Hetzner Price Increase 2026: All Three Waves Explained
Hetzner raised prices three times in 2026. Here are the derived percentages per plan from its own price table, and why Arm plans barely moved.
Hetzner raised prices three separate times in 2026, and published a percentage for none of them. What it did publish, on the largest of the three, is a full before-and-after price table, which is more useful: it lets anyone compute the real change per plan rather than repeat a headline. Doing that arithmetic produces the finding that explains the whole year. In the adjustment effective 15 June 2026, Hetzner Arm-based CAX plans rose about 31 to 33 percent while its x86 CPX and CCX plans rose between 94 and 192 percent, on the same day, in the same data centres. The spread between those two numbers is the memory shortage, isolated.
The three waves, in order
The first came with a statement dated 23 February 2026, effective 1 April, saying that the costs to operate its infrastructure and to buy new hardware had both increased dramatically. Hetzner said it had tried hard to optimise costs and prevent increasing prices for as long as possible, but could no longer compensate for the strain. That statement gives no percentages and no per-product breakdown.
The second, on 29 April, was narrower and is easy to miss because it is not a rate change at all. Hetzner adjusted one-off setup fees for dedicated servers, saying that the actual costs of deploying new systems were once again exceeding its previous estimates and could not be meaningfully spread over the contract term. This is the announcement that names the components outright: prices for key hardware components such as RAM and NVMe SSDs have continued to rise.
The third and largest was announced on 27 May and took effect at 08:00 CEST on 15 June 2026. Hetzner framed it as a standardisation of its dedicated server product structure alongside a price adjustment. It covers all dedicated servers and cloud plans at all locations. Web hosting, managed servers, Server Auction machines, IPs, storage products, Load Balancers, Volumes, Snapshots and Object Storage were not affected. Setup fees for most dedicated servers were reduced in the same change, while monthly prices rose.
What the June table actually says
Hetzner published old and new hourly prices in euros for its cloud plans across Germany and Finland, the USA, and Singapore. Computing the change for each gives the following.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| CPX11 (x86, USA) | +191.7% |
| CCX13 (x86, DE and FI) | +169.1% |
| CCX13 (x86, USA) | +156.2% |
| CPX22 (x86, DE and FI) | +143.7% |
| CCX43 (x86, DE and FI) | +120.8% |
| CCX13 (x86, Singapore) | +96.1% |
| CPX12 (x86, Singapore) | +93.7% |
| CAX11 (Arm, DE and FI) | +33.3% |
| CAX21 (Arm, DE and FI) | +31.2% |
Three things fall out of this that a headline percentage would hide.
The Arm plans are a different story from the x86 plans. CAX11 and CAX21 rose about a third; every x86 plan rose at least 93 percent. If the driver were energy, wages or margin, the Arm plans would have moved with the rest.
Location matters, and not in the direction most people assume. The USA plans took the steepest increases, with CPX11 rising about 192 percent, while Singapore took the mildest x86 moves at around 94 to 96 percent. Germany and Finland sit in between.
The starting price matters more than the plan tier. CPX11, the cheapest x86 plan in the table at 0.0096 euros an hour, rose furthest in percentage terms. The large CCX43 at 0.2003 euros an hour rose the least of the x86 plans at 120.8 percent. Cheap plans had the least headroom to absorb a component shock, so they moved most.
Does the increase reach your existing server?
Not automatically, and this is the single most misunderstood part of the June change. Hetzner stated that existing server contracts keep their terms and conditions and remain active, and that the changes apply exclusively to new orders and rescales of existing servers, plus future products on the new structure.
The word doing the work there is rescales. If you resize a cloud server, you move onto current pricing. A machine left alone stays on its original contract. So the practical advice for anyone holding pre-June Hetzner capacity is to think carefully before rescaling, because a resize is repricing, and on the x86 lines that can mean close to a tripling rather than an incremental change.
Setup fees moved in the opposite direction in the same announcement, having been reduced for most dedicated servers after being raised in April. Anyone comparing a dedicated server quote from March against one from July is comparing two numbers where one component went up and another came down, which is exactly the kind of comparison that produces a confidently wrong percentage.
How Hetzner compares to OVHcloud
Both raised prices in 2026 for the same stated reason, but they structured it differently in a way that matters for planning.
| Hetzner | OVHcloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Waves in 2026 | Three | Two |
| Percentages published | None | Per range, in both announcements |
| Existing customers | Unchanged, contracts keep their terms | Affected at renewal from 1 October 2026 |
| Steepest whole-plan move | About +192% (CPX11, USA, derived) | +74% to +100% (Game Gen 2026) |
| Differentiator | Architecture: Arm versus x86 | Hardware generation: DDR5 versus older |
Hetzner segmented by architecture and OVHcloud by hardware generation, but both are proxies for the same underlying variable, which is exposure to current-generation memory. The full record for both, with effective dates and the pricing channel each change applies to, is in the 2026 hosting price hike tracker. The OVHcloud side is covered in detail in the OVHcloud price increases.
The case that this is overstated
Hetzner pricing had been remarkably static for years while the hardware underneath it changed, and part of the June adjustment is a correction of that rather than pure shortage pass-through. Hetzner presents the change as a standardisation of its product structure, and the fact that it cut setup fees for most dedicated servers in the same breath supports the reading that this was a restructuring with a price rise inside it, not simply a price rise.
The percentages also read worse than the absolute numbers feel. CPX11 rising 191.7 percent means going from 0.0096 to 0.0280 euros an hour. In monthly terms that is still an inexpensive machine by the standards of any hyperscaler, and Hetzner remains among the cheapest credible hosts in Europe even after tripling some lines. A 192 percent increase on a very low base is a different event from a 192 percent increase on a market rate.
And the derived figures in this article carry a real limit worth stating plainly: they are computed from a sample of plans Hetzner chose to publish in its comparison table, not from its complete catalogue. They are accurate for those plans and should not be read as a catalogue-wide average.
Bottom line
Hetzner did not raise prices once in 2026, it raised them three times, and the only wave with a checkable number is the June one. That number is not a single number: it runs from about 31 percent on Arm plans to about 192 percent on the cheapest x86 plan in the USA, and the spread between those is a cleaner measurement of the memory shortage than most published market data, because everything else about the two products is held constant.
If you hold existing Hetzner capacity, it is untouched until you rescale it. If you are buying new, the Arm line is now dramatically better value relative to x86 than it was in 2025, and it is worth testing whether your workload runs on it. For the component market driving all of this, see why RAM got so expensive and the current server memory street prices.
Frequently asked questions
- How much did Hetzner raise prices in 2026?
- Hetzner published no percentage. Computed from the before-and-after price table it published for the 15 June 2026 adjustment, its Arm CAX plans rose about 31 to 33 percent and its x86 CPX and CCX plans rose between roughly 94 and 192 percent depending on plan and location. It also raised prices effective 1 April and adjusted dedicated server setup fees on 29 April, neither with published percentages.
- When did the Hetzner price increase take effect?
- There were three dates. A broad adjustment effective 1 April 2026, announced 23 February. A dedicated server setup fee adjustment announced 29 April. And the largest, a standardisation and price adjustment effective 15 June 2026 at 08:00 CEST, announced on 27 May.
- Does the Hetzner increase affect my existing server?
- No. Hetzner stated that existing server contracts keep their terms and conditions and remain active, and that the June 2026 changes apply exclusively to new orders and to rescales of existing servers. Resizing a server moves it onto current pricing, so a rescale is effectively a repricing.
- Why did Hetzner Arm plans go up less than x86 plans?
- Because the increase tracks exposure to current-generation memory rather than compute. The CAX Arm line and the CPX and CCX x86 lines sit in the same data centres with the same power, staff and buildings, so the gap between a roughly 33 percent rise and a 94 to 192 percent rise isolates the component effect rather than a general cost increase.
- Is Hetzner still cheap after the increase?
- Relative to hyperscalers, generally yes. CPX11 rising about 192 percent means moving from 0.0096 to 0.0280 euros per hour, which is a large percentage on a very low base. Hetzner remains among the less expensive credible European hosts, though the gap to competitors narrowed considerably on the x86 lines.
Sources
- Hetzner Online GmbH (2026). Price Adjustment 15 June 2026. Hetzner Docs. The published before-and-after hourly euro prices for CAX11, CAX21, CPX11, CPX12, CPX22, CCX13 and CCX43 across Germany and Finland, the USA and Singapore, from which every percentage in this article is computed. Verified September 1, 2026.
- Hetzner Online GmbH (2026). Details regarding the standardization and price adjustment of our server products effective 15 June 2026. Hetzner pressroom, announced May 27, 2026. Vendor statement. The 08:00 CEST effective time, the list of unaffected products, the new-orders-and-rescales scope, and the setup fee reduction. Verified September 1, 2026.
- Hetzner Online GmbH (2026). Statement on price adjustment as of April 1st 2026. Hetzner pressroom, February 23, 2026. Vendor statement. The first wave and the quoted reasoning about operating and hardware costs. Verified September 1, 2026.
- Hetzner Online GmbH (2026). Statement on the latest adjustment to setup fees. Hetzner pressroom, April 29, 2026. Vendor statement. The second wave, and the passage naming RAM and NVMe SSDs as drivers. Verified September 1, 2026.
- OVHcloud (2026). Dedicated servers: new pricing in second half 2026. OVHcloud Blog, August 17, 2026. Vendor statement. Used only for the comparison table. Verified September 1, 2026.