QuickPacket vs Hetzner Cloud
A detailed comparison to help you choose between QuickPacket and Hetzner Cloud.
Quick Verdict
3.5/5
QuickPacket
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4.4/5
Hetzner Cloud
0 reviews
Hetzner Cloud is rated higher (4.4 vs 3.5). QuickPacket is a privately owned US host selling self-managed bare-metal dedicated servers and colocation in Ashburn, Los Angeles and Chicago, with 50 TB of transfer included per server and a 100% network uptime guarantee. 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
QuickPacket Bare-metal dedicated servers and colocation in Ashburn, Los Angeles and Chicago since 2003 | Hetzner Cloud Affordable VPS hosting with fast deployment and transparent pricing | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.5 (0 reviews) | 4.4 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $49.99/mo | From $5.99/mo✓ |
| Best for | Self-sufficient US operators wanting dedicated hardware with fat included bandwidth in Ashburn, Los Angeles or Chicago — game hosts, download-heavy services, and colocation customers who prefer a small direct provider | 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 | 4 vCPU✓ | 2 vCPU |
| RAM | 16 GB✓ | 4 GB |
| Storage | 1,000 GB✓ | 40 GB |
| Bandwidth | 50 TB/mo✓ | 20 TB/mo |
| SLA uptime | 100%✓ | 99.9% |
| Data-center count | 3 | 6✓ |
| €/vCPU/mo | €12.50 | €3.00✓ |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €3.12 | €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 | Ashburn, Virginia; Los Angeles, California; Chicago, Illinois | GermanyFinlandUnited StatesSingapore |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectionus datacenterwindows available | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedsnapshotseu datacenterus datacentergdpr compliantterraform providerapi access |
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QuickPacket
Pros
- + Published catalog pricing and specs — no quote wall for dedicated servers
- + 50 TB of transfer included on every listed configuration, some on 10 Gbps ports
- + 100% network uptime guarantee with credits, plus installation and hardware replacement guarantees
- + 20+ years in business (founded June 2003), privately owned with no long-term debt, own hardware
- + Direct access to a small team that runs its own network — 24x7 on-site support
Cons
- - Strictly unmanaged: support covers network, power and hardware only
- - Entry hardware is old (Xeon E3-1230v3) and several modern configs were out of stock
- - US-only (Ashburn, Los Angeles, Chicago) with no EU or APAC presence
- - Tight SLA claim windows (5 days for network credits) and strict hardware/SSD-wear rules
- - Thin documentation, no hourly billing, no VPS/cloud product yet, colocation by quote only
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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