Which is cheaper, GCP or Hetzner?

Hetzner is cheaper in 5 of 9 comparable categories, with an average price difference of 41%.

How do GCP and Hetzner compare for general purpose workloads?

For general purpose workloads: GCP: $391.35/mo, Hetzner: $86.56/mo. Hetzner is cheaper.

Updated Apr 4, 2026GCPHetzner

Overall Winner

Hetzner

GCP Wins

Hetzner Wins

Ties

Hetzner wins 5 of 9 price comparisons, averaging 41% lower prices in categories where it leads.

Prices range from $0.000233/hr to $2.33/hr across comparable tiers.

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Best for Compute Engine workloads

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Best for Persistent Disk workloads

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Best for Cloud Load Balancing workloads

Comparing GCP and Hetzner across 9 equivalent tiers. On-demand hourly rates are shown in USD for the default region.

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Category	GCP GCP	Hetzner Hetzner	Diff	Cheapest
Compute Engine - Compute Optimized - 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM	$0.2016/hr c3-standard-4 ($147.17/mo)	$0.0335/hr ccx23 ($24.44/mo)	+83.4%	Hetzner
Compute Engine - General Purpose - 16 vCPU, 64 GB RAM	$0.5361/hr e2-standard-16 ($391.35/mo)	$0.1186/hr ccx43 ($86.56/mo)	+77.9%	Hetzner
Compute Engine - General Purpose - 48 vCPU, 192 GB RAM	$2.3308/hr n2-standard-48 ($1,701.51/mo)	$0.3455/hr ccx63 ($252.21/mo)	+85.2%	Hetzner
Persistent Disk - 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
Persistent Disk - 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
Persistent Disk - Canonical - Licensing Fee for Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) on VM with 2 to 3 GPU (GPU cost)	$0.0660/hr 04AE-10F2-B311 ($48.18/mo)	$0.0651/hr vol-1000gb ($47.52/mo)	+1.4%	Hetzner
Cloud Load Balancing - HDTSP - Hyperdisk Throughput Storage Pools Standard Capacity - South Carolina	$0.0056/hr 0306-635A-BA67 ($4.09/mo)	$0.0090/hr lb11 ($6.54/mo)	+37.5%	GCP
Cloud Load Balancing - SUSE12 - Licensing Fee for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 on f1-micro	$0.0200/hr 07CF-8F4E-F367 ($14.60/mo)	$0.0205/hr lb21 ($14.98/mo)	+2.5%	GCP
Cloud Load Balancing - Windows2016 - Licensing Fee for Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition (CPU cost)	$0.0460/hr 00B2-37B0-B8BB ($33.58/mo)	$0.0436/hr lb31 ($31.85/mo)	+5.2%	Hetzner

✓Persistent Disk - VmState - VM state: suspended RAM - saves $0.29/mo (64.2% cheaper)
✓Persistent Disk - RedHat - Licensing Fee for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 on VM with up to 8 VCPU - saves $1.39/mo (11.5% cheaper)
✓Cloud Load Balancing - HDTSP - Hyperdisk Throughput Storage Pools Standard Capacity - South Carolina - saves $2.48/mo (37.5% cheaper)
✓Cloud Load Balancing - SUSE12 - Licensing Fee for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 on f1-micro - saves $0.36/mo (2.5% cheaper)

✓Compute Engine - Compute Optimized - 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM - saves $122.71/mo (83.4% cheaper)
✓Compute Engine - General Purpose - 16 vCPU, 64 GB RAM - saves $304.77/mo (77.9% cheaper)
✓Compute Engine - General Purpose - 48 vCPU, 192 GB RAM - saves $1,449.27/mo (85.2% cheaper)
✓Persistent Disk - Canonical - Licensing Fee for Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) on VM with 2 to 3 GPU (GPU cost) - saves $0.66/mo (1.4% cheaper)
✓Cloud Load Balancing - Windows2016 - Licensing Fee for Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition (CPU cost) - saves $1.75/mo (5.2% cheaper)