Aeza vs Hetzner Cloud
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Aeza and Hetzner Cloud.
Quick Verdict
1.9/5
Aeza
0 reviews
4.4/5
Hetzner Cloud
0 reviews
Hetzner Cloud is rated higher (4.4 vs 1.9). Aeza offers affordable VPS in Germany, Finland, Netherlands, and Russia. AMD EPYC processors, NVMe storage, and DDoS protection included. Popular in Eastern European developer communities. German cloud provider offering the best price-to-performance ratio in the market. CX22 (2 vCPU, 4GB RAM, 40GB NVMe) costs €4.35/month. Loved by European developers for fast NVMe, generous bandwidth, a
Aeza Sanctioned Russian-owned VPS provider from €1.99/month — OFAC-designated parent (bulletproof hosting) | Hetzner Cloud Affordable VPS hosting with fast deployment and transparent pricing | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 1.9 (0 reviews) | 4.4 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $1.99/mo✓ | From $5.99/mo |
| Best for | In our view, no business-critical or client-facing workload. The published value is real but is outweighed by the OFAC designations against Aeza Group and its leadership; treat it as a last-resort option only where no compliant alternative is reachable. | Developers and small teams who want unmanaged Linux infrastructure at the lowest cost per unit of compute, especially for European workloads with data-residency requirements, dev/test environments, CI runners, and price-sensitive production web apps. |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | — | 2 vCPU |
| RAM | — | 4 GB |
| Storage | — | 40 GB |
| Bandwidth | — | 20 TB/mo |
| SLA uptime | — | 99.9% |
| Data-center count | — | 6 |
| €/vCPU/mo | — | €3.00 |
| €/GB RAM/mo | — | €1.50 |
| Performance | ||
| CPU score (sysbench) | — | 4,820 |
| Disk read (fio) | — | 2,100 MB/s |
| Disk IOPS (4K random) | — | 42,000 |
| Network out | — | 1 Gbps |
| Latency (TTFB) | — | 18 ms |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | Vienna, Helsinki, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Stockholm, London, Charlotte US, Moscow (plus St. Petersburg on aeza.ru) | GermanyFinlandUnited StatesSingapore |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | nvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedeu datacenter | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedsnapshotseu datacenterus datacentergdpr compliantterraform providerapi access |
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Aeza
Pros
- + Very competitive published specs: €5.93/mo for 2GB RAM, 30GB NVMe, 51.2TB traffic on a 1Gbps port
- + Metered month-to-month pricing with no renewal jumps; hourly billing from about €0.02–0.04/hr
- + Modern hardware (Ryzen 9 9950X-class cores, NVMe, KVM) with IPv4 and /48 IPv6 included
- + 10–11 locations across Europe, the US, and Russia with Tier III claims and 2 Tbps DDoS filtering
- + Crypto payments and minimal-signup registration for privacy-sensitive users
Cons
- - OFAC-sanctioned: Aeza Group designated 1 July 2025 as bulletproof hosting for infostealer, ransomware, and darknet drug infrastructure; leadership on the SDN List
- - U.S. persons prohibited from transacting; secondary-sanctions, payment-processing, and audit/compliance exposure for everyone else
- - IP reputation risk from association with abuse-heavy infrastructure; upstream de-peering or null-routing possible
- - No money-back guarantee, no traditional control panel, and unclearly documented backups/snapshots
- - Published 99.9% uptime has no SLA with credits; user reports mention IP problems, outages, and slow support replies
Hetzner Cloud
Pros
- + Best CPU-per-euro in our 2026-04-01 benchmark run: the CX22 outperformed plans costing up to six times as much
- + Strong NVMe throughput: 2,100-2,400 MB/s sequential reads and 42,000-48,000 random 4K IOPS in our tests
- + Transparent hourly billing with a monthly price cap and no setup fees or contracts
- + Six cloud locations with owned, ISO 27001-certified EU data centers and GDPR-compliant processing
- + At least 20 TB included transfer at EU locations, plus free DDoS mitigation for all customers
- + Mature automation: REST API, Terraform provider, official Go/Python libraries, cloud firewalls and private networks
Cons
- - Backups and snapshots are paid add-ons rather than plan inclusions, which erodes the headline price advantage
- - Email-only support with no phone option and no managed tier for cloud customers
- - Entry plans use shared vCPUs and Hetzner offers no bandwidth guarantee (typical 300-500 Mbit/s stated by Hetzner)
- - No supported Windows installs and a smaller managed-ecosystem than larger providers
- - Default resource limits on new accounts require a support ticket to raise; cost-optimized stock is periodically unavailable
- - Object storage only available in the three European locations
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