Cloudflare vs Hetzner
Detailed comparison to help you choose the right tool for your needs
Quick Comparison
Rating
4.5
vs4.6
Starting Price
Free
vs$4
Pricing Model
freemium
vspaid
Feature
Cloudflare
Hetzner
CDN
DDoS protection
Workers edge compute
R2 storage
D1 database
DNS management
Cloud VPS
Dedicated servers
Block storage
Load balancers
Firewalls
Server auction
Cloudflare Pros
- Incredibly generous free tier
- Global CDN with unlimited bandwidth
- Workers is a powerful edge computing platform
- R2 has no egress fees and is S3 compatible
- Always-on DDoS protection
- Fast DNS propagation
Cloudflare Cons
- Workers has execution time limits
- D1 database is still maturing
- Complex pricing across many products
- Support on free tier is community-only
- Pages sites have build time limits
- Not a full cloud replacement for AWS/GCP
Hetzner Pros
- Unbeatable price-to-performance ratio
- Excellent European data center locations
- Dedicated servers at cloud prices
- Server auction for incredible deals
- GDPR-compliant European hosting
- 20TB included transfer is extremely generous
Hetzner Cons
- Limited managed services
- No equivalent to Lambda or managed databases
- US region only recently added
- Less polished control panel than DigitalOcean
- No PaaS layer with bare infrastructure only
- Support is email-only on basic plans