--- title: "Hetzner Alternative: AMD VPS Up to 63% Cheaper | CubePath" description: "1 vCPU/2 GB for $5.56/mo vs $14.09 for Hetzner CPX12, IPv4 included on both. AMD EPYC, NVMe, free DDoS protection, 24/7 human support. Deploy in seconds." language: en source: https://cubepath.com/hetzner-alternative --- # Looking for a Hetzner alternative? The same AMD cores and NVMe, for a fraction of the bill. AMD EPYC + NVMe cloud servers matched to Hetzner CPX and CCX specs, tier for tier. [Deploy a server](https://my.cubepath.com/deploy/vps) [Compare plans](https://cubepath.com/vps) Up to 63% cheaper Dedicated vCPU from $31.92/mo Hourly billing No long-term contracts. Spin up in seconds, pay only for what you use. Switching? Top up $10 or more with code `EYG37EFYG` in your first 60 days and get $20 extra in credit. Same config · 4 vCPU · 8 GB · NVMe $16.71 /mo Best price VS $42.59 /mo You save −61% Up to 63% lower than a comparable Hetzner CPX server Up to 2× cores on dedicated vCPU plans at the same RAM tier Hourly billing with a monthly price cap Price comparison ## Same cores. Same NVMe. Lower bill. CubePath General Purpose servers matched against Hetzner CPX shared AMD instances, spec for spec. | Configuration | Hetzner | CubePath | You save | | ------------------- | ----------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- | -------- | | 1 vCPU · 2 GB RAM | $14.09/moCPX12 · 40 GB NVMe | $5.56/mogp.nano · 40 GB NVMe | −61% | | 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM | $23.59/moCPX22 · 80 GB NVMe | $9.61/mogp.micro · 80 GB NVMe | −59% | | 4 vCPU · 8 GB RAM | $42.59/moCPX32 · 160 GB NVMe | $16.71/mogp.starter · 100 GB NVMe | −61% | | 8 vCPU · 16 GB RAM | $82.59/moCPX42 · 320 GB NVMe | $30.90/mogp.small · 200 GB NVMe | −63% | | 12 vCPU · 24 GB RAM | $119.59/moCPX52 · 480 GB NVMe | $57.26/mogp.medium · 300 GB NVMe · 32 GB RAM | −52% | ### Dedicated vCPU, side by side For workloads that need guaranteed cores: CubePath Dedicated CPU against Hetzner CCX, matched on RAM. | Configuration | Hetzner | CubePath | You save | | ------------- | ------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- | -------- | | 8 GB RAM | $51.09/moCCX13 · 2 dedicated vCPU | $31.92/modc.starter · 4 dedicated vCPU | −38% | | 16 GB RAM | $102.09/moCCX23 · 4 dedicated vCPU | $60.31/modc.small · 8 dedicated vCPU | −41% | | 32 GB RAM | $163.59/moCCX33 · 8 dedicated vCPU | $113.03/modc.medium · 12 dedicated vCPU | −31% | | 64 GB RAM | $326.09/moCCX43 · 16 dedicated vCPU | $202.25/modc.large · 24 dedicated vCPU | −38% | | 192 GB RAM | $1,007.59/moCCX63 · 48 dedicated vCPU | $427.33/modc.xxxlarge · 48 dedicated vCPU | −58% | Both columns include one dedicated IPv4, so the rows compare like with like: $1.50/mo here, $0.60/mo at Hetzner. CubePath figures are the monthly compute rate plus the $1.50/mo dedicated IPv4, the same figures /pricing shows by default. Hetzner figures are its public USD monthly rates for the EU regions (Germany and Finland) plus its own $0.60/mo dedicated IPv4, excluding VAT, read from Hetzner's own live price feed on 14 September 2026 and reflecting its price adjustment effective 15 June 2026\. Specs are matched as closely as possible; where a tier differs, each column states its own configuration. [Deploy a server](https://my.cubepath.com/deploy/vps) [See all VPS plans](https://cubepath.com/vps) [Welcome bonus Add $10, get $20 extra New to CubePath? In your first 60 days, top up $10 or more in Add Funds with the code EYG37EFYG and you get $20 in extra credit that never expires, to start moving your servers over from Hetzner. Get $20 extra](https://my.cubepath.com/balance/add-funds) Plan by plan ## Which CubePath plan replaces your Hetzner instance Find your current instance type on the left and the plan to deploy on the right. CX and CPX map to General Purpose, CCX maps to Dedicated CPU. | Hetzner Cloud | CubePath equivalent | | ------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- | | CX232 vCPU · 4 GB | gp.micro2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB | | CX334 vCPU · 8 GB | gp.starter4 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GB | | CX438 vCPU · 16 GB | gp.small8 vCPU · 16 GB · 200 GB | | CX5316 vCPU · 32 GB | gp.pro16 vCPU · 48 GB · 350 GB | | CPX222 vCPU · 4 GB | gp.micro2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB | | CPX324 vCPU · 8 GB | gp.starter4 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GB | | CPX428 vCPU · 16 GB | gp.small8 vCPU · 16 GB · 200 GB | | CPX5212 vCPU · 24 GB | gp.medium12 vCPU · 32 GB · 300 GB | | CPX6216 vCPU · 32 GB | gp.pro16 vCPU · 48 GB · 350 GB | | CCX132 dedicated vCPU · 8 GB | dc.starter4 dedicated vCPU · 8 GB | | CCX234 dedicated vCPU · 16 GB | dc.small8 dedicated vCPU · 16 GB | | CCX338 dedicated vCPU · 32 GB | dc.medium12 dedicated vCPU · 32 GB | | CCX4316 dedicated vCPU · 64 GB | dc.large24 dedicated vCPU · 64 GB | | CCX5332 dedicated vCPU · 128 GB | dc.xxlarge40 dedicated vCPU · 128 GB | | CCX6348 dedicated vCPU · 192 GB | dc.xxxlarge48 dedicated vCPU · 192 GB | Hetzner's CAX line runs on Ampere ARM CPUs. CubePath does not offer ARM instances: rebuild those workloads for x86 and deploy them on the General Purpose plan with the same vCPU and RAM. Hetzner's Cost-Optimized line (CX and CAX) is listed as not available for new orders on hetzner.com as we write this, so the CX rows are here for anyone still running one. Feature by feature ## How CubePath compares to Hetzner Where the two match, and where each one goes further. | Feature | CubePath | Hetzner | | --------------------------------- | ------------------------- | ------------------------------- | | Price · 4 vCPU / 8 GB, shared AMD | $16.71/mo | $42.59/mo | | Price · 8 GB with dedicated vCPU | $31.92/mo · 4 cores | $51.09/mo · 2 cores | | Included traffic · EU region | 3 to 200 TB by plan | 20 TB on every plan | | Included traffic · US regions | 3 to 200 TB by plan | 1 to 5 TB by plan | | AMD EPYC + NVMe SSD | | | | Hourly billing with monthly cap | | | | DDoS protection included | | | | Data center regions | Barcelona, Houston, Miami | Germany, Finland, US, Singapore | | Support in English and Spanish | | German and English | | 1-click app marketplace | Included | Community apps | Why CubePath ## More server for the same budget The reasons developers and teams move their cloud servers to CubePath. ### A bill that stays low The same AMD cores and NVMe storage you would pick on Hetzner, for up to 63% less every month. ### Dedicated cores for less CubePath Dedicated CPU gives you up to twice the guaranteed cores of a comparable CCX instance, at a lower monthly rate. ### An EU region in Spain Barcelona for EU data residency and low latency across Iberia, plus Houston and Miami for the US and Latin America. ### Free DDoS protection Always-on, network-level mitigation included with every server, at no extra cost. ### Pay by the hour Spin servers up and down on demand. You are billed per hour with a monthly cap, so you never pay more than the listed rate. ### Real human support Talk to engineers who actually run the platform, in English and Spanish, with no paid support tiers required. What people move over ## The workloads that come from Hetzner Anything that runs on a Hetzner cloud server runs here. These are the ones we see most. [Docker and self-hosted PaaS Coolify, Dokploy, EasyPanel or plain Docker Compose, with full root and a public IP. gp.starter is the usual starting point.](https://cubepath.com/coolify) [AI agents and automation n8n workflows, coding agents and bots that need to stay up when your laptop is closed, on an always-on server with hourly billing.](https://cubepath.com/vps-ai-agents) [Websites and web apps WordPress, Laravel, Node, Next.js or a static build behind your own Nginx or Caddy, deployed from a clean image or a 1-click app.](https://cubepath.com/marketplace) [Databases and caches PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis or Valkey on NVMe storage, with snapshots and automatic backups with up to 7 days of retention.](https://cubepath.com/vps) [Heavy and long-running jobs Builds, CI runners, video encoding or scraping on Dedicated CPU plans, and on bare metal when a whole machine is the right answer.](https://cubepath.com/baremetal) [1-click marketplace apps Portainer, Supabase, Grafana, Uptime Kuma, Silo, Nextcloud, GitLab and more, installed in one step instead of by hand.](https://cubepath.com/marketplace) ## Ready to cut your cloud bill? Deploy an AMD EPYC + NVMe server in under a minute and see the difference on your next invoice. [Deploy a server](https://my.cubepath.com/deploy/vps) Switching is easy ## Move from Hetzner in three steps Bring your workloads over without the headache. 1 ### Pick your plan Match your current CPX or CCX instance to a CubePath VPS, or size up for the same budget. 2 ### Deploy in seconds Launch from a clean OS image or a 1-click marketplace app, then restore your data from a snapshot or backup. 3 ### Point your DNS Update your domain's records to the new server, check that everything answers, then delete the old Hetzner instance. [See VPS plans](https://cubepath.com/vps) Buyer's guide ## How to choose a Hetzner alternative The six things worth checking before you move a production workload, whichever provider you end up on. ### Compare the real cost per core and per GB, not the headline Entry prices tell you very little. Take the configuration you actually run, and price it on both sides with the extras included: the IPv4 address, the VAT that applies to you, backups and any support plan. A 4 vCPU / 8 GB AMD instance with its IPv4 is $42.59/mo on Hetzner CPX32 in the EU regions and $16.71/mo on CubePath `gp.starter`, so on that shape the gap is around 61% before either invoice adds anything else. ### Know whether you need shared or dedicated vCPU Shared vCPU plans (Hetzner CX and CPX, CubePath General Purpose) split physical cores between tenants and are the right call for web apps, small databases, bots and staging. Dedicated vCPU plans (Hetzner CCX, CubePath Dedicated CPU) reserve physical cores for you, which matters for builds, CI runners, video encoding, game servers and anything latency-sensitive. Paying for dedicated cores you do not need is the most common way to overspend. ### Check included traffic and what an overage costs Traffic is where providers differ most. Hetzner includes 20 TB with every cloud plan in its EU regions and 1 to 5 TB in its US ones. CubePath includes from 3 TB on the entry plan up to 200 TB on the largest, so the smaller plans allow less than a European Hetzner server and the larger ones allow considerably more. If you serve media or backups, price the traffic before the compute. ### Put the server where your users are Hetzner serves the EU from Germany and Finland. CubePath's EU region is Barcelona, which is the shorter path for Spain, Portugal and southern Europe, and its Houston and Miami sites cover the US and Latin America. Latency is decided by geography, so measure it from where your users actually are: our [looking glass](https://cubepath.com/looking-glass) runs the test from each site. ### Look at how you get help when something breaks Check the language your provider answers in, the hours it covers and whether decent support is an add-on. CubePath support is handled by the engineers who run the platform, in English and Spanish, with no paid tiers to unlock it. Also confirm there is DDoS mitigation at network level, included rather than billed per incident. ### Make sure you can leave again A provider worth moving to is one you could move away from. Look for snapshots and backups you control, an API and a CLI for automation and plain `rsync` or `rclone` access to your data. CubePath exposes a REST API and an open source CLI, so the same migration you are doing now stays a scripted job rather than a manual rebuild. Summary: for shared AMD instances CubePath is roughly 52% to 63% cheaper than the equivalent Hetzner CPX plan, and for dedicated cores it is roughly 31% to 58% cheaper than the equivalent CCX plan, with more cores at the same RAM tier. Hetzner includes more traffic on its smaller EU plans. Everything else, from NVMe storage and AMD EPYC CPUs to hourly billing and snapshots, is common ground. FAQ ## Hetzner vs CubePath The questions we hear most from people making the switch. Is CubePath cheaper than Hetzner? For comparable AMD cores and RAM, yes. Following Hetzner's price adjustment effective 15 June 2026, a CPX32 with 4 vCPU and 8 GB comes to $42.59/mo in the EU regions with its IPv4, while the equivalent CubePath `gp.starter` is $16.71/mo with its own. You can check the full lineup on the live [VPS plans](https://cubepath.com/vps) page. Are the specs really comparable? We match vCPU and RAM tier for tier, on AMD EPYC CPUs with NVMe SSD storage, the same class of hardware Hetzner's CPX and CCX lines run on. Disk sizes vary between providers, and each column in the tables above states its own configuration so you can see exactly what you get. How much traffic is included? Every CubePath server ships with a monthly transfer allowance, from 3 TB on the entry plan up to 200 TB on the largest ones. Hetzner includes 20 TB on every cloud plan in its EU regions, which is more than our smaller plans allow, and 1 to 5 TB in its US regions, which is less than ours. Where are your data centers? CubePath runs data centers in Barcelona (EU), plus Houston and Miami in the US, so you get genuine EU data residency alongside low-latency coverage for North and South America. Can I migrate my Hetzner cloud server? Yes. You move it yourself with the tools you already use: deploy a CubePath VPS, copy your data over from a snapshot, a backup or a plain `rsync` between servers, test it, and point your DNS at the new server. Do you offer hourly billing like Hetzner? Yes. Servers are billed per hour with a monthly cap, so you never pay more than the listed monthly rate. As on Hetzner, a server bills for as long as it exists, including while it is stopped, so destroy it when you are done to stop the charge. Do you offer dedicated vCPU, like the CCX line? Yes. The CubePath Dedicated CPU line gives you guaranteed physical cores with no noisy neighbours, starting at $31.92/mo for 4 cores and 8 GB, compared with $51.09/mo for a 2-core CCX13. How do I get started? Pick a plan from the [VPS page](https://cubepath.com/vps) , deploy it in seconds and you are running. If you would like a hand sizing the move, [talk to our team](https://cubepath.com/contact) first and we will recommend the right plan for your workload. Do you offer dedicated servers like Hetzner's AX and EX lines? Yes. Alongside cloud servers, CubePath rents full bare metal machines with dedicated CPUs, RAM and NVMe storage, and Windows or custom ISO installs are available there. See the [dedicated servers](https://cubepath.com/baremetal) page for the current lineup. Did Hetzner raise its cloud prices in 2026? Yes. Hetzner published a price adjustment that took effect on 15 June 2026 for new orders and rescales, covering its cloud server lines in every region. The figures on this page were read from Hetzner's own live price feed on 14 September 2026, so the comparison reflects what you would pay today. Do you have ARM servers like the CAX plans? No. CubePath runs AMD EPYC x86 hardware across the whole fleet, so an ARM workload has to be rebuilt for x86 before it moves. Most Docker images and interpreted stacks handle that with a rebuild; anything compiled for aarch64 needs recompiling. Hetzner currently lists its CAX line as unavailable for new orders in any case. Is there a Hetzner alternative with a data center in Spain? That is exactly what CubePath's EU region is. Our European site is in Barcelona, so your data stays in the EU and in Spain specifically, with a shorter network path for users in Spain, Portugal and southern Europe than a server in Germany or Finland. What is the difference between CPX and CCX, and which CubePath line matches each? Hetzner CPX instances use shared AMD vCPU, and CCX instances reserve dedicated vCPU. On CubePath, General Purpose (`gp.*`) is the shared line that replaces CX and CPX, and Dedicated CPU (`dc.*`) is the guaranteed-core line that replaces CCX. The table above maps every instance type one by one. Is there an API and a CLI, like hcloud? Yes. CubePath has a REST API and an open source CLI, so you can create, rescale, snapshot and destroy servers from a script or a CI pipeline, the same way you automate Hetzner Cloud today. ## Ready to switch? Deploy an AMD EPYC + NVMe server in seconds and keep the difference. [Deploy a server](https://my.cubepath.com/deploy/vps) [Compare plans](https://cubepath.com/vps) Hetzner is a trademark of Hetzner Online GmbH. CubePath is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Hetzner. Prices and specifications are those published by each provider and may change.