Backblaze vs Hetzner

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Backblaze

A fraction of the cost of AWS S3
Easy migration, S3-compatible API
Several data centers in North America and Europe

Hetzner

High performance VPS configurations at affordable prices (shared, high memory, dedicated CPU)
Easy to use web console & developer tooling (Terraform SDKs, official CLI)
EU-based company, may simplify GDPR compliance for some

Price comparison

How do Backblaze's prices compare against Hetzner?

Example configuration	Backblaze	Hetzner
VM Small	--	$5.12 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (CX22)
VM Medium	--	$9.19 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CX32)
VM Large	--	$22.16 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CX42)
Block Storage	--	$5.89 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$6.00 / mo 1 TB	$5.68 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	--	$7.22 / mo LB11
Free egress allowance	3x the amount of data stored	1-60 TB / mo per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$10.00 $0.01 / GB	$1.14 €1 / TB

Hetzner GPUs

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
GEX44	1x RTX 4000	20GB	14	64GB	$0.33	Source
GEX130	1x RTX 6000	48GB	24	128GB	$1.52	Source

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Backblaze and Hetzner offer:

Service	Backblaze	Hetzner
Block Storage	--
GPU-powered Servers	--
Load Balancer	--
Object Storage
Virtual Private Server (VPS)	--

Company details

	Backblaze	Hetzner
Website	www.backblaze.com	hetzner.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	Germany 🇩🇪
Founded	2007	1997
Data Center Locations	4	6
Example Customers	Kanopy, Steamlabs, Canal+, Fortune	Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc

	Backblaze
Website	www.backblaze.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2007
Data Center Locations	4
Example Customers	Kanopy, Steamlabs, Canal+, Fortune

	Hetzner
Website	hetzner.com
Headquarters	Germany 🇩🇪
Founded	1997
Data Center Locations	6
Example Customers	Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc