Hetzner Cloud Review

Buy Hetzner when the workload can live in Falkenstein, Nuremberg, or Helsinki and the month is mostly egress. The Europe shared-AMD row is still the reason developers open this vendor.

The United States row is its own higher price list, and a currency conversion of the Europe sticker will not match what Ashburn bills.

Toolradar data: the VPS and cloud infrastructure statistics track 5 published tools as of September 24, 2026, out of 10,680 tools in the directory.

Hetzner has its own tool page, and so do DigitalOcean and Vultr.

How we compared: Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Akamai, OVHcloud, and UpCloud, priced in USD on September 24, 2026. We did not provision servers. The wider sheet is the VPS hosting guide for these same hosts.

Hetzner Cloud is a Linux virtual machine you SSH into, sold by a German host that also rents dedicated servers. Locations are Falkenstein, Nuremberg, Helsinki, Ashburn, Hillsboro, and Singapore, so the city is a price choice as well as a latency choice.

Hetzner owns the three European parks, while the US and Singapore sites are colocation, and support for every zone is the team in Germany.

Shared AMD plans (CPX) and dedicated AMD plans (CCX) are listed in every zone. Shared Intel/AMD and Ampere plans are listed only for Germany and Finland, so a US order cannot fall back to those cheaper shapes.

Object storage is listed for those European locations and not for Ashburn, Hillsboro, or Singapore, so a US VM cannot keep its files on this bill.

Images are Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, Rocky Linux, and AlmaLinux. Hetzner will not support Windows, even if you install it yourself, so keep Windows off this bill. There is no app platform on this invoice, so a git push with a sleeping dyno belongs on the Heroku review.

You create a project, pick a location and a plan, and attach a primary IP if the server needs a public interface. There is no public interface until at least one primary IP is assigned. Primary IPv6 is free, and a primary IPv4 that sits on no server still bills until you delete the address.

The server has an hourly rate and a monthly cap, so an early delete costs the hourly rate rounded up to a full hour. Leave it powered off and you still pay, because the resources stay reserved.

A snapshot, a delete, and a later rebuild is the cheaper pause, since snapshots bill for compressed gigabytes and skip attached volumes.

Currency is chosen when the account is created, USD or EUR, and it cannot be changed later. Moving a server into a project with the other currency, or rescaling it, switches that server onto the current price list.

A rebuild, or a move between projects that share a currency, leaves the older cap in place.

Firewalls and private networks have no extra charge, and official libraries exist for Go and Python. Outbound speed is not a guarantee on the shared 10 Gbit/s host link. Hetzner says to expect about 300 to 500 Mbit/s, which is the rate a transfer job should use.

Every Hetzner dollar below is the USD column, excluding VAT, as of September 24, 2026, after the June 15, 2026 price adjustment. Treat the euro sticker as the wrong column for a US budget, and VAT still sits on top of either cap.

The orderable Europe entry on Regular Performance is CPX12, with 1 shared AMD vCPU, 2 GB of RAM, 40 GB NVMe, and 20 TB outbound. The monthly cap is in the table, or $0.0216 per hour if you destroy the box early.

Add the address and the marketing "starting from" figure on that family is $14.09/mo, the cap plus IPv4.

The US entry is CPX11: 2 shared AMD vCPUs, 2 GB, 40 GB, and 1 TB outbound. It uses the higher cap in the table, or $0.0328 per hour. With the primary IPv4 the monthly cap is $21.09, so price the address before comparing hosts that include it.

CPX21 in those cities is 3 vCPUs, 4 GB, 80 GB, and 2 TB at $37.49/mo before IPv4, the next step when 2 GB is tight. Europe CPX22 is 2 vCPUs, 4 GB, 80 GB, and 20 TB at $22.99/mo before IPv4.

Singapore's CPX12 is $17.99/mo before IPv4, with a smaller traffic bundle than Europe, so Asia is its own column.

Extra outbound is $1.20 per TB on the US and Europe rate those plan pages use, billed in 100 MB blocks once the included bundle is gone. Singapore's extra terabyte is higher on the same product.

A CX23 at $6.49/mo before IPv4, and a CAX11 at $6.99/mo before IPv4, were labeled not available, so do not treat them as orderable. The cost-optimized starting-from card is $7.09/mo, the CX23 cap plus IPv4, on a plan you may not be able to create.

DigitalOcean's 2 GiB, 2 vCPU plan is $18/mo with IPv4 included, and outbound past the pool is $0.01 per GiB. Passing the pool by 1,024 GiB costs $10.24, which is the overage a heavy month adds. Vultr's 1 GB plan is $5.00/mo, and the $2.50 row is IPv6 only, so an A record needs the higher row.

Akamai shared CPU starts at $5/mo for buyers whose risk is extra egress. Lightsail's Linux bundle with a public IPv4 is $5/mo, and outbound overage starts at $0.09 per GB, the steepest rate in this set.

OVHcloud's US VPS-1 starts at $4.54/mo with unlimited traffic, a bandwidth ceiling rather than a terabyte pool. UpCloud's Starter 1 GB plan is $3.5/mo with IPv4 included, a small disk with the address already in the price.

Hetzner fits a developer who can put the VM in Germany or Finland and who will delete boxes that are finished. Staging clusters and file hosts that would burn a metered transfer pool are where the Europe allowance still changes the month.

It is a weak default when users are in the United States and latency matters, because the cheap rows are not in Ashburn. It is also a weak default for object storage beside a US server, a supported Windows image, or a managed Postgres.

For the database, use the Postgres hosting comparison, and for a request-billed app, use the serverless platforms guide.

Devshot data: 27,887 developers are on this list, and the average open rate is 30.3%, from the audience file updated September 20, 2026. The next price-list change belongs in the daily Devshot brief.