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Hetzner vs OVH

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Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
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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

OVHcloud

Wide range of managed services and VPS configurations
Competitive prices, unlimited free egress
10+ data center locations
European-based, may ease GDPR compliance requirements

Price comparison

How do Hetzner's prices compare against OVHcloud?

Example configuration	Hetzner	OVHcloud
VM Small	$5.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (CX22)	$36.58 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (b3-8)
VM Medium	$8.96 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CX32)	$73.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (b3-16)
VM Large	$21.63 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CX42)	$130.54 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (c3-16)
Block Storage	$5.75 / mo 100 GB	$9.50 / mo 100 GB (3000 IOPS)
Object Storage	--	$10.75 / mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB read
Load Balancer	$7.05 / mo LB11	$45.58 / mo Large 2 Gbps
Managed PostgreSQL	--	$51.26 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Essential DB1-4)
Managed Redis®*	--	$44.57 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Essential DB1-4)
Free egress allowance	20-60 TB / mo per instance	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$1.11	Free and unlimited (except Asia-Pacific)

Hetzner offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
GEX44	1x RTX4000	20GB	14	64GB	$0.39

OVH offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
t1-le-45	1x V100	16GB	8	45GB	$0.77
t2-le-45	1x V100S	32GB	15	45GB	$0.88
l4-90	1x L4	24GB	22	90GB	$1.00
t1-le-90	2x V100	32GB	16	90GB	$1.55
t2-le-90	2x V100S	64GB	30	90GB	$1.76
l40s-90	1x L40S	48GB	15	90GB	$1.80
t1-45	1x V100	16GB	8	45GB	$1.97
l4-180	2x L4	48GB	45	180GB	$2.00
t2-45	1x V100S	32GB	15	45GB	$2.19
h100-380	1x H100	80GB	30	380GB	$2.99
a100-180	1x A100	80GB	15	180GB	$3.07
t1-le-180	4x V100	64GB	32	180GB	$3.10
t2-le-180	4x V100S	128GB	60	180GB	$3.53
l40s-180	2x L40S	96GB	30	180GB	$3.60
t1-90	2x V100	32GB	18	90GB	$3.94
l4-360	4x L4	96GB	90	360GB	$4.00
t2-90	2x V100S	64GB	30	90GB	$4.38
h100-760	2x H100	160GB	60	760GB	$5.98
a100-360	2x A100	160GB	30	360GB	$6.15
l40s-360	4x L40S	192GB	60	360GB	$7.20
t1-180	4x V100	64GB	36	180GB	$7.89
t2-180	4x V100S	128GB	60	180GB	$8.76
h100-1520	4x H100	320GB	120	1520GB	$11.97
a100-720	4x A100	320GB	60	720GB	$12.29

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.

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Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Hetzner and OVHcloud offer:

Service	Hetzner	OVHcloud
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)	--
Container Registry	--
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Kubernetes	--
Managed MySQL	--
Managed PostgreSQL	--
Managed Redis®*	--
Object Storage	--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

	Hetzner	OVHcloud
Website	hetzner.com	www.ovhcloud.com
Headquarters	Germany 🇩🇪	France 🇫🇷
Founded	1997	1999
Data Center Locations	6	12
Example Customers	Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc	Société Générale, Louis Vuitton, Capgemini, Tenesys

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

	OVHcloud
Website	www.ovhcloud.com
Headquarters	France 🇫🇷
Founded	1999
Data Center Locations	12
Example Customers	Société Générale, Louis Vuitton, Capgemini, Tenesys