Hetzner CX23 (DE)

Editorial notes

Budget NVMe VPS in Falkenstein, Germany with 2 vCPU and 4 GB RAM, solid for small web apps, monitoring, and hobby services when you want an EU location.

Who it's for: Developers who need a low-cost EU VPS with IPv6 (small APIs, VPNs, monitoring agents, staging environments).

Data signals

Auto-generated from plan signals and measurement metadata.

Overview

Provider

Hetzner

Promotions: Open source projects may be eligible for up to €50 credit (API program)

Location

Falkenstein, Germany

IPv4 / IPv6

1 IPv4 | IPv6 available

Traffic

20480 GB/mo

Route tags

cloud cu-backbone ipv6 nvme

Why this plan stands out

Internal score: 28.4. Used for sorting; see scoring methodology .

Score rank (overall)

#950 / 1257

Score rank (provider)

#51 / 61

USD / GB RAM

$1.02 / GB

USD / vCPU

$2.05 / vCPU

• OK NVMe storage
• OK IPv6 available
• OK Value for money

Performance Badges

Achievement badges based on benchmark performance and value metrics. How we test →

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Benchmarks

Latest run: 2026-01-18T00:00:00Z | Method: vpsbenchmarks-yabs

CPU model

AMD EPYC-Rome Processor

Geekbench 6 (single)

1,373 Result

Geekbench 6 (multi)

2,488

GB6 multi / $

608.3

fio 4k read

113.2 MB/s | 28,969 IOPS

fio 4k write

113.5 MB/s | 29,046 IOPS

iperf send (max)

15,300 Mbps

iperf recv (max)

7,590 Mbps

Notes: Source: https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/yabs/hetzner-2c-4gb-20260118-cbbbda (third-party YABS run; reference only)

Benchmarks can vary due to host load and noisy neighbors. See Methodology .

Sources & freshness

Plan lastChecked

2026-01-21

Provider lastChecked

2026-01-11

Recent updates

Based on the internal dataset change log. Always confirm on the provider checkout page.

As of

2026-01-28

Last event

2026-01-21

Change log events

1 total | 1 price | 0 promo | 0 link | last 30d: 1 price, 0 promo, 0 link

Price range (last 90 points)

$4.06 - $4.09

Latency tiers

Tiers are a normalized signal. Always verify with your own tests.