Hetzner vs Theta EdgeCloud

What's good about each

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

Theta EdgeCloud

Datacenter H200, V100 and T4 machines, 1-4 GPUs
Consumer cards from a community fleet, priced per operator
Sharable persistent volumes that survive a stop and restart
Multi-node GPU clusters for distributed training
Inference APIs, dedicated model serving and Jupyter notebooks on the same account

Price comparison

Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.

Service	Hetzner	Theta EdgeCloud
Small VM	$6.77 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (CX23)	-- Not listed
Medium VM	$10.16 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CX33)	-- Not listed
Large VM	$18.63 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CX43)	-- Not listed
Block storage	$4.97 /mo 100 GB	-- Not listed
Object storage	$7.33 /mo 1 TB	-- Not listed
Load balancer	$8.46 /mo LB11	-- Not listed
Egress allowance	1-60 TB / mo per instance	-- Not listed
Egress	$1.13 /TB €1 / TB	-- Not listed

Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

GPUs

Hetzner offers 2 GPU models, while Theta EdgeCloud offers 11. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU	Hetzner	Theta EdgeCloud	Difference
RTX PRO 6000 1 config	$2.17 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Hetzner only
RTX 4000 SFF Ada 1 config	$0.42 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Hetzner only
H200 3 configs	--	$3.69 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
V100 2 configs	--	$0.99 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 5060 Ti 1 config	--	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 5080 1 config	--	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
T4 2 configs	--	$0.20 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 5070 1 config	--	$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 4070 1 config	--	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 3080 1 config	--	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only

All 2 GPUs on Hetzner All 11 GPUs on Theta EdgeCloud

Hetzner bills on-demand; Theta EdgeCloud bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.

Salad

Access 60,000+ daily active GPUs across 191 countries, from $0.02/hour

Run RTX 50-series and 40-series cards without datacenter pricing

Pick a priority level to balance cost against interruptions

Per-second billing, with no charge for cold starts or image pulls

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Services

Managed services each provider offers.

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

Compliance

Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.

Framework	Hetzner	Theta EdgeCloud
ISO 27001	Yes	--
GDPR	Yes	--
PCI DSS	Card payments only	--

Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.

Company details

Fact	Hetzner	Theta EdgeCloud
Founded	1997	2024
Headquarters	Germany	USA
Locations	6	--
Example customers	Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc	KAIST, NTU Singapore, Houston Rockets
Website	hetzner.com	www.thetaedgecloud.com

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Our data for Hetzner was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Theta EdgeCloud on Oct. 2, 2026.