Hetzner vs Render

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

Feature	Hetzner	Render
Starting price	$0.6/mo	$0.25/mo
Best for	Budget-conscious developers EU-based workloads Self-hosters High-performance dedicated servers	Developers Startups Full-stack web apps APIs Small teams replacing Heroku
Stated uptime SLA	99.9%	99.95%
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	6	4
Managed Kubernetes	No	No
Support channels	Ticket, Docs, Community forum	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Priority support on Pro/Scale/Enterprise
Compliance	GDPR, ISO 27001	SOC 2
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	Persistent disk storage billed separately at $0.25/GB/month Bandwidth overage billed per-GB beyond workspace plan allowance (best-available figure ~$0.15/GB, exact current rate not printed on fetched docs page) Additional custom domains beyond plan allowance billed at $0.25/month each Postgres storage overage billed at roughly $0.30/GB/month beyond included storage Instances billed by the second while running, so scale-to-zero / suspended services still show partial-month charges for the time they were up
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18