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

Hetzner logo Vercel

  • Superb developer experience, from git push to deployed globally in seconds
  • First class support for Next.js and other frontend frameworks
  • Great API to issue custom domains for SaaS projects
  • Very active community and plenty of learning resources

Price comparison

How do Hetzner's prices compare against Vercel?

Example configuration Hetzner Vercel
VM Small $4.91 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (CX22) --
VM Medium $8.82 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CX32) --
VM Large $21.27 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CX42) --
Block Storage $5.66 / mo 100 GB --
Object Storage $5.45 / mo 1 TB --
Load Balancer $6.93 / mo LB11 --
Managed PostgreSQL -- $151.38 / mo 1440h compute, 50 GB storage, 10 GB read/mo 5 GB write/mo
Managed Redis®* -- $90.72 / mo 10 req/s @ $0.35 per 100k reqs
Serverless 25M Executions -- $108.75 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance 20-60 TB / mo per instance 100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $1.09 €1 / TB $150.00 $0.15 / GB (Edge)

Hetzner offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
GEX44 1x RTX4000 20GB 14 64GB $0.38
GEX130 1x A6000 48GB 24 128GB $1.74

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 of the managed services that Hetzner and Vercel offer:

Service Hetzner Vercel
Block Storage --
Content Delivery Network (CDN) --
GPU-powered Servers --
Load Balancer --
Managed PostgreSQL --
Managed Redis®* --
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs --
Serverless Functions --
Static Sites --
Virtual Private Server (VPS) --

Company details

Hetzner
Website hetzner.com
Headquarters Germany 🇩🇪
Founded 1997
Data Center Locations 6
Example Customers Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc
Vercel
Website vercel.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2015
Data Center Locations 18
Example Customers Box, Runway, Sonos, eBay, The Washington Post

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Our data for Hetzner was last updated on Oct. 7, 2024, and for Vercel on Sept. 28, 2024.