Pick any two of the 18 providers we hold current VPS prices for. Both are priced for the same workload, so the difference is the bill, not the plan names.
For this workload, Hetzner costs $1.70 a month less than Hostinger: $20.40 over a year. Hostinger's $8.79 is a first-term price on a 24-month commitment; it renews at $14.99 a month. At renewal prices, Hetzner costs $7.90 a month less than Hostinger: $94.80 over a year.
2 vCPU minimum · 4 GB RAM minimum · 20 GB disk · 100 GB monthly transfer · Europe · public IPv4 · no managed database
Hostinger
Lowest complete monthly estimate
$8.79 /mo
KVM 2
Plan capacity: 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 100 GB included disk.
Requested disk fits in the included server disk.
Transfer allowance: 8 TB.
Public IPv4 is included.
Managed database: not requested; no database cost is included.
One server for 730 hours/month and one user. USD estimates exclude tax, backups, load balancers and team time. Minimum commitments and upfront charges are unknown where the source record does not state them.
Plans meet or exceed the requested capacity; vCPU counts do not establish equal performance. Region filters use broad areas, not a guaranteed datacenter. Recorded prices and availability are dated estimates, not a live stock check.
Comparisons with their own page
DigitalOcean vs Hetzner: The same VPS requirements on both, with disk, transfer, IPv4 and database unknowns.
Render vs Railway: One service on both: a fixed instance against measured use, and how busy it can be before the bills cross.
Supabase vs Neon: Managed Postgres by compute model, branching, scaling and full-month cost.
Bare metal vs cloud: Where a dedicated server starts to cost less, once utilization, redundancy, setup and transfer are counted.