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 Oracle Cloud

  • Great price-performance ratio
  • Wide range of server configurations and managed services
  • Comprehensive hybrid and multi-cloud solutions
  • 10 TB of free egress per month

Price comparison

How do Hetzner's prices compare against Oracle Cloud?

Example configuration Hetzner Oracle Cloud
VM Small $4.91 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (CX22) $10.42 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)
VM Medium $8.81 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CX32) $27.53 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)
VM Large $21.26 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CX42) $92.26 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)
Block Storage $5.65 / mo 100 GB $4.25 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $5.44 / mo 1 TB $25.57 / mo
Load Balancer $6.93 / 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 1-60 TB / mo per instance 10 TB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $1.09 €1 / TB $8.50 $0.0085 / GB

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

Oracle Cloud offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
BM.GPU.MI300X.8 8x MI300X 1536GB 56 2000GB $6.00 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 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)

Company details

Hetzner
Website hetzner.com
Headquarters Germany 🇩🇪
Founded 1997
Data Center Locations 6
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

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Our data for Hetzner was last updated on Dec. 3, 2024, and for Oracle Cloud on Sept. 30, 2024.