How much does Hetzner CAX31 cost?

$23.45 a month excl. VAT, billed as €20.99, which is $1.47 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Hetzner's own site.

What do you get with Hetzner CAX31?

8 shared vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, 160 GB NVMe of disk and traffic the provider does not publish.

Where does Hetzner CAX31 run?

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

How does Hetzner CAX31 compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 72% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 72% less than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 88/100 on hardware per dollar, #55 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

Hetzner CAX31.

Prices checked 31 Oct

Hetzner CAX31 costs $23.45 a month for 8 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and 160 GB NVMe, cheaper than 72% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

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Price

Hetzner

$23.45/mo

$1.47 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 72% of the 527 plans we track. You are billed €20.99 a month. Hetzner shows it as not available to order right now.

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Value

88/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #55 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

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What you get

RAM: 16 GBmore than 51% of plans
vCPU: 8 sharedmore than 70% of plans
Disk: 160 GB NVMemore than 65% 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 88/100 is hardware per dollar: 1.56 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.

RAM, 16 GB: 16.0
vCPU, 8: 12.0
Disk, 160 GB NVMe: 6.4
Traffic, unlisted, counted as the typical 7.2 TB: 2.2
36.6 points for $23.45: 1.56 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.

Or a whole server

At 16 GB a dedicated server is worth a look: the cores, disks and port are all yours, not shared. One with 8 to 15 cores starts at $65 a month over the first year, setup fee included. 119 servers from 6 providers. every server with 8 to 15 cores

Models it can run

The largest two per family that fit 16 GB with room to spare, on its 8 shared vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen3 14B, about 2.1–4.3 tok/s DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B, about 2.1–4.3 tok/s Phi-4 14B, about 2.2–4.3 tok/s Mistral Nemo 12B, about 2.6–5.2 tok/s Gemma 3 12B, about 2.6–5.2 tok/s Qwen3 8B, about 3.9–7.7 tok/s DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B, about 3.9–7.7 tok/s Llama 3.1 8B, about 3.9–7.9 tok/s

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Plans from other providers with about the same vCPU and RAM, cheapest first. Each percentage is against this plan's $23.45 a month.

Frequently asked

How much does Hetzner CAX31 cost?: $23.45 a month excl. VAT, billed as €20.99, which is $1.47 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Hetzner's own site.
What do you get with Hetzner CAX31?: 8 shared vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, 160 GB NVMe of disk and traffic the provider does not publish.
Where does Hetzner CAX31 run?: In 3 locations: Helsinki, FI, Nuremberg, DE, Falkenstein, DE.
How does Hetzner CAX31 compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 72% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 72% less than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 88/100 on hardware per dollar, #55 of the 374 plans that include a disk.