--- title: "Hetzner Cloud Plans, Pricing & Renewal Costs (2026) | Digital Hosting" url: https://digitalhosting.com/providers/hetzner description: "Hetzner Cloud plans and pricing — from €5.49/mo (~$6.49) + VAT (EU regions, shared vCPU (CX23)) (verified). Unbeatable price-to-performance if EU or US-East…" lang: en --- Fig. 01 · Provider Brief # Hetzner Cloud Cost-conscious teams that can host in EU regions Premium Pick Rated 4.7 / 5 See current pricing (https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/)Non-affiliate recommendation Prices verified: September 2026 · Researched by W. Miller (https://digitalhosting.com/about#authors) and the Digital Hosting editorial team — how we review providers (https://digitalhosting.com/how-we-test) Disclosure: No link on this page earns us a commission. Where we do have a paid link elsewhere on the site, the page says so. Our take Unbeatable price-to-performance if EU or US-East regions work for you — half the price of US hyperscalers for similar specs. Best for Best price-to-performance Starting price from €5.49/mo (~$6.49) + VAT EU regions, shared vCPU (CX23) Verified September 2026 US regions cost far more since June 2026 (entry ~$20.49/mo excl. tax). EU plans include 20 TB transfer. Ease of use Ease of use: 3 of 5 Performance Performance: 5 of 5 Support Support: 3 of 5 Free migration Not included Email included Not included Domain included Not included ## Pros - Excellent price-to-performance ratio - ARM instances available at low cost - Free included traffic allowance ## Cons - Limited US region availability - Sparse hand-holding for beginners Fig. 02 · The deep dive ## Hetzner Cloud, beyond the scorecard Pricing from our July 2026 verification pass of hetzner.com; EU/US split per Hetzner's published regional pricing — verify with the vendor before you buy. ### Plans, as published Hetzner Cloud's entry shared-vCPU instance runs €5.49/mo (about $6.49) plus VAT in EU regions per our July 2026 pass, with a spec sheet (2 vCPU-class shared compute, 20 TB of included traffic in EU regions) that embarrasses US-hyperscaler pricing. ARM-based instances push price-performance further down. A public IPv4 address bills separately — going IPv6-only shaves the price if your users can reach you that way. The catch that reshaped our recommendation in 2026: US-region pricing diverged sharply — entry US instances ran about $20.49/mo excluding tax at our last verification, roughly 3× the EU rate. Hetzner is a European bargain, not a global one. ### The renewal math Flat pricing, no intro games — Hetzner sits in the 1× group of our renewal tracker. The 'renewal math' here is regional instead: the same workload costs roughly 3× more in Hetzner's US regions than in Germany or Finland per published July 2026 pricing. If your audience is European (or latency-tolerant), nothing we track touches the price-performance; if you need US-East/West, run the numbers against DigitalOcean and Vultr first. Renewal figures come from our Hosting Renewal Price Index (https://digitalhosting.com/articles/hosting-renewal-prices) — intro vs renewal pricing for every provider we cover, verified on vendor sites and dated. ### Choose Hetzner Cloud if - EU-hosted workloads where price-performance is the deciding factor - Ops-capable teams that don't need hand-holding - Bandwidth-heavy applications — 20 TB included in EU regions is unmatched at this price ### Look elsewhere if - US-only audiences — the US regions erase the price advantage - Beginners — documentation is competent but sparse, and nothing is managed - Anyone uncomfortable with a strict signup process — community reports of new-account identity verification are common ### Migration notes Standard self-managed VPS rules: you move your own bits. Snapshots ease Hetzner-to-Hetzner moves; leaving means restoring your own backups elsewhere. One planning note: with EU data residency as a feature, moving a compliance-sensitive workload out of Hetzner's EU regions may carry legal homework beyond the technical migration. ### Honest limitations Support is functional, not consultative — expect competent ticket responses, not architecture advice. New accounts frequently face identity verification before servers activate (a widely-reported community experience, not something we've tested first-hand). Region selection is small compared to DO or Vultr, and prices are quoted ex-VAT in the EU, so the checkout number depends on your country. Testing status: we haven't load-tested Hetzner Cloud ourselves yet. This profile is built from vendor documentation, published plan specs and SLAs, and long-running community reports — and the pricing above is verified on the vendor's site, not copied from marketing. See how we test (https://digitalhosting.com/how-we-test) for exactly what that means. ## If Hetzner Cloud isn't right ### Alternatives to consider - NetArt (https://digitalhosting.com/providers/netart) — loaded plans with a published sla - IONOS (https://digitalhosting.com/providers/ionos) — lowest first-year cost — if you plan the exit ### Deeper comparisons - Hetzner vs DigitalOcean: https://digitalhosting.com/articles/hetzner-vs-digitalocean ## Where Hetzner Cloud fits Compare Hetzner Cloud alongside other picks in the categories it competes in: - VPS Hosting →: https://digitalhosting.com/best-vps-hosting - Cloud Hosting →: https://digitalhosting.com/best-cloud-hosting Ready to try Hetzner Cloud? ## Structured data ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "WebSite", "name": "Digital Hosting", "url": "https://digitalhosting.com" }, { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Organization", "name": "Digital Hosting", "url": "https://digitalhosting.com", "logo": "https://digitalhosting.com/og-image.png", "email": "hello@digitalhosting.com", "description": "Independent hosting review site — comparisons for web hosting, VPS, WordPress hosting, business email, and domain registration. 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