Hetzner Pricing in May 2026

Hetzner's standard pricing remains famously cheap: Cloud Server CX22 (2 vCPU, 4GB RAM) at €4.51/month, dedicated server EX44 at €40/month, GPU servers from €170/month. Storage Box at €3.81/month for 1TB. Real-world Hetzner bills for European products run at €50-300/month for moderate workloads; mid-stage products on dedicated servers hit €500-3,000/month. The pricing is consistently 50-70% below DigitalOcean and 70-85% below AWS for equivalent specifications.

The €500 startup credit covers 6-30+ months of typical Hetzner usage given the cheap base pricing. Eligibility focuses on European startups, but accepts non-European applications with verified European customer presence. The credit applies to all Hetzner Cloud services and dedicated servers. The strategic decision: Hetzner's value is the price-disruption — your €500 credit at Hetzner buys 3-5x more compute than the same budget at DigitalOcean or AWS. For teams comfortable with European-focused infrastructure (EU data centers in Falkenstein and Helsinki, with US presence added in 2024), Hetzner is genuinely the cost-effective default. The trade-off is narrower managed-service breadth — Hetzner does compute, storage, networking, and managed Postgres/Redis well, but lacks AWS-class managed services (SQS, BigQuery-class analytics, ML services). Many European startups run a hybrid: Hetzner for primary compute and databases, AWS or GCP for specific managed services that don't have Hetzner equivalents. The credit window is the right time to validate this architectural pattern.