Hero Mobile Home 13 - Alternative Comparison - Hetzner vs UpCloud

Hero Home 13 - Alternative Comparison - Hetzner vs UpCloud

Looking for a Hetzner Alternative? Welcome to UpCloud

Nobody leaves Hetzner to save money. Teams switch when DIY stops scaling: managed Kubernetes, managed databases, 24/7 human support, and a 99.999% uptime SLA backed by service credits – all from one European cloud provider.

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99.99% SLA

Uptime SLA on all core services – backed by service credits
Zero Data Transfer Fees

Unmetered data egress/ transfer included
Incredible Price-to-Performance Ratio

Get the latest hardware & transparent pricing
Real Human Support 24/7

Support from real engineers! No bots, no bs

10 000+ teams going global with UpCloud

What sets UpCloud’s servers apart

For Every Hetzner Workload, UpCloud Offers the Managed Layer

Hetzner is built as infrastructure primitives – servers, networks, storage – that you assemble and operate yourself. UpCloud covers the same ground, plus the managed services Hetzner leaves to third parties.

Cloud Servers

Deploy in about 45 seconds on MaxIOPS storage rated up to 100,000 IOPS. Every instance carries the 99.99% uptime SLA, backed by service credits, and 24/7 human support.

Managed Kubernetes (UKS)

Hetzner offers no first-party managed Kubernetes – teams self-manage k3s or kubeadm, or bolt a third-party control plane onto their servers. UKS runs, patches and upgrades the control plane for you, included free with UpCloud Essentials.

Managed Databases

Hetzner offers no managed databases – you install, patch, back up and restore your own. UpCloud runs PostgreSQL, MySQL and more with automated backups, patching and failover, from €9/mo.

Object Storage

Moving from Hetzner Object Storage? Same S3-compatible API, flat all-inclusive pricing – no retrieval fees, no egress surprises, no per-request math.

Load Balancer

€0/mo. Load balancers ship free with UpCloud Essentials, alongside NAT and VPN gateways and the Kubernetes control plane – platform features, not invoice line items.

Private Cloud

Hetzner tops out at self-managed dedicated servers. UpCloud Private Cloud is fully managed, single-tenant infrastructure with the same control panel and API as your public cloud – ISO 27001 certified, with EU data residency.

Why UpCloud?

UpCloud vs. Hetzner

Let’s get straight to the point: picking a cloud provider is a big deal for your business. You need the facts, clear and simple.

	UpCloud	Hetzner
Developer focused	✅	✅
European company	✅	✅
24/7 live real-time support chat	✅	❌
European DC locations	10	3
Support response time	< 2 min	Office hours only
Cost-optimized Cloud	€3/mo ^{Starting at}	€7.19/mo ^{Starting at}
Price-performance Cloud 8GB RAM	€38/mo ^{(Premium plan)}	€43.19/mo ^CPX32
GPU Servers	€0.58/h ^{No setup fee}	€0.45/h ^{+€136.80 setup fee}
Managed Kubernetes	✅ ^{From €0/mo}	❌
Uptime SLA	99.99%	Not fixed
Egress data transfer	€0 ^{Zero-cost egress}	€1/TB ^{20 TB EU included}
G2.com Rating	4.6	4.5
Trustpilot.com Rating	3.4	3.1

Why teams switch from Hetzner

Humans in minutes, 24/7

Every support conversation starts with an engineer – no bots, no first-line script. Average first response around 2 minutes, around the clock, backed by a 95% customer satisfaction score.

The cheaper server isn't the cheaper stack

Hetzner wins the per-server line item. Add the engineering hours – running your own Kubernetes, patching your own databases, being your own 3 a.m. on-call – and the math changes. UpCloud’s managed layer turns those hours back into product work.

Built for five nines

N+1 redundancy across the platform – compute, storage, network – so single failures don’t become your outage. And if something does slip through, the 99.99% uptime SLA pays out in service credits, not apologies.

Running mission-critical applications 100% faster

Hosted Power is a managed cloud hosting platform, on a mission to automate, accelerate, and unburden developers in any cloud environment.

“There’s good reasons why we chose UpCloud. The personal approach is great for us, as we can discuss the exact CPUs that we want to use to ensure our merchants’ stores are the fastest possible. Thanks to this, we are able to better provide our speed and uptime guarantees.”

– Tim Terreur, COO, Hosted Power

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