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The page states 'No identity verification required. No order notes accepted. Automated payments only.' No ID document and no company. Card hold not stated: unverified rather than none.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event observed the vendor advertises 99.9% uptime","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"the EUR figures, the term ladder and the 24-month discount are quoted from the vendor's own product page read today. The USD figure rests on the vendor's own JSON-LD, which implies a EUR/USD rate of 1.20 rather than the ECB's 1.1193; both are recorded.","evidence":[{"url":"https://contabo.com/en-us/vps/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"product data on the page: 'Cloud VPS 4', '4 vCPU Cores, 8 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD, 1 Snapshot, unlimited Traffic', with offers at 'priceCurrency EUR lowPrice 5.5' and 'priceCurrency USD lowPrice 6.6'"},{"url":"https://contabo.com/en-us/vps/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted from the plan card: 'Cloud VPS 4 EUR 5.50 ... for the first 24 months'"},{"url":"https://contabo.com/en-us/vps/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: '200 Mbit/s Port' on the first rung, '300 Mbit/s Port' on the second, '600 Mbit/s Port' on the third"},{"url":"https://contabo.com/en-us/vps/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted from the Cloud VPS 4 card: 'Cloud VPS 4 / EUR 5.50 / 4 / 40 / month / Including VAT / Excluding VAT / for the first 24 months', with the spec row '4 vCPU Cores / 8 GB RAM / 100 GB SSD'"},{"url":"https://contabo.com/en-us/vps/cloud-vps-core-4","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted term ladder: '1 Month EUR 5.50 / month No Setup Fee', '3 Months EUR 5.50', '6 Months EUR 5.50', 'SAVE 15% 12 Months EUR 5.50 / month EUR 4.68 / month', 'SAVE 20% 24 Months EUR 5.50 / month EUR 4.40 / month'"},{"url":"https://contabo.com/en-us/vps/cloud-vps-core-4","date":"2026-10-24","proved":null},{"url":"https://contabo.com/en-us/vps/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"JSON-LD for Cloud VPS 4: three AggregateOffers, {priceCurrency EUR, lowPrice 5.5}, {priceCurrency USD, lowPrice 6.6}, {priceCurrency GBP, lowPrice 5.4}, all availability InStock"},{"url":"https://contabo.com/en-us/vps/cloud-vps-core-4","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted config: '4 vCPU Cores / 8 GB RAM / 100 GB SSD / 1 Snapshot / 200 Mbit/s Port', with 'No Setup Fee' on every term"},{"url":"https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"time='2026-10-23' currency='USD' rate='1.1193'"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-24T06:30:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"NEW PROVIDER, and it is the strongest 8 GiB find of the session on shape: 4 vCPU / 8 GB / 100 GB SSD / unlimited traffic, with no setup fee. The price is the whole difficulty and the arithmetic decides the verdict. The page prints EUR 5.50 for the 1, 3 and 6 month terms, EUR 4.68 on 12 months and EUR 4.40 on 24 months, all marked 'for the first 24 months'. At the ECB rate EUR 4.40 = USD 4.92, which is under the line by 8 cents. But Contabo's own JSON-LD publishes a USD price for the same product of USD 6.60 against EUR 5.50, which implies a rate of 1.20 rather than 1.1193; at that rate EUR 4.40 = USD 5.28, over the line. So the row is under the line or over it depending on which of the vendor's two published conversions is used, and that is the caveat. The second caveat is the discount: 'for the first 24 months' means the EUR 4.40 is a first-term price, and the vendor's own checkout text says the contract 'automatically renews on a monthly basis at the standard prices' after the initial term, which is EUR 5.50 = USD 6.16 at the ECB rate. Worst case exposure is 6.16 / 4.92 = 1.25x. Third: whether a non-EU buyer pays the 'Including VAT' or 'Excluding VAT' figure is not settled here, because the card prints both against the same EUR 5.50.","extras":{"shape":{"vcpu":4,"ram_gib":8,"disk_gib":100,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null},"billing_model":"monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, annual or 24-month","term":"24 months for the EUR 4.40 figure; 12 months at EUR 4.68","m10h_usd":4.92,"m24h_usd":4.92,"price_arithmetic":"EUR 4.40 a month on the 24-month term x 1.1193 (ECB reference, 2026-10-23) = USD 4.925, rounded USD 4.92. The 12-month term is EUR 4.68 = USD 5.24, over the line. The monthly term is EUR 5.50 = USD 6.16. Contabo's own JSON-LD implies EUR/USD 1.20 (USD 6.60 against EUR 5.50), at which the 24-month figure is USD 5.28 and over the line. It is a VPS, so no 730-hour multiplication.","out_of_pocket_usd":118.2,"renewal_usd":6.16,"renewal_note":null,"promo":true,"over_line":true,"fx":{"pair":"EUR/USD","rate":1.1193,"date":"2026-10-23","source":"ECB reference via frankfurter.app"},"port_mbps":200,"ipv4_included":true,"ipv6":"not stated on the card","free_tier_kind":"none","network_out":{"allow_outbound":true,"allow_inbound_listen":true,"ports":"all","static_ip":true,"ipv6":false,"per_session_bytes":null},"session_cap":{"wall_clock_min":null,"idle_reap_s":null,"restart_required":false,"note":"none; it is a VPS"},"signup_url":"https://contabo.com/en-us/vps/cloud-vps-core-4","cart_url":"https://contabo.com/en-us/vps/cloud-vps-core-4","worst_case_exposure_x":1.25,"worst_case_note":"6.16 / 4.92 = 1.25x when the 24-month term ends and the plan falls back to the EUR 5.50 monthly standard price.","vendor_implied_fx":{"pair":"EUR/USD","rate":1.2,"derivation":"the vendor's JSON-LD lists EUR lowPrice 5.5 and USD lowPrice 6.6 for the same product; 6.6 / 5.5 = 1.20","why_it_matters":"at 1.20 the 24-month EUR 4.40 is USD 5.28 and the row is over the line, so the two published conversions disagree about the verdict"},"payment_methods":"card, PayPal, SEPA direct debit and bank transfer, from the checkout's own payment tabs ('Use Credit Card to pay ... any future subscription renewals automatically', 'Use PayPal to pay ...')","stock":"in stock: the JSON-LD states availability InStock for all three currency offers, and the configurator renders every term with a selectable control. Read at https://contabo.com/en-us/vps/cloud-vps-core-4","vat":"the card prints both 'Including VAT' and 'Excluding VAT' against the same EUR 5.50 and the toggle's default state was not readable in the static HTML; the checkout applies VAT by tax country. If EUR 4.40 is net, it is USD 4.92; if 19% VAT is added it is USD 5.86, over the line. So the VAT basis alone can flip this row"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.extras.m10h_usd","kind":"price","num":4.92,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":4.92,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.extras.m24h_usd","kind":"price","num":4.92,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":4.92,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.extras.renewal_usd","kind":"price","num":6.16,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":6.16,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-ip-shaping","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.evidence[5].proved","withheld"],["$.extras.renewal_note","withheld"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"compute/contabo","other":"compute/contabo-cloud-vps-4","field":"verdict","a":"paid-only","b":"qualifies-with-caveat","detail":null},{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"compute/contabo-black-friday","other":"compute/contabo-cloud-vps-4","field":"verdict","a":"dead","b":"qualifies-with-caveat","detail":null},{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"compute/contabo-cloud-vps-4","other":"compute/contabo-windows","field":"verdict","a":"qualifies-with-caveat","b":"paid-only","detail":null}]}