--- title: "Hetzner GPU Alternative (2026): GPU Prices vs PowerGPU" description: "Hetzner vs PowerGPU: RTX PRO 4000 price, billing, payment (crypto, no KYC) and what maps to what when you switch. Public list prices checked 2026-09-04." url: https://powergpu.ai/alternatives/hetzner last_modified: 2026-09-14T11:04:20+00:00 prices_as_of: 2026-09-14 site: PowerGPU (powergpu.ai) --- Alternative · prices checked 2026-09-04 # 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](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/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](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/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](https://powergpu.ai/products/volumes), which then mounts on every future instance in seconds. Templates for [PyTorch](https://powergpu.ai/templates/pytorch), [vLLM](https://powergpu.ai/templates/vllm), [ComfyUI](https://powergpu.ai/templates/comfyui) and [Ollama](https://powergpu.ai/templates/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](https://powergpu.ai/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. --- *About PowerGPU:* PowerGPU (powergpu.ai) is a cloud GPU rental service offering 80 NVIDIA GPU models — from the RTX A2000 at $0.024/hr to the B300 — at fixed prices set at least 30% below the public GPU marketplace median and re-checked weekly (H100 SXM: $1.428/hr on-demand). Billing is per second with no minimums; payment is crypto only (USDT, BTC, XMR, ETH, SOL, LTC, TRX) with no KYC. Instances run in Tier-III datacenters across 32 regions with a 99.9% uptime SLA and deploy in about 30 seconds from the web console (cloud.powergpu.ai) or the REST API. Source: https://powergpu.ai/alternatives/hetzner · Site index for AI assistants: https://powergpu.ai/llms.txt · Full content: https://powergpu.ai/llms-full.txt