Kamatera vs Hetzner ARM (Ampere)
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Kamatera and Hetzner ARM (Ampere).
Quick Verdict
3.8/5
Kamatera
0 reviews
4.3/5
Hetzner ARM (Ampere)
0 reviews
Hetzner ARM (Ampere) is rated higher (4.3 vs 3.8). Kamatera provides managed and unmanaged VPS across 8 data centers worldwide. Built for developers and businesses needing scalable, customizable cloud infrastructure with pay-as-you-go pricing. 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
Kamatera Global VPS hosting with flexible configurations and 30-day free trial | Hetzner ARM (Ampere) Arm64 cloud servers on Ampere Altra cores in Hetzner Cloud's cost-optimized line | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.8 (0 reviews) | 4.3 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | pay-as-you-go (hourly per-minute or monthly prepaid) with 30-day trial | paid |
| Starting price | From $4/mo✓ | From $6.49/mo |
| Best for | Sysadmin-literate teams and mid-market businesses that want exact-size VPS configurations, per-minute billing, and data center coverage in Europe and the Middle East — and are willing to assemble backups, IPv6, and management as paid add-ons. | 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 | — | 2 vCPU |
| RAM | — | 4 GB |
| Storage | — | 40 GB |
| Bandwidth | — | 20 TB/mo |
| SLA uptime | 99.9% | 99.9% |
| Data-center count | — | 3 |
| €/vCPU/mo | — | €3.25 |
| €/GB RAM/mo | — | €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 | — | NurembergFalkensteinHelsinki |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | free tierhourly billingnvme storageipv6eu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenterwindows availableapi access | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedsnapshotseu datacentergdpr compliantapi accessarm processors |
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Kamatera
Pros
- + True à la carte sizing: 1-104 vCPU and 1-512 GB RAM configurations with live price updates as you configure
- + Per-minute hourly billing with a reduced powered-off rate, so idle dev and test servers cost a fraction of full price
- + 21 city-level data centers including Israel — rare Europe and Middle East coverage for this price class
- + Always-on DDoS filtering included at no extra cost, plus 24/7 phone support even at the $4 entry tier
- + 30-day trial covering one server up to $100 in configuration value, with 1 TB traffic and 1 TB block storage
Cons
- - The $4 headline price is a bare server: daily backups, IPv6 ($1/address/month), extra IPs, control panels, and managed service are all paid add-ons
- - The binding SLA guarantees 99.9%, not the advertised 99.95%, and lets Kamatera reject compensation claims at its sole discretion
- - Built for people who already administer servers — empty dashboard, custom console, no cPanel by default, no onboarding
- - No object storage, managed Kubernetes, managed databases, or CDN in the platform catalog
- - Public user reviews include recurring billing-after-cancellation and IP-reputation complaints worth weighing before committing
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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