Render vs Hetzner Pricing Comparison

Automated pricing comparison between Render.com and Hetzner Cloud.

Why This Matters

Render is easy. Hetzner is cheap. CNAP gives you both—deploy apps as easily as Render, but pay Hetzner directly for the infrastructure.

Key Findings

Scenario	Render	Hetzner	Savings
Solo Developer	$13/mo	$6/mo	54%
Small Startup	$90/mo	$6/mo	93%
Growing SaaS	$359/mo	$53/mo	85%
Scale-up	$955/mo	$159/mo	83%
Enterprise	$2,940/mo	$159/mo	95%

Average savings: 82% across all scenarios.

Results

Pre-generated results included:

• output/PRICING-REPORT.md - Full report with tier-by-tier breakdown
• output/comparison-result.json - Structured JSON data

Running Locally

bun install
bun run pipeline

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Render vs Hetzner Pricing Pipeline
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[1/4] Fetching pricing pages...

Fetching https://render.com/pricing...
Fetching https://www.hetzner.com/cloud...
  ✓ Fetched 323349 bytes
  ✓ Fetched 493271 bytes

✓ Saved raw data to data/

[2/4] Parsing pricing data...

✓ Saved parsed data to data/
  Render Web Services: 7 tiers
  Render PostgreSQL: 10 tiers
  Render Redis: 7 tiers
  Hetzner servers: 19 tiers

[3/4] Analyzing pricing comparison...

✓ Saved analysis to output/comparison-result.json
  Average savings: 82%
  Total annual savings: $47,671

[4/4] Generating report...

  ✓ Generated output/PRICING-REPORT.md

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Pipeline complete!
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How It Works

1. Fetches pricing pages from Render and Hetzner
2. Parses pricing tiers from HTML
3. Compares equivalent configurations
4. Generates reports

Data Sources

• https://render.com/pricing
• https://www.hetzner.com/cloud