What it is
Hetzner Online rents cloud servers (shared or dedicated vCPU) and dedicated machines, with cloud locations in Falkenstein, Nuremberg, Helsinki, Ashburn, Hillsboro and Singapore.
Strengths
- Cloud locations in Germany (Falkenstein, Nuremberg) and Finland (Helsinki) for EU data residency
- Small shared-vCPU cloud servers are enough for an agent that calls a hosted model
- Prices published per server type
Limits
- Unmanaged: OS updates, firewall and backups are yours
- Outside Europe, cloud servers only in Ashburn, Hillsboro and Singapore
Best for
- EU-hosted agents
- Always-on hosting on a budget
Not for
- Teams that want a managed platform
- Compliance regimes that require a specific provider certification
Our take
Our opinion: for an agent that calls a hosted model, a small Hetzner cloud server is enough; a local model needs a dedicated server with a GPU or far more memory. PocketClaw runs on Hetzner, which means we know the console, not that we benchmarked the service.
Sources
Read on 2026-10-27.
Alternatives
- Cloudflare Workers: Serverless platform with a free plan of 100,000 requests a day. Moltworker, which runs OpenClaw in a Sandbox container behind a Worker, needs the paid plan.