Hetzner Cloud pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Hetzner Cloud (hetzner.com) is a hosting platform. Self-managed VPS, hourly up to a monthly cap. No free plan.
What Hetzner Cloud costs
- Entry plan: $7.49/mo
- Small app: $8.09/mo
Plan compared: CPX02: 1 vCPU, 1 GB (EU). Cheapest paid plan per month (per seat where plans are seat-based).
Hetzner Cloud price hikes
- Hetzner raised prices again: +30% for new servers · Jun 15, 2026
A second 2026 rise for new orders and rescales; CPX and CCX lines more than doubled, and the cheapest CX and CAX plans now show as unavailable. - Hetzner raised prices 30–37%, existing servers too · Apr 1, 2026
A portfolio-wide rise citing hardware and energy costs, applied to existing servers as well. - Hetzner cut US traffic from 20 TB to 1 TB · Dec 1, 2024
US servers lost most of their included traffic and rose 4–27.5%; existing US servers moved over on Feb 1, 2025.
Cheaper alternatives to Hetzner Cloud
At the entry plan, Hetzner Cloud costs $7.49/mo. 5 hosting platforms cost less:
- Fly.io: $2.19/mo (Smallest Machine, 256 MB)
- Railway: $5/mo (Hobby: $5 incl. $5 usage)
- Heroku: $5/mo (Eco: $5 for 1,000 dyno hours)
- Cloudflare Workers: $5/mo (Workers Paid, $5 minimum)
- DigitalOcean Apps: $5/mo (512 MiB shared container)
Hetzner Cloud alternatives: 5 cheaper hosting platforms compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Oct 2026 · Repriced: A new CPX02 plan (1 vCPU, 1 GB) became the cheapest server new buyers can order, while CX23 and CAX11 stay unavailable.
- Jun 20, 2026 · Limits cut: Cost-optimized CX and CAX plans marked not available, pushing new buyers to pricier CPX plans.
- Jun 15, 2026 · Price increase: A second 2026 rise for new orders and rescales; CPX and CCX lines more than doubled, and the cheapest CX and CAX plans now show as unavailable.
- Apr 1, 2026 · Price increase: A portfolio-wide rise citing hardware and energy costs, applied to existing servers as well.
- Oct 2025 · Price cut: CX22 replaced by the cheaper CX23 in a new cost-optimized line (approximate date).
- Dec 1, 2024 · Limits cut: US servers lost most of their included traffic and rose 4–27.5%; existing US servers moved over on Feb 1, 2025.
- Jun 2023 · Repriced: Primary IPv4 addresses unbundled from server prices.
Sources
Pricing page: hetzner.com/cloud. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Hetzner's EU prices in US dollars, before VAT, read from the price feed its pricing pages load. CX23 ($6.49) and CAX11 are still listed but marked not available since June 2026, so we price the cheapest plan new buyers can order: CPX02 at $7.49. Small app = CPX02 $7.49 + IPv4 $0.60 = $8.09, with 100 GB well inside 20 TB of EU traffic. US locations don't offer CPX02; the cheapest there is CPX11 at $20.49.