Contabo ads in ChatGPT
In our capture of logged-out ChatGPT, 315 ads from Contabo appeared on screen (311 text and 4 shopping ads), in 5 distinct ad copies across 9 industries and 46 topics. Each one appeared after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad.
- ads shown
- 315
- distinct ad copies
- 5
- industries
- 9
- topics
- 46
Logged-out ChatGPT from US connections, Oct 3–4, 2026. Each ad came after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad, so the counts show where Contabo advertised, not how often ChatGPT shows its ads.
Contabo ad copies, most shown first
Each distinct ad copy in our capture, most shown first: the headline of a text ad, or the product and price of a shopping ad. Under each, up to five questions asked in conversations where it appeared, as we asked them; in every one, the ad appeared after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad.
5 ad copies
- Contabo GmbHSponsored
VPS 4 – 8 GB, from $5.28/mo
Text ad · shown 294 times
Questions it appeared after
- “is auth0 still worth it after the pricing changes for a growing b2c app”Identity & Access Management · Oct 3, 10:12 pm ET
- “best web hosting for a small business that wants hosting and email on one bill”Web Hosting · Oct 3, 11:03 pm ET
- “we're an msp that needs to monitor client websites, firewalls and servers in one dashboard, should we use uptime kuma or a paid service?”Uptime Monitoring · Oct 3, 11:07 pm ET
- “how much does a cdn cost”CDN · Oct 4, 12:02 am ET
- “cheapest reliable vps under $10 a month with us data centers and good uptime”Cloud Hosting & VPS · Oct 4, 12:19 am ET
+289 more conversations with this ad copy
- Contabo GmbHSponsored
VPS Plus 4 – 8 GB, $13.00/mo
Text ad · shown 10 times
Questions it appeared after
- “auth0 pricing for b2b saas”Identity & Access Management · Oct 3, 10:21 pm ET
- “best macbook for coding”Laptops · Oct 3, 10:45 pm ET
- “we're a retail chain with servers in 20 stores and limited bandwidth, how should we back them up centrally without saturating connections?”Backup & Disaster Recovery · Oct 3, 10:59 pm ET
- “how much does hashicorp vault cost”Secrets Management · Oct 3, 11:12 pm ET
- “best cloud development environment for a company that wants new hires coding on day one without local setup”IDEs & Code Editors · Oct 3, 11:54 pm ET
+5 more conversations with this ad copy
- Contabo GmbHSponsored
Contabo Core VPS - The Best Value Cloud VPS
Text ad · shown 7 times
Questions it appeared after
- “cronitor vs better stack heartbeats for monitoring scheduled jobs and background workers”Uptime Monitoring · Oct 4, 1:42 am ET
+6 more conversations with this ad copy
- ContaboSponsored
Cloud VPS 4 – 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 100GB SSD, 200 Mbit/s port
$5.28
Shopping ad · shown 2 times
Our export holds no question text for these conversations.
- ContaboSponsored
Cloud VPS 6 – 6 vCPU, 12 GB RAM, 200GB SSD, 300 Mbit/s port
$7.20
Shopping ad · shown 2 times
Our export holds no question text for these conversations.
Where Contabo ads appeared
The industries and topics of the conversations where its ads appeared, by ads shown. Topics are our own labels for the questions we wrote.
Industries
Topics
and 34 more topics, 62 ads in all
Brands in the same topics
Other advertisers whose ads appeared in conversations on the topics where Contabo’s did, ranked by how much those topics overlap. Each tile opens its page.
18 brands
Edge Delta176 ads shown21 shared topics
GetApp871 ads shown26 shared topics
Miles IT229 ads shown21 shared topics
nOps94 ads shown13 shared topics
CircleCI215 ads shown16 shared topics
Ironclad586 ads shown19 shared topics
Datadog80 ads shown15 shared topics
Jotform3,005 ads shown26 shared topics
Cybernews258 ads shown15 shared topics
Bluehost108 ads shown15 shared topics
Box206 ads shown18 shared topics
North.cloud50 ads shown13 shared topics
ScaleOps79 ads shown12 shared topics
Zesty Tech45 ads shown14 shared topics
Red River Technology152 ads shown13 shared topics
Netwrix148 ads shown15 shared topics
Redswitches33 ads shown12 shared topicsgetastra.com133 ads shown13 shared topicsHow this data was captured
What we ran, what counts as a shown ad, and what these numbers cannot tell you.
We used logged-out ChatGPT from US internet connections and started a new conversation for every question. Message 1 was the question. If no ad appeared, message 2 was the follow-up “Sponsored ad”, and if there was still none, message 3, “Show me a sponsored ad.”, was a last try. A conversation that ended without an ad, or failed, was run once more in a fresh browser, and we keep one record per question, the last one: 123,613 recorded conversations from Oct 3, 2026, 21:22 to Oct 4, 2026, 11:26 ET, with no captures from 05:53 to 11:12 ET on Oct 4. Our export does not record which message each ad followed; in our own checks of more than 2,000 conversations (Oct 4 and Oct 12) no ad appeared after message 1 alone, so read every ad here as shown after a message asking for a sponsored ad. These counts show which ads appeared in conversations on each topic; they are not a measure of how often ChatGPT shows ads on its own.
Only ads drawn on screen count as shown. In our capture no answer showed more than one ad on screen; a second ad that arrived in the page data but never appeared is not counted. Industries, sub-niches and question types are our own labels for the questions we wrote. Independent; not affiliated with OpenAI. Full methodWhy this is not an ad rateWhat the ads looked like
Explore the library
All 20 industries, the most shown topics and the guides, one link each.
How does your brand show up in ChatGPT and AI search?
We look at the answers and ads shown for your category and where your brand appears in them.