# Hetzner review (2026): is it worth €1.60 a month? > German hosting: web hosting, cloud servers and dedicated servers Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** Hetzner Online GmbH (since 1997) - **Website:** https://www.hetzner.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a free plan or trial. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Hetzner is a paid product, starting at €1.60 per month excl. VAT (Webhosting S). - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Webhosting S | €1.60 per month, excl. VAT | 10GB storage, unlimited mailboxes, 1 database, 1 cronjob, 2 PHP processes and a 192MB memory limit. No contract minimum. | | Webhosting M | €4.12 per month, excl. VAT | 50GB storage, unlimited mailboxes, 5 databases, 5 cronjobs, 5 PHP processes and a 256MB memory limit. | | Webhosting L | €8.32 per month, excl. VAT | 100GB storage, 20 databases, 10 cronjobs, 10 PHP processes, a 384MB memory limit, and Redis, SSH and Node.js. | | Webhosting XL | €16.72 per month, excl. VAT | 300GB storage, unlimited mailboxes, 50 databases, 20 cronjobs, 20 PHP processes and a 512MB memory limit. | | Cloud servers | €5.49 per 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 https://www.hetzner.com/webhosting on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Hetzner before buying. ## 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. ## Good for - Buyers in Europe who want German data centers and euro billing - Small PHP websites on low-cost shared hosting - Developers who want cheap cloud or dedicated servers ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: A.** Webhosting 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. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial on record; every plan is paid from the first day. - **Features: B.** Web 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. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Web hosting uses a panel, but cloud and dedicated servers are unmanaged. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker and an API and CLI. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it stands among web hosts - Hetzner's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 99 of the 122 other web hosts we grade, and level with 14. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 105 of 122) 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 $9.69 for the category: 2 of the 107 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, 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. - You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too. - You could not: Storing and serving files for other people. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes among them, and has an API. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, GitLab, Nextcloud **Tags:** Public API, File sharing ## Alternatives - [Contabo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/contabo): Low-priced VPS and dedicated servers from a German host. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/contabo-vs-hetzner) - [OVHcloud](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ovhcloud): VPS, public cloud, web hosting and dedicated servers. 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