Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%
docs.hetzner.com388 points by williausrohr a day ago
388 points by williausrohr a day ago
The post seems to indicate this is just for VPSs, which doesn't seem true, the email I just received from Hetzner mentions price increases for dedicated servers too.
The ones I'm affected by seemingly:
Product -> previous price -> New price as of 1 April 2026
EX42-NVMe (FSN1) -> € 49.65 -> € 51.13
AX41 (FSN1) -> € 49.73 -> € 51.22
AX41-NVMe (FSN1) -> € 49.73 -> € 51.18
Server Auction -> € 65.22 -> € 67.18
Here is the full list of the updated prices: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availabi...
Seems it's because of increased cost of hardware, and they seemingly tried to avoid increasing the prices but they couldn't. From the email:
> The underlying causes of the increased costs are, among others, the exploding demand for AI-related computing power and for cloud services. In addition, raw material prices and production costs have also generally risen for manufacturers. The costs for RAM and SSDs especially have risen by a large amount. For example, the cost for DRAM memory has increased up to 500% since September 2025. And according to market researchers like TrendForce, this price trend will continue throughout the year.
> We have genuinely tried hard to optimize our costs and to prevent increasing our prices for as long as possible. But we can no longer compensate for the strain that it has placed on our operations. We want to continue to deliver quality products that meet both our standards and your expectations, so we must take this step.
I'm not particularly tied to Hetzner as an American using their Ashburn servers, so I figured maybe this price increase puts them a little closer to DigitalOcean's pricing. The pricing is still pretty heavily in Hetzner's favor though: the CCX23s that I use will be $39.99 USD after April 1, but the closest DO equivalent is $126 USD with a third of the disk space.
I would imagine we are going to see a DO price increase soon, given the crazy costs of RAM and now storage. Given the usual life cycle of server hardware, they will need to start preparing their increases for the next cycle.
> puts them a little closer to DigitalOcean's pricing
DigitalOcean has been losing out to hardware inflation for a long time. Most of their fleet is very old except maybe the very top tier and that's still old.
They're really overdue for a refresh but now the hardware is so expensive.
It does list the dedicated servers price increase:
https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availabi...
Yes, my dedicated server is going up by 3% this year. That doesn't seem bad at all. It's still cheap!
Same. This price increases is making me think about switching all the workload that I have on Hetzner Cloud into dedicated auctions server.
The price increases for dedicated servers are reflected in the higher setup costs. For example, I believe AX102 setup was EUR 39.00 now EUR 269.00.
> the cost for DRAM memory has increased up to 500% since September 2025
How to ruin the entire Internet, software engineering and personal servers just because some billionaire man children watched Star Trek 30 years ago.
They are coming for everyone, including those who promote this AI nonsense here and who will be disposed of first, because they are the least competent.
While I have written elsewhere[1] that I think AI is causing a bubble right now, AI is also the biggest technological change to the world since the Internet.
I'm a software engineer, and I don't write code anymore. I'm still coming to terms with that, grieving the loss of my old career and getting used to the new career which is more like a technical lead and product person than a computer programmer.
A significant part of this is probably just the hockey-stick growth in the price of memory we have seen in the past 6 months. Would be surprised if this wasn't impacting their bottom line for maintenance.
Right, this is what they said in the customer notification email I got today:
“The underlying causes of the increased costs are, among others, the exploding demand for AI-related computing power and for cloud services. In addition, raw material prices and production costs have also generally risen for manufacturers. The costs for RAM and SSDs especially have risen by a large amount. For example, the cost for DRAM memory has increased up to 500% since September 2025. And according to market researchers like TrendForce, this price trend will continue throughout the year.”
I kinda miss the days of the crazy housing bubble back in late 2000s, at least that bubble didn't affect my daily life.
There is another factor at play here: EU hosting providers that are not owned lock, stock & barrel are few and far between and Hetzner has a very nice sales representative in the White House.
Can you expound on that? I'm not sure I get what you're implying.
Pretty sure they are implying that the actions of the current president/administration are causing people to re-evaluate US dependencies. I don't really understand the first half
1. There's no meaningful European competition.
2. Trump is making everyone scared to use US hosting.
So they're leveraging for extra profits.
That is indeed what the comment seems to be implying.
"No meaningful European competition" might be a bit too strong. There are many great EU hosters. OVH, Netcup, Scaleway, Strato, Ionos, Exoscale, to name a few. But Hetzner is probably the biggest and has the best name recognition. Doesn't hurt that their prices are among the best in the industry
That Trump makes us very motivated to stop relying on American tech.
This doesn't solve the issue that globalism caused. Europe doesn't make DRAM nor has the know-how to quickly bring factories online which usually take 10+ years.
We are tied to American economy and if AI companies start driving prices up not only DRAM but basically everything will become more expensive.
America doesn't manufacture DRAM either, this is all South Korea and Taiwan.
??? Micron has DRAM megafabs in both Idaho and New York state.
They don't "have them", they're building them.
https://www.micron.com/us-expansion/id
> Micron has already achieved key construction milestones on its first Idaho fab with DRAM output scheduled to begin in 2027.
https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-deta...
> Production is expected to start in 2030 with the fabs ramping throughout the decade.
Until they start outputting DRAM in any meaningful quantity, they're not relevant.