Hetzner vs Kinsta

Hetzner is strongest for budget-conscious developers. Kinsta is strongest for managed WordPress. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Hetzner	Kinsta
Starting price	$0.6/mo	$35/mo
Best for	Budget-conscious developers EU-based workloads Self-hosters High-performance dedicated servers	Managed WordPress Agencies High-traffic WordPress sites Enterprise WordPress
Stated uptime SLA	99.9%	99.9%
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	6	37
Managed Kubernetes	No	No
Support channels	Ticket, Docs, Community forum	24/7 live chat, Ticket, Docs, MyKinsta dashboard
Compliance	GDPR, ISO 27001	GDPR
Hidden costs to watch for	Setup fees on dedicated servers (e.g. AX42/AX102 setup fee raised from 39 EUR to 79 EUR in 2026; AX162-R/S setup fee raised from 79 EUR to 159 EUR) Traffic overage billed per GB beyond included pool (20 TB EU, as little as 0.5-1 TB in USA/Singapore regions for some lines) CPX and CCX cloud lines saw very large price increases in the 15 June 2026 adjustment (CCX +2.1x to +2.73x, CPX +2.4x to +2.75x monthly in EU); CX and CAX rose a smaller ~1.3x-1.4x Load Balancer and Volume prices separately increased ~36-39% in an April 2026 adjustment VAT excluded from all listed prices	Overage per extra 1,000 visits above plan allowance billed per Kinsta overage schedule (not itemized on public pricing page) Premium Staging Environment add-on reported at $20/month per extra environment beyond the included free staging environment (figure from secondary source, not independently verified on a primary Kinsta page) CDN bandwidth overage reported at approximately $0.05/GB past plan allowance (figure from secondary source, not independently verified) Sevalla Application Hosting: egress bandwidth billed at $0.10/GB (ingress free); build time billed at $0.0003333/second ($0.02/minute) Sevalla Database Hosting: disk space add-ons sold in 10 GB increments at $10/month per 10 GB; external egress bandwidth billed at $0.10/GB (internal app-to-db connections free)
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18