Hetzner’s Price Increases Reached 209%. The 30% Headline Applied to a Different Tier.

Hetzner’s 2026 pricing story has had three chapters. The April 1 round generated the bulk of media coverage. The June 15 round – applying to new orders only – is where the numbers diverge sharply by product tier. For the CCX dedicated vCPU cloud servers and CPX Intel cloud servers, the June 15 adjustment alone adds 107% to 204% on top of prices that had already risen in April. The 30% headline applied to a different tier.

Two Very Different Numbers, Depending on Which Server You Run

Hetzner’s cloud portfolio splits into distinct tiers, and the price adjustment data breaks cleanly along those lines.

The CX (shared vCPU, AMD) and CAX (shared vCPU, Arm64) lines absorbed increases of 30 to 38% in the EU and similar levels in the US. These are the entry-level development and low-traffic tiers – the plans most commonly cited in press coverage of the increases:

The CCX (dedicated vCPU cloud) and CPX (Intel cloud) lines tell a different story. These are the tiers production environments, agencies, and resellers typically deploy. The increases here range from 107% to 204% depending on product and location.

CCX Dedicated vCPU: EU Increases of 113% to 173%

The full CCX price adjustment for Germany and Finland (FSN/NBG/HEL), effective June 15. “Old” prices reflect the post-April-1 level – already raised once. Monthly figures use Hetzner’s 624-hour billing standard.

The US locations (ASH/HIL) follow a similar pattern. CCX13 rises from $19.99 to $50.99 (+155%), CCX23 from $39.99 to $102.99 (+158%):

CPX Servers in the US: Increases Top 200%

The CPX Intel cloud line in the US shows the steepest increases in the entire portfolio. CPX41 goes from $46.49 to $141.49 per month – an increase of +204% on the June 15 adjustment alone:

Why the Gap Between Tiers Is So Large

The CX and CAX lines run on shared CPU resources – multiple customers on the same physical core. The hardware cost per vCPU is distributed across tenants, which limits the per-unit impact of RAM and NVMe price increases. The CCX line provisions dedicated physical cores to each instance. A server that hosts one CCX63 tenant absorbs the full procurement cost of that hardware. When DRAM contract prices rise 58% to 63% quarter-over-quarter (TrendForce, Q2 2026), the impact on dedicated-resource instances is proportionally much larger.

The CPX line’s outsized US increases reflect a separate variable: Intel processor pricing in the US market combined with the USD/EUR exchange dynamics affecting Hetzner’s US operations, where hardware procurement and hosting costs are denominated differently than in Germany and Finland.

Existing Customers Are Protected. New Deployments Are Not.

For resellers and agencies that recommended Hetzner to clients on the basis of the widely reported 30% increase, the actual impact depends entirely on which tier those clients run. A client running CX or CAX instances faces roughly a one-third increase in compute costs. A client running CCX or CPX instances is looking at costs that have more than doubled – in some configurations, more than tripled.

Hetzner has protected existing customers from the June 15 changes: current contracts are not affected, and the new pricing applies to new orders only. Clients already running CCX or CPX instances under pre-adjustment contracts retain their rates. The exposure falls on new deployments, infrastructure expansions, and teams migrating to Hetzner from other providers.

For anyone quoting Hetzner-based infrastructure to clients, the 30% figure is no longer a safe shorthand. The relevant number depends on the specific product line – and for dedicated vCPU instances, it starts at 107% and goes up from there.