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Hetzner vs DigitalOcean: which is cheaper, traffic included?

Pick what you run and enter your monthly traffic. We work out a full monthly bill for every VPS and cloud plan: the traffic the plan includes, what you pay beyond that, and what object storage and a CDN would add. The cheapest complete setup comes first.

What are you running?

Server size

Images, downloads, video: files that are the same for everyone. Object storage or a CDN can send them instead of your server, so they don't use its traffic.

Where most visitors are
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1 vCPU / 2 GB, 10 TB a month, visitors in North America: the cheapest nearby is Tencent Cloud Lighthouse Razor Speed 2 vCPU / 2 GB at $5.60/month. The same on AWS EC2 t4g.small costs $930, 166.1× as much.

CheapestFewest bills

$5.60/month

Measuring latency…

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Tencent Cloud Lighthouse Razor Speed 2 vCPU / 2 GB2 vCPU / 2 GB · shared CPU · North America · VirginiaUnmetered, 10 TB used
$5.60

  • Razor Speed: unmetered traffic at 200 Mbit/s.

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How the cost grows with traffic

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  • Tencent Cloud Lighthouse Razor Speed 2 vCPU / 2 GB
  • AWS EC2 t4g.small

    The numbers behind this page

    Hetzner or DigitalOcean? The cheapest plan from each for common sizes and traffic levels, with traffic fees in the monthly price.

    Size · trafficHetznerDigitalOcean
    1 vCPU / 2 GB · 1 TB$6.69CX23 · Europe$12.00Basic 1 vCPU / 2 GB · North America
    1 vCPU / 2 GB · 5 TB$6.69CX23 · Europe$35.20Basic 2 vCPU / 4 GB · North America
    1 vCPU / 2 GB · 20 TB$6.69CX23 · Europe$189Basic 2 vCPU / 4 GB · North America
    2 vCPU / 4 GB · 1 TB$6.69CX23 · Europe$24.00Basic 2 vCPU / 4 GB · North America
    2 vCPU / 4 GB · 5 TB$6.69CX23 · Europe$35.20Basic 2 vCPU / 4 GB · North America
    2 vCPU / 4 GB · 20 TB$6.69CX23 · Europe$189Basic 2 vCPU / 4 GB · North America
    4 vCPU / 8 GB · 1 TB$10.04CX33 · Europe$48.00Basic 4 vCPU / 8 GB · North America
    4 vCPU / 8 GB · 5 TB$10.04CX33 · Europe$49.20Basic 4 vCPU / 8 GB · North America
    4 vCPU / 8 GB · 20 TB$10.04CX33 · Europe$203Basic 4 vCPU / 8 GB · North America
    8 vCPU / 16 GB · 1 TB$18.42CX43 · Europe$96.00Basic 8 vCPU / 16 GB · North America
    8 vCPU / 16 GB · 5 TB$18.42CX43 · Europe$96.00Basic 8 vCPU / 16 GB · North America
    8 vCPU / 16 GB · 20 TB$18.42CX43 · Europe$241Basic 8 vCPU / 16 GB · North America