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Hetzner vs Vast.ai

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What's good about...

Hetzner logo 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

Vast.ai logo Vast.ai

  • Budget cards to Blackwell, including the RTX PRO 6000 and B200
  • On-demand, interruptible and reserved rentals
  • SOC 2 Type II certified, with vetted datacenter hosts in Secure Cloud
  • Host reliability ratings and GPU performance benchmarks
  • REST API, CLI, Python SDK and coding agent plugins

Price comparison

How do Hetzner's prices compare against Vast.ai?

VM Small

Hetzner Hetzner
$6.94 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (CX23)
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VM Medium

Hetzner Hetzner
$10.42 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CX33)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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VM Large

Hetzner Hetzner
$19.12 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CX43)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Block Storage

Hetzner Hetzner
$5.10 /mo 100 GB
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Object Storage

Hetzner Hetzner
$7.52 /mo 1 TB
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Load Balancer

Hetzner Hetzner
$8.68 /mo LB11
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Free egress allowance

Hetzner Hetzner
1-60 TB / mo per instance
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Hetzner Hetzner
$1.16 €1 / TB
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Vast.ai logo Vast.ai Pricing Details

Hosts set their own rates. Compute is billed per second from prepaid credits. Storage charges continue while an instance is stopped, and bandwidth fees vary by host.

  • On-demand: Fixed rates for the offer's maximum duration.
  • Interruptible: Bid for capacity. Instances pause if you're outbid or an on-demand renter takes the machine.
  • Reserved: Prepay for a fixed term, with larger discounts for longer commitments.

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Hetzner Hetzner
On-Demand
Vast.ai Vast.ai
On-DemandSpotReserved (1mo)Reserved (3mo)Reserved (6mo)

Available Models

Hetzner offers 2 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 14.

Hetzner Hetzner
RTX PRO 6000(1) RTX 4000 SFF Ada(1)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
H100(11) H200(5) A100(5) RTX PRO 6000(1) B200(6) B300(2) RTX 5090(21) RTX 4090(2) A4000(1) RTX 3090(1)
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Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Hetzner and Vast.ai offer:

Service Hetzner Vast.ai
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Object Storage
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Hetzner Hetzner
hetzner.com
Vast.ai Vast.ai
vast.ai
Headquarters
Hetzner Hetzner
Germany DE flag
Vast.ai Vast.ai
United States of America US flag
Founded
Hetzner Hetzner
1997
Vast.ai Vast.ai
2018
Data Center Locations
Hetzner Hetzner
6
Vast.ai Vast.ai
10
Example Customers
Hetzner Hetzner
Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc
Vast.ai Vast.ai
IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch

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Our data for Hetzner was last updated on Aug. 31, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Sept. 11, 2026.