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Alternatives to

Alternatives to Hetzner.

Family-founded German hyperscaler alternative (Gunzenhausen, 1997). Cross-reference: listed in our directory as a product.

ALTERNATIVES
11
CLOUD-ACT · NONE
9
WITH BSI C5
0
FREE TIER
0

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TOP PICKS

Which are the closest Hetzner alternatives?

Ordered by feature parity and migration friction, which is weighted higher than feature breadth.

Cleura
Sweden · Founded 2005
EU-SOVEREIGN
★ #1 PICK

Swedish OpenStack public + compliant cloud (Cleura, ex-City Network, Iver-owned), ISO 27001/27017/27018, EU-only residency.

Public DPA Sub-processors Open source
FROM
CLOUD ACT
NONE
UpCloud
Finland · Founded 2011
EU-SOVEREIGN
★ #2 PICK

Finnish performance-focused cloud (Helsinki, 2011), 14+ DCs worldwide including 9 EU regions; ISO 27001; trusted by Plausible.

Public DPA Sub-processors Open source
FROM
€5/mo
CLOUD ACT
NONE
Scaleway
France · Founded 1999
EU-SOVEREIGN
★ #3 PICK

French sovereign cloud (Iliad-owned, Xavier Niel), ANSSI SecNumCloud + HDS + ISO 27001; winner of €180M EU Cloud III tender.

Public DPA Sub-processors Open source
FROM
€2/mo
CLOUD ACT
NONE
SIDE-BY-SIDE

How do the 11 alternatives to Hetzner compare?

All 11 alternatives, benchmarked against Hetzner.

Feature comparison

Beyond compliance: how these alternatives compare on the capabilities you actually use day to day.

Feature Cleura UpCloud Scaleway STACKIT Exoscale T Cloud Public (formerly Open Telekom Cloud) Stackscale Contabo Aruba Cloud OVHcloud IONOS
Dedicated / bare-metal No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Object storage (S3) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Managed Kubernetes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes
Managed databases Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes
GPU instances Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Hourly billing Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes
API / Terraform Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Countries 2 countries 12 countries 3 countries 2 countries 5 countries 2 countries 3 countries 7 countries 6 countries 9 countries 5 countries
METHODOLOGY

How we verified each row above.

For every product we read the public DPA, sub-processors document, hosting region declaration, and corporate ownership records. Each is timestamped. Signals are editorial, re-verified quarterly. We never accept self-attestation.

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