Hetzner vs HOSTKEY.

vps pricing compared · prices as of 16 Sept 2026

On today's data, HOSTKEY undercuts Hetzner on memory pricing, with a median RAM price of $2.01/GB against $5/GB. The cheapest way in is HOSTKEY at $2.84/mo (vm.pico · 1 vCPU · 1 GB). Hetzner counters with broader reach: 6 locations vs 1.

At 4 GB of RAM the cheaper of the two is HOSTKEY vm.mini at $5.93/mo, against Hetzner at $22.49/mo, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Hetznerall plans →

• Cheapest · best value

  CPX12 · 1 vCPU · 2 GB

  1 vCPU · 2 GB · 40 GB NVMe

  $13.26/moView at Hetzner ↗

HOSTKEYall plans →

• Cheapest

  vm.pico · 1 vCPU · 1 GB

  1 vCPU · 1 GB · 40 GB SSD

  $2.84/moView at HOSTKEY ↗
• Best value

  vm.mini · 4 vCPU · 6 GB

  4 vCPU · 6 GB · 120 GB SSD

  $5.93/moView at HOSTKEY ↗

compare the two best-value plans side by side →

MetricHetznerHOSTKEY

Plans tracked2221

Cheapest plan$13.26/mo$2.84/mo

Median $/GB RAM$5/GB$2.01/GB

Avg value score64/10081/100

Locations61

Dedicated-vCPU plans33

NVMe share100%67%

Unmetered bandwidth0% of plans0% of plans

Cheapest plan at each RAM tier

≥ 2 GB RAM

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Hetzner

CPX12 · 1 vCPU · 2 GB

1 vCPU · 2 GB · 40 GB NVMe · $13.26/mo

HOSTKEYwins

vm.nano · 2 vCPU · 2 GB

2 vCPU · 2 GB · 60 GB SSD · $3.55/mo

≥ 4 GB RAM

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Hetzner

CPX22 · 2 vCPU · 4 GB

2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB NVMe · $22.49/mo

HOSTKEYwins

vm.mini · 4 vCPU · 6 GB

4 vCPU · 6 GB · 120 GB SSD · $5.93/mo

≥ 8 GB RAM

full comparison →

Hetzner

CPX32 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB

4 vCPU · 8 GB · 160 GB NVMe · $40.95/mo

HOSTKEYwins

vm.v2-mini · 4 vCPU · 8 GB

4 vCPU · 8 GB · 120 GB NVMe · $7.58/mo

Top value plans from each

Hetzner

• CX53 · 16 vCPU · 32 GBvalue 95/100$34.03
• CX33 · 4 vCPU · 8 GBvalue 93/100$9.80
• CX43 · 8 vCPU · 16 GBvalue 93/100$18.45
• CX23 · 2 vCPU · 4 GBvalue 91/100$6.33
• CAX11 · 2 vCPU · 4 GBvalue 89/100$6.91

HOSTKEY

• vm.mini · 4 vCPU · 6 GBvalue 98/100$5.93
• vm.v2-mini · 4 vCPU · 8 GBvalue 97/100$7.58
• vm.medium · 6 vCPU · 12 GBvalue 96/100$11.70
• vm.nano · 2 vCPU · 2 GBvalue 95/100$3.55
• vm.v2-medium · 8 vCPU · 16 GBvalue 95/100$16.15

Prices exclude VAT, fetched 16 Sept 2026 from each provider's own API or public price page. Hetzner data: Live web · hetzner.com cloud plan pages + live_data_prices.json price feed. HOSTKEY data: Live web · preconfigured VPS/VDS cards on hostkey.com (Amsterdam price list, net).