Hetzner

CPX42 · 8 vCPU · 16 GB

Regular Performance

Hetzner CPX42 costs $80.18/mo for 8 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and 320 GB NVMe, cheaper than 38% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Price

$80.18/mo

billed €69.49/mo

$0.1285/hour

$5.01 per GB RAM

Cheaper than 38% of tracked offers

Specs vs the whole index

RAM
16 GB> 53% of offers
vCPU
8 shared> 71% of offers
Disk
320 GB NVMe> 81% of offers
Bandwidth
20 TB/mo

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

Value score

70/100

RAM · 16 GB
16.0
vCPU · 8
12.0
Disk · 320 GB NVMe
12.8
Traffic · 20 TB
6.0
46.8 points ÷ $80.18
0.58 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 0.58 points per dollar against the 524 tracked VPS plans, whose median is 0.43. A higher score means more machine for the money.

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 $80.18/mo, CPX42 · 8 vCPU · 16 GB is cheaper than 38% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $5.01/GB, 8% below the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 70/100 ranks it #148 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 16th cheapest of Hetzner's 22 tracked plans.

Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference

how we compute this →

Largest two per lineup that fit 16 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 8 shared vCPU.

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