HetznerCAX21 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB
Cost-Optimized · Arm64
Hetzner CAX21 costs $12.10/mo for 4 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 80 GB NVMe, cheaper than 83% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$12.10/mo
billed €10.49/mo
$0.0194/hour
$1.51 per GB RAM
Hetzner shows this plan as not available to order right now.
Cheaper than 83% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 8 GB> 31% of offers
- vCPU
- 4 shared> 41% of offers
- Disk
- 80 GB NVMe> 50% of offers
- Bandwidth
- Not published
Excl. VAT · IPv4 +€0.50/mo extra · priced at Nuremberg, DE
Value score
89/100
- RAM · 8 GB
- 8.0
- vCPU · 4
- 6.0
- Disk · 80 GB NVMe
- 3.2
- Traffic · not published, median 6.1 TB
- 1.8
- 19.0 points ÷ $12.10
- 1.57 per $
1 point per GB of RAM, 1.5 per vCPU, 1 per 25 GB of disk up to 500 GB (SSD × 0.8, HDD × 0.4), and 0.3 per TB of traffic up to 20 TB.
The score ranks 1.57 points per dollar against the 524 tracked VPS plans, whose median is 0.43. A higher score means more machine for the money.
Regions · 3
- Nuremberg, DE
- Falkenstein, DE
- Helsinki, FI
Data provenance
Hetzner · Live web · hetzner.com cloud plan pages + live_data_prices.json price feed
Fetched 16 Sept 2026
Prices exclude VAT. Always confirm on the provider's site.
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Where this sits in the market
At $12.10/mo, CAX21 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB is cheaper than 83% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 8 GB of RAM at $1.51/GB, 72% below the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 89/100 ranks it #52 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 4th cheapest of Hetzner's 22 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen2.5-Coder 7B~2.1–4.2 tok/s
- Gemma 3 4B~3.7–7.4 tok/s
- Qwen3 4B~3.9–7.9 tok/s
- Phi-4-mini 3.8B~4.1–8.2 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 3B~4.9–9.9 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 1B~13–26 tok/s
- Gemma 3 1B~16–32 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 8 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 4 shared vCPU.
