How much does Hetzner CAX21 cost?

$11.72 a month excl. VAT, billed as €10.49, which is $1.47 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Hetzner's own site.

What do you get with Hetzner CAX21?

4 shared vCPU, 8 GB of RAM, 80 GB NVMe of disk and traffic the provider does not publish.

Where does Hetzner CAX21 run?

In 3 locations: Nuremberg, DE, Falkenstein, DE, Helsinki, FI.

How does Hetzner CAX21 compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 85% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 72% less than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 89/100 on hardware per dollar, #52 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

Hetzner CAX21.

Prices checked 31 Oct

Hetzner CAX21 costs $11.72 a month for 4 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 80 GB NVMe, cheaper than 85% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

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Price

Hetzner

$11.72/mo

$1.47 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 85% of the 527 plans we track. You are billed €10.49 a month. Hetzner shows it as not available to order right now.

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Value

89/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #52 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

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What you get

RAM: 8 GBmore than 31% of plans
vCPU: 4 sharedmore than 40% of plans
Disk: 80 GB NVMemore than 50% of plans
Traffic: Unlisted

3 locations

Excl. VAT · IPv4 +€0.50/mo extra · priced at Nuremberg, DE

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How it scores

Value 89/100 is hardware per dollar: 1.65 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.

RAM, 8 GB: 8.0
vCPU, 4: 6.0
Disk, 80 GB NVMe: 3.2
Traffic, unlisted, counted as the typical 7.2 TB: 2.2
19.4 points for $11.72: 1.65 a dollar

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.

Models it can run

The largest two per family that fit 8 GB with room to spare, on its 4 shared vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B, about 2.1–4.2 tok/s Gemma 3 4B, about 3.7–7.4 tok/s Qwen3 4B, about 3.9–7.9 tok/s Phi-4-mini 3.8B, about 4.1–8.2 tok/s Llama 3.2 3B, about 4.9–9.9 tok/s Llama 3.2 1B, about 13–26 tok/s Gemma 3 1B, about 16–32 tok/s

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Frequently asked

How much does Hetzner CAX21 cost?: $11.72 a month excl. VAT, billed as €10.49, which is $1.47 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Hetzner's own site.
What do you get with Hetzner CAX21?: 4 shared vCPU, 8 GB of RAM, 80 GB NVMe of disk and traffic the provider does not publish.
Where does Hetzner CAX21 run?: In 3 locations: Nuremberg, DE, Falkenstein, DE, Helsinki, FI.
How does Hetzner CAX21 compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 85% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 72% less than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 89/100 on hardware per dollar, #52 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

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