Hetzner
Cost-effective dedicated servers and cloud hosting based in Germany
- Also known as
- hetzner
Available in: DE · Popular in: DE
What is Hetzner?
Hetzner provides hosting and cloud services including bare-metal dedicated servers, flexible cloud instances, managed server solutions, GPU computing, and file storage.
Hetzner pricing
We don't have Hetzner's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
Monthly billing; cloud resources billed hourly within monthly invoice. No annual or prepaid options. Auto-renews unless cancelled.
What Hetzner does
The capabilities that matter for cloud infrastructure, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Provider tier
- Regional / sovereign
- Regions / global footprint
- 3 (Nuremberg and Falkenstein in Germany, Helsinki in Finland)
- Bare-metal servers
- ✓
- GPU / accelerated compute
- ✓
- Spot / preemptible pricing
- -
- Object storage
- ✓
- Block storage
- -
- Managed Kubernetes
- ✓
- Managed databases
- -
- Serverless / FaaS
- -
- VPC / private networking
- -
- Free / low egress
- -
- Data-residency / sovereign options
- ✓
- Partner marketplace
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Hetzner FAQ
Common questions about Hetzner, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Hetzner?
Hetzner provides hosting and cloud services including bare-metal dedicated servers, flexible cloud instances, managed server solutions, GPU computing, and file storage. It is indexed under Cloud Infrastructure.
Source: https://www.hetzner.com
What platforms does Hetzner support?
We have confirmed browser-based access to Hetzner. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.hetzner.com
Can Hetzner be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Hetzner, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
Source: https://www.hetzner.com
What security certifications does Hetzner have?
We have independently confirmed GDPR for Hetzner. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Hetzner not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Where is Hetzner available?
Hetzner is available in Germany. Its primary market is Germany. The vendor is headquartered in Germany.
Source: https://www.hetzner.com
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Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Hetzner, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 50 | 0.16 | 7.9 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 75 | 0.05 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| Price level | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 10 | 0.12 | 0.0 | - |
| Pricing transparency | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | ✓ |
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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 5 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 65% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Tier: regional · Bare metal: Yes · Gpu instances: Yes · Regions count: 3 (Nuremberg and Falkenstein in Germany, Helsinki in Finland) · Data residency: Yes · Object storage: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-04 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | HqCountry: DE · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: regional · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-09-04 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60% |
Security
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