Idea Lab · Oct 15 2026 · Fleet winner · Market brief
Contabo vs Hetzner Split
The market brief recommends keeping interactive agents on Contabo and moving nightly batch scraping to Hetzner ARM servers. This calculator lets you put in today's real prices and the fleet's real sizes, and shows whether the split saves money once you count the one-time cost of moving.
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Hetzner cut storage-bound instance prices by 18% in Q3 2026.
Contabo is 2.1× more cost-efficient per agent node for our workload.
Hetzner dedicated ARM instances are 40% cheaper per core.
No source links came with the brief. Contabo's lower price also comes with shared, oversold CPU on many plans, which matters for latency more than for nightly batch.
What to try
Paste in this month's real plan prices; the ratio table shows whether the 2.1× and 40% claims hold for you.
Set nightly batch to 2 vCPUs, which is closer to a small fleet's scraping load, and see how long the move takes to pay back.
Raise migration hours to 20 to include learning a second provider's console, billing and firewall rules.