Hetzner
German cloud servers billed hourly up to a monthly cap; large EU traffic allowances, two US locations, no free trial.
Founded 1997
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Hetzner is a German hosting company founded in 1997 and based in Gunzenhausen. Hetzner Cloud rents virtual servers in Falkenstein, Nuremberg and Helsinki, in Ashburn, Virginia and Hillsboro, Oregon, and in Singapore. Servers are billed by the hour up to a monthly price cap, and a public IPv4 address adds $0.60 a month.
There are three plans. Cost-Optimized starts at $6.49 a month but runs only in Germany and Finland, and its servers were listed as not available on October 19, 2026. Regular Performance uses shared AMD vCPUs, from $7.49 in Europe and $20.49 in the US. General Purpose has dedicated vCPUs from $50.49 in Europe and $50.99 in the US. Prices for new orders rose on June 15, 2026. EU servers include at least 20 TB of traffic a month and US servers 1 to 8 TB. The cloud pages list no managed databases or managed Kubernetes.
Best for
Developers and small teams who run their own software on Linux servers and want low prices and large traffic allowances, especially for workloads that can be hosted in Europe.
Pros
- EU servers include at least 20 TB of traffic a month; extra outbound traffic in the EU and US costs $1.20 per TB
- DDoS protection and stateful firewalls at no extra cost
- Hourly billing that never exceeds the monthly price cap; IPv6 addresses are free
- 99.9% uptime SLA, with Cloud Credits for downtime beyond it
- Daily backups with seven slots for 20% of the server price
Cons
- US Regular Performance starts at $20.49 a month (2 vCPUs, 2 GB RAM), against $7.49 in Europe (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM)
- Only two US locations, without Object Storage or Cost-Optimized servers
- US servers include only 1 to 8 TB of traffic a month
- No managed databases, no managed Kubernetes and no GPU cloud servers
- No advertised free trial or new-customer credit; the referral program has ended
Pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly (12-month total) |
|---|---|---|
| Cost-OptimizedCX23: 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe, 20 TB traffic; +$0.60/mo for IPv4; hourly up to this monthly cap; Germany and Finland only; listed as not available | $6.49/mo | no yearly price |
| Regular Performance (EU)CPX02: 1 AMD vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe, 20 TB traffic in the EU; also in Singapore at $8.99 with 0.5 TB; +$0.60/mo for IPv4; hourly up to this monthly cap | $7.49/mo | no yearly price |
| Regular Performance (US)CPX11 in Ashburn or Hillsboro: 2 AMD vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe, 1 TB traffic; +$0.60/mo for IPv4; hourly up to this monthly cap | $20.49/mo | no yearly price |
| General PurposeCCX13: 2 dedicated AMD vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe, 20 TB traffic in the EU; $50.99 in the US with 1 TB; +$0.60/mo for IPv4; hourly up to this cap | $50.49/mo | no yearly price |
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Features
In Cloud hosting
| Feature | Hetzner |
|---|---|
| Free trial | No · No trial or new-customer credit on the cloud pages; the cloud referral credit program has been discontinued |
| Managed databases | No · No managed database service on the cloud pages; they name a database that is not publicly accessible as a use for private networks |
| Managed Kubernetes | No · No managed service; Kubernetes is listed as an integration, with private networks for running your own cluster |
| Object storage | Partial · S3-compatible, $7.99/month base incl. 1 TB storage and 1 TB egress; only in Falkenstein, Nuremberg and Helsinki, not in the US |
| GPU instances | Partial · No GPU cloud servers; GPU-Line dedicated servers with NVIDIA RTX PRO GPUs from $249/month plus a $249 setup fee, in Germany and Finland only |
| Automatic backups | Add-on · Daily backups with 7 slots per server for 20% of the server's price |
| DDoS protection | Yes · Automatic DDoS protection, free of charge for all customers; the docs say Ashburn uses the same system as the other sites |
| Uptime SLA | Yes · 99.9% monthly availability per cloud server; downtime beyond that is credited on request as Cloud Credits, up to 100% of the server's monthly invoice |
| Data center regions | Partial · 6 locations / 2 US (Ashburn, VA and Hillsboro, OR); US sites lack Object Storage and Cost-Optimized servers |
| Included bandwidth | Yes · Per server a month: at least 20 TB in the EU, 1-8 TB in the US by size; extra outbound traffic $1.20 per TB in the EU and US; inbound free |