Tilaa vs Hetzner ARM (Ampere)
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Tilaa and Hetzner ARM (Ampere).
Quick Verdict
3.7/5
Tilaa
0 reviews
4.3/5
Hetzner ARM (Ampere)
0 reviews
Hetzner ARM (Ampere) is rated higher (4.3 vs 3.7). Tilaa is a Dutch cloud provider offering KVM Cloud VPS from two Dutch datacenters, ISO 27001 certified and GDPR-compliant, focused on the Dutch and Belgian market. Monthly pricing from €8.28/month promotional. 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
Tilaa Dutch cloud VPS with EU privacy focus | Hetzner ARM (Ampere) Arm64 cloud servers on Ampere Altra cores in Hetzner Cloud's cost-optimized line | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.7 (0 reviews) | 4.3 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $8.28/mo | From $6.49/mo✓ |
| Best for | Dutch and Belgian organizations that need provable EU data sovereignty, a readable contract, and a provider small enough to talk to — especially healthcare, legal and government-adjacent SMBs. | 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 | 1 vCPU | 2 vCPU✓ |
| RAM | 1 GB | 4 GB✓ |
| Storage | 60 GB✓ | 40 GB |
| Bandwidth | — | 20 TB/mo |
| SLA uptime | 99.95%✓ | 99.9% |
| Data-center count | 2 | 3✓ |
| €/vCPU/mo | €8.28 | €3.25✓ |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €8.28 | €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 | Netherlands (two Dutch datacenters) | NurembergFalkensteinHelsinki |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | hourly billingnvme storageipv6eu datacentergdpr compliantapi access | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedsnapshotseu datacentergdpr compliantapi accessarm processors |
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Tilaa
Pros
- + Dutch jurisdiction and Dutch-only datacenters — clean GDPR/data-sovereignty story
- + Unusually transparent spec sheet: CPU share percentages, RAID10 SSD details and fair-use traffic are all published
- + Included extras that competitors charge for: layer-4 DDoS protection, dedicated IPv4+IPv6, one free snapshot, unlimited fair-use traffic
- + 18 years of operating history with ISO 27001, ISO 9001 and ISAE 3402 Type 1 certifications
- + EC2-compatible metadata service and a real API, so standard cloud-init tooling works
Cons
- - Netherlands only — no US, APAC or multi-region footprint
- - Cores are percentage shares (60-80% per core), so the same vCPU count means less compute than elsewhere
- - Promotional entry pricing reverts to 40-60% higher list prices after six months
- - Managed backups (€0.161/GB/month) and extra snapshots are paid add-ons; free snapshot kept only 3 months
- - Hourly billing claimed in older listings is not verifiable on current pages — billing appears monthly
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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