The Basics

Hetzner
Website hetzner.com
Headquarters Germany 🇩🇪
Founded 1997
Data Center Locations 5
Example Customers Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc
Oracle Cloud
Website www.oracle.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2016
Data Center Locations 39
Example Customers Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia

Cost Comparison

How do Hetzner's prices compare against Oracle Cloud?

Example configuration Hetzner Oracle Cloud
VM Small $4.86 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (CX11) $10.42 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex - 50% burstable)
VM Medium $17.43 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CPX31) $27.53 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex - 50% burstable)
VM Large $62.18 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (CCX33) $92.26 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)
Block Storage $5.64 / mo 100 GB $4.25 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage -- $25.57 / mo
Load Balancer $6.91 / mo LB11 $7.86 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL -- $70.56 / mo 4 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PostgreSQL.VM.Standard.Flex.E4)
Managed Redis®* -- $27.94 / mo 2 GB RAM
Free egress allowance 20-60 TB / mo per instance 10 TB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $1.09 $8.50 1 TB

Note: These 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 of the managed services that Hetzner and Oracle Cloud offer:

Service Hetzner Oracle Cloud
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN) --
Container Registry --
GPU-powered Servers --
Load Balancer
Managed Containers --
Managed Kubernetes --
Managed MySQL --
Managed PostgreSQL --
Managed Redis®* --
Object Storage --
Serverless Cron Jobs --
Serverless Functions --
Static Sites --
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

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Our data for Hetzner was last updated on Feb. 29, 2024, and for Oracle Cloud on Feb. 10, 2024.