Hetzner vs 3HCloud: Which Is Better?
We track Hetzner and 3HCloud prices, uptime and specs 24/7. Here's the live head-to-head for September 2026 — no paid rankings, just the data.
About HetznerHetzner is a German cloud and dedicated-server provider famous for the best price-to-performance in Europe. Where Contabo competes on raw resources, Hetzner competes on network quality, low latency and a polished API — ideal for developers running latency-sensitive workloads.
About 3HCloud3HCloud is a US-registered provider (3HCLOUD LLC, Hollywood, Florida) that launched in 2020 and runs OpenStack-based cloud servers from five locations: Miami, Dallas, San Francisco, Warsaw and Manila.
The catalogue is a single published price list: four instance families (shared vCPU, plus dedicated-vCPU general-purpose, CPU-optimized and memory-optimized), block storage sold separately by IOPS class, network load balancers and elastic bandwidth. Dedicated servers and colocation are quote-only through sales.
Comparison Table
| Feature | Hetzner | 3HCloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price / mo | $1.86 | $1.50 win |
| Renewal price | Same as initial | Same as initial |
| Datacenters | 5 | 5 |
| NVMe storage | ✓ Yes win | ✗ No |
| Free domain | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Backups | Paid | Paid |
| CDN | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Support | Ticket 1-4h | — |
| Uptime · 30d | 99.13% | 99.31% win |
Price History
Hetzner · Webhosting SCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
3HCloud · 1 GB 1 vCPU Shared PoolCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Uptime & Performance
Hetzner 99.13% 3HCloud 99.31%Pros & Cons
Hetzner- Exceptional price-to-performance — among the cheapest x86 VPS in the EU
- 99.9% uptime advertised for Hetzner Cloud (provider claim)
- Full-featured API with Terraform provider and Kubernetes support
- ARM servers (CAX) starting €3.29/mo — cheapest in Europe
- Transparent pricing — no hidden fees, no bandwidth surprises
- 5 datacenter locations: Nuremberg, Falkenstein, Helsinki, Ashburn, Singapore
- Support is ticket-based only — no live chat or phone
- UI/UX less polished than DigitalOcean or Vultr
- No managed databases (must self-manage)
- Limited global footprint — no APAC or LATAM DCs
- No Windows server images available
- Support response can be slow on weekends
3HCloud- Full public price list - every instance, hourly and monthly, on one page
- Hourly billing on every plan, not just the entry tier
- Dedicated-vCPU families for CPU-bound and memory-bound workloads
- 1 Gbit/s per instance with no traffic volume cap
- OpenStack API, Terraform and SSH-key access
- Five regions across the US, EU and APAC
- Storage is not included - disks are billed separately from $0.01/GB per month
- A public IPv4 address costs $1/month on top of the plan price
- Windows images add $3 per core per month and need at least 2 vCPUs
- No refunds - SLA downtime is repaid in service credits only
- No published ISO/SOC certifications
- Dedicated servers are quote-only, not self-serve
The Verdict
On the data we track, 3HCloud wins more rows in the comparison table above (2 vs 1). That said, the right pick depends on which rows matter most for your use case — price, uptime, datacenters or backups.
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FAQ
Right now 3HCloud has the lower entry price across the plans we track. Prices update every few hours — the live snapshot above always shows the current starting price for both.
Over the last 30 days of our monitoring, 3HCloud had the higher measured uptime. We ping both providers every few minutes from multiple locations — see the uptime graph above.
Yes. Both run standard KVM virtualization, so you can snapshot your server, export the image, and import it on the other provider. For most stacks a fresh deploy plus a data copy is simpler.
It depends on your priority: pick the one that wins on the rows that matter most to you in the table above (price, uptime, datacenters, backups). For latency-sensitive apps favour uptime and network; for value favour price and specs.