Hetzner Cloud Pricing After the April and June 2026 Adjustments

Published 2026-03-25 · Reviewed 2026-10-31 · Figures compiled 2026-03-25, last checked 2026-10-31 · 32 of 63 figures in the “Alternatives Comparison” table come from our records for 1,498 developer tools · Plan prices read from Hetzner's price API on 2026-10-31

1. Every Cloud Plan, Priced Today

All 26 Hetzner Cloud plans, with the monthly price read from Hetzner's price API on 2026-10-31 and the availability hetzner.com showed on 2026-10-20. EU prices are the Falkenstein, Helsinki and Nuremberg figure; the US rows are Ashburn and Hillsboro, which are the only datacentres those plans are offered in. Singapore is priced higher again and is not listed here. Each cell shows the price for accounts billed in euros and the price for accounts billed in US dollars.

Read this table by availability first. The cheapest listed price is for an unavailable plan. The first row marked orderable is CPX02 at €6.49 for 1 vCPU and 1 GB, less server than the CX23 above it at €5.99. "Orderable" means hetzner.com shows the plan without its "not available" notice. Hetzner’s status page (status.hetzner.com) states: “we are currently required to restrict the creation of new cloud servers for both new customers and some of our existing customers.” A plan marked orderable may still be one a new customer cannot create.

Hetzner's cheapest orderable EU plan for each memory size: 1 GB, CPX02 at €6.49 ($8.09); 2 GB, CPX12 at €11.99 ($14.09); 4 GB, CPX22 at €19.99 ($23.59); 8 GB, CPX32 at €35.99 ($42.59); 16 GB, CPX42 at €69.99 ($82.59); 24 GB, CPX52 at €100.99 ($119.59); 32 GB, CPX62 at €130.49 ($153.59); 64 GB, CCX43 at €276.49 ($326.09); 128 GB, CCX53 at €533.99 ($630.09); 192 GB, CCX63 at €853.99 ($1007.59).

The cheapest paid VPS with 8 GB of RAM you can order in Germany today, of the providers we checked, is not at Hetzner: Contabo's Cloud VPS 4 (4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD) is €5.50 a month plus a one-time €2.00 setup fee on the one-month term, or €4.40 a month on a 24-month term with no setup fee, against €35.99 for Hetzner's CPX32. The cheapest paid VPS with 4 GB of RAM you can order in Germany today, of the providers we checked, is OVHcloud's VPS-1 (2 vCores, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe) at €4.49 a month with no commitment or setup fee, against €19.99 for Hetzner's CPX22. Both prices are before VAT and include one IPv4 address, and Contabo's European Union region is its data centres in Germany. We checked Contabo, Hostinger, IONOS, netcup and OVHcloud on their own price pages on 2026-10-14.

Every cloud price in this table includes the primary IPv4 address. Cloud servers include at least 20 TB of outgoing traffic a month in the EU, 1 TB in the US and 0.5 TB in Singapore; incoming traffic is free.

A new AX42 dedicated server in Germany costs €97.30 a month and a new AX102 €257.30, excluding IPv4. The one-off setup fee is €49 for an AX42 and €129 for an AX102. These prices were read from Hetzner's price API on 2026-10-31.

New accounts can get €50 of credit with Hetzner's sign-up code, valid only for the billing period in which it is redeemed.

• Hetzner blocks outgoing ports 25 and 465 on all cloud servers by default. (From docs.hetzner.com/cloud/servers/faq, read 2026-10-04.)
• After a month and a paid first invoice, you can ask Hetzner to unblock ports 25 and 465; it decides case by case. (From docs.hetzner.com/cloud/servers/faq, read 2026-10-04.)
• Port 587 to external mail services is open. (From docs.hetzner.com/cloud/servers/faq, read 2026-10-04.)
• Each Hetzner account has a default limit on how many cloud resources it can run at once, shown on the Limits tab of the Hetzner Console; Hetzner does not publish the number, and no new server can be created once the limit is reached. (From docs.hetzner.com/cloud/general/faq, read 2026-10-08.)
• You can ask to raise the limit in the Hetzner Console only after a month with Hetzner and a paid first invoice, and Hetzner reviews each request by hand. (From docs.hetzner.com/cloud/servers/faq, read 2026-10-08.)
• Hetzner bills a cloud server for as long as it exists, even while it is powered off; only deleting it stops the charge. (From docs.hetzner.com/cloud/billing/faq, read 2026-10-07.)
• Cloud servers are billed by the hour, rounded up to a whole hour, and never more than the plan's monthly price. (From docs.hetzner.com/cloud/billing/faq, read 2026-10-07.)
• Outgoing traffic beyond a server's included amount costs €1.00 per TB in the EU and the US, and €7.40 per TB in Singapore. Hetzner bills overage in 100 MB blocks. It emails the project owner when usage passes 75% of the included traffic. (From docs.hetzner.com/cloud/billing/faq, read 2026-10-08.)
• Backups cost 20% of the server's monthly price, excluding the €0.50 ($0.60) IPv4 address. Monthly backup prices are in euros, with the US dollar price in brackets for accounts billed in USD. EU locations, Regular Performance: CPX02 €1.20 ($1.50), CPX12 €2.30 ($2.70), CPX22 €3.90 ($4.60), CPX32 €7.10 ($8.40), CPX42 €13.90 ($16.40), CPX52 €20.10 ($23.80), CPX62 €26.00 ($30.60). EU General Purpose: CCX13 €8.60 ($10.10), CCX23 €17.20 ($20.30), CCX33 €27.70 ($32.60), CCX43 €55.20 ($65.10), CCX53 €106.70 ($125.90), CCX63 €170.70 ($201.40). EU Cost-Optimized: CX23 €1.10 ($1.30), CX33 €1.70 ($2.00), CX43 €3.20 ($3.70), CX53 €5.90 ($7.00), CAX11 €1.20 ($1.40), CAX21 €2.10 ($2.50), CAX31 €4.20 ($5.00), CAX41 €8.20 ($9.70). US locations, Regular Performance: CPX11 €3.50 ($4.10), CPX21 €6.40 ($7.50), CPX31 €12.50 ($14.70), CPX41 €24.10 ($28.30), CPX51 €47.60 ($55.90). A server with backups costs its monthly price plus its backup price. (From docs.hetzner.com/cloud/billing/faq, read 2026-10-18.)
• Backups are automatic daily copies of the server's disk. Each server has seven backup slots; when all seven are full, the oldest is deleted when a new one is made. Backups are deleted with the server. (From docs.hetzner.com/cloud/servers/backups-snapshots/faq, read 2026-10-08.)
• Snapshots cost €0.0143 per GB a month, so a 40 GB snapshot costs about €0.57 a month. Snapshots are kept until deleted. By default an account can hold up to 30 snapshots across all its projects. (From docs.hetzner.com/cloud/servers/backups-snapshots/faq, read 2026-10-08.)
• Object Storage costs €6.49 a month ($7.99) for 1 TB storage (up to 744 TB-hours) and 1 TB egress. Storage beyond that costs €0.0087 per TB-hour ($0.0123), or about €6.47 per TB for a 31-day month. Egress beyond 1 TB costs €1.00 per TB ($1.20). (From hetzner.com/storage/object-storage, read 2026-10-08.)
• The base price is billed for every hour at least one bucket exists, even if it is empty. Unused quota does not carry over. Objects smaller than 64 KB are billed as 64 KB. (From hetzner.com/storage/object-storage, read 2026-10-08.)
• Volumes (block storage) cost €0.0572 per GB a month ($0.0767), billed hourly up to that monthly price, from 10 GB to 10 TB in 1 GB steps. A 100 GB Volume costs €5.72 a month. Before 1 April 2026 the price was €0.044 per GB. (From docs.hetzner.com/cloud/volumes/overview, read 2026-10-10.)
• A Volume can be made larger at any time but never smaller. (From hetzner.com/cloud/block-storage, read 2026-10-10.)
• Storage Boxes cost €3.20 a month for 1 TB (BX11), €10.90 for 5 TB, €20.80 for 10 TB and €40.60 for 20 TB, billed hourly up to that monthly price, with no setup fee. (From docs.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/general, read 2026-10-10.)
• Hetzner's prices are net, so VAT is added by the customer's country of residence: 19% in Germany, and each EU country's own rate for EU customers without a valid VAT ID. (From docs.hetzner.com/general/billing-and-account-management/billing-at-hetzner/value-added-tax, read 2026-10-08.)
• An EU business with a valid VAT ID is invoiced without VAT under the reverse-charge procedure. (From docs.hetzner.com/general/billing-and-account-management/billing-at-hetzner/value-added-tax, read 2026-10-08.)
• Outside the EU, Hetzner adds tax only in the United Kingdom (20%), Switzerland (8.1%), Norway, Australia, Singapore, South Africa and five US states (Texas, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico); everyone else pays none. (From docs.hetzner.com/general/billing-and-account-management/billing-at-hetzner/value-added-tax, read 2026-10-08.)
• When you create a Hetzner account, you choose euros or US dollars. You cannot change the currency later; to change it, you must open a new account and move your products. (From docs.hetzner.com/general/billing-and-account-management/billing-at-hetzner/payment-overview, read 2026-10-08.)
• Hetzner takes credit cards, SEPA direct debit, bank transfer and PayPal. Visa, Mastercard and Amex cards and SEPA direct debit are charged automatically; UnionPay, bank transfer and PayPal are paid by hand. SEPA direct debit is only for euro accounts. Not all methods are available in every country. (From docs.hetzner.com/general/billing-and-account-management/billing-at-hetzner/payment-overview, read 2026-10-08.)
• Hetzner may ask a new customer to verify the account before it processes an order, with a government ID or an advance payment by the customer's own credit card. (From docs.hetzner.com/general/security-and-identify/fraud-prevention-faq, read 2026-10-07.)
• A cloud server can run with only an IPv6 address. Hetzner charges €0.50 a month for a Primary IPv4, and nothing for a Primary IPv6, so an IPv6-only server costs €0.50 a month less than the same server with IPv4. (From docs.hetzner.com/cloud/servers/primary-ips/overview, read 2026-10-10.)
• A server with only an IPv6 address has no public IPv4 connectivity. (From docs.hetzner.com/cloud/servers/primary-ips/faq, read 2026-10-10.)
• Private Networks, and the traffic on their private interfaces, are free. (From docs.hetzner.com/cloud/networks/faq, read 2026-10-10.)
• Cloud Firewalls are free. (From docs.hetzner.com/cloud/firewalls/overview, read 2026-10-10.)
• Hetzner prohibits cryptocurrency mining, farming and plotting. Hetzner may lock the customer's services or account for non-compliance. (From hetzner.com/legal/terms-and-conditions, read 2026-11-03.)
• Hetzner invoices are due immediately. You must pay within ten days. Hetzner then sends email reminders. For late payments, Hetzner may lock servers, cancel products, or lock or delete the account. Hetzner decides case by case. New accounts may have servers locked earlier for unpaid first invoices. Hetzner does not guarantee data recovery. (From docs.hetzner.com/general/billing-and-account-management/billing-at-hetzner/payment-overview, read 2026-11-03.)
• Hetzner dedicated servers cancel immediately in Robot. Hetzner bills by the hour up to the monthly price cap, except for additional hardware and licenses. Windows, Plesk and cPanel licenses bill for full calendar months. (From docs.hetzner.com/general/billing-and-account-management/cancellation/cancellations-robot, read 2026-11-03.)
• Hetzner has a standard data processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR, concluded in the customer account. Hetzner does not create individual DPAs. Non-cloud product data stays in the EU. Cloud data stays in the location the customer chooses; data stored on a server in the US or Singapore is transferred there. (From docs.hetzner.com/general/company-and-policy/data-protection-at-hetzner, read 2026-11-03.)
• Hetzner GPU servers are only in the dedicated GPU line, not in cloud plans. The cheapest is GEX45 with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF Edition and 24 GB GDDR7, billed monthly or hourly with a one-time setup fee. (From hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-gpu, read 2026-11-03.)
• Hetzner DNS zones and records are free in the Hetzner Console and API. (From hetzner.com/dns, read 2026-11-03.)
• Hetzner's experimental Inference API is free while it stays experimental. Hetzner says not to use it for production. (From docs.hetzner.com/general/company-and-policy/experiments/inference, read 2026-11-03.)

2. What the April 1 Adjustment Did

The April 1, 2026 round is the one this page was first written about. It applied to all regions and all customers, new and existing, with no grandfathering. These are historical figures for that event, not current prices — for what a plan costs now, use the table above.

Hetzner's table also gives dollar prices, which moved by different amounts: cloud servers rose 28-43% in dollars (CX23 from $3.49 to $4.99), against 30-37% in euros. Dedicated servers rose 2-21% in euros and 3-26% in dollars on 1 April 2026. In Germany, the AX42 went from €47.30 to €57.30. After the April 1 adjustment, new orders cost €57.30 for an AX42 and €122.30 for an AX102. On June 15, prices rose to €187.30 and €452.30, then fell on June 30 to the current prices. Hetzner adjusted setup fees for dedicated servers on 2 February and 29 April 2026, citing RAM and NVMe SSD costs; its statements give no fee amounts. Memory upgrades for dedicated servers are not in the April table. Hetzner raised them in February: its add-on price list of 2026-02-17 put a 64 GB DDR5 ECC step at €111 a month, up from €22, and a 32 GB step at €66, up from €14. Until 15 June, adding 128 GB of memory that way cost more than a whole AX102 server with 128 GB built in (€107.30 a month before April, €122.30 after, in Germany). Of the products in this table, the load balancer is the one we have re-read since: LB11 is still €7.49, and load balancers were explicitly excluded from the June round.

3. Why Prices Rose

4. Who Each Adjustment Applies To

The two rounds have different scopes, and the difference changes what a reader should do about them:

5. Impact Assessment

How much more you pay depends on your workload size, and on whether you are starting something new. The two figures below the first card are April-round estimates for a fleet that moved to the new prices in one step; the June round only reaches you when you order or rescale.

6. Alternatives Comparison

How does the cheapest Hetzner plan you can order compare to the competition? Every row says in its last column where its figures come from: a row reads Our record only where every quantity beside it appears in what we hold for that vendor, and Hand-typed where it does not — a hand-typed row is one nothing re-reads, so it cannot go stale loudly. 0 of the 10 rows are hand-typed. We also compared against 15 hosting alternatives from our index.

Most RAM for the money: of the paid plans we checked, the most memory under €10 a month is Contabo's Cloud VPS 6: 12 GB of RAM for €7.50 a month, with no setup fee on a one-month term. Contabo's Cloud VPS 4 has 8 GB for €5.50. OVHcloud's VPS-1 has 4 GB for €4.49 and its VPS-2 has 8 GB for €8.49. Prices exclude VAT.

7. Industry Context

Hetzner is not an outlier — the entire European hosting market repriced through 2026.

8. Optimization Strategies

If you are staying with Hetzner, here is how to minimize the impact:

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