Australia and New Zealand are about 150 ms from the US West Coast and 200 to 300 ms from Europe, and Hetzner has no Australian data centre. So when buying a VPS here, look at latency before price. The table ranks the in-stock plans on this site by the ping measured from Globalping probes in Sydney, lowest first, with the monthly price also in Australian dollars (at the day's rate, US$1 = A$1.4325); click a column header to sort by price or traffic instead.
Fastest in-stock plans, measured from Sydney
Each plan is shown with the fastest of its test IPs from Sydney; results with 20% loss or more are left out. The probes sit in data centres, so a home connection will add a little.
The "Latency from outside China" table on each vendor page also has figures from Tokyo, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and other cities, for comparing which box suits users in Asia or the US.
Vendors with Australian data centres
Among the vendors on this site, these have Australian data centres: V.PS (Sydney, often out of stock), DigitalOcean (Sydney SYD1, same price in every data centre). From Sydney their latency is only a few milliseconds; without an Australian data centre, Tokyo, Singapore and Los Angeles are usually next best, at roughly 100 to 150 ms.
New Zealand readers: this site has no Auckland probe yet; take the Sydney figures as a lower bound.
Before you buy
GST: Under the Australian Taxation Office's rules, overseas businesses selling digital services to Australian consumers charge GST (10%); vendors over the registration threshold add it at checkout, and the prices in the table do not include it. Buying as a business with an ABN usually means no GST is charged. Source: ATO.
Traffic: Some vendors give their Australian data centres less traffic than the US or Europe, or charge more for overage, so check before ordering; the traffic in the table is the monthly total the vendor states.
Claude: Australia and New Zealand are both in Anthropic's supported regions, so a local data centre is fine for Claude Code or an AI agent.
Out of stock: If the plan you want is out of stock, subscribe to the stock-change RSS, which posts an item when it comes back.