Hetzner puts a Blackwell GPU server on the list at €214 a month
The GEX45 pairs an RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell holding 24 GB of GDDR7 with a 14-core Raptor Lake CPU — Hetzner’s cheapest way into a whole accelerator, at €214/month plus a one-off €209 setup fee.
Hetzner has extended its GPU range at the bottom end rather than the top. The new GEX45 is built for work that needs an accelerator all to itself but not a data-centre-class card: inference, fine-tuning smaller models, rendering, video editing and CAD.
What is in the machine
- GPU — NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF Edition with 24 GB of GDDR7 ECC, 5th-generation Tensor Cores with FP4 support and 4th-generation RT Cores.
- CPU — Intel Core i5-13500 (“Raptor Lake”): 6 performance cores plus 8 efficiency cores, 20 threads in total.
- Memory — 64 GB of DDR4.
- Storage — two 512 GB NVMe SSDs.
What it costs
€214.00 / $249.00 per month, one IPv4 address included, plus a one-time setup fee of €209.00 / $249.00. As always with Hetzner, the figures are quoted without VAT — worth holding on to when you line them up against providers that publish VAT-inclusive prices.
The setup fee deserves a second look, because monthly headline prices hide it. It is very nearly a thirteenth month of rent. Spread across a year of use it works out to roughly €17 a month on top of the €214; across a two-week experiment it is the larger half of the bill. Neither is a criticism — a one-off charge is a legitimate way to price hardware that has to be physically installed — but it changes which comparisons are fair.
Where it runs
The servers live in Hetzner’s own ISO 27001-certified data centres in Nuremberg and Falkenstein in Germany and in Helsinki, Finland. That keeps the data inside the EU and under GDPR, which for a growing number of buyers is the reason the shortlist looks the way it does before price is even discussed.
Why it matters
The cheap end of dedicated GPU is the thinnest part of the market. Plenty of providers will sell you an H100 or a stack of them; far fewer publish a fixed monthly price for one professional card with 24 GB of memory, which is the size that quietly covers a lot of real work. A published, flat monthly rate is also something a price monitor can actually track over time — hourly GPU marketplaces are much harder to compare honestly.