD/NVMe tied to the instance; 'Instances with an additional SSD cannot be region-migrated'). Not a detachable/movable block volume; not for Storage VPS. Separate S3-compatible Object Storage product.",
   "checked": "2026-09-29"
  },
  "volume_shared": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/storage/object-storage/",
   "quote": "Object Storage is accessed entirely via the S3 API or a web UI",
   "note": "No shared/network filesystem product; Object Storage is S3 API only (no first-party mount). Private Networking (L2 between VPS/VDS in a region) lets you run your own NFS.",
   "checked": "2026-09-29"
  },
  "isolation": {
   "value": "qemu-kvm",
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "Contabo VPS are KVM-based virtual servers with shared vCPU cores and a fixed RAM allocation",
   "note": "Applies to VPS, Performance VPS and Max Performance VPS (VDS); all are KVM full virtual machines.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "image_oci": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/images/",
   "quote": "Formats ISO (bootable installer) or QCOW2 (pre-installed disk image, uncompressed). ... Architecture x86-64 (amd64) only. Drivers VirtIO storage (virtio_scsi) and network (virtio_net) drivers required",
   "note": "Custom images are VM disk images (ISO/QCOW2), not Docker/OCI container images. Not offered: outside the product's scope (plain KVM VPS, not a container platform).",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "anti_bot": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://contabo.com/en-us/vps/",
   "quote": "Contabo VPS are KVM-based virtual servers with shared vCPU cores and a fixed RAM allocation",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope (plain KVM VPS, no browser/anti-detection layer)",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "captcha_solving": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://contabo.com/en-us/vps/",
   "quote": "Contabo VPS are KVM-based virtual servers with shared vCPU cores and a fixed RAM allocation",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope (plain KVM VPS, not a browser/agent product)",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "egress_ip_type": {
   "value": "datacenter",
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "IP addresses 1 static IPv4 + /64 IPv6 subnet per instance",
   "note": "Datacenter-hosted KVM VPS; the assigned IPv4 is a datacenter address, not residential/mobile.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "fork": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "Upgrade: in place via Control Panel to a larger plan within the same plan family; the IP address is kept. Region migration: live migration (data preserved) or fresh setup (data erased)",
   "note": "No documented clone/fork-a-machine-into-new-instances feature. Custom images can be reused to deploy new servers from an exported disk image, but that is not an API 'fork' operation; snapshots restore in place (rollback) rather than spawning new instances.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "fork_running": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "Snapshots Image of the VPS disk, retained for 30 days",
   "note": "No fork capability at all (see fork); therefore no running-clone capability either.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "memory_snapshot_fork": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "Snapshots Image of the VPS disk, retained for 30 days",
   "note": "Snapshots are disk-only (no memory state) and restore in place; there is no fork feature, let alone a memory-preserving one.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "wake_on_request": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://contabo.com/en-us/vps/",
   "quote": "Minimum initial contract length: 1 month",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope. Always-on monthly-rented KVM VMs with no sleep/idle/wake mechanism; customer starts/stops manually via Control Panel or API.",
   "checked": "2026-10-14"
  },
  "auto_stop_idle": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://contabo.com/en-us/vps/",
   "quote": "Minimum initial contract length: 1 month",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope. No idle-detection or auto-stop; VM runs continuously until the customer stops/cancels it, and billing is a flat monthly rental regardless of usage.",
   "checked": "2026-10-14"
  },
  "live_resize": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "Upgrade: in place via Control Panel to a larger plan within the same plan family; the IP address is kept.",
   "note": "Upgrade keeps the same instance/IP ('in place') but is a plan change carried out via the Control Panel, not a live hot-resize API call on a running machine; Contabo's docs do not describe resizing CPU/RAM without an instance restart. Treated as false pending explicit no-downtime confirmation.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "own_agent_api": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "Contabo API (api.contabo.com): RESTful; ... CLI (cntb): open-source command-line client",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope. The API/CLI only manage infrastructure (instances, images, snapshots, networking); there is no first-party browser/computer-use/research agent product.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "mcp_server": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "Contabo API (api.contabo.com): RESTful; OAuth2 authentication ... CLI (cntb): open-source command-line client (github.com/contabo/cntb)",
   "note": "No MCP server is documented alongside the REST API, CLI (cntb) and Terraform provider.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "lang_python": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/images/",
   "quote": "Operating System Images ... Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS, openSUSE, FreeBSD",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope. Plain OS images only (no bundled Python runtime/SDK); customer installs any language stack themselves via root SSH access. A 1-Click 'Ollama' image exists but no dedicated Python app image.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "lang_node": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/images/",
   "quote": "1-Click App Images ... OpenClaw · n8n · Nextcloud · WireGuard · GitLab CE · cPanel · Plesk · Dokploy · Paperclip AI · Hermes Agent · Ollama",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope. No Node.js-specific OS or 1-Click image is listed; customer installs Node.js themselves via root SSH access.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "static_egress_ip": {
   "value": true,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "IP addresses 1 static IPv4 + /64 IPv6 subnet per instance; maximum 1 additional IPv4",
   "note": "The dedicated static IPv4 assigned to the instance is also used for outbound traffic (standard VPS networking; no NAT gateway pool).",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "gpu": {
   "value": true,
   "source": "https://contabo.com/en-us/gpu-vps/",
   "quote": "Europe and US Central are the only available regions at launch.",
   "note": "GPU VPS product: \"Dedicated NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000\" (FAQ: \"the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition, with 96 GB of GDDR7 ECC VRAM\"). Not priced as a mode in this card. The previous quote (\"GPU VPS is built on the Cloud VPS Plus 18 tier.\") is not on the max-performance-vps docs page.",
   "checked": "2026-10-14"
  },
  "hipaa": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "Contabo VPS are KVM-based virtual servers with shared vCPU cores and a fixed RAM allocation",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope. Contabo is a self-managed, DIY European VPS/dedicated-server host with no published HIPAA-eligibility or BAA offering; compliance is the customer's responsibility (per card caveats).",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "sso": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "Contabo API (api.contabo.com): RESTful; OAuth2 authentication with client ID, client secret and an API user password created in the Control Panel",
   "note": "Account/API access uses Contabo's own OAuth2 API-user credentials and Customer Control Panel login; no SAML/OIDC enterprise SSO for the account/console is documented.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "max_session_h": {
   "value": "none",
   "source": "https://contabo.com/en-us/vps/",
   "quote": "Minimum initial contract length: 1 month",
   "note": "Rented KVM VM runs indefinitely (monthly billing) until the customer stops/cancels it; no maximum session duration is imposed. Price basis on the same page: \"The price displayed is the effective monthly rate for a 24-month subscription including applicable taxes.\" The page offers no hourly billing.",
   "checked": "2026-10-14"
  },
  "pause_resume": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "Customer Control Panel: start/stop/restart, reinstall, snapshots, VNC console, rescue system, firewall, private networking, storage extension, DNS and reverse DNS",
   "note": "Only start/stop/restart actions are documented for the Control Panel and API; no pause/suspend action exists. Billing is a flat monthly rental regardless of running state (per card's own pricing note: 'charges one monthly rental per concurrent machine, including off-hours'), so there is no pause-with-reduced-billing feature either.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "desktop": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/images/",
   "quote": "1-Click App Images # An OS image with an application preinstalled and configured at first boot. Product 1-Click images VPS and VDS (Max Performance VPS) OpenClaw · n8n · Nextcloud · WireGuard · GitLab CE · cPanel · Plesk · Dokploy · Paperclip AI · Hermes Agent · Ollama",
   "note": "Contabo is a plain KVM VPS/VDS hosting provider: OS images (Linux/BSD/Windows Server) and 1-Click app images, none of which is a managed graphical desktop/VNC-streaming product. Customers only get a rescue-system VNC console for OS installation/troubleshooting, not a delivered agent desktop environment.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "browser": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/images/",
   "quote": "1-Click App Images # ... OpenClaw · n8n · Nextcloud · WireGuard · GitLab CE · cPanel · Plesk · Dokploy · Paperclip AI · Hermes Agent · Ollama",
   "note": "No first-party managed/preinstalled browser product; it's DIY - customers can install a browser themselves on the bare VPS, but Contabo does not offer or manage one.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "computer_use": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "Contabo VPS are KVM-based virtual servers with shared vCPU cores and a fixed RAM allocation",
   "note": "Plain KVM VPS/VDS infrastructure product; no screenshot+click computer-use API is offered at any layer (Control Panel or Contabo API only manage instances/images/snapshots/networking).",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "inbound_https": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/network-services/firewall/",
   "quote": "Default policy: all inbound traffic is dropped by a permanent default rule; outbound traffic is unrestricted.",
   "note": "Contabo gives a raw public IPv4/IPv6 with all ports reachable once a firewall allow-rule is added, but there is no provider-managed HTTPS URL/reverse-proxy/TLS termination in front of the VM; customers must set up their own domain and TLS certificate on the guest, as the card's own caveats state ('HTTPS/domain setup ... are customer responsibilities').",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "agent_harnesses": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/images/",
   "quote": "1-Click App Images # ... OpenClaw · n8n · Nextcloud · WireGuard · GitLab CE · cPanel · Plesk · Dokploy · Paperclip AI · Hermes Agent · Ollama",
   "note": "The full list of 1-Click apps (the only 'preinstalled template' mechanism Contabo offers) contains no coding-agent harness (no Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc.); 'Hermes Agent'/'Paperclip AI'/'Ollama' are unrelated automation/LLM-runtime apps, not coding harnesses.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "macos": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/images/",
   "quote": "Operating System Images # Product Linux / BSD Windows Server VPS — Core VPS, Performance VPS Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS, openSUSE, FreeBSD 2016, 2019, 2022, 2025; Contabo license (add-on)",
   "note": "The full OS image table across all VPS/VDS/dedicated products lists only Linux/BSD distributions and Windows Server versions; macOS is never listed (Contabo is KVM-on-x86, no Apple hardware/hypervisor support).",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "arm64": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/images/",
   "quote": "Custom Images # Aspect Details Products VPS and VDS; the Custom Image Storage add-on can be ordered at any time Formats ISO (bootable installer) or QCOW2 (pre-installed disk image, uncompressed). The image type is validated, not just the file extension Architecture x86-64 (amd64) only",
   "note": "Explicit architecture restriction to x86-64 (amd64) for custom images, and the OS image table lists only x86 Linux/BSD/Windows distributions; no ARM/arm64 offering exists across the catalog.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "self_host": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "Contabo VPS are KVM-based virtual servers with shared vCPU cores and a fixed RAM allocation, sold in three plan families — Core VPS, Performance VPS and Storage VPS — that run on the same platform",
   "note": "Contabo is itself the hyperscaler/hosting company running the KVM platform on its own datacenter hardware; it sells hosted VPS/VDS/dedicated servers as a service, not a downloadable/self-hostable product customers run on their own infrastructure.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "byoc": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "Contabo VPS are KVM-based virtual servers with shared vCPU cores and a fixed RAM allocation, sold in three plan families — Core VPS, Performance VPS and Storage VPS — that run on the same platform",
   "note": "Contabo only sells capacity on its own cloud/datacenter infrastructure; there is no managed-service-deployed-into-your-own-cloud-account (BYOC) offering anywhere in the docs or pricing pages.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "open_source": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "Contabo VPS are KVM-based virtual servers with shared vCPU cores and a fixed RAM allocation, sold in three plan families — Core VPS, Performance VPS and Storage VPS — that run on the same platform",
   "note": "Contabo is a proprietary commercial hosting company selling VPS/VDS/dedicated-server capacity; the underlying platform, Control Panel, and API are not published under any OSI open-source license.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "soc2": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "Contabo VPS are KVM-based virtual servers with shared vCPU cores and a fixed RAM allocation, sold in three plan families — Core VPS, Performance VPS and Storage VPS — that run on the same platform",
   "note": "No SOC 2 attestation is published anywhere on Contabo's site, docs, or help center. Searches of the Contabo help desk for \"SOC\", \"ISO\", \"certification\", and \"compliance\" surface only a GDPR data-processing-agreement article and general security-hardening tips, no third-party audit/attestation report. Contabo is a budget DIY VPS/dedicated-server host (self-managed infrastructure, customer responsible for OS-level security per card caveats); a SOC 2 report is not offered/published, so treated as not offered rather than unknown.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "usage_api": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "Contabo VPS are KVM-based virtual servers with shared vCPU cores and a fixed RAM allocation, sold in three plan families — Core VPS, Performance VPS and Storage VPS — that run on the same platform",
   "note": "granularity: account-only; cost: no; Contabo uses flat monthly rental billing (not metered usage). The API/CLI/Terraform only manage instances, images, snapshots, networks and firewalls. No per-VM or per-tag usage/billing API endpoint exists; billing is account-wide invoice only.",
   "confidence": "high",
   "checked": "2026-10-01"
  },
  "nested_virt": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/vps/",
   "quote": "Nested virtualization is not supported on any VPS plan family.",
   "note": "Card-level false (Core, Performance and Storage VPS). Only Cloud VDS supports it (https://docs.contabo.com/docs/servers-hosting/max-performance-vps/: \"Storage is NVMe and nested virtualization is supported.\"), encoded per mode: vds and vds-promo-24m true.",
   "checked": "2026-10-14"
  },
  "gpu_types": {
   "value": [
    "RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell"
   ],
   "source": "https://contabo.com/en-us/gpu-vps/",
   "quote": "the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition, with 96 GB of GDDR7 ECC VRAM",
   "note": "Single GPU model; regions Europe and US Central only.",
   "checked": "2026-10-14"
  }
 },
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   "country": "DE",
   "state": null,
   "city": "Frankfurt",
   "provider_region": "eu",
   "self_serve": true,
   "choosable": true
  },
  {
   "country": "GB",
   "state": null,
   "city": "London",
   "provider_region": "uk",
   "self_serve": true,
   "choosable": true
  },
  {
   "country": "US",
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