Hetzner Cloud vs Heroku

Pricing data as of 2026-06-09 · refreshed weekly

Hetzner Cloud (vps) and Heroku (paas) overlap on 15 stacks. The table below shows the cheapest fitting plan on each for a typical startup workload (~50,000 visits/month) — list prices, no promos.

Hetzner Cloudvps

CX23$4.3/mo
CX33$7/mo
CX43$13/mo

Herokupaas

Eco$5/mo
Basic$7/mo
Standard-2X$50/mo

Cheapest fitting plan per stack (startup traffic)

StackHetzner CloudHerokuCheaper
Next.js$4.3 (CX23)$5 (Eco)Hetzner Cloud
Nuxt$4.3 (CX23)$5 (Eco)Hetzner Cloud
Astro$4.3 (CX23)$5 (Eco)Hetzner Cloud
SvelteKit$4.3 (CX23)$5 (Eco)Hetzner Cloud
Remix / React Router$4.3 (CX23)$5 (Eco)Hetzner Cloud
Node.js API$4.3 (CX23)$5 (Eco)Hetzner Cloud
Django$4.3 (CX23)$50 (Standard-2X)Hetzner Cloud
FastAPI$4.3 (CX23)$5 (Eco)Hetzner Cloud
Laravel$4.3 (CX23)$50 (Standard-2X)Hetzner Cloud
Ruby on Rails$4.3 (CX23)$50+ (Standard-2X)Hetzner Cloud
Spring Boot$4.3 (CX23)$50+ (Standard-2X)Hetzner Cloud
WordPress$4.3 (CX23)$50 (Standard-2X)Hetzner Cloud
Ghost$4.3 (CX23)$50 (Standard-2X)Hetzner Cloud
Strapi$4.3 (CX23)$50 (Standard-2X)Hetzner Cloud
Static site$4.3 (CX23)$5 (Eco)Hetzner Cloud

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