Hetzner Raised Prices Twice in 2026. Here's What Actually Changed

I use Hetzner for most of my own small projects, so when I saw the word "price adjustment" show up twice in their pressroom this year, I paid attention. If you're running anything on Hetzner right now, or you're planning to based on advice like the numbers in our own cost breakdown guide, this is worth five minutes. Here's what actually happened, and more importantly, what it means for your bill.

Two price increases, not one

Hetzner raised prices twice in 2026. The first was a broad adjustment on April 1, lifting cloud servers, dedicated hardware, and object storage by roughly 30 to 37 percent across the board. Hetzner's own official statement points to the cause plainly. RAM and NVMe storage got dramatically more expensive to buy, driven largely by AI data center demand eating into the global memory supply. This wasn't Hetzner trying to squeeze more margin. It was a real hardware cost problem hitting the entire industry at once. The second change landed on June 15, and this one is more interesting because it wasn't uniform. According to Hetzner's own standardization announcement, the company restructured its lineup around a smaller set of fixed configurations. Along with that restructuring, the AMD-based dedicated vCPU lines, the CCX and CPX series, jumped somewhere between 113 and 175 percent. Meanwhile the ARM and Intel shared vCPU lines, the CX and CAX series, went up a much gentler 30 percent or so.

The good news first: your existing server is probably fine

If you already have a server running, take a breath. Both price changes apply to new orders and to rescales of existing servers, not to servers you already have sitting untouched. Your existing instance keeps its old price. The moment that changes is if you resize it, or if you spin up a new one. So before doing anything drastic, check what you're actually paying right now in your Hetzner console rather than assuming the headline numbers apply to you.

The part that actually surprised me: old plan names stopped existing

Here's the detail that I think matters most for anyone who automates their infrastructure. As part of the June standardization, some plan names changed entirely. What used to be called CPX11 is now sold as CPX22. What used to be CX22 is now CX23. If you've got a Terraform config, a deployment script, or even just a bookmarked guide referencing the old plan name, that's not just outdated information anymore. Ordering a server by the old name can fail outright, because that exact SKU may no longer exist to order. If you manage infrastructure as code, this is worth checking today, not whenever you next touch that script:

grep -rE "cpx11|cx22" ./terraform/

Swap in whatever plan names your own setup references. A quick grep now saves you a confusing failed deploy later.

What this means for the numbers in our own cost guide

I want to be upfront about this. The pricing in our cost breakdown guide reflected the numbers available at the time it was written, and Hetzner's pricing has moved since. The core recommendation still holds. Hetzner remains meaningfully cheaper than DigitalOcean and AWS for the same specs, even after both 2026 increases. But the exact euro and dollar figures in that guide are no longer current, and I'd treat any specific number from any article, including ours, as a starting point to verify against Hetzner's live pricing page rather than a number to trust blindly.

What I'd actually do about it

If you're on an existing server and it's working fine, leave it alone. There's no urgency to migrate or resize just because the price list changed elsewhere. If you're about to order something new, compare the shared vCPU lines against the dedicated ones before you commit. The gap between CX or CAX and CPX or CCX widened a lot in June, so a plan that used to be a small step up in price might now be a much bigger one. For most small WordPress or Laravel setups, the shared vCPU tiers we've recommended elsewhere on this site are still the right starting point, and they absorbed the smaller of the two increases. And if any part of your deployment process references a plan by name, take the two minutes to check it still exists under that name.

I verified the dates, percentages, and cause of these price changes directly against Hetzner's own pressroom and documentation as of August 2026.