Hetzner vs Hostinger

Hostinger is beginner-friendly, with managed WordPress hosting, an email inbox, and automated CDN configuration. Hetzner provides high-performance servers, load balancers and object storage, making it a better choice for developers and more technical users.

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

What's good about...

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

Hostinger

Affordable plans with generous server specs and free bandwidth
One-click installation for Plesk, Wordpress, cPanel, Nextcloud and more
Uses NVMe SSD storage and AMD EPYC processors on all VPS
Includes automated backups and 24/7 live chat support

Price comparison

How do Hetzner's prices compare against Hostinger?

Example configuration	Hetzner	Hostinger
VM Small	$5.12 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (CX22)	$6.99 / mo 1 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (KVM 1)
VM Medium	$9.19 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CX32)	$17.99 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (KVM 4)
VM Large	$22.16 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CX42)	$35.99 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (KVM 8)
Block Storage	$5.89 / mo 100 GB	--
Object Storage	$5.68 / mo 1 TB	--
Load Balancer	$7.22 / mo LB11	--
Free egress allowance	1-60 TB / mo per instance	4-32 TB per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$1.14 €1 / TB	Free and unlimited 4-32 TB per instance, then lower bandwidth

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 Hetzner and Hostinger offer:

Service	Hetzner	Hostinger
Block Storage		--
Content Delivery Network (CDN)	--
GPU-powered Servers		--
Load Balancer		--
Managed MySQL	--
Object Storage		--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

	Hetzner	Hostinger
Website	hetzner.com	www.hostinger.com
Headquarters	Germany 🇩🇪	Lithuania 🇱🇹
Founded	1997	2004
Data Center Locations	6	9
Example Customers	Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc	Little Karma Co, Netherix Studios, Be-Mag

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