UpCloud vs Hetzner

UpCloud and Hetzner are both European cloud providers with developer-friendly infrastructure, but they optimize for different procurement criteria. UpCloud emphasizes a 99.999% uptime SLA across a 15-data-center platform. Hetzner emphasizes compute choice and value across Intel, AMD, Arm64 and dedicated-vCPU cloud families.

A strong published availability commitment

UpCloud advertises a 99.999% uptime SLA and 15 global data centers, with Cloud Servers integrated into managed Kubernetes, managed databases, private cloud, networking and load balancing. API, CLI and Terraform support make the platform suitable for automation-heavy teams.

Less processor-family variety

Hetzner makes CPU architecture and sharing model explicit. Its cloud range includes Intel shared-vCPU, AMD EPYC shared-vCPU, Ampere Arm64 and CCX dedicated-vCPU servers, so teams can choose efficiency, cost or sustained CPU behavior more directly.

Clear x86, Arm and dedicated-vCPU options

Hetzner is compelling when infrastructure design starts with the compute model. Shared plans target economical general workloads, Arm64 adds another efficiency option, and CCX plans reserve CPU resources for predictable production performance. Hourly billing provides flexibility for short-lived servers.

Lower headline SLA emphasis

UpCloud’s public platform messaging is built around its 99.999% SLA and integrated cloud services. Hetzner competes on compute economics and architecture choice instead, so buyers with strict availability-contract requirements may weigh UpCloud’s commitment more heavily.