Hetzner vs Paperspace

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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

Paperspace

Competitive GPU prices
Managed platform, from notebooks to container-based clusters
Free ingress and egress

Price comparison

How do Hetzner's prices compare against Paperspace?

Example configuration	Hetzner	Paperspace
VM Small	$4.60 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (CX22)	--
VM Medium	$8.25 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CX32)	--
VM Large	$19.91 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CX42)	--
Block Storage	$5.29 / mo 100 GB	--
Object Storage	$5.10 / mo 1 TB	--
Load Balancer	$6.49 / mo LB11	--
Free egress allowance	1-60 TB / mo per instance	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$1.02 €1 / TB	Free and unlimited Burst up to 10 Gbps, then soft capped at 900 Mbps

Hetzner offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
GEX44	1x RTX 4000	20GB	14	64GB	$0.30	Source
GEX130	1x RTX 6000	48GB	24	128GB	$1.37	Source

Paperspace offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
GPU+ (M4000)	1x M4000	8GB	8	30GB	$0.45	Source
P4000	1x P4000	8GB	8	30GB	$0.51	Source
RTX4000	1x RTX 4000	24GB	8	30GB	$0.56	Source
P5000	1x P5000	16GB	8	30GB	$0.78	Source
A4000	1x A4000	16GB	8	45GB	$0.80	Launch
RTX5000	1x RTX 5000	16GB	8	30GB	$0.82	Source
P6000	1x P6000	24GB	8	30GB	$1.10	Source
A5000	1x A5000	24GB	8	45GB	$1.42	Launch
A6000	1x A6000	48GB	8	45GB	$1.93	Launch
V100-32G	1x V100	32GB	8	30GB	$2.34	Launch
V100	1x V100	16GB	8	30GB	$2.34	Launch
A100	1x A100	40GB	8	90GB	$3.19	Launch
A100-80G	1x A100	80GB	8	90GB	$3.28	Launch
H100 PCIe	1x H100	80GB	16	268GB	$5.99	Launch

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 Paperspace offer:

Service	Hetzner	Paperspace
Block Storage		--
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer		--
Object Storage		--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)		--

Company details

	Hetzner	Paperspace
Website	hetzner.com	paperspace.com
Headquarters	Germany 🇩🇪	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	1997	2014
Data Center Locations	6	3
Example Customers	Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc	Fast.ai, SciSpace, Tunebat, Spectrum Labs, Kando

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

	Paperspace
Website	paperspace.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2014
Data Center Locations	3
Example Customers	Fast.ai, SciSpace, Tunebat, Spectrum Labs, Kando