# Canonical MAAS vs Hetzner Dedicated Servers

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Hetzner Dedicated Servers

| Attribute | Canonical MAAS | Hetzner Dedicated Servers |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 41.5 (18% (low)) | 59.8 (37% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 92 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 148 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | - |
| description.long | An open source system that automates deployment and administration of physical servers, offering programmatic control through APIs and integration with infrastructure-as-code tools. | Dedicated physical server hosting provider offering flexible configuration across multiple European datacenters, with 24/7 technical support and 99.9% network availability commitment. |
| features.capabilities | - | `{"billing_unit":"monthly","pricing_model":"monthly-contract","datacenter_regions":"few <5","provisioning_speed":"instant-API"}` |
| integrations.count | 7 | - |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Terraform"},{"name":"Juju"},{"name":"Ansible"},{"name":"LDAP"},{"name":"Active Directory"},{"name":"SAML"},{"name":"Ubuntu Pro"}]` | - |
| language.primary | HTML | - |
| market.availability | - | `{"hqCountry":"DE","primaryMarkets":["DE","FI"],"availabilityScope":"regional","availableCountries":["DE","FI"],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | - | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","sourceUrl":"https://maas.io/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-18T22:06:47.440Z"}` | `{"type":"subscription","summary":"Monthly billing for dedicated servers; pricing available in EUR and USD per project","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-25T08:35:53.741Z","billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | no |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | free | unknown |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.9 |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |

## Capabilities (Bare Metal Hosting)

| Capability | Canonical MAAS | Hetzner Dedicated Servers |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Provisioning speed | - | Instant API |
| Billing unit | - | Monthly |
| GPU bare metal | - | - |
| Private networking vlan | - | - |
| Ddos protection included | - | - |
| Oob management | - | - |
| Custom os pxe | - | - |
| K8s cluster API provider | - | - |
| Terraform iac provider | - | - |
| Datacenter regions | - | Few <5 |
| Nvme storage | - | - |
| HIPAA eligible | - | - |
| Open source self hostable | - | - |
| Pricing model | - | Monthly contract |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:11:10.428Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*