Hetzner vs Scaleway
Side-by-side comparison generated from our verified pricing database. Every number links back to an official pricing page and shows when it was last checked.
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Entry pricing: Hetzner from €5.99/mo (CX23) vs Scaleway from €0.43/mo (STARDUST1-S).
Entry plans at a glance
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Hetzner plans
Prices last verified: July 20, 2026Scaleway plans
Prices last verified: July 20, 2026Pros & cons
The default recommendation for EU-based workloads: nothing else touches its specs-per-euro, and the 20 TB traffic allowance makes egress a non-issue for most projects.
Watch the extras: instance prices exclude storage and IPv4, but unmetered egress makes it a sleeper pick for bandwidth-heavy small services.
Frequently asked questions
Scaleway has the cheaper entry plan: €0.43/month vs €5.99/month (CX23 vs STARDUST1-S, verified against official pricing pages).
Hetzner includes up to 20 TB of traffic on the plans we track; Scaleway offers unmetered outbound traffic under a fair-use policy.
Hetzner: Falkenstein, Nuremberg, Helsinki, Ashburn, Hillsboro, Singapore. Scaleway: Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw.
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