DigitalOcean vs Hetzner Cloud Comparison

Quick Comparison

MetricDigitalOceanHetzner
Founded 2011 1997
Headquarters New York, USA Gunzenhausen, Germany
Market Share 1% <1%
Active Services 48 13
Regions 8 5
Latest Revenue $700M €400M

Services by Category

DigitalOcean Hetzner

Unique Services

Only in DigitalOcean (39)

  • 1-Click Models
  • App Platform
  • Backups & Snapshots
  • Bare Metal GPUs
  • Batch Inference
  • Billing
  • CLI
  • CPU-Optimized Droplets
  • Cloudways
  • Containers
  • Content Safety Guardrails
  • Dedicated Inference
  • Droplets
  • Evaluations
  • Functions
  • GPU Droplets
  • Gradient™ AI Inference Cloud
  • Gradient™ AI Platform
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Inference Engine
  • + 19 more

Only in Hetzner (7)

  • Cloud Servers
  • Dedicated Servers
  • Floating IPs
  • Primary IPs
  • RX-Line
  • Robot
  • konsoleH

Compliance Certifications

Both (2)

ISO 27001 GDPR

DigitalOcean only (3)

SOC 2 Type II CSA STAR SOC 3

Hetzner only (1)

C5

SLA Guarantees

Service TypeDigitalOceanHetzner
compute 99.99% 99.9%
database 99.99% 99.9%
networking 99.99% 99.9%
storage 99.95% 99.9%

Regions by Continent

ContinentDigitalOceanHetzner
Asia 2 0
Europe 3 3
North America 3 2
Total 8 5

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