Hetzner's June price adjustment more than doubles some cloud server tiers

Hetzner's price adjustment took effect June 15, applying to new orders and to rescales of existing cloud instances, not to servers you already have running under their current contract terms. That distinction matters: if you don't touch your existing instances, you keep the old pricing. Resize one, and you're on the new schedule.

The scale of the increase is the notable part. CCX cloud server pricing rose roughly 2.1x to 2.73x per month in Germany and Finland; CPX pricing rose 2.4x to 2.75x in the same regions, and up to 3.1x for CPX instances in the US. Hetzner frames this as standardizing its dedicated server portfolio against a hardware procurement market that's gotten more expensive industry-wide, and it's the fourth pricing action from the company in 2026 alone, following a setup-fee change in February, a 30-37% portfolio-wide increase on April 1, and another setup-fee adjustment in late April.

For a small team that picked Hetzner specifically for its price advantage over the hyperscalers, this is worth a direct comparison against current alternatives before your next rescale or renewal — a repeated pattern of increases across a single year changes the calculation that justified the original choice. It doesn't necessarily mean moving; the absolute prices may still be competitive. But the comparison is worth re-running with current numbers rather than the numbers that were true when you first set up the infrastructure.