Hetzner GPU Alternative (2026): GPU Prices vs PowerGPU

Hetzner GPU alternative: same NVIDIA GPUs, fixed prices 30% under the market

Hetzner sells single-tenant dedicated GPU servers rather than a multi-tenant cloud: GEX45 (RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF, Helsinki) and GEX131 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q, Nuremberg/Falkenstein), each a full physical machine with root access and unlimited traffic on a 1 Gbit/s port. Billing is monthly by default, with GEX131 also offered on direct hourly billing at a premium over the monthly-equivalent rate. The Ada-generation GEX44 (RTX 4000 SFF Ada) and GEX130 (RTX 6000 Ada) this comparison used to target have been discontinued and replaced by these Blackwell models — the GEX44 product page returns a 404 as of the date checked.

4 min read Updated 2026-09-14 PowerGPU prices live from the sheet

Hetzner vs PowerGPU at a glance

Hetzner

Dedicated GPU servers by the month (or hour): RTX PRO 4000/6000 Blackwell, Germany/Finland

PowerGPU

Fixed prices at market median × 0.70, crypto only, verified datacenters

	Hetzner	PowerGPU
Billing	Monthly by default; GEX131 also offered as direct hourly billing at a premium rate	Per second, no minimum, price locked at deploy
Payment	Card, PayPal, SEPA direct debit	Crypto only — USDT (TRC-20/ERC-20), BTC, XMR, LTC, ETH, TRX, SOL
Identity	Account and payment verification; ID checks common for new dedicated-server accounts	Email + password. No KYC, no card, no stored IP addresses
Free credit	None	None — every hour is ≥30% under the market median instead
Cheaper tier	None — flat rate; hourly billing (GEX131) costs more per hour than the monthly-equivalent rate	Interruptible flat −50% (no auction) · reserved −35% (3+ months)
Regions	2 — Helsinki (GEX45), Nuremberg and Falkenstein (GEX131)	32 regions on 5 continents, verified datacenters only
Minimums	Whole server, 1 GPU each; monthly billing on GEX131 carries a one-time setup fee, waived on hourly billing	None — 1× to 8× GPUs at the same per-GPU price
Storage	Fixed NVMe included in the server; no separate GPU-attached volume product	$0.08/GB/month NVMe, volumes survive instances
Egress	Unlimited traffic included on the 1 Gbit/s port	$0.01/GB in and out, every region
Access	Root access (bare metal), Hetzner Robot panel, rescue system, API	Containers or full KVM VMs, SSH, Jupyter, REST API, CLI, Python SDK

Hetzner column: as published on hetzner.com on 2026-09-04. Details change — verify before you decide.

Hetzner vs PowerGPU prices, GPU by GPU

Public on-demand list prices per GPU-hour on Hetzner's pricing page (2026-09-04) against PowerGPU's fixed rates today — every PowerGPU price is the public marketplace median × 0.70, rounded down, re-checked weekly.

GPU	Hetzner list	PowerGPU on-demand	PowerGPU interruptible	Difference
RTX PRO 4000 GEX45 dedicated, €214/mo ÷ 730h, EUR→USD 1.1627 (2026-09-04); one-time setup fee on monthly billing	$0.34	$0.183	$0.091	−46% on PowerGPU
RTX PRO 6000 WS GEX131 dedicated (Max-Q), €889/mo ÷ 730h, EUR→USD 1.1627 (2026-09-04); direct hourly billing listed at €1.4247/hr (≈$1.66 today), no setup fee	$1.42	$1.040	$0.520	−27% on PowerGPU

Configurations differ (node sizes, tiers, regions); the note beside each card says which Hetzner price is quoted. Negative differences mean Hetzner is cheaper on that card.

When to stay with Hetzner

A dedicated single-tenant machine with no hypervisor and full root access is the point, not a side effect.
Unlimited traffic on a real physical NIC beats a metered per-GB rate for constant, heavy egress.
A predictable flat monthly bill fits your budgeting better than a per-second meter.

Why teams switch to PowerGPU

One GPU model per region: GEX45 is Helsinki-only and GEX131 is Germany-only. PowerGPU runs the RTX PRO 4000 and RTX PRO 6000 across 32 regions on five continents.
Per-second billing from zero commitment instead of a monthly server, or a premium hourly rate on GEX131 alone — deploy for ten minutes and pay for ten minutes.
No account/ID verification, no card — top up in crypto and deploy.
Flagship datacenter GPUs (H100, H200, B200) and consumer cards (RTX 5090, 4090) that Hetzner's GPU line does not carry at all.

Switching from Hetzner: what maps to what

On Hetzner	On PowerGPU
GEX45 / GEX131 dedicated server	Instance on the equivalent card, or a full KVM VM
Fixed NVMe (included)	Instance disk plus volumes at $0.08/GB/month if more is needed
Hetzner Robot panel	powergpu dashboard / REST API / CLI
Monthly commitment	Reserved instance, −35% from 3 months, no server swap needed

the whole migration, from the shell

pip install powergpu
export POWERGPU_API_KEY=pg_live_…          # console → API keys
powergpu launch --gpu rtx-pro-4000 --template pytorch --disk 100 --volume data:/data
# ✓ instance i-52ab77c1 running (24.1s) · $0.183/hr · per second
powergpu stop i-52ab77c1                      # billing ends this second

Data moves the boring way: rsync or rclone from your Hetzner machine to a PowerGPU volume, which then mounts on every future instance in seconds. Templates for PyTorch, vLLM, ComfyUI and Ollama are official images; anything else runs from its OCI reference.

A real month, costed

Scenario	Hetzner	PowerGPU
1× RTX PRO 4000, 730 hours on-demand	$248	$134
1× RTX PRO 4000, 8 h/day × 20 days	$54	$29
Same 160 hours, PowerGPU interruptible	—	$15
500 GB of storage, one month	Fixed NVMe included in the server; no separate GPU-attached volume product	$40

Run your own schedule through the cost calculator — it adds storage and bandwidth and compares against the marketplace median.

Hetzner GPU alternative: FAQ

Is PowerGPU cheaper than Hetzner's GPU servers?

On an hourly-equivalent basis, yes: GEX131 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q) works out to about $1.42/hr from its €889/month price (÷730h, checked 2026-09-04), or about $1.66/hr on Hetzner's own direct hourly billing; GEX45 (RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell) is about $0.34/hr from €214/month. PowerGPU fixes the equivalent cards at the public market median × 0.70 and bills per second from zero commitment.

What happened to the GEX44 and GEX130 servers?

Hetzner replaced them with Blackwell-generation models: GEX45 (RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF) and GEX131 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q). The GEX44 product page returned a 404 when checked 2026-09-04.

Can I rent a Hetzner-class GPU server by the second on PowerGPU?

Yes — the same RTX PRO 4000 and RTX PRO 6000 tiers are billed per second with no monthly minimum and no setup fee, across 32 regions rather than one server in one city.

Try the switch for the price of a coffee

Top up $40 in USDT or Monero, deploy the same image you run on Hetzner, and benchmark it. No card, no KYC, per-second billing — stop it the minute you are done.

Hetzner and its logo are trademarks of their owner, used here only to identify the compared service; PowerGPU is not affiliated with Hetzner. NVIDIA GPU names are trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation.