Head-to-head
Cherry Servers vs Hetzner Dedicated
Two hosts, side by side. Pricing, features, and the trade-offs that actually matter.
Cherry Servers from $12/mo
Bare metal in Europe with bring-your-own-OS and per-hour billing.
HQ LT · founded 2014
Hetzner Dedicated from $41.09/mo
European bare metal at European prices — twice the performance of cloud at half the cost.
HQ DE · founded 1997
Quick verdict
Cheapest: Cherry Servers wins on entry price ($12/mo vs $41.09/mo).
More features: Cherry Servers ships more first-party platform features out of the box.
Region: Cherry Servers is HQ'd in LT; Hetzner Dedicated in DE.
Cheapest plans, side by side
| Cherry Servers | Hetzner Dedicated | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry plan | Smart 01 (bare metal) | AX41 |
| Price | $50/mo | $41.09/mo |
| CPU | Xeon E-2236 6c/12t | AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6c/12t |
| RAM | 32 GB | 64 GB |
| Disk | 480 GB | 1024 GB |
| Bandwidth | 25 TB | unmetered |
Feature parity
| Cherry Servers | Hetzner Dedicated | |
|---|---|---|
| Managed Postgres | × | × |
| Managed Redis | × | × |
| Object storage | × | ✓ |
| One-click apps | × | × |
| Private network | ✓ | ✓ |
| IPv6 | ✓ | ✓ |
| DDoS protection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Snapshots | ✓ | × |
| Public API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Terraform | ✓ | × |
Cherry Servers pros
- +Bare-metal servers from $50/mo with hourly billing
- +Full IPMI access, BYO OS, BYO ISO
- +Datacenters in EU, US, Singapore
Cherry Servers cons
- −No managed services — true unmanaged dedicated
- −Provisioning a custom config can take an hour or two
- −Smaller scale than OVH or Hetzner — fewer SKUs, less inventory
Hetzner Dedicated pros
- +Genuinely cheap bare metal — 8-core AMD Ryzen with 64 GB DDR5 and dual NVMe under €45/mo
- +Server Auction sub-product (ex-rental hardware) routinely 30–50% below standard list prices
- +Free 1 Gbit/s unmetered traffic on every plan — no bandwidth surprises
Hetzner Dedicated cons
- −One-time setup fee on most standard SKUs (typically equivalent to one month) — waived on auction servers
- −Provisioning takes hours, occasionally a day, not seconds
- −No managed services at all — Postgres, Redis, backups, monitoring are entirely on you