Hetzner vs Oracle Cloud

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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

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	Oracle Cloud
Website	hetzner.com	www.oracle.com
Headquarters	Germany 🇩🇪	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	1997	2016
Data Center Locations	6	39
Example Customers	Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc	Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia

	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