HetznerCX53 · 16 vCPU · 32 GB
Cost-Optimized
Hetzner CX53 costs $34.03/mo for 16 vCPU, 32 GB of RAM and 320 GB NVMe, cheaper than 63% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$34.03/mo
billed €29.49/mo
$0.0546/hour
$1.06 per GB RAM
Hetzner shows this plan as not available to order right now.
Cheaper than 63% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 32 GB> 80% of offers
- vCPU
- 16 shared> 94% of offers
- Disk
- 320 GB NVMe> 81% of offers
- Bandwidth
- Not published
Excl. VAT · IPv4 +€0.50/mo extra · priced at Falkenstein, DE
Value score
95/100
- RAM · 32 GB
- 32.0
- vCPU · 16
- 24.0
- Disk · 320 GB NVMe
- 12.8
- Traffic · not published, median 6.1 TB
- 1.8
- 70.6 points ÷ $34.03
- 2.08 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 2.08 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
- Helsinki, FI
- Falkenstein, DE
- Nuremberg, DE
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 $34.03/mo, CX53 · 16 vCPU · 32 GB is cheaper than 63% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 32 GB of RAM at $1.06/GB, 80% below the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 95/100 ranks it #23 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 10th cheapest of Hetzner's 22 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen3 32B~1.2–2.4 tok/s
- Qwen2.5-Coder 32B~1.2–2.4 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 32B~1.2–2.4 tok/s
- Gemma 3 27B~1.4–2.9 tok/s
- Mistral Small 3.2 24B~1.6–3.3 tok/s
- Devstral Small 24B~1.7–3.4 tok/s
- gpt-oss-20b (MoE)~5.4–11 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B~2.7–5.4 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 32 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 16 shared vCPU.
