Hetzner was cheap for many years; in 2026 it raised prices twice, and the cheap CX series has long been impossible to order, so many people have started looking for alternatives. This page does not pretend there is something “just as cheap”; instead it breaks down the reasons people choose Hetzner: traffic, European data centres, per-second billing and an API, and Asian data centres, and for each lists the plans on this site that are in stock now, with prices checked by hand.
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According to Hetzner's official announcements (dates as month/day): announced in month 2, prices rose across the range from 4/1, existing customers included, with CX22 going from €3.29 to €4.49; a second announcement in month 5 applied new prices to new orders and plan changes from 6/15: the shared-core CX series rose by about 30% (CX23 2 vCPU 4G €5.49), while CPX and the dedicated-core CCX rose by 100% to 200% (CPX22 €19.49, CCX13 €42.99). From 6/26 the official status page showed “limited availability”, and a third-party check in early month 10 found every CX and CAX plan shown as unavailable to order; all that could be bought were CPX and CCX, at three to four times the price.
Its traffic allowance is still generous: from 20TB in its European data centres, but only 1 to 8TB in the US and 0.5 to 8TB in Singapore; IPv4 costs an extra €0.50 a month. Users complain most about having to upload a passport to sign up, and about it being “cheap but impossible to buy”.
CX23 2 vCPU 4G with 20TB of traffic for €5.49: if you can get one provisioned, most plans on this site cannot beat that price. Where this site wins is elsewhere: stock is checked daily, so plans can actually be bought; none of the ten vendors asks for a passport; Japan and Singapore data centres come with far more traffic than Hetzner Singapore; prices are in US dollars, with no IPv4 surcharge. Below, the options are split by whatever matters most to you in leaving Hetzner.
The 20TB in Hetzner's European data centres is the hardest thing to replace. Plans on this site with 4TB or more of monthly traffic, in stock, sorted by effective monthly price, lowest first:
| Vendor | Plan | Specs | Data centre | Monthly price | List price and billing | Traffic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jtti | HK CLOUD 1C1G yearly deal | 1 vCPU / 1G / 50GB | Hong Kong | $4.16 | $49.86/yr (list price $166.20, renewal price unconfirmed) | unlimited traffic |
| Hostinger | KVM 2 | 2 vCPU / 8G / 100GB NVMe | Same price in every data centre | $8.99 | $8.99/mo, 24 months prepaid Renewal $14.99/mo | 8TB |
| RackNerd | 8 GB KVM VPS yearly deal | 7 vCPU / 8G / 150GB SSD | Same price in every data centre | $10.00 | $119.99/yr Same price on renewal | 20TB |
| TmhHost | US 9929 #6 | 4 vCPU / 8G / 60GB SSD | Los Angeles | $25.78 | ¥173/mo | 4000GB |
| TmhHost | US 4837 #6 | 4 vCPU / 8G / 60GB SSD | Los Angeles | $25.78 | ¥173/mo | 5000GB |
| TmhHost | US CN2 GIA #6 | 4 vCPU / 8G / 60GB SSD | Los Angeles | $30.55 | ¥205/mo | 4000GB |
| BandwagonHost | 160G KVM PROMO | 5 vCPU / 8G / 160GB SSD | Same price in every data centre | $33.33 | $399.99/yr, monthly $39.99 | 4TB |
| V.PS | KIX Edge Yellow (Edge KVM, IIJ) | 4 vCPU / 8G / 80GB NVMe | Osaka | $40.28 | €35.95/mo Same price on renewal | 4TB |
Most of these high-traffic plans need yearly or two-year prepayment; renewal prices are marked separately in the table. €5 a month billed monthly with 20TB: this site has nothing like that, and you cannot buy it from Hetzner right now either.
Germany, France, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia and the UK are covered; Finland is not. Plans in European data centres on this site that are in stock, sorted by monthly price:
| Vendor | Plan | Specs | Data centre | Monthly price | List price and billing | Traffic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| V.PS | DUS Starter (Cloud KVM) | 2 vCPU / 1G / 20GB SSD | Düsseldorf | $7.79 | €6.95/mo Same price on renewal | 1TB |
| V.PS | TLL Starter (Cloud KVM) | 2 vCPU / 1G / 20GB SSD | Tallinn | $7.79 | €6.95/mo Same price on renewal | 1TB |
| Hostinger | KVM 2 | 2 vCPU / 8G / 100GB NVMe | Same price in every data centre | $8.99 | $8.99/mo, 24 months prepaid Renewal $14.99/mo | 8TB |
| BandwagonHost | 160G KVM PROMO | 5 vCPU / 8G / 160GB SSD | Same price in every data centre | $33.33 | $399.99/yr, monthly $39.99 | 4TB |
| DigitalOcean | Basic Droplet 8GiB | 4 vCPU / 8G / 160GiB SSD | Same price in every data centre | $48.00 | $48/mo, billed per second Same price on renewal | 5000GiB |
The other half of Hetzner's appeal is the tooling: hourly billing with a monthly cap, delete any time, an API and Terraform, free firewalls and private networks, load balancers, S3-compatible object storage. On this site only DigitalOcean is the same kind of product: per-second billing, a full API, data centres in Singapore and Europe; the price is three to five times as much for the same specs. Plans in stock:
| Vendor | Plan | Specs | Data centre | Monthly price | List price and billing | Traffic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean | Basic Droplet 8GiB | 4 vCPU / 8G / 160GiB SSD | Same price in every data centre | $48.00 | $48/mo, billed per second Same price on renewal | 5000GiB |
All other vendors bill monthly or yearly and have no API; if you need the tooling, this is the only one.
Hetzner's only data centre in Asia is Singapore, and it comes with only 0.5TB of traffic. Plans in Japan and Singapore data centres on this site that are in stock, sorted by monthly price, with traffic shown in the table:
| Vendor | Plan | Specs | Data centre | Monthly price | List price and billing | Traffic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lcayun | Japan BGP Elastic, smallest plan | 1 vCPU / 1G / 30GB | Japan | $4.35 | From ¥350/yr, monthly from ¥35 | not stated |
| LisaHost | Singapore native IP yearly deal | 1 vCPU / 1G / 10GB NVMe | Singapore | $5.79 | ¥466/yr | 2000GB |
| LisaHost | Japan native IP yearly deal (all 3 carriers optimised) | 1 vCPU / 1G / 10GB NVMe | Japan | $6.20 | ¥499/yr | 600GB |
| HostKvm | Japan Japan-Bronze (overseas IP, Tokyo) | 2 vCPU / 4G / 40GB | Japan | $8.00 | $8/mo, yearly $96; Japan IP (Osaka SoftBank) adds $5/mo | 750GB |
| V.PS | KIX Edge Green (Edge KVM, IIJ) | 1 vCPU / 2G / 20GB NVMe | Osaka | $10.03 | €8.95/mo Same price on renewal | 1TB |
| Lcayun | Singapore Elastic, smallest plan | 1 vCPU / 1G / 30GB | Singapore | $10.43 | From ¥70/mo | 1000GB |
| Lcayun | Japan BGP Elastic 1 vCPU 8G | 1 vCPU / 8G / 30GB | Japan | $14.78 | ¥1190/yr, monthly ¥105 | 500GB |
| HostKvm | Japan Japan-Gold (overseas IP, Tokyo) | 4 vCPU / 8G / 80GB | Japan | $15.00 | $15/mo, yearly $180; Japan IP (Osaka SoftBank) adds $5/mo | 2000GB |
The gap is a $5 tier in Seoul and Osaka, which this site does not have. To check latency, each plan's test IP is in the table on the home page.
If any of these four is a hard requirement for you, waiting for Hetzner to restock is a better deal than switching.