Provider reviewMethodology review-methodology-v1Last verified Oct 24, 2026Confidence: medium

Hetzner Cloud — provider assessment

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.

Overall score withheld

The evidence coverage is insufficient for a single overall score. The dimension results below are evidence assessments, not a universal quality ranking.

Conclusion

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.

Dimensions

Assessed dimensions have a score and rationale. Not-assessed dimensions remain visibly unknown; they are not assigned a neutral score.

Dimensions: Hetzner Cloud — provider assessment. 1–5.
Dimension	Status	Score	Rationale and evidence
Location fit	assessed	4 / 5	EU and Singapore availability is verified with datacenter-specific prices. This dataset does not include a Japan region. Hetzner Online GmbH Hetzner Online GmbH
Network performance	not assessed	Overall score withheld	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. Hetzner Online GmbH Hetzner Online GmbH
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. Hetzner Online GmbH Hetzner Online GmbH
Source freshness	assessed	5 / 5	Prices and specifications were observed and verified on 2026-10-24 from the provider's own sources. Hetzner Online GmbH Hetzner Online GmbH
Specifications	assessed	4 / 5	vCPU, RAM, NVMe size, traffic allowance and location availability are published for each CPX plan. Virtualization details were not captured. Hetzner Online GmbH Hetzner Online GmbH
Support and reliability	not assessed	Overall score withheld	No support interaction or independent reliability data was collected.

Strengths

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.

Weaknesses and limits

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.

Suitable for

EU or Singapore web and self-hosted workloads
Buyers who value per-datacenter price transparency
Small databases with separately verified backup pricing

Not suitable for

Buyers who need VAT-inclusive quotes
Workloads that require Osaka or Tokyo
Teams that require measured performance or SLA evidence

Known unknowns

Backup add-on price
Virtualization confirmation
Independent network performance
Support SLA and reliability

Limitations

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.

Alternatives

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.

Methodology · Reviews

Cited evidence

Hetzner Cloud FAQ — public IPs and IPv6-only serversHetzner Online GmbH · Provider official · Observed Oct 24, 2026Documents IPv6-only cloud servers and primary IPv4/IPv6 assignment. IPv4 is a paid primary IP add-on included in our composite price.https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/servers/faq/
Hetzner price API — CLOUD_136 + CLOUD_21 (CPX02 with IPv4)Hetzner Online GmbH · Provider API · Observed Oct 24, 2026Official JSON price endpoint used by the Hetzner Cloud pricing page. Returns EUR and USD monthly prices per datacenter.https://website-price-api.hetzner.com/api/v1/products/CLOUD_136%2BCLOUD_21
Hetzner price API — CLOUD_122 + CLOUD_21 (CPX12 with IPv4)Hetzner Online GmbH · Provider API · Observed Oct 24, 2026Official JSON price endpoint used by the Hetzner Cloud pricing page. Returns EUR and USD monthly prices per datacenter.https://website-price-api.hetzner.com/api/v1/products/CLOUD_122%2BCLOUD_21
Hetzner price API — CLOUD_124 + CLOUD_21 (CPX22 with IPv4)Hetzner Online GmbH · Provider API · Observed Oct 24, 2026Official JSON price endpoint used by the Hetzner Cloud pricing page. Returns EUR and USD monthly prices per datacenter.https://website-price-api.hetzner.com/api/v1/products/CLOUD_124%2BCLOUD_21
Hetzner Cloud — Regular Performance plansHetzner Online GmbH · Provider official · Observed Oct 24, 2026Plan names, vCPU/RAM/NVMe sizes, EU/Singapore traffic allowances, hourly billing cap, IPv4-inclusive price note, backup and snapshot add-on availability.https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/regular-performance/
VPSTab review and evaluation methodology v1VPSTab · Editorial analysis · Observed Oct 24, 2026Methodology for evidence classes, assessed/not-assessed dimensions, confidence and withheld scores.https://github.com/niceyayale/vpstab/blob/feat/phase-0-foundation/docs/product/review-methodology.md