Hetzner Alternative: CloudBlast vs Hetzner Prices (October 2026)

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Monthly price, comparable plans

CloudBlast VMA21 against Hetzner CPX22, the closest plans by vCPU and RAM. Euro prices excluding VAT, checked on October 9, 2026.

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€4.80

€19.49

CloudBlast vs Hetzner: specs and prices

The Hetzner plan closest to 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM against the smallest CloudBlast plan with at least the same vCPU and RAM. List prices excluding VAT, checked on October 9, 2026.

Feature	CloudBlast	Hetzner
Plan	VMA21	CPX22
vCPU	2	2
RAM	4 GB	4 GB
Storage	30 GB NVMe	80 GB NVMe
Price per month	€4.80 (€0.0077/h)	€19.49
Price per vCPU	€2.40	€9.75
Price per GB of RAM	€1.20	€4.87
Monthly traffic	5 TB (1 TB in Hong Kong)	20 TB
Port speed	10 Gbps	Not published
CPU	AMD EPYC	AMD
Hourly billing	Yes	Yes
Minimum term	None	None
DDoS protection	Included	Included
IPv4 address included	Yes	No
IPv6	Yes, a /64 per server	Yes
Datacenter locations	4	6

Cheapest plans

Each provider's lowest-priced regular plan, checked on October 9, 2026.

Provider	Plan	Specs	Price per month
CloudBlast	VMA11	1 vCPU, 3 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe	€3.60
Hetzner	CPX02	1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe	€5.99

Where CloudBlast is the better choice

75% cheaper for a comparable server: €4.80 against €19.49 a month.
An IPv4 address is included. Hetzner charges for it separately.

Where Hetzner is the better choice

More traffic included on the comparable plan.
S3-compatible object storage.
Managed load balancers.
Plans with dedicated CPU cores.
Bare metal servers.
GPU servers.
An official Terraform provider.
A longer track record, founded in 1997.
A company headquartered in the EU.
More datacenter locations: 6 against CloudBlast's 4.

CloudBlast vs Hetzner: common questions

Is CloudBlast cheaper than Hetzner?

Yes. For a comparable server, CloudBlast's VMA21 costs €4.80 a month and Hetzner's CPX22 costs €19.49, so CloudBlast is 75% cheaper (list prices checked on October 9, 2026).

What is the CloudBlast equivalent of Hetzner's CPX22?

CloudBlast's VMA21: 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 30 GB NVMe, €4.80 a month or €0.0077 an hour, with 5 TB of traffic a month outside Hong Kong.

Does Hetzner bill by the hour?

Yes, Hetzner bills by the hour. So does CloudBlast, on every plan, capped at the monthly price.

Does Hetzner include DDoS protection?

Yes, Hetzner includes DDoS protection. CloudBlast includes always-on mitigation with up to 2.5 Tbps of scrubbing capacity on every plan.

How do I move from Hetzner to CloudBlast?

Deploy a CloudBlast server in the location closest to your users, copy your data across with rsync or a backup restore, test it, then point your DNS at the new IP. With hourly billing, running both servers side by side for a few days costs very little.

How we compared

Prices are the list prices on Hetzner's own pricing page on October 9, 2026, for its standard Linux VPS, excluding VAT. We compare the plan closest to 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM, and the cheapest plan, against the smallest CloudBlast plan with at least the same vCPU and RAM. Prices in other currencies are converted to euro at the European Central Bank reference rate of October 8, 2026. CloudBlast prices are from cloudblast.io/pricing. Where a provider advertises an introductory price that needs a long prepayment, we compare its regular price and show the introductory one next to it.

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