Which is cheaper, Google Persistent Disk or Hetzner Volumes?

GCP is cheaper in 4 of 5 comparable categories, with an average price difference of 19.2%.

How do Google Persistent Disk and Hetzner Volumes compare for general purpose workloads?

Both providers offer competitive pricing for general purpose workloads.

Updated Oct 7, 2026GCPHetzner

Overall Winner

GCP

GCP Wins

Hetzner Wins

Ties

GCP wins 4 of 5 price comparisons, averaging 19.2% lower prices in categories where it leads.

Prices range from $0.000233/hr to $0.0651/hr across comparable tiers.

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Best for VmState workloads

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Best for RAM workloads

Comparing Google Persistent Disk and Hetzner Volumes across 5 equivalent tiers. On-demand hourly rates are shown in USD for the default region.

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Category	GCP Google Persistent Disk	Hetzner Volumes	Diff	Cheapest
VmState - VM state: suspended RAM	$0.0002/hr 0292-2DAA-87AE ($0.17/mo)	$0.0006/hr vol-10gb ($0.47/mo)	+64.2%	GCP
RAM - C4D Instance Ram	$0.0035/hr 03FA-C0CC-D942 ($2.55/mo)	$0.0032/hr vol-50gb ($2.37/mo)	+7.0%	Hetzner
RedHat - Licensing Fee for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 on VM with up to 8 VCPU	$0.0144/hr 00FD-1480-5509 ($10.51/mo)	$0.0163/hr vol-250gb ($11.88/mo)	+11.5%	GCP
CPU - N4D Custom Instance Core	$0.0306/hr 0637-3FA3-3E96 ($22.31/mo)	$0.0326/hr vol-500gb ($23.76/mo)	+6.1%	GCP
Canonical - Licensing Fee for Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) on VM with 50 to 79 VCPU (CPU cost)	$0.0605/hr 033E-56F9-C843 ($44.20/mo)	$0.0651/hr vol-1000gb ($47.52/mo)	+7.0%	GCP

✓VmState - VM state: suspended RAM - saves $0.29/mo (64.2% cheaper)
✓RedHat - Licensing Fee for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 on VM with up to 8 VCPU - saves $1.39/mo (11.5% cheaper)
✓CPU - N4D Custom Instance Core - saves $1.46/mo (6.1% cheaper)
✓Canonical - Licensing Fee for Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) on VM with 50 to 79 VCPU (CPU cost) - saves $3.36/mo (7% cheaper)