Hetzner review (2026): is it worth €1.60 a month?
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Hetzner report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for low-priced German hosting and servers
Hetzner sells shared web hosting from €1.60 a month with no minimum term, plus cloud and dedicated servers. Prices are in euros excluding VAT, domains cost extra, and the cloud and dedicated servers are unmanaged.
Who Hetzner is for
- Fits if you're in Europe and want euro billing and German data centres
- Works for small PHP sites on cheap shared hosting
Who Hetzner is not for
- Not for you if you want a free plan or trial
- Watch out: prices are in euros excl. VAT and were read from a non-US page, so confirm a dollar figure
- Watch out: a one-time setup fee applies, such as €4.12 on Webhosting M
- Skip it if you want managed cloud servers, as they're unmanaged unless you add Managed Server
- Watch out: no domain is included
Why Hetzner gets a 2.4
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- AValue for moneyWebhosting S is €1.60 a month excl. VAT, under the cheaper quarter's $5.28 and under 60% of it. Cloud servers start at €5.49.
- FFree plan and trialNo free plan and no trial on record; every plan is paid from the first day.
- BFeaturesWeb hosting, cloud, dedicated and auction servers, object storage, DNS and SSL, a REST API and Terraform. No gap in the core job is named, though domains are sold separately.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. Web hosting uses a panel, but cloud and dedicated servers are unmanaged.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker and an API and CLI.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Hetzner's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Hetzner's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 45 of the 54 other web hosts we grade, and level with 5.
It stands best on value for money (A, above 44 of 54) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0).
Its paid plans start at about $1.79 a month, against a middle price of $9 for the category: 1 of the 52 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 55 web hosts we grade, cut by the letter each got. Hetzner’s own letter is outlined.
- AValue for moneyAbove 44 of 54, level with 10
- FFree plan and trialAbove 0 of 54, level with 35
- BFeaturesAbove 29 of 54, level with 25
- CEase of useAbove 9 of 54, level with 45
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 24 of 54, level with 30
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 53 web hosts. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Hetzner, or make your own?
Your call
Hetzner sits between: not beyond making, and not a weekend's work either.
What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. At $21.45 a year it costs less than the weekend it would take to replace, which is the argument for keeping it.
What you could make
- It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too.
What you could not
- Storing and serving files for other people.
- It plugs into other products, Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes among them, and has an API.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Hetzner’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Hetzner?
Hetzner is a German hosting company, founded in 1997, that sells shared web hosting, cloud servers, dedicated servers, object storage and domains. Webhosting packages start at 1.60 euros a month and cloud servers at about 5 euros a month, both excluding VAT and priced in euros.
Worth knowing
- Prices are in euros and exclude VAT, read from a page that was served for a non-US visitor, so a US buyer should confirm the dollar figures.
- Web hosting packages do not include a domain; one must be ordered separately.
- A one-time setup fee is listed on the Webhosting page, for example €4.12 on Webhosting M.
- Cloud and dedicated servers are unmanaged unless you add the separate Managed Server product.
Key features
- Shared web hosting
- Four Webhosting packages with mailboxes, databases, cronjobs and PHP processes, and no minimum contract period.
- Cloud servers
- Shared-resource and dedicated-vCPU cloud servers, with stateful firewalls included at no extra cost and one-click apps such as Docker, GitLab CE and Nextcloud.
- Dedicated servers
- AX, EX, GPU, SX and DX lines, plus a Server Auction of refurbished machines starting at €78.70 a month.
- REST API and CLI
- Cloud resources can be managed through a REST API and a command-line tool, with integrations for Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes.
- Storage products
- S3-compatible Object Storage, Storage Box backup servers and Storage Share, which Hetzner describes as GDPR-compliant storage.
- Domains, DNS and SSL
- Domain registration from €4.90 a year, DNS management and SSL certificates are sold separately.
Hetzner pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, Hetzner is a paid product, starting at €1.60 per month excl. VAT (Webhosting S).
- Starts at
- €1.60 per month excl. VAT (Webhosting S)
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Webhosting S | €1.60per month, excl. VAT | 10GB storage, unlimited mailboxes, 1 database, 1 cronjob, 2 PHP processes and a 192MB memory limit. No contract minimum. |
| Webhosting M | €4.12per month, excl. VAT | 50GB storage, unlimited mailboxes, 5 databases, 5 cronjobs, 5 PHP processes and a 256MB memory limit. |
| Webhosting L | €8.32per month, excl. VAT | 100GB storage, 20 databases, 10 cronjobs, 10 PHP processes, a 384MB memory limit, and Redis, SSH and Node.js. |
| Webhosting XL | €16.72per month, excl. VAT | 300GB storage, unlimited mailboxes, 50 databases, 20 cronjobs, 20 PHP processes and a 512MB memory limit. |
| Cloud servers | €5.49per month and up, excl. VAT | Regular Performance shared-resource cloud servers from €5.49; Cost-Optimized from €5.99; General Purpose with dedicated vCPUs from €36.99. |
Read from hetzner.com on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Hetzner before you buy.
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Common questions
Does Hetzner have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Hetzner is listed for Web.
Does Hetzner have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Hetzner is listed for Web.
Is Hetzner open source?
Hetzner is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Does Hetzner have an API?
Yes. Hetzner offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026.