Hetzner ARM (Ampere) vs UpCloud
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Hetzner ARM (Ampere) and UpCloud.
Quick Verdict
4.3/5
Hetzner ARM (Ampere)
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4.2/5
UpCloud
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Hetzner ARM (Ampere) is rated higher (4.3 vs 4.2). 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 Finnish cloud provider with fast MaxIOPS storage and 15 data centers. Starter cloud servers from EUR 3/month, with free outbound traffic.
Hetzner ARM (Ampere) Arm64 cloud servers on Ampere Altra cores in Hetzner Cloud's cost-optimized line | UpCloud MaxIOPS storage tops disk benchmarks consistently | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 4.3 (0 reviews)✓ | 4.2 (0 reviews) |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $6.49/mo | From $3/mo✓ |
| Best for | Containerised, open-source, scale-out workloads in Europe — web farms, CI runners, build machines, dev environments — where price per core beats single-thread speed | Database-heavy European production workloads where disk I/O and a five-nines SLA matter more than raw compute price |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | 2 vCPU✓ | 1 vCPU |
| RAM | 4 GB✓ | 1 GB |
| Storage | 40 GB✓ | 10 GB |
| Bandwidth | 20 TB/mo✓ | 1 TB/mo |
| SLA uptime | 99.9% | 99.999%✓ |
| Data-center count | 3 | 15✓ |
| €/vCPU/mo | €3.25 | €3.00✓ |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €1.62✓ | €3.00 |
| Performance | ||
| CPU score (sysbench) | — | 4,600 |
| Disk read (fio) | — | 2,800 MB/s |
| Disk IOPS (4K random) | — | 62,000 |
| Network out | — | 1 Gbps |
| Latency (TTFB) | — | 22 ms |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ✓ | |
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | NurembergFalkensteinHelsinki | — |
| Tags | ||
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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
UpCloud
Pros
- + Best disk performance in our benchmark set: 62,000 IOPS / 2,800 MB/s on a Helsinki Simple 2-2GB (2026-04-01)
- + 99.999% uptime SLA with 50x credit payback on Premium and managed products
- + Legible pricing: hourly billing capped at 28 days, zero-cost transfer, identical prices in all 15 DCs
- + Broad platform: managed databases, Kubernetes, S3-compatible object storage, GPU and Private Cloud options
- + European-first footprint (2x Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Frankfurt and more) with 24/7 in-house support
Cons
- - CPU value lags the budget clouds — our test showed 4,600 CPU score against Hetzner's 9,400 at lower cost
- - Backups are a paid add-on (10-40% of server price) and extra MaxIOPS disk costs €0.22/GB/mo
- - Plan-line reorganization (Simple to Starter/Premium/Cloud Native) plus announced price changes create continuity risk
- - Starter tier caps (5 deployments, 250 Mbit/s port, previous-gen CPUs) despite carrying an SLA
- - APAC coverage is Singapore and Sydney only; GPU and Private Cloud lines are too new for long-run track records
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