Clouding.io vs Hetzner ARM (Ampere)
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Clouding.io and Hetzner ARM (Ampere).
Quick Verdict
3.6/5
Clouding.io
0 reviews
4.3/5
Hetzner ARM (Ampere)
0 reviews
Hetzner ARM (Ampere) is rated higher (4.3 vs 3.6). Spanish cloud provider offering VPS with hourly billing from €0.008/hour. Spanish and EU data centers. Good for short-lived workloads where you only pay for actual uptime. API-first design. CAX plans start at 2 vCPU / 4GB RAM / 40GB NVMe; launch pricing was €3.79/month incl. IPv4 (April 2023), currently listed from €6.49/month incl. IPv4
Clouding.io Spanish cloud — hourly billing from €0.004/hour (capped at €3/month) | Hetzner ARM (Ampere) Arm64 cloud servers on Ampere Altra cores in Hetzner Cloud's cost-optimized line | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.6 (0 reviews) | 4.3 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $3/mo✓ | From $6.49/mo |
| Best for | Spanish and Iberian businesses wanting EU-jurisdiction VPS with per-hour billing, and dev/staging fleets that don't run 24/7 | Containerised, open-source, scale-out workloads in Europe — web farms, CI runners, build machines, dev environments — where price per core beats single-thread speed |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | 0 vCPU | 2 vCPU✓ |
| RAM | 1 GB | 4 GB✓ |
| Storage | 5 GB | 40 GB✓ |
| Bandwidth | 4 TB/mo | 20 TB/mo✓ |
| SLA uptime | 99.95%✓ | 99.9% |
| Data-center count | 1 | 3✓ |
| €/vCPU/mo | — | €3.25 |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €3.00 | €1.62✓ |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ✓ | |
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain | NurembergFalkensteinHelsinki |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedeu datacentergdpr compliantapi access | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedsnapshotseu datacentergdpr compliantapi accessarm processors |
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Clouding.io
Pros
- + Hourly billing with monthly caps — entry server from €0.004/hour, capped at €3/month
- + Single Spanish data center and Spanish company: EU jurisdiction with local support
- + Resource-level transparency: RAM, vCPU and NVMe priced per unit and adjustable at any time
- + Included 4 TB transfer, anti-DDoS, firewall, private VLAN and a full REST API
- + Archive/shelving feature keeps costs down for intermittent workloads
Cons
- - One data center only — no second region for failover
- - No IPv6 support on the platform
- - Powered-off servers keep billing unless archived; pre-paid credit model
- - Backups and snapshots are paid add-ons (€0.02/GB/month), not included
- - CPU model behind vCores is not disclosed; no managed plans
Hetzner ARM (Ampere)
Pros
- + Cheapest way to buy Hetzner compute per core
- + Real server silicon — Ampere Altra (Neoverse-N1), ECC RAM, NVMe
- + Hourly billing with monthly cap, 20TB included traffic, free IPv6
- + Free automated DDoS protection and the full Hetzner Cloud API/platform
- + Mature arm64 software ecosystem covers most open-source stacks
Cons
- - x86 and Arm are separate worlds — no rescale, backup or snapshot crossover
- - Cost-Optimized placement means limited stock and EU-only locations for CAX
- - Launch-era pricing is gone; entry cost has risen
- - Shared vCPUs and modest single-core speed
- - Backups and snapshots cost extra; unmanaged servers
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