2 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.
Hetzner's second 2026 adjustment, effective 15 June, moved the two cloud lines at very different rates: shared-vCPU plans rose 30-38% (CX23 €3.99→€5.49, CAX11 €4.49→€5.99) and dedicated-vCPU plans rose 113-175% (CPX22 €7.99→€19.49, CCX13 €15.99→€42.99, CCX53 €249.99→€533.49). EU figures, taken from Hetzner's own old/new table and excluding the €0.50/mo primary IPv4 that hetzner.com's plan cards include in their displayed price. Scope: all dedicated servers and cloud plans at all locations, for new orders and rescales only — existing contracts keep their terms. Excluded: web hosting, managed servers, Server Auction, IPs, storage products, Load Balancers, Volumes, Snapshots and Object Storage. Setup fees on most dedicated servers were cut at the same time. Read on 2026-09-04: every Cost-Optimized plan (CX23-CX53, CAX11-CAX41) is marked "not available" on hetzner.com, so the line that rose least is the line nobody can order. Source ↗
restructuredeffective 2026-04-01high impact
Cloud & dedicated server prices increasing 30-50%. Entry-level CX23: €2.99→€3.99/mo (+33%). Applies to new and existing customers. Driven by DRAM (+171% YoY) and NVMe SSD cost surges from AI infrastructure demand. Superseded 2026-06-15: Hetzner ran a second adjustment across all cloud and dedicated lines, applying to new orders and rescales only.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 shared-vCPU plan, and the cheapest orderable plan is CPX12 at €11.99/mo. Source ↗
0 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 0 are demoted with the reason named, and 2 are listed last because they are not generally available or are not a free offer. How we rank.
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Is Hetzner's free tier still available?
Tier "Paid" is no free offer at all. The page we cite for Hetzner states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02. Budget cloud VMs, no free tier. As of 2026-09-04 hetzner.com marks every shared-vCPU plan — CX23, CX33, CX43, CX53 and the Arm CAX11–CAX41 — "not available". The cheapest orderable plan is CPX12 at €1...
How many free alternatives to Hetzner exist?
There are 2 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: Hetzner's second 2026 adjustment, effective 15 June, moved the two cloud lines at very different rates: shared-vCPU plans rose 30-38% (CX23 €3.99→€5.49, CAX11 €4.49→€5.99) and dedicated-vCPU plans rose 113-175% (CPX22 €7.99→€19.49, CCX13 €15.99→€42.99, CCX53 €249.99→€533.49). EU figures, taken from Hetzner's own old/new table and excluding the €0.50/mo primary IPv4 that hetzner.com's plan cards include in their displayed price. Scope: all dedicated servers and cloud plans at all locations, for new orders and rescales only — existing contracts keep their terms. Excluded: web hosting, managed servers, Server Auction, IPs, storage products, Load Balancers, Volumes, Snapshots and Object Storage. Setup fees on most dedicated servers were cut at the same time. Read on 2026-09-04: every Cost-Optimized plan (CX23-CX53, CAX11-CAX41) is marked "not available" on hetzner.com, so the line that rose least is the line nobody can order. Source: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/
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