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Hetzner alternatives: six options, and what each is actually best at

Hetzner is very hard to beat on price per CPU core inside Germany and Finland, so most people looking for an alternative are not looking for a cheaper core — they are looking for something Hetzner does not sell. Usually that is a location outside its six regions, unmetered or guaranteed high bandwidth, or more RAM per euro. Here are six providers that each answer one of those, with figures read from their own pages on 28 August 2026.
Published by X-ZoneServers · competitor data read from public pages · verify prices at the source before you buy
الخلاصة
If you need locations in Southern or Eastern Europe, unmetered traffic or a guaranteed multi-gigabit port, look at X-ZoneServers. If you want more RAM per euro, look at Contabo or netcup. If you want bundled anti-DDoS and a global footprint, look at OVHcloud. If you want a broad cloud catalogue with no egress fees, look at Scaleway. If you want cheap single-tenant hardware outside Europe, look at Leaseweb.

How this list was put together

Each provider here is one our own customers actually weigh against Hetzner, and each entry states what that provider is genuinely best at rather than why it is worse. Figures come from the provider's own public pages on the dates listed under Sources. Where we publish a full head-to-head comparison for a provider, the link sits under its entry.

Six alternatives to Hetzner

  1. 1

    X-ZoneServers

    Best at: Unmetered traffic and guaranteed 1–200 Gbps ports across 12 EU and US metros
    Every plan is unmetered with no traffic counter: 1 Gbps on a KVM VPS from €4.00/month, a 10 Gbps unmetered VPS from €9.99/month, and dedicated servers sold by guaranteed port from 1 to 200 Gbps with every chassis priced at every tier. Twelve metros in eleven countries, DDoS mitigation at Layers 3, 4 and 7 included, EUR invoicing from a Romanian company. We publish this page, so weigh it accordingly.
    This is us. We publish this page, so read our entry with that in mind — the disclosure below explains the method.
  2. 2

    netcup

    Best at: DDR5 ECC memory and NVMe at value prices, from Germany
    netcup lists VPS 500 at €5.91/month including German VAT with 2 vCores, 4 GB of DDR5 ECC and 128 GB of NVMe, which is unusually good hardware at that price. Five locations — Vienna, Nuremberg, Amsterdam, Manassas and Singapore — and hourly billing alongside 12-month contract pricing.
    Read the full comparison
  3. 3

    Contabo

    Best at: The most RAM and disk per euro
    Contabo lists Cloud VPS 4 at €5.50/month with 4 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 100 GB of SSD — more memory and disk per euro than almost anyone. The trade is the port: 200 Mbit/s at the entry tier, reaching 1 Gbit/s only at €37.00/month on Cloud VPS 16.
    Read the full comparison
  4. 4

    OVHcloud

    Best at: Bundled anti-DDoS and daily backups on a backbone they own
    OVHcloud bundles anti-DDoS and daily backups into every plan in its VPS 2027 range, runs AS16276 across datacenters it builds itself, and reaches Asia-Pacific. Public port speed is capped per plan, from 500 Mbit/s on VPS-1 to 3 Gbit/s on VPS-4, with unlimited traffic.
    Read the full comparison
  5. 5

    Scaleway

    Best at: A broad French cloud with no egress fees
    Scaleway states that list prices include egress, so there are no outbound data-transfer fees, and the catalogue runs from €0.43/month instances up to GPU, serverless, Kubernetes and Apple silicon. Instance bandwidth is capped per type from 100 Mbps upward, across three regions: Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw.
    Read the full comparison
  6. 6

    Leaseweb

    Best at: Cheap single-tenant hardware with 30 TB included, in nine countries
    Leaseweb's featured dedicated servers list 30 TB of traffic from €60.13/month excluding VAT, across nine countries including Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Australia and Canada. Delivery is published per configuration, from 1 hour on in-stock builds to 5 days on others.
    Read the full comparison

When to stay with Hetzner

Switching has a cost. These are the cases where Hetzner is still the right answer and this page should not change your mind.
  • Your workload is CPU-bound, fits in Falkenstein, Nuremberg or Helsinki, and does not saturate its port — nothing on this list will beat Hetzner's price per core there.
  • Your traffic sits comfortably inside the included cloud allowance, so the per-terabyte rate never actually bills.
  • Your infrastructure is already defined in Terraform or Ansible against the Hetzner provider and the migration cost outweighs the difference.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best Hetzner alternative?

There is no single answer, because people leave Hetzner for different reasons. For unmetered traffic or a guaranteed 10–200 Gbps port, X-ZoneServers. For more RAM and disk per euro, Contabo or netcup. For bundled anti-DDoS and a wider global footprint, OVHcloud. For a broad cloud catalogue with no egress fees, Scaleway. For cheap bare metal outside Europe, Leaseweb.

Is anything cheaper than Hetzner?

On price per CPU core in Germany and Finland, rarely. On RAM and disk per euro, yes — Contabo lists Cloud VPS 4 at €5.50/month with 8 GB of RAM and 100 GB of SSD, and netcup lists VPS 500 at €5.91/month including German VAT with 4 GB of DDR5 ECC and 128 GB of NVMe. Compare at the resource that limits your workload rather than at the headline.

Which Hetzner alternative has the most locations?

Of the six on this page, OVHcloud has the widest global reach with datacenters across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and Leaseweb covers nine countries including Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Australia and Canada. Inside Europe, X-ZoneServers covers eleven metros including Madrid, Milano, Vienna, Warsaw, Sofia, Bucharest, Marseille and Istanbul.

Which alternative is best for high-bandwidth work?

X-ZoneServers, because bandwidth is what the product is built around: every plan is unmetered with no traffic counter, and dedicated servers are sold by guaranteed port from 1 to 200 Gbps with the price of every chassis at every tier published. Hetzner's dedicated servers ship 1 Gbit/s with unlimited traffic, which is enough for many workloads but is not a tier ladder.

Sources and check dates

Every statement about another provider on this page traces to one of these public pages. Where a provider does not publish a figure, this page says so instead of estimating.
  1. Hetzner Cloud — regions, SLA, features
    https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/· checked 2026-08-28
  2. Contabo Cloud VPS — specs and prices
    https://contabo.com/en/vps/· checked 2026-08-28
  3. netcup VPS — plans and prices
    https://www.netcup.com/en/server/vps· checked 2026-08-28
  4. OVHcloud VPS range
    https://www.ovhcloud.com/de/vps/· checked 2026-08-28
  5. Scaleway virtual instance pricing
    https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/virtual-instances/· checked 2026-08-28
  6. Leaseweb dedicated servers
    https://www.leaseweb.com/en/products-services/dedicated-servers· checked 2026-08-28

Disclosure, method and limits

We are one of the providers compared

This page is published by X-ZoneServers (X ZONE IT SRL, Bucharest, Romania). We sell one of the two services compared, so this is a vendor comparison rather than an independent review. Our method is to quote each provider's own published figures, name the date we read them, and state plainly where the other provider is the better choice.

How the numbers are gathered

Competitor data is read directly from that provider's public website — pricing pages, specification sheets, network and location pages — on the dates listed under Sources, plus public network registries such as PeeringDB and bgp.he.net for ASN details. We do not benchmark competitor hardware ourselves and we do not republish figures from review sites or affiliate directories.

How to read the prices

List prices only. Promotional offers, first-term discounts, renewal rates, setup fees, add-ons, region surcharges and currency all differ per provider and can change without notice. X-ZoneServers prices are in EUR excluding VAT. Where another provider publishes in a different currency or inclusive of VAT, that is marked in the table — those figures are not directly comparable to ours without adjustment.

Accuracy and corrections

The goal is that every claim here can be verified at the source in under a minute. Nothing on this page is a benchmark result, a prediction, or a statement about a competitor's internal operations. If a figure has drifted or is wrong — including where the error favours us — write to us and we will correct it and move the review date.

Trademarks and affiliation

All company and product names are the property of their respective owners and are used here for identification and comparison only. X-ZoneServers is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or a reseller of any other provider named on this page.

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