OVHcloud vs Hetzner: Which Is Better?
We track OVHcloud and Hetzner prices, uptime and specs 24/7. Here's the live head-to-head for September 2026 — no paid rankings, just the data.
About OVHcloudOVHcloud is a French cloud computing company founded in 1999 by Octave Klaba. Headquartered in Roubaix, France, OVHcloud is the largest European cloud provider with 1.6 million customers in 140 countries. It operates 33 data centers across 4 continents with its own global fiber backbone. The company went public on Euronext Paris (OVH) in 2021. OVHcloud offers a full spectrum from VPS and bare metal to private/public cloud and web hosting, with a strong focus on European data sovereignty and compliance.
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.
Comparison Table
| Feature | OVHcloud | Hetzner |
|---|---|---|
| Price / mo | $1.87 | $1.86 win |
| Renewal price | — | Same as initial |
| Datacenters | — | 5 |
| NVMe storage | ✗ No | ✓ Yes win |
| Free domain | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Backups | — | Paid |
| CDN | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Support | — | Ticket 1-4h |
| Uptime · 30d | 98.92% | 99.13% win |
Price History
OVHcloud · StarterCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Hetzner · Webhosting SCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Uptime & Performance
OVHcloud 98.92% Hetzner 99.13%Pros & Cons
OVHcloud- Largest European cloud provider with 33 data centers, 44 PoPs
- Full-service: VPS, bare metal, public/private cloud, web hosting, domains
- Industry-leading DDoS protection (VAC up to 4.8 Tbps) included free
- Strong EU compliance: ISO 27001/27017/27018, SOC 1+2, HIPAA, HDS, SecNumCloud
- Very competitive bare metal pricing тАФ among the cheapest dedicated servers
- Water-cooled data centers with industry-leading PUE and sustainability
- Support quality varies significantly тАФ can be slow for non-enterprise plans
- Control panel (OVH Control Panel) is complex and less intuitive than DO/Vultr
- Past reliability incidents: major fire at SBG Strasbourg (2021), outages (2023)
- Some legacy products have outdated interfaces and steep learning curves
- Billing system can be confusing with multiple subsidiaries (OVH SAS, OVH US, etc.)
- No live chat support тАФ ticket and phone only
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
The Verdict
On the data we track, Hetzner wins more rows in the comparison table above (3 vs 0). 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 Hetzner 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, Hetzner 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.