Contabo
Contabo GmbH is a German hosting provider offering VPS, VDS, dedicated and GPU servers, S3-compatible object storage, private networking, DNS and domains. The Contabo API (https://api.contabo.com, OpenAPI 3.0.3, 157 operations) manages compute instances, snapshots, images, object storage, private networks, secrets, users, roles and tags using OAuth2 password-grant bearer tokens from auth.contabo.com; Contabo also ships the cntb CLI and a Terraform provider.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Contabo the way a machine reads it — 52 machine-readable artifacts across 2 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Contabo scores 57.6/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 28/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Contabo
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Contabo. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 39
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Contabo Check Collection Templates API
The Check Collection Templates API from Contabo — 2 operation(s) for check collection templates.
Contabo Check Collections API
The Check Collections API from Contabo — 2 operation(s) for check collections.
Contabo Checks API
The Checks API from Contabo — 2 operation(s) for checks.
Contabo DNS API
DNS API allows you to create and manage dns for your instances (Cloud VPS/VDS).
Contabo DNS Audits API
DNS API allows you to create and manage dns for your instances (Cloud VPS/VDS).
Contabo Domains API
Domains API allows you to create and manage Domains.
Contabo Domains Audits API
The Domains Audits API from Contabo — 1 operation(s) for domains audits.
Contabo Firewalls API
Firewall API allows you to create and manage firewalls for your instances (Cloud VPS/VDS). Each instance protected by customizable inbound firewall rules requires a paid firewal...
Contabo Firewalls Audits API
The Firewalls Audits API from Contabo — 1 operation(s) for firewalls audits.
Contabo Handles API
Domains API allows you to create and manage Domains.
Contabo Handles Audits API
The Handles Audits API from Contabo — 1 operation(s) for handles audits.
Contabo Images API
The Compute Management API allows you to manage compute resources (e.g. creation, deletion, starting, stopping) as well as managing snapshots and custom images. It also supports...
Contabo Images Audits API
The Compute Management API allows you to manage compute resources (e.g. creation, deletion, starting, stopping) as well as managing snapshots and custom images. It also supports...
Contabo Instance Actions API
The Compute Management API allows you to manage compute resources (e.g. creation, deletion, starting, stopping) as well as managing snapshots and custom images. It also supports...
Contabo Instance Actions Audits API
The Compute Management API allows you to manage compute resources (e.g. creation, deletion, starting, stopping) as well as managing snapshots and custom images. It also supports...
Contabo Instances API
The Compute Management API allows you to manage compute resources (e.g. creation, deletion, starting, stopping) as well as managing snapshots and custom images. It also supports...
Contabo Instances Audits API
The Compute Management API allows you to manage compute resources (e.g. creation, deletion, starting, stopping) as well as managing snapshots and custom images. It also supports...
Contabo Instances Products API
The Instances Products API from Contabo — 1 operation(s) for instances products.
Contabo Object Storages API
Manage S3 compatible Object Storage. With the Object Storage API you can create Object Storage in different locations. Please note that you can only have one Object Storage per ...
Contabo Object Storages Audits API
Manage S3 compatible Object Storage. With the Object Storage API you can create Object Storage in different locations. Please note that you can only have one Object Storage per ...
Contabo Private Networks API
Private Networking API allows you to create and manage Private Networks / Virtual Private Vloud (VPC) for your instances (Cloud VPS/VDS). Private Network / VPC allows private an...
Contabo Private Networks Audits API
Private Networking API allows you to create and manage Private Networks / Virtual Private Vloud (VPC) for your instances (Cloud VPS/VDS). Private Network / VPC allows private an...
Contabo Remedies API
The Remedies API from Contabo — 2 operation(s) for remedies.
Contabo Roles API
Give access to all api endpoints and resources or manage to which endpoints and resources individual users might have access to. Permissions are organized in roles. Users can ha...
Contabo Roles Audits API
Give access to all api endpoints and resources or manage to which endpoints and resources individual users might have access to. Permissions are organized in roles. Users can ha...
Contabo Secrets API
The Secret Management API allows you to store and manage your passwords and ssh-keys. Usage of the Secret Management API is purely optional. As a convenience feature e.g. it all...
Contabo Secrets Audits API
The Secret Management API allows you to store and manage your passwords and ssh-keys. Usage of the Secret Management API is purely optional. As a convenience feature e.g. it all...
Contabo Snapshots API
The Snapshots API from Contabo — 3 operation(s) for snapshots.
Contabo Snapshots Audits API
The Snapshots Audits API from Contabo — 1 operation(s) for snapshots audits.
Contabo Tag Assignments API
Tags are Customer-defined labels which can be attached to any resource in your account. Tag API represent simple CRUD functions and allow you to manage your tags. Use tags to gr...
Contabo Tag Assignments Audits API
Tags are Customer-defined labels which can be attached to any resource in your account. Tag API represent simple CRUD functions and allow you to manage your tags. Use tags to gr...
Contabo Tags API
Tags are Customer-defined labels which can be attached to any resource in your account. Tag API represent simple CRUD functions and allow you to manage your tags. Use tags to gr...
Contabo Tags Audits API
Tags are Customer-defined labels which can be attached to any resource in your account. Tag API represent simple CRUD functions and allow you to manage your tags. Use tags to gr...
Contabo User Accounts API
Give access to all api endpoints and resources or manage to which endpoints and resources individual users might have access to. Permissions are organized in roles. Users can ha...
Contabo Users API
Give access to all api endpoints and resources or manage to which endpoints and resources individual users might have access to. Permissions are organized in roles. Users can ha...
Contabo Users Audits API
Give access to all api endpoints and resources or manage to which endpoints and resources individual users might have access to. Permissions are organized in roles. Users can ha...
Contabo Users Object Storage Credentials API
Give access to all api endpoints and resources or manage to which endpoints and resources individual users might have access to. Permissions are organized in roles. Users can ha...
Contabo VIP API
VIP (Virtual IPs) API manages virtual IP adresses including ´additional´ and ´floating´ IPv4 Adresses. Virtual IPs are payed add-ons (Additional IP) which can be freely assigned...
Contabo Vip Audits API
The Vip Audits API from Contabo — 1 operation(s) for vip audits.
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Contabo Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Contabo Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Contabo API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 6
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
CreateInstanceRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateUserRequest
JSON SCHEMAHandleCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAHandlePatchRequest
JSON SCHEMAReinstallInstanceRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateUserRequest
JSON SCHEMASecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Contabo — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 7
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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