Cloudways vs Hetzner

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

What's good about...

Cloudways

Deploy to 65+ datacenter regions across multiple cloud providers
Built-in cache, database, and CDN integration
Offers free SSL, staging environments, and automated backups

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 Cloudways's prices compare against Hetzner?

Example configuration	Cloudways	Hetzner
VM Small	$11.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (DO1GB)	$5.11 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (CX22)
VM Medium	$88.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (DO8GB)	$9.16 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CX32)
VM Large	$149.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (DO16GB)	$22.11 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CX42)
Block Storage	--	$5.88 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	--	$5.66 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	--	$7.20 / mo LB11
Managed Redis®*	Included depending on plan	--
Free egress allowance	1 TB - 12 TB / mo included depending on plan	1-60 TB / mo per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$20.00 $0.02 / GB (DO provider)	$1.13 €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 Cloudways and Hetzner offer:

Service	Cloudways	Hetzner
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)		--
GPU-powered Servers	--
Load Balancer	--
Managed Containers		--
Managed MySQL		--
Managed Redis®*		--
Object Storage	--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

	Cloudways	Hetzner
Website	www.cloudways.com	hetzner.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	Germany 🇩🇪
Founded	2012	1997
Data Center Locations	--	6
Example Customers	Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko	Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc

	Cloudways
Website	www.cloudways.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2012
Data Center Locations	--
Example Customers	Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko

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