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 |
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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 | |
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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
Company details
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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 |
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Website | www.cloudways.com |
Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2012 |
Data Center Locations | -- |
Example Customers | Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko |
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Website | hetzner.com |
Headquarters | Germany 🇩🇪 |
Founded | 1997 |
Data Center Locations | 6 |
Example Customers | Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc |
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Our data for Cloudways was last updated on May 5, 2025, and for Hetzner on Dec. 3, 2024.