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Best Hetzner Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

3 free alternatives in Infrastructure. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current Hetzner Situation

Risk Level: source unconfirmed
Why: Tier "Paid" is no free offer at all. We do not rate an offer we do not list. We are not publishing a stability judgement for it until that is fixed.
Category: Infrastructure
Pricing Page: www.hetzner.com/cloud/

Recent Pricing Changes (2)

restructured effective 2026-06-15 high impact
From 2026-06-15, for new orders and rescales, Hetzner's EU cloud prices excluding IPv4 rose 30-38% on Cost-Optimized CX/CAX, 144-175% on Regular Performance CPX (shared resources) and 113-173% on General Purpose CCX (dedicated vCPUs). Existing contracts kept their terms. New dedicated servers also rose: the AX42 and AX102 cost €97.30 and €257.30 from 30 June, up from €57.30 and €122.30 after April in Germany. Source ↗
restructured effective 2026-04-01 high impact
Hetzner raised prices on 2026-04-01 for new orders and existing products: cloud servers by 30-37% (CX23 €2.99 to €3.99 a month in Germany and Finland), load balancers by 31-39%, Object Storage's base price by 30%, dedicated servers by 2-21% and Server Auction servers by 3%. Superseded 2026-06-15: Hetzner ran a second adjustment across all cloud and dedicated lines, applying to new orders and rescales only. Read from hetzner.com on 2026-09-03: CX23 is €5.99 and is marked "not available", as is every other Cost-Optimized plan, and the cheapest orderable plan is CPX12 at €11.99/mo. Source ↗

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Recommended Migration Targets

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Vultr recommended
Free
Free Tier Program: a free cloud instance (1 vCPU, 512 MB RAM, 10 GB SSD, IPv4 address) in Miami, Seattle or Frankfurt, for applicants Vultr admits. Vultr calls it early access in limited quantities and admits eligible applicants at random, weighted by a score built from what they say about…
Cloud IaaS Read 2026-10-06 · tried again 2026-11-01 and did not read the page
Profile
−1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-11-01 — HTTP 403), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor.
DigitalOcean stable recommended
Credits
New accounts get a $5 signup credit, applied automatically to the first team and expiring 90 days after signup; a payment method is required before creating resources. Basic Droplets from $4/mo (1 vCPU, 512 MB RAM, 10 GB SSD).
Cloud IaaS Read and confirmed 2026-10-31
Profile
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Credits" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
OVHcloud recommended
Paid
Public Cloud free trial: a €200 credit (US$200 on its international site) for a first Public Cloud project, valid for one month after activation; a payment method is required. VPS from €4.49/month ex-VAT without commitment (VPS-1 2027: 2 vCores, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe; €3.81 on 12 months).
Infrastructure Read and confirmed 2026-11-09
Profile
not_a_free_offer Tier "Paid" is no free offer at all.

All Free Alternatives (3)

0 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 2 are demoted with the reason named, and 1 are listed last because they are not generally available or are not a free offer. How we rank.

Vultr
Free
Free Tier Program: a free cloud instance (1 vCPU, 512 MB RAM, 10 GB SSD, IPv4 address) in Miami, Seattle or Frankfurt, for applicants Vultr admits. Vultr calls it early access in limited quantities and admits eligible applicants at random, weighted by a score built from what they say about…
Cloud IaaS Read 2026-10-06 · tried again 2026-11-01 and did not read the page
Profile
−1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-11-01 — HTTP 403), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor.
DigitalOcean stable
Credits
New accounts get a $5 signup credit, applied automatically to the first team and expiring 90 days after signup; a payment method is required before creating resources. Basic Droplets from $4/mo (1 vCPU, 512 MB RAM, 10 GB SSD).
Cloud IaaS Read and confirmed 2026-10-31
Profile
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Credits" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
OVHcloud
Paid
Public Cloud free trial: a €200 credit (US$200 on its international site) for a first Public Cloud project, valid for one month after activation; a payment method is required. VPS from €4.49/month ex-VAT without commitment (VPS-1 2027: 2 vCores, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe; €3.81 on 12 months).
Infrastructure Read and confirmed 2026-11-09
Profile
not_a_free_offer Tier "Paid" is no free offer at all.
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
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2026-11-14
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alternative-to:Hetzner
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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to Hetzner?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 3 free alternatives to Hetzner, each listed below with its tier, category and the read and catalogue dates we hold. Of those, 2 are demoted with the reason named, 1 is listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
Is Hetzner's free tier still available?
Tier "Paid" is no free offer at all. Budget cloud VMs, no free tier. As of 2026-10-07 hetzner.com marks every Cost-Optimized plan — CX23, CX33, CX43, CX53 and the Arm CAX11–CAX41 — "not available". The cheapest orderable plan is CPX02 at...
How many free alternatives to Hetzner exist?
There are 3 free alternatives to Hetzner tracked on AgentDeals across the Infrastructure, Cloud IaaS categories.
Has Hetzner changed their pricing?
Hetzner has 2 recorded pricing changes. The most recent was on 2026-06-15: From 2026-06-15, for new orders and rescales, Hetzner's EU cloud prices excluding IPv4 rose 30-38% on Cost-Optimized CX/CAX, 144-175% on Regular Performance CPX (shared resources) and 113-173% on General Purpose CCX (dedicated vCPUs). Existing contracts kept their terms. New dedicated servers also rose: the AX42 and AX102 cost €97.30 and €257.30 from 30 June, up from €57.30 and €122.30 after April in Germany. Source: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/