CloudSigma vs Hetzner Cloud
A detailed comparison to help you choose between CloudSigma and Hetzner Cloud.
Quick Verdict
3.6/5
CloudSigma
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4.4/5
Hetzner Cloud
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Hetzner Cloud is rated higher (4.4 vs 3.6). Swiss-founded cloud provider that now mainly sells a white-label 'sovereign cloud' platform to hosting firms, with pay-per-use servers sized freely by CPU, RAM and storage. 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
CloudSigma High-performance VPS with flexible resources and transparent pricing | Hetzner Cloud Affordable VPS hosting with fast deployment and transparent pricing | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.6 (0 reviews) | 4.4 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $10/mo | From $5.99/mo✓ |
| Best for | European teams with steady, self-managed workloads wanting per-resource control, Swiss/EU data residency and subscription pricing — custom-sized VMs, compute-heavy batch jobs, S3-backed apps | 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 | 100%✓ | 99.9% |
| Data-center count | 16✓ | 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 | Zurich, Geneva, Boden, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Riyadh, Tokyo, Manila, Manila-2, Clark, Honolulu, San Jose, Washington DC, Melbourne, Perth | GermanyFinlandUnited StatesSingapore |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectioneu datacentergdpr compliantapi access | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedsnapshotseu datacenterus datacentergdpr compliantterraform providerapi access |
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CloudSigma
Pros
- + Unbundled per-resource sizing with GHz-based CPU configuration and five-minute metering
- + Strong SLA shape: 100% VM and network availability, 1 ms intra-network latency, 50x-fee outage credits
- + Swiss jurisdiction (CLOUDSIGMA AG, Zug) with EU, US and APAC regions
- + S3-compatible object storage, snapshots, full REST API, Terraform and Ansible support
- + Generous egress (5 TiB/month free in Geneva and Frankfurt) and a free resource tier above USD 10/month spend
Cons
- - Strategic pivot to white-label partners — individual self-service accounts are a legacy path
- - No availability zones; each location is a separate cloud with its own account and contract
- - Pay-as-you-go rates run 4-5x above subscription pricing for the same workload
- - No managed databases or managed Kubernetes; object storage missing in some regions
- - SLA claims are self-arbitrated with a one-month liability cap; 2026 third-party reports of broken ticketing
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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