The Basics

Hetzner
Website hetzner.com
Headquarters Germany 🇩🇪
Founded 1997
Data Center Locations 5
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

Cost Comparison

How do Hetzner's prices compare against OVHcloud?

Example configuration Hetzner OVHcloud
VM Small $4.86 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (CX11) $36.58 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (b3-8)
VM Medium $17.43 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CPX31) $73.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (b3-16)
VM Large $62.18 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (CCX33) $130.54 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (c3-16)
Block Storage $5.64 / mo 100 GB $9.50 / mo 100 GB (3000 IOPS)
Object Storage -- $10.75 / mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB read
Load Balancer $6.91 / 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 $1.09 Free and unlimited

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 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)

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Our data for Hetzner was last updated on Feb. 29, 2024, and for OVHcloud on Feb. 13, 2024.