Hetzner Cloud

Affordable cloud servers in Europe

As of 30 August 2026, Hetzner Cloud has a free plan and paid plans start at €3.29/month. Hetzner Cloud is a European cloud infrastructure provider offering affordable, reliable cloud servers. Softwr lists it under Cloud. Hetzner Cloud is made by Hetzner, launched in 1997, available on Web, API.

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Overview

What Hetzner Cloud does

Hetzner Cloud is a European cloud infrastructure provider offering affordable, reliable cloud servers. It provides virtual private servers, colocation, and dedicated servers with data centers across Europe.

What people use it 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

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Hetzner Cloud.

Cost-Optimized plans are shown as currently unavailable
The shared-resource tiers are positioned for variable usage and development rather than sustained production workloads
Regions are limited to Germany, Finland, the United States and Singapore, so latency to other markets is a real constraint
The uptime guarantee is 99.9 percent, below what the large hyperscalers offer on comparable services
Support is 24/7 by email, without a phone channel

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Pricing

What Hetzner Cloud costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

CX11

€3.29 /mo

1 vCPU
1GB RAM
25GB SSD
20Mbps bandwidth

CX21

€6.59 /mo

2 vCPU
4GB RAM
40GB SSD
40Mbps bandwidth

Capabilities

Features

Cloud servers
Block storage
Object storage
Load balancers
Networks
Firewalls
Floating IPs
Backups
Terraform
Integration with Terraform
Ansible
Integration with Ansible
Docker
Integration with Docker
Kubernetes
Integration with Kubernetes

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Questions people ask

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What types of cloud plans does Hetzner Cloud offer?

Hetzner Cloud offers Shared Resource plans (Cost-Optimized and Regular Performance) for development and testing, and Dedicated Resource plans (General Purpose) for business applications. Plans are available with a price calculator on their website.

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What is included with Hetzner Cloud servers?

Every cloud server comes with free one-click apps like Docker, WordPress, Nextcloud, and GitLab. All servers include stateful firewalls at no additional cost, networking capabilities, APIs, and CLI tools.

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Where are Hetzner Cloud servers located?

Hetzner Cloud servers are available in Germany, Finland, Singapore, and the USA, with data centers in Falkenstein, Nuremberg, Helsinki, Hillsboro (Oregon), Ashburn (Virginia), and Singapore.

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What uptime guarantee does Hetzner Cloud provide?

Hetzner Cloud provides an SLA with 99.9% guaranteed uptime and clearly defined credits in case of malfunction. They also offer 24/7 support by email for business-critical workloads.

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Behind it

Who makes Hetzner Cloud

Company: Hetzner
Based in: Gunzenhausen, Germany

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