Hetzner Cloud — provider assessment
Subject: Hetzner Cloud
Hetzner publishes per-datacenter prices through its own JSON endpoint and documents IPv6/IPv4 behavior. This assessment verifies three CPX plans and their EU/Singapore prices. No VPSTab performance, support or SLA test was performed.
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Gesamtscore zurückgehalten
The evidence coverage is insufficient for a single overall score. The dimension results below are evidence assessments, not a universal quality ranking.
Fazit
A strong evidence-first option for EU and Singapore buyers who value per-location pricing. The assessment withholds an overall score because independent performance, support and backup-pricing evidence is missing.
Dimensionen
Assessed dimensions have a score and rationale. Not-assessed dimensions remain visibly unknown; they are not assigned a neutral score.
| Dimension | Status | Score | Begründung und Evidenz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Location fit | assessed | 4 / 5 | EU and Singapore availability is verified with datacenter-specific prices. This dataset does not include a Japan region. |
| Network performance | not assessed | Gesamtscore zurückgehalten | No independent throughput, latency or packet-loss test was run on a Hetzner plan. |
| Policies and limitations | assessed | 3 / 5 | IPv6/IPv4 behavior, hourly billing and backup/snapshot availability are documented. Refund, SLA and abuse policies were not reviewed. |
| Price transparency | assessed | 4 / 5 | EUR and USD monthly prices are available per datacenter, VAT exclusion and the IPv4 add-on are visible, and hourly billing is capped at the monthly price. The backup add-on price is not captured. |
| Source freshness | assessed | 5 / 5 | Prices and specifications were observed and verified on 2026-10-24 from the provider's own sources. |
| Specifications | assessed | 4 / 5 | vCPU, RAM, NVMe size, traffic allowance and location availability are published for each CPX plan. Virtualization details were not captured. |
| Support and reliability | not assessed | Gesamtscore zurückgehalten | No support interaction or independent reliability data was collected. |
Stärken
- Per-datacenter EUR and USD prices are published by the provider's own price API.
- IPv6 and IPv4 primary-IP behavior is documented; the composite prices used here include IPv4.
- Hourly billing is capped at the monthly price.
- Automatic daily backups and snapshots are offered as add-ons.
Schwächen und Grenzen
- Prices exclude VAT, so the final consumer price can be higher.
- The backup add-on price is not captured in this dataset.
- No independent network, disk, support or reliability measurement was performed.
- This dataset has no Japan region for Hetzner.
Geeignet für
- EU or Singapore web and self-hosted workloads
- Buyers who value per-datacenter price transparency
- Small databases with separately verified backup pricing
Nicht geeignet für
- Buyers who need VAT-inclusive quotes
- Workloads that require Osaka or Tokyo
- Teams that require measured performance or SLA evidence
Bekannte Unbekannte
- Backup add-on price
- Virtualization confirmation
- Independent network performance
- Support SLA and reliability
Grenzen
- Provider-stated evidence only; no test instance was purchased or benchmarked.
- The dataset covers three CPX plans, not the full Hetzner catalog.
Correction path: use the source links and verification dates to challenge a claim. Do not treat an old snapshot as current.
Alternativen
DigitalOcean Basic 2 GB
Simpler USD pricing and a broader datacenter catalog, but catalog-level region evidence.
Linode 2 GB
Adds Osaka and Tokyo availability with fixed backup add-on pricing.
Zitierte Evidenz
- Hetzner Cloud FAQ — public IPs and IPv6-only servershttps://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/servers/faq/
- Hetzner price API — CLOUD_136 + CLOUD_21 (CPX02 with IPv4)https://website-price-api.hetzner.com/api/v1/products/CLOUD_136%2BCLOUD_21
- Hetzner price API — CLOUD_122 + CLOUD_21 (CPX12 with IPv4)https://website-price-api.hetzner.com/api/v1/products/CLOUD_122%2BCLOUD_21
- Hetzner price API — CLOUD_124 + CLOUD_21 (CPX22 with IPv4)https://website-price-api.hetzner.com/api/v1/products/CLOUD_124%2BCLOUD_21
- Hetzner Cloud — Regular Performance planshttps://www.hetzner.com/cloud/regular-performance/
- VPSTab review and evaluation methodology v1https://github.com/niceyayale/vpstab/blob/feat/phase-0-foundation/docs/product/review-methodology.md