Cloudflare vs Hetzner

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Cloudflare

Consolidates many edge services under one platform: DNS, Load Balancing, caching, image optimization, serverless functions
Massive edge network that can handle large DDoS attacks
Very generous free tier, affordable paid plans

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 Cloudflare's prices compare against Hetzner?

Example configuration	Cloudflare	Hetzner
VM Small	--	$4.77 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (CX22)
VM Medium	--	$8.56 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CX32)
VM Large	--	$20.65 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CX42)
Block Storage	--	$5.49 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$19.86 / mo 1 TB	$5.29 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	--	$6.73 / mo LB11
Serverless 25M Executions	$82.50 / mo 25M invocations, 150 ms duration	--
Free egress allowance	--	1-60 TB / mo per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	Free for most services	$1.06 €1 / TB

Hetzner offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
GEX44	1x RTX4000	20GB	14	64GB	$0.37	Source
GEX130	1x A6000	48GB	24	128GB	$1.69	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 Cloudflare and Hetzner offer:

Service	Cloudflare	Hetzner
Block Storage	--
Content Delivery Network (CDN)		--
GPU-powered Servers	--
Load Balancer
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs		--
Serverless Functions		--
Static Sites		--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)	--

Company details

	Cloudflare	Hetzner
Website	cloudflare.com	hetzner.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	Germany 🇩🇪
Founded	2009	1997
Data Center Locations	285	6
Example Customers	Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify	Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc

	Cloudflare
Website	cloudflare.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009
Data Center Locations	285
Example Customers	Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify

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