Hetzner + Coolify

Hetzner + Coolify — The DIY baseline: a €4 CX22 running Coolify, with 20 TB of traffic included. This is the reference point the rest of the table is measured against, not a product. A Hetzner CX22 — two vCPUs, four gigabytes of RAM — costs a little under €4 a month and includes 20 TB of outbound traffic, with additional terabytes at €1 each. Run Coolify on it and you have git deploys, TLS and preview environments for roughly the price of a coffee. You also have no Australian region, no CDN, four gigabytes of RAM to build Next.js in, and a pager that is yours. Built by Hetzner Online GmbH. Founded 2018. Open source under Apache-2.0 (Coolify). We carry it as the do-it-yourself baseline, not as a vendor.

We track it in 1 comparison — Vercel alternatives — so every claim below is a cell in a table you can open and check rather than an impression. Across those rosters it sits against 12 other tools, and what follows is where it visibly separates from them.

Where it wins.

• Price @ 1 TB — $5 /mo, tied for best across 2 of 9 tools.
• Bandwidth price — $1 /TB, 2nd of 9.
• Exit friction — 1, tied for best across 3 of 13 tools.
• Self-hostable — Yes, which only 3 of 13 tools here manage.
• Pricing clarity — 5, tied for best across 3 of 13 tools.

Each of those is ranked against the whole roster on its category page, not against a hand-picked subset, so a first place here means first of everything we list.

Where it gives ground.

• Sydney region — No. Vercel records Yes.
• Free tier — 1, the weakest of the 13 here. Cloudflare Workers & Pages records 5.
• CLI quality — 2, 9th of 13. Vercel records 5.

None of these disqualify it on their own. They are the fields to check against your own requirements before you commit, because they are the ones where a competitor genuinely does better.

Provenance. 23 of 26 tracked fields carry a value for Hetzner + Coolify, and 4 of those cite a document you can open. Last verified 2026-06-15. Every figure keeps its own provenance — measured by us, claimed by the vendor, inferred, or community-reported — and we would rather print a dash than a guess.

Its nearest neighbour in our data is AWS Amplify Hosting. Hetzner + Coolify is ahead on Self-hostable (Yes against No) and Pricing clarity (5 against 2). AWS Amplify Hosting takes Sydney region (Yes against No) and Funding (public against bootstrapped). That pattern repeats across the rest of the roster — see Hetzner + Coolify alternatives for the other rivals, each compared the same way.

Company

Hetzner Online GmbH

Founded

2018

Licence

Apache-2.0 (Coolify) (open source)

Fields we track

23 of 26

Last verified

2026-06-15

The number every managed host is implicitly arguing against: about $5 a month with 20 TB of traffic included and an overage rate of €1/TB. Nothing scales automatically, there is no Australian region and the pager is yours — but you should know what the floor costs before agreeing to sit above it.

Price @ 1 TB

$5 /mo1st of 9

Inferred

Bandwidth price

$1 /TB2nd of 9

Vendor-claimedverified 2026-06-15source

Exit friction

11st of 13

Inferred

Sydney region

○No11th of 13

Vendor-claimedverified 2026-06-15source

Self-hostable

●Yes1st of 13

Inferred

Pricing clarity

51st of 13

Inferred

Free tier

113th of 13

Inferred

CLI quality

29th of 13

Inferred

Hetzner + Coolify is the right call in these situations, each one drawn from a field we actually record:

• Benchmarking whether a managed host is worth its markup.
• European or US workloads with high bandwidth and low ops needs.
• Side projects and internal tools where a single box is genuinely enough.
• Price @ 1 TB is your binding constraint. Hetzner + Coolify records $5 /mo, the best figure in the Vercel alternatives roster.
• Bandwidth price is your binding constraint. Hetzner + Coolify records $1 /TB, 2nd of 9 in the Vercel alternatives roster. We define that field as published marginal cost of a terabyte of outbound transfer once the included allowance is gone, at the cheapest listed region.
• Exit friction is your binding constraint. Hetzner + Coolify records 1, the best figure in the Vercel alternatives roster.
• Self-hostable is your binding constraint. Hetzner + Coolify records Yes, which only 3 of the 13 tools in the Vercel alternatives roster do.

Reach for something else when any of the following is a requirement rather than a nice-to-have:

• Sydney region. Hetzner + Coolify records No on the Vercel alternatives table. Vercel records Yes on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• Free tier. Hetzner + Coolify records 1, the weakest of the 13 tools in the Vercel alternatives roster. Cloudflare Workers & Pages records 5 on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• CLI quality. Hetzner + Coolify records 2, 9th of 13 in the Vercel alternatives roster. Vercel records 5 on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.

We publish this block because a comparison that only lists what a tool is good at is marketing. Every figure above sits on the same page as its source, and the field definitions are on the category tables if you want to check how we measured them.

What we don't know. 3 of the 26 fields we track for Hetzner + Coolify are still blank: Fn timeout, Build minutes incl. and Analytics cost. Those render as dashes rather than as zeroes or assumptions, because an empty cell and a bad cell are not the same thing and only one of them is honest. If you know any of these figures and can point at a document, tell us.