Krova Cloud vs Hetzner
European VPS hosting — Cloud servers, plus two US regions. Here is the same machine priced both ways, the arithmetic that produced each number, and what a Cube gives you beyond the price.
Cubes from $2.92/moThis machine $11.68/moNo credit card to sign up
At 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 80 GB disk, Krova Cloud costs
50%
less than Hetzner
Their figure read from their own pricing page on
The same machine, both prices
Both sides priced at 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 80 GB disk, running 24/7. Theirs comes from their own pricing page; ours is computed from the live rate card the product bills from.
Krova Cloud
$11.68 /mo
$0.0160/hr · billed by the minute
Hetzner
$23.59 /mo
$0.0378/hr
At this size Krova Cloud costs 50% less than Hetzner.
What you get on a Cube that you don't get there
Price is the headline. This is the part that decides whether you stay.
Around half the price for the same vCPU, RAM and disk — and 48% to 76% less across every Hetzner plan that was in stock on 2026-09-26.
Their Cost-Optimized range is cheaper on paper, and on 2026-09-26 every plan in it showed 'not available' on their own page. A Cube provisions in seconds, at any size.
Its own kernel per instance in a per-cube jailer sandbox, rather than a shared-kernel neighbourhood.
Billed by the minute rather than hourly, and powering a Cube off stops compute billing the same minute.
Any vCPU, RAM and disk combination you like, instead of fixed plan sizes.
No inbound route and no public IPv4 to scan — web traffic arrives through managed HTTPS, everything else only on ports you open behind an IP allowlist.
US-West capacity in Los Angeles, priced the same as everything else rather than at a US premium.
Automatic scheduled snapshots with real retention, and deleting a Cube offers to keep a full backup first.
Export any Cube as a portable .cube archive and import it again — your data is portable out of Krova, not only inside it.
Before you decide
Where do these Hetzner numbers come from?
From Hetzner's own pricing page, opened in a browser and read off it on 2026-09-26 — not from a blog post, a comparison site or memory. The rates and the arithmetic are printed above so you can redo the sum yourself, and once any comparison on this site passes ninety days, an automated test fails on every change we make to the site, so a stale reading cannot sit here quietly.
Why is Krova Cloud cheaper at the same size?
You pay per resource — $0.001 per vCPU-hour, $0.0025 per GB of RAM and $0.00005 per GB of disk — instead of buying a fixed plan and rounding up to whatever it includes. There is no subscription, so what you pay for is the machine you asked for, by the minute — and every GB of RAM and disk in it is reserved 1:1 against real hardware.
What am I committing to?
Nothing monthly. There is no subscription and no minimum — you top up prepaid credit and pay for the minutes a Cube runs, and powering one off stops compute billing that same minute, with only its disk still billing. Signing up is free. Claim $5 in free credit — one-time, per account, and nothing is charged for it.
What exactly is a Cube?
A Firecracker microVM with its own Linux kernel and full root access, inside a per-cube jailer sandbox — install anything, run systemd, run Docker, and leave it up as long as you like. Your app is public; your server isn't: outbound is open on every port except 25 (blocked to stop spam), so package installs, image pulls and API calls all work normally, while nothing reaches in until you map a port, and every mapping takes an IP allowlist. Custom domains get automatic HTTPS and reach the Cube on its private address, so the Cube itself is never exposed.
Run the same machine for $11.68 a month
No subscription and no minimum — top up prepaid credit, size a Cube however you like, and compute billing stops the minute you power it off. Signing up is free. Claim $5 in free credit — one-time, per account, and nothing is charged for it.