--- title: "Hetzner Alternative: CloudBlast vs Hetzner Prices (October 2026)" description: "Hetzner CPX22 costs €19.49 a month, CloudBlast VMA21 €4.80. Specs, price per vCPU, traffic, hourly billing and DDoS compared, checked October 9, 2026." url: "https://cloudblast.io/hetzner-cloud-alternative" language: "en-US" --- Hetzner alternative # Hetzner alternative: CloudBlast vs Hetzner The closest Hetzner plan to a 2 vCPU, 4 GB server is CPX22 (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe) at €19.49 a month. CloudBlast's VMA21 (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 30 GB NVMe) costs €4.80 a month, 75% less, billed by the hour with DDoS protection included. Prices checked on October 9, 2026 [Hetzner pricing page](https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/regular-performance) [Deploy a VMA21](https://console.cloudblast.io/create/server) ## 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. [Get started](https://console.cloudblast.io/create/server) ### €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. Spotted a price that has changed? [Tell us and we will update this page.](https://cloudblast.io/contact) ### Sources - [hetzner.com/cloud/regular-performance](https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/regular-performance) - [hetzner.com/cloud/](https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/) - [hetzner.com/cloud/cost-optimized](https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/cost-optimized) - [hetzner.com/\_resources/app/data/app/live\_data\_prices.json](https://www.hetzner.com/_resources/app/data/app/live_data_prices.json) - [hetzner.com/unternehmen/ddos-schutz/](https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/ddos-schutz/) - [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetzner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetzner) - [cloudblast.io/pricing](https://cloudblast.io/pricing) Hetzner alternative ## We'll help you migrate to our amazing cloud. 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