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Hetzner Cloud pricing
Hetzner Cloud publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then €3.29/month
- Model
- Usage-based
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Hetzner Cloud plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| CX11 | €3.29/month | 4 | Entry tier |
| CX21 | €6.59/month | 4 | +$3.3/month, 4 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
CX11
€3.29/monthThe entry tier. It covers 1 vcpu, 1gb ram, 25gb ssd, 20mbps bandwidth.
CX21
€6.59/monthOver CX11, this tier adds:
- 2 vCPU
- 4GB RAM
- 40GB SSD
- 40Mbps bandwidth
What the product covers
The full Hetzner Cloud feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Cloud servers
- Block storage
- Object storage
- Load balancers
- Networks
- Firewalls
- Floating IPs
- Backups
Integrations
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- API
Security
- Firewall
- DDoS protection
- Private networks
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Api support
- Cli support
People bring Hetzner Cloud in for low-cost virtual servers for development and testing, european hosting with data held in germany or finland, workloads with heavy egress, where included traffic matters, self-hosting applications away from the hyperscalers. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Hetzner Cloud are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Cloud & Infrastructure
Across the 4 cloud & infrastructure tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $12.25/month. Hetzner Cloud starts at €3.29/month, which puts it below the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hetzner Cloud (this page) | Free, then €3.29/month | usage-based | - | |
| DigitalOcean | Free, then $4/month | usage-based | - | vs Hetzner Cloud |
| Chef | Free | open-source | - | vs Hetzner Cloud |
| Alibaba Cloud | Free | usage-based | - | vs Hetzner Cloud |
| Lambda (AWS Serverless) | Free | usage-based | - | vs Hetzner Cloud |
| Contabo | €4.5/month | - | - | vs Hetzner Cloud |
| Akamai | $1000/month | quote | - | vs Hetzner Cloud |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Hetzner Cloud badges page.
Before you pay for Hetzner Cloud
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between €3.29/month and €6.59/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Hetzner Cloud runs on web, api, cli, and is published by Hetzner of Gunzenhausen, Germany. The full record is on the Hetzner Cloud review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud & infrastructure tools.
Hetzner Cloud pricing questions
- How much does Hetzner Cloud cost?
- Hetzner Cloud publishes 2 tiers, from €3.29/month for CX11 up to €6.59/month for CX21. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Hetzner Cloud have a free plan?
- Yes, Hetzner Cloud is recorded as usage-based, so it can be used without paying.
- What is the difference between CX11 and CX21 on Hetzner Cloud?
- CX21 costs €6.59/month against €3.29/month, and adds 2 vcpu, 4gb ram, 40gb ssd, 40mbps bandwidth.
- Is the CX21 plan on Hetzner Cloud worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is 2 vcpu, 4gb ram, 40gb ssd, 40mbps bandwidth. It costs €6.59/month against €3.29/month for CX11. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is Hetzner Cloud expensive for a cloud & infrastructure tool?
- It starts below the middle of its category. Across the 4 cloud & infrastructure tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $12.25/month; Hetzner Cloud starts at €3.29/month.
- Which cloud & infrastructure tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 cloud & infrastructure tools listed alongside Hetzner Cloud have a free tier: DigitalOcean, Chef, Alibaba Cloud, Lambda (AWS Serverless), AWS (Amazon Web Services).
- What am I actually paying for with Hetzner Cloud?
- The record lists 20 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for low-cost virtual servers for development and testing, european hosting with data held in germany or finland, workloads with heavy egress, where included traffic matters.
- Does Hetzner Cloud charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Hetzner Cloud prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Hetzner Cloud against before paying?
- The closest cloud & infrastructure tools in this directory are DigitalOcean, Chef, Alibaba Cloud, Lambda (AWS Serverless). Each has a side-by-side comparison with Hetzner Cloud covering price, platforms and features.