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Hetzner review for 2026: what the 15 June price rise did to CX, CPX and CCX plans, who kept old pricing, IPv4 and billing fine print, Server Auction and storage value.

Hetzner spent a decade as the cheapest serious cloud in Europe. Then 2026 happened: two setup-fee changes, an April price rise, and a 15 June restructure that pushed some new-order prices up by more than 150%.
This review covers what Hetzner sells, what it costs now, who is still on old pricing, the billing and signup fine print, and where it still beats the competition. All prices were checked against Hetzner's own pages on 1 October 2026 and exclude VAT.
Hetzner Online GmbH is a German hosting company that owns its data center parks in Falkenstein and Nuremberg (Germany) and Helsinki (Finland), and rents colocation space in Ashburn, Hillsboro and Singapore. For years its cloud was the default answer to "where can I get a real VPS in Europe for the price of a sandwich". In 2026 that answer changed.
Hetzner raised prices on 1 April 2026, adjusted dedicated server setup fees twice, and on 15 June 2026 restructured its server line-up with new-order prices that went up sharply: the entry CX23 moved from EUR 3.99 to EUR 5.49 a month, the shared AMD CPX22 from EUR 7.99 to EUR 19.49, and the dedicated-vCPU CCX13 from EUR 15.99 to EUR 42.99. On top of that, every Cost-Optimized CX and Arm CAX plan was listed as "not available" when we checked on 1 October 2026.
Hetzner is still worth a look for EU workloads, especially if you can get a CX or CAX plan, want 20 TB of included traffic, or buy from the Server Auction with no setup fee. Its US and Singapore regions are no longer cheap, and the dedicated-vCPU CCX line has lost most of its price edge. Existing customers who do not rescale keep their old price.
Hetzner is best known for three things: Hetzner Cloud (hourly virtual servers), dedicated root servers, and the Server Auction, a marketplace of used dedicated machines. It also sells Object Storage, Storage Boxes, web hosting and managed servers.
The cloud runs in three network zones. eu-central covers Falkenstein (fsn1), Nuremberg (nbg1) and Helsinki (hel1); us-east is Ashburn, Virginia; us-west is Hillsboro, Oregon; ap-southeast is Singapore, which opened on 6 August 2024. We found no new cloud locations announced in 2025 or 2026.
Hetzner says plainly that its US and Singapore sites are colocation: "We do not have our own data center parks in the USA or in Singapore. There, we use colocation space at other data centers." It also explains why those regions cost more: "the operating costs in the USA and Singapore are too high to cover them with the attractive prices that we can offer for our products in Europe." Prices are the same across all three EU locations.

Hetzner's 2026 increases came in four steps, all blamed on the hardware market. In February the company wrote of RAM makers that "their pricing policy is hardly comprehensible and has driven up costs massively in a short period of time. The situation is similar for NVMe SSDs."
"Currently rented servers are not affected by the price adjustment." Orders placed before 15 June 2026 but delivered after it also kept the old price. The catch: the rise applies to cloud instance rescales, and Hetzner warns that "certain changes to servers with legacy pricing may trigger a switch to the current pricing." If you run an old CPX or CCX server, check before resizing it.
Not affected by the June rise: web hosting, managed servers, Server Auction machines, IPs, storage products, Load Balancers, Volumes, Snapshots and Object Storage. Hetzner's FAQ explains why even the older Cost-Optimized plans went up: "Even operating already-deployed servers incurs ongoing costs, particularly for replacing components that fail in operation."
All prices below are Hetzner's current new-order monthly caps for Germany and Finland, excluding the EUR 0.50 IPv4 address and VAT (19% for German customers). Every cloud plan is billed hourly up to that cap and has no minimum contract period.
These are the plans that made Hetzner famous, and they still include 20 TB of traffic. The problem is getting one: on 1 October 2026 every CX and CAX plan showed "not available" and the page noted that "the number of available servers is limited". Hetzner's status page has listed "Limited availability of cloud instances" since 26 June 2026. Treat availability as constrained and changing, not as discontinued.

The June restructure renamed the dedicated line into -1, -2 and -3 variants plus "-1-LTD" limited models. Current examples, monthly excluding IPv4 and VAT:
Hetzner also launched new hardware through the turmoil: a GEX131 GPU server with an RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (December 2025), a Xeon 6731P server with Gen5 NVMe (April 2026), the Dell DX154 and DX294 (June 2026) and a GEX45 GPU server (September 2026).
The Server Auction is the value escape hatch. Prices are set by a Dutch-style auction, so they fall over time, and Hetzner notes: "All without setup fees by the way." Defective hardware is replaced free, but written support for rentals under EUR 37.30 excluding VAT is lower priority. Crucially, auction servers were excluded from the June 2026 increase.

Object Storage launched on 3 December 2024 and is EU only. It has a "monthly base price of $ 5.99 / EUR 4.99, which includes 1 TB of storage and 1 TB of egress traffic", then EUR 0.0067 per TB-hour for storage and EUR 1.00 per TB of extra outbound traffic. It was not part of the June rise. One caution: the status page showed "Object Storage in location HEL1 degraded" in Monitoring state from 9 September 2026.

Storage Boxes are the backup product: BX11, BX21, BX31 and BX41 give 1, 5, 10 and 20 TB, 100 sub-accounts, 10 to 40 snapshots, and "Each Storage Box comes with unlimited traffic." We could not confirm current Storage Box prices on an official page, so we do not quote them here.

Hetzner screens new accounts hard. Its fraud-prevention FAQ says "we may ask you to verify your account before we process an order", either by ID document or by prepayment with a credit card. Large first orders "may not automatically process" or may be rejected, and it advises you "do not use a free email address" and "do not use a VPN service" when signing up. The verification credit is refunded only "if you completely close the account".
Under the terms, contracts run for "an unlimited time period unless otherwise agreed" and "may be terminated by either party with 30 days' notice to the end of the month" (cloud servers are simply deleted and billed hourly). Hetzner can accept or reject a contract within 5 work days, and consumers get a 14-day right of withdrawal without giving reasons.
Hetzner Cloud is unmanaged: you run the operating system and everything on it. Support is by ticket from the Hetzner Console, plus a customer service phone line (+49 9831 505-0). 24-hour technical phone lines exist per data center but only for dedicated server and colocation customers, protected by a telephone password. Hetzner says "Hetzner's own team of technicians in Germany provides customer support for the Hetzner Cloud servers in Europe, the USA, and Singapore."
On 1 October 2026 the status page showed two open items: limited availability of cloud instances (since 26 June) and degraded Object Storage in HEL1 (since 9 September). On the third-party side, Trustpilot showed a TrustScore of 3.0 out of 5 from 2,982 reviews on the same day.
If you are comparing US-friendly clouds, our Vultr review and Linode review cover providers with a broader global footprint.
In the EU, new orders start at EUR 5.49 a month for a CX23 (2 vCPU, 4 GB) plus EUR 0.50 for IPv4 and VAT. CX and CAX plans were showing as not available on 1 October 2026, so the entry point you can actually order may be CPX22 at EUR 19.49.
No, unless you change it. The 15 June 2026 prices apply to new orders and cloud rescales; currently rented servers keep their price. The earlier 1 April 2026 change did apply to existing products.
Yes. A cloud server bills for as long as it exists, whether it is on or off. Only deleting it stops the charge, and you then pay just the hours used, capped at the monthly price.
No. A Primary IPv4 costs EUR 0.50 a month excluding VAT. IPv6 is free, and running IPv6-only is the only way to avoid the charge.
It is part of Hetzner's fraud prevention. You can verify with an ID document or a credit card prepayment. Avoid free email addresses and VPNs during signup, and expect large first orders to be reviewed or rejected.
Delete cloud servers any time and you pay only the hourly usage. Contracts such as dedicated servers end with 30 days' notice to the end of the month, and consumers have a 14-day right of withdrawal. The verification prepayment is refunded only when you close the account completely.
No. They are colocation sites with higher costs: the US CPX11 is EUR 17.49 and Singapore CPX12 EUR 15.49, with only 0.5 to 8 TB of traffic instead of 20 TB or more in the EU. CX, CAX and Object Storage are not offered there.
No. Dedicated root servers can only be ordered in Germany and Finland. Ashburn, Hillsboro and Singapore offer cloud servers only.
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Browse Cloud ComputingOutside Europe only CPX and CCX are sold. In Ashburn and Hillsboro the US-only CPX11 (2 vCPU, 2 GB, 40 GB) costs EUR 17.49 (USD 20.49) and CPX51 (16 vCPU, 32 GB) EUR 237.99; CCX13 is EUR 43.49. In Singapore CPX12 (1 vCPU, 2 GB) is EUR 15.49 and CCX13 EUR 53.99. Included traffic drops to 1 to 5 TB on CPX (0.5 TB on Singapore's CPX12) and 1 to 8 TB on CCX, against 20 TB or more in the EU.