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.

What's good about...

Hetzner logo 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

Hetzner logo 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 $4.91 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (CX22) $6.99 / mo 1 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (KVM 1)
VM Medium $8.81 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CX32) $17.99 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (KVM 4)
VM Large $21.26 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CX42) $35.99 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (KVM 8)
Block Storage $5.65 / mo 100 GB --
Object Storage $5.44 / mo 1 TB --
Load Balancer $6.93 / mo LB11 --
Free egress allowance 1-60 TB / mo per instance 4-32 TB per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $1.09 โ‚ฌ1 / TB Free and unlimited 4-32 TB per instance, then lower bandwidth

Hetzner offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
GEX44 1x RTX 4000 20GB 14 64GB $0.32 Source
GEX130 1x RTX 6000 48GB 24 128GB $1.46 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
Website hetzner.com
Headquarters Germany ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช
Founded 1997
Data Center Locations 6
Example Customers Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc
Hostinger
Website www.hostinger.com
Headquarters Lithuania ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น
Founded 2004
Data Center Locations 9
Example Customers Little Karma Co, Netherix Studios, Be-Mag

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Our data for Hetzner was last updated on Dec. 3, 2024, and for Hostinger on Feb. 14, 2025.