Hetzner Dedicated vs Kimsufi
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Hetzner Dedicated and Kimsufi.
Quick Verdict
4.2/5
Hetzner Dedicated
0 reviews
4.0/5
Kimsufi
0 reviews
Hetzner Dedicated is rated higher (4.2 vs 4.0). Hetzner's dedicated root servers offer some of the best value bare metal in Europe. From €59/month (AX41, AMD Ryzen 5 3600) with full root access, rescue system and IPv6 /64 included. Located in Germany and Finland. Kimsufi is OVHcloud's budget dedicated server brand (OVHcloud Eco range) — bare metal from around €9.99/month in the EU/CA market and $11.10/month excl. VAT in the US, plus a setup fee equal to one month. Limited configuration options and scarce stock but unbeatable price. Datacenters in France, Germany, the UK, Poland, Canada, the US, Australia, Singapore and India. Popular for dev/staging environments.
Hetzner Dedicated Bare metal servers with transparent pricing and no setup fees | Kimsufi Budget dedicated from OVH family from €7.99 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 4.2 (0 reviews)✓ | 4.0 (0 reviews) |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $59/mo | From $9.99/mo✓ |
| Best for | Self-sufficient developers, agencies, and infrastructure teams wanting the most single-tenant hardware per euro inside European (German/Finnish) data centers. | Developers, students, homelabbers and small projects that want the cheapest possible dedicated server for dev, staging, game servers or backup targets and are comfortable managing Linux themselves. |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | — | 4 vCPU |
| RAM | — | 16 GB |
| Storage | — | 120 GB |
| Bandwidth | — | — |
| SLA uptime | 99.9% | 99.9% |
| Data-center count | 3 | — |
| €/vCPU/mo | — | €2.50 |
| €/GB RAM/mo | — | €0.62 |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ✓ | |
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | Falkenstein (DE)Nuremberg (DE)Helsinki (FI) | ["France","Germany","United Kingdom","Poland","Canada","United States","Australia","Singapore","India"] |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | nvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedeu datacentergdpr compliantapi access | nvme storageipv6ddos protectioneu datacenterus datacenter |
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Hetzner Dedicated
Pros
- + Exceptional hardware per euro: AX41 pairs a Ryzen 5 3600 with 64 GB RAM and 1 TB NVMe for €59/month and no setup fee
- + Fully transparent pricing: every line, setup fee, add-on and overage rate published on public pages
- + Free DDoS protection, IPv6 /64, redundant Juniper backbone (50.12 Tbit/s) and min. 99.9% network availability included
- + Complete hands-on control: rescue system, VNC/image installers, rDNS, failover IPs, vSwitch VLANs, hourly billing option
- + ISO 27001:2022 certified German and Finnish data centers on 100% renewable electricity
Cons
- - Unmanaged: no backups, snapshots, or administration included; support is basic hardware replacement plus email/phone
- - Europe-only bare metal — no dedicated root servers in Hetzner's US or Singapore locations
- - Setup fees up to €3,599 on GPU/high-end lines materially change first-year cost
- - Popular configurations sell out and provisioning can take days; no reserved capacity
- - Primary IPv4 is now billed separately, so headline prices understate the real monthly bill
Kimsufi
Pros
- + Cheapest route to real bare metal on OVHcloud infrastructure — dedicated CPU, RAM and disk at VPS-level prices
- + Anti-DDoS VAC always on with no scrubbed-traffic limit, plus 1 IPv4 and 1 IPv6 /64 per server
- + Unmetered traffic at 500 Mbps on KS; no per-GB bandwidth charges
- + 99.9% monthly availability commitment with defined 10/30/100% service credits
- + Wide OVH datacenter choice across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific
Cons
- - Lifecycle-extended hardware — older Xeon/AMD generations with no custom configuration
- - Chronic stock scarcity: popular configurations sell out fast and restocks are irregular
- - Setup fee equal to one month's cost; no prepay discount on the KS series
- - Self-managed only — no managed OS tier and no backups bundled
- - Kimsufi brand is being absorbed into OVHcloud Eco; storefronts and naming are in flux
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