Head-to-head
Hetzner Dedicated vs OVHcloud
Two hosts, side by side. Pricing, features, and the trade-offs that actually matter.
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
OVHcloud from $5/mo
European hyperscaler with the cheapest dedicated bare metal in the West.
HQ FR · founded 1999
Quick verdict
Cheapest: OVHcloud wins on entry price ($5/mo vs $41.09/mo).
More features: OVHcloud ships more first-party platform features out of the box.
Region: Hetzner Dedicated is HQ'd in DE; OVHcloud in FR.
Cheapest plans, side by side
| Hetzner Dedicated | OVHcloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry plan | AX41 | VPS Starter |
| Price | $41.09/mo | $5/mo |
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6c/12t | 1 vCPU |
| RAM | 64 GB | 2 GB |
| Disk | 1024 GB | 40 GB |
| Bandwidth | unmetered | unmetered |
Feature parity
| Hetzner Dedicated | OVHcloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Managed Postgres | × | ✓ |
| Managed Redis | × | × |
| Object storage | ✓ | ✓ |
| One-click apps | × | × |
| Private network | ✓ | ✓ |
| IPv6 | ✓ | ✓ |
| DDoS protection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Snapshots | × | ✓ |
| Public API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Terraform | × | ✓ |
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
OVHcloud pros
- +Bare-metal dedicated servers from €40/mo (Eco / Kimsufi)
- +Anti-DDoS included on every plan, infrastructure-grade
- +34 datacenters across Europe, North America, and APAC
OVHcloud cons
- −Dashboard is notoriously confusing — three different control panels, only some translated to English
- −Provisioning a dedicated server can take 24h on first order
- −A 2017 fire in their Strasbourg DC caused multi-day outages and cooled enthusiasm for SBG-region single-host setups