TL;DR Hetzner raised most cloud server prices by 30–37% on April 1, 2026 (steeper on some US tiers). Despite that, it's still 50–70% cheaper than DigitalOcean for equivalent CPU and RAM, and it includes 4–5× more bandwidth on the same tier. Recent migration write-ups land on roughly the same number: about $14K saved per year on a mid-sized stack. Switching is worth it if you're running your own