Cloudflare vs Hetzner Cloud Comparison

Why choose Cloudflare

• Has a free plan (Hetzner Cloud does not)
• Higher Analytics score (7/10 vs 4/10)
• Higher Scalability score (9/10 vs 6/10)
• Better fit for small business (7/10 vs 5/10)

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Why choose Hetzner Cloud

• Includes Dedicated Servers, which Cloudflare lacks

Cloudflare

Pros

• The free plan includes unmetered DDoS protection, a CDN, a WAF and universal SSL.
• R2 object storage charges no egress fees.
• Workers has very low entry pricing: a $5 monthly minimum and $0.30 per additional million requests.
• The Business plan adds a 100 percent uptime SLA and PCI DSS compliance for $200 a month billed annually.

Cons

• Reviewers report slow support on Free and Pro, which have no chat or phone support.
• Global outages in November and December 2025 disrupted many sites at the same time.
• Reviewers report billing problems, such as charges after cancelling add-ons.
• It offers no traditional shared hosting, VPS or dedicated servers, so you still need an origin host for conventional workloads.

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Hetzner Cloud

Pros

• EU servers include 20 TB of traffic, and extra traffic costs only €1 per TB.
• Hourly billing capped at a monthly price, with no contracts.
• A full API and CLI plus Terraform and Ansible integrations make automation straightforward.
• Stateful firewalls and private networks come at no extra cost.
• Still cheaper per spec than DigitalOcean in independent 2026 comparisons.

Cons

• Prices rose twice in 2026, with CPX and CCX new orders up by as much as about 176%.
• Cost-Optimized types are listed as unavailable, and provisioning was limited for new customers from June 2026.
• Many users report account verification failures and suspensions with little explanation.
• No managed database, serverless or managed Kubernetes products.
• US and Singapore servers include far less traffic than EU servers.