Hetzner pricing in 2026: what changed and what servers cost

If you've run Hetzner servers since before June 15, 2026, price a resize before you click it. Rescaling a server, up or down, moves it to Hetzner's new price list, where a CCX13 with 2 dedicated vCPUs and 8 GB costs $50.99 a month in the US instead of $19.99. Adding a second server next to the old one often costs less. Buying new, a CCX13 with its IPv4 address is $51.59 a month in the US and $43.09 in Helsinki, Hetzner's cheapest location.

Hetzner price increase 2026: what changed and when

Hetzner changed its prices three times this year.

• April 1. A general rise on new orders and existing products. Hetzner said the costs of running its infrastructure and buying new hardware had "increased dramatically". It published no list of products or percentages.
• June 15. New prices for new orders and for rescales of existing cloud servers, which Hetzner put down to "the massive increase in procurement costs". Servers you already had kept their old price.
• November 10. Dedicated (CCX) and shared AMD (CPX) servers in Helsinki became 15% cheaper, for new orders and rescales. Hetzner said it had bought servers for less than it planned and wants to steer growth to Finland, where it has room to build. Existing servers kept their prices.

The June change is the one most people feel. These are Hetzner's own before-and-after prices, in US dollars a month, before tax and the IPv4 address:

So the dedicated servers that production apps tend to run on more than doubled, and the cheapest shared ones rose least. Since November 10, a new CCX13 in Helsinki is $42.49.

What ends a pre-June price

Hetzner's billing FAQ spells out which actions move an old server to today's prices:

A price adjustment occurs for: Transferring a server to another project with a different currency / Rescaling (regardless of whether the server is scaled up or down) / Restoring a deleted server

Rebuilding a server on the same plan, or moving it to a project in the same currency, keeps the old price. Read the restore line twice if you have a disaster-recovery plan: a server you delete and bring back comes back at the new price. Location matters too. A pre-June server in Helsinki that you rescale lands on Helsinki's November price, below Germany's, while the same rescale in Nuremberg or Ashburn gets the full June price.

Rescale or add a server: pricing more capacity

Say a US CCX13 you bought in May now needs twice the CPU and memory. You have two ways to get there.

[ Two ways to get 4 vCPU and 16 GB from a pre-June CCX13 ]

Rescale the old server to a CCX23 and the month is $103.59. Keep it at $20.59 and start a new CCX13 beside it at $51.59, and the same CPU and memory cost $72.18, about $31 less every month. Adding a server wins as long as the old one costs you less than $52 a month, and every pre-June CCX13 does.

The catch is your app. Two servers only replace one bigger one if it can run on both, behind a load balancer or as separate services. If it can't, the rescale is the price of growing. Shrinking isn't a way out either. A pre-June CCX23 at $39.99 rescaled down to a CCX13 costs $50.99, so the smaller server raises the bill by $11.

Hetzner cloud pricing in Europe and the US

Hetzner sells cloud servers in Falkenstein and Nuremberg in Germany, Helsinki in Finland, Ashburn and Hillsboro in the US, and Singapore. You can use Hetzner in the US, but only its cloud servers: the dedicated root servers stay in Europe. Prices are set by region. Germany and Finland shared one list until Helsinki's November cut, and the US and Singapore each have their own, with Singapore the most expensive. What a new CCX13 costs now, with its IPv4 address:

[ A new CCX13 a month, by location ]

What else changes by location:

• Cheaper server lines are Europe only. The cost-optimized CX and CAX plans are sold only in Germany and Finland, and Hetzner's cloud page shows every one of them as currently not available to order. The US has the shared CPX line and the dedicated CCX line. Its smallest shared server, the CPX11 with 2 vCPUs and 2 GB, is $20.49 before the IPv4.
• Object Storage is Europe only. It starts at $7.99 a month with 1 TB stored and 1 TB of traffic out.
• Billing is hourly, capped at the monthly price. A server that's powered off is still billed until you delete it.
• The IPv4 address is $0.60 a month, billed even when it isn't attached to a server. IPv6 is free.
• Backups cost 20% of the server's price, so $10.20 a month on a US CCX13.

Hetzner traffic included and overage price per TB

A CCX13 in Germany or Finland includes 20 TB of outbound traffic a month. The same server in the US includes 1 TB. Past the allowance, each TB costs $1.20 in both, billed in 100 MB steps, and only outbound traffic counts: inbound and private-network traffic are free. So a US CCX13 that sends 5 TB a month costs $56.39, and one that sends 10 TB costs $62.39. Don't mix US and Europe servers, though. A private network, load balancer or floating IP works inside one region only, so a US server talking to a German one goes over the public internet, and that traffic counts against the allowance. Our Hetzner alternative page prices a US server against ours at each traffic level, up to 50 TB.

Hetzner managed Kubernetes and PostgreSQL

Neither is on Hetzner's price list. Its docs and cloud pages list no managed Kubernetes and no managed databases, so you'd run both yourself on the servers above, or pay a third party to run Kubernetes on them (Hetzner's community site has a tutorial for one). A small three-node cluster on US CCX13s is $154.77 a month for the servers alone, before backups, volumes or a load balancer in front of it, and you run the control plane, the upgrades and any database failover yourself.

Is there anything cheaper than Hetzner?

Not at DigitalOcean, Vultr or Linode, at 2 dedicated vCPUs and 8 GB. Send 5,000 GB a month from the US and Hetzner's CCX13 is $56.39, Vultr's plan is $60, Linode's cheapest dedicated plan with that much memory (High Memory, 24 GB) is $60, and DigitalOcean's General Purpose is $73. Helsinki's CCX13, at $43.09 with 20 TB included, undercuts them all. Linode pricing has the full table.

Our matching server is $66 a month for 2 vCPUs, 8 GB and 80 GB, the CCX13's disk, with a public IP. So in the US, Hetzner costs less until you send about 13 TB a month, and we cost less after that. We don't charge for traffic out at any volume. Managed Kubernetes, managed databases and object storage run in our US data centers. And when something breaks, Hetzner's cloud support is a ticket in its console. Ours is chat in the portal on every account, where our median reply is under 2 minutes. Price your own servers on our pricing page.