Hetzner pricing in 2026: what a server costs now

TL;DR: In Germany and Finland, Hetzner Cloud starts at about $7 a month: a CX23 with 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM is $6.49, plus $0.60 for IPv4. In the US the cheapest server is $20.49 for 2 GB, and 4 GB costs $37.49.

One catch: on 8 October 2026 Hetzner lists every CX and CAX plan as not available, so the cheapest EU server you can order today is the new CPX02 (1 vCPU, 1 GB) at $7.49, and 4 GB is a CPX22 at $22.99.

• In Europe, pick CX when it's in stock. It's the cheapest per GB of RAM, and fine for web apps and small databases. When it isn't, look at Netcup before paying for CPX.
• Pick CAX if your images build for Arm. It costs 50 cents to a few euros more than the matching CX, and it's out of stock too.
• Pick CCX if a busy database or CPU-heavy job needs dedicated cores. After June I can't find a good reason to buy CPX in Europe.
• In the US or Singapore, look at Netcup first. Hetzner has no CX there, and 4 GB costs $38 in the US.
• Have an old CPX server? Don't resize it. A rescale moves it to the June 2026 price, often more than double.
• Then: install Ployz, which I build, on the server for git-push deploys and preview environments, free.

Which Hetzner plan do I need?

Size by RAM, because that's what runs out first. Monthly prices include IPv4 and exclude VAT:

Hetzner Cloud is a German provider's line of virtual servers, billed by the hour with a monthly cap, in Germany, Finland, the US and Singapore. The same RAM on Railway costs $40 to $320 a month before CPU.

What would a Hetzner server cost for your app?

Pick the app closest to yours, or open Customize to set RAM, disk, traffic and region. The calculator picks the cheapest Hetzner plan in that region (adding a volume or extra traffic if that's cheaper than a bigger plan), the smallest Netcup VPS that fits, and what the same RAM alone costs on Railway.

Switch to "One app, US users" and the Hetzner row jumps from $7 to $38, while Netcup stays near $9. That gap is the biggest change in Hetzner pricing this year.

How much does Hetzner Cloud cost in 2026?

In Germany and Finland, Hetzner Cloud starts at $6.49 a month for a CX23, and every EU server includes at least 20 TB of traffic. It's sold in four lines: CX and CAX (shared, cheapest), CPX (shared, newer AMD) and CCX (dedicated vCPU). The cheapest server in each line, from the price adjustment page and Hetzner's Cost-Optimized, Regular Performance and General Purpose pages:

Hetzner bills by the hour with a monthly cap: "Your server's bill will never exceed its monthly price cap" (billing FAQ). A server that's switched off still costs the full price until you delete it. Hetzner describes the Cost-Optimized line as "for workloads that can handle variable CPU performance". For a few web apps that mostly wait on a database, I think that's fine. It also says that "this resource-saving use means that the number of available servers is limited", which is why CX and CAX run out.

Price per GB of RAM, including IPv4, in Germany and Finland:

How much did Hetzner raise prices in 2026?

Twice. On 1 April 2026 Hetzner raised cloud prices by about a third, for existing servers as well as new orders, and the CX23 went from €2.99 to €3.99 (April list). For new orders from 15 June 2026, shared CX and CAX servers went up another 30% to 38% in euros, CPX 144% to 175%, and dedicated CCX 113% to 173%.

Every cloud plan in Germany and Finland, from Hetzner's price adjustment page, excluding IPv4 and VAT. "Old" is the price after the April rise:

Specs are from Hetzner's plan pages. Before June, a CPX22 cost twice a CX23. Now it costs 3.5 times as much for the same 2 vCPU and 4 GB, with a newer CPU and twice the disk. For most small apps, I don't think the newer CPU is worth $16 a month.

Hetzner has added two smaller CPX plans in Europe since June (what's new). The CPX12 (1 vCPU, 2 GB, 40 GB) arrived on 7 July at €11.49 / $13.49. The CPX02 (1 vCPU, 1 GB, 20 GB) arrived on 6 October at €5.99 / $7.49, for "applications with very low resource usage". Both include 20 TB of traffic.

Do existing Hetzner servers keep the old price?

Yes, until you change them. The June prices apply to new orders and to rescales. Hetzner's billing FAQ lists what moves a server to the new price: rescaling it up or down, restoring a deleted server, or moving it to a project billed in another currency. Rebuilding a server, or moving it to a project in the same currency, keeps the old price. Orders placed before 15 June but delivered after it also kept the old price (price adjustment page).

So if you still have a pre-June CPX server, don't resize it. Rescaling a CPX32 for more RAM moves you from €13.99 to the new CPX42 price of €69.49. Adding a second cheap CX server next to it is usually the better deal.

How much does Hetzner cost in the US and Singapore?

A lot more than in Europe. CX and CAX aren't sold outside Germany and Finland (locations page), so the cheapest US server is a CPX11 (2 vCPU, 2 GB) at $20.49. In Singapore the cheapest is the new CPX02 (1 vCPU, 1 GB) at $8.99, and 2 GB is a CPX12 at $17.99. US servers include 1 to 8 TB of traffic and Singapore 0.5 to 8 TB, instead of 20.

Prices from the price adjustment page, traffic from the Regular Performance and General Purpose pages.

US (Ashburn, Hillsboro):

In the US, from 8 GB up, the dedicated CCX servers are now cheaper than the shared CPX ones. A CCX13 with 8 GB is $50.99, and a CPX31 with 8 GB is $73.49. The CPX31 has more disk and traffic, but if RAM is what you need, CCX wins.

Singapore:

Singapore rose the least in percent, but it started higher and its extra traffic costs seven times the EU rate, so a busy site there gets expensive fast. In both regions the same RAM costs about four and a half to six times the EU CX price.

How much traffic does Hetzner include?

EU servers include at least 20 TB of outgoing traffic a month, and the larger CCX plans include 30 to 60 TB. Extra traffic and the other add-ons:

Hetzner only bills outgoing traffic, and counts traffic between its own servers in the same network zone as internal (billing FAQ). It emails you at 75% and 100% of your allowance, but those emails "do not cap or stop it". April's rise put snapshots and volumes up 30%; the June table only lists servers.

For scale, 20 TB is roughly 20 million page views of 1 MB each. At Vercel's on-demand $0.15 per GB that would be $3,000 of transfer (Vercel pricing); on a $6.49 CX23 it's included.

Two catches. You can skip IPv4 to save €0.50, but then anyone on an IPv4-only network can't reach your server directly. And "Backups and Snapshots do not include any Volumes which are attached to your server" (Backups/Snapshots docs), so if your database lives on a volume, Hetzner's backups don't cover it. A nightly pg_dump to object storage does. With backups on, a CX23 is €5.49 + €1.10 + €0.50 IPv4 = €7.09 a month.

How many apps fit on each Hetzner server?

As a rule of thumb, a CX23 (4 GB) runs three to five small web apps and one small Postgres database. These are my estimates, not benchmarks, and RAM, not CPU, is usually what runs out first. Check your real memory use with docker stats or your current host's metrics before sizing.

The arithmetic behind them:

• The OS, Docker and a reverse proxy: about 0.5 to 1 GB.
• A small Node, Python, Ruby or PHP app: about 150 to 400 MB each when idle or lightly used.
• A small Postgres or MySQL database: 0.5 to 1 GB to be comfortable. A busy one wants its working set in RAM, which can mean 4 to 16 GB.
• Redis for sessions or queues: often under 100 MB.

CPU is shared on CX, CAX and CPX. Two vCPU is plenty for apps that mostly wait on the database. It isn't enough for video, large builds or a heavily queried database, which is what CCX's dedicated cores are for. If you're not sure, start small, because moving up is a rescale.

Is Hetzner still cheaper than a PaaS?

Yes, by a wide margin. A CX33 with 8 GB of RAM is $10.59 a month with IPv4, and the same 8 GB on Railway is $80 before any CPU, egress or storage. Even in the US, where 8 GB is a $51.59 CCX13, Hetzner is cheaper, and the plan table above has 4 to 32 GB in both regions.

Railway's rates are on its pricing docs: $10 per GB-month of RAM and $20 per vCPU-month. I priced a full app on it in Railway pricing explained, and every fee type across platforms is in the hidden costs of PaaS.

Railway bills what you use, and a server bills what you rent. But a database holds its memory all month, and that's where a rented server pulls ahead. It's also where my Railway bill came from: $500+ a month and climbing, after about $600 for my first month on Laravel Cloud. Today one €80 dedicated server runs everything I have.

Is Netcup cheaper than Hetzner?

In Europe, Hetzner is cheaper per GB of RAM up to 32 GB, and Netcup gives you more disk. In the US and Singapore, Netcup is far cheaper: its VPS 500 with 2 vCPU and 4 GB is €8.26 a month on a 12-month term, against $37.49 for Hetzner's 4 GB CPX21 in the US. Netcup includes traffic on every plan and has datacenters in Manassas (US) and Singapore.

Netcup's prices are from its VPS page, including 19% German VAT, on the 12-month contract. Hetzner prices include IPv4.

Pick Netcup for a long-lived app in the US, for anything past 32 GB, or when you need a lot of disk; outside Europe it's three to four times cheaper. Pick Hetzner for hourly billing with no contract, what I think is the nicer console and API, and cheaper small EU servers. Netcup's best prices need a 12-month term, and its plan page shows one price for all locations, so check the order page for the datacenter you pick. I compared Hetzner with another big cloud in the DigitalOcean pricing breakdown.

Where Ployz fits

A Hetzner server gives you the cheapest RAM in Europe, and Ployz gives that server a deploy pipeline. I build it, and it's free on your own servers.

ployz up --server root@your-server

That installs Ployz over SSH on a Hetzner or Netcup server, builds the current directory and gives it an HTTPS address. Then:

• Push to GitHub and Ployz builds on the server, or in your own GitHub Actions to keep big builds off a CX23, and deploys. No registry and, for most languages, no Dockerfile.
• Zero-downtime deploys once you set a health check.
• A preview environment for every pull request, on your server.
• One-click Postgres, MySQL, Redis and MongoDB next to your apps, with a mirror on another of your servers that you sync when you ask. Restore from it if a server dies, or move the database there with seconds of downtime.
• A second server with one command. That's the cheap way around the rescale trap: keep the old CPX server at its old price and add a CX next to it, joined over WireGuard, with no Kubernetes and no Hetzner load balancer to rent.
• Ubuntu LTS gets managed volumes with a storage limit; on CAX, Ployz runs on arm64 too.

It doesn't create the server for you, so rent it in Hetzner's console. Custom domains are free, and every service also gets a free *.ployz.app https address.

Deploy to your Hetzner server with Ployz, free.

FAQ

Is Hetzner still worth it in 2026?

In Europe, yes. A CX23 for about $7 or a CX33 for about $11 is still one of the cheapest ways to run real apps, with 20 TB of traffic included. Both were out of stock on 8 October, so check the order page first. In the US and Singapore it's no longer a budget option, and Netcup or a dedicated server is usually a better deal.

Why is Hetzner so expensive now?

Hardware got dearer. In its statement on the price adjustment, Hetzner says "the costs to operate our infrastructure and to buy new hardware have both increased dramatically". CX and CAX rose about 30% to 38% in June, while the newer CPX and CCX servers more than doubled.

How can Hetzner be so cheap?

Older hardware and plain servers. Hetzner says of its Cost-Optimized line: "We use proven components for as long as it makes technical and economic sense." CX runs on older CPU generations, and you get a bare server with no managed platform on top.

Does Hetzner charge when a server is off?

Yes. A server is billed until you delete it, switched on or off.

Is the CX line available in the US?

No. CX and CAX are sold in Germany and Finland only, so US servers start at the CPX11 for $20.49.

Do Hetzner backups cover volumes?

No. Hetzner's backups and snapshots skip attached volumes, so a database on a volume needs its own dumps.

Should I pick a PaaS or a Hetzner server?

Pick a PaaS if you run one small app that sleeps most of the time, or your usage is spiky enough that pay-per-use beats a fixed price. Pick your own server if you run a database, several apps, or anything that uses memory all month. In Europe, a CX23 or CX33 at $7 to $11 replaces $40 to $80 of PaaS RAM.

How I checked

I checked every price on 2026-10-08 on Hetzner's price adjustment page, its plan pages (and the price feed they load), its docs, and on Netcup's VPS page, all linked next to each number. Plan pages list prices with IPv4; I subtracted $0.60 for the CPX02 and CPX12 prices above. Availability is what Hetzner's Cost-Optimized page showed on 8 October, and it can change any day. Hetzner prices exclude VAT; Netcup's include 19% German VAT and are converted at about $1.13. The apps-per-server numbers are my estimates, not benchmarks. I build Ployz, so weigh its section with that in mind; the prices don't depend on it.

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