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The same terabyte of outbound traffic costs $5 at Akamai and $150 at AWS Lightsail in São Paulo. Two providers never bill for it at all. Here is the marginal price of a TB at every major host, and why the included allowance printed on the pricing page is not comparable across providers.
The same gigabyte of memory costs $0.56 at one provider and $6.00 at another — an eleven-fold spread. Here is the full table, computed from current prices, with the four things that make cheap memory expensive.
Hetzner’s June 2026 increase split its own lineup in two. CX and CAX are still four times cheaper than DigitalOcean per GB of RAM. CPX and CCX are not cheaper at all any more. Which one you are on decides whether you should move.
Self-hosting one app is usually a bad deal. Self-hosting five on the same server is usually a great one. Here is the arithmetic for n8n, Supabase, Ghost, Plausible, Bitwarden and uptime monitoring, with current cloud prices.
Hetzner raised cloud prices on 1 April and again on 15 June 2026. CX23 is up 38%, CPX22 up 144%, CCX13 up 169%. The official numbers, what still makes Hetzner the cheapest, and the one action that reprices your existing server.
n8n Cloud starts at €20/mo. A VPS starts at $4. But the VPS isn’t the whole bill. Here’s the honest 12-month cost of both, including the parts nobody puts in the comparison table.
Every n8n hosting guide recommends a $4 box. n8n 2.x runs a task runner as a second process, and 512 MB no longer fits. Here are real prices checked in August 2026, including the renewal prices most comparisons hide.
n8n 2.0 turned on task runners, disabled the Execute Command node, blocked env vars in the Code node, and deprecated WEBHOOK_URL. Here is what actually breaks on a self-hosted instance and the exact variable that fixes each one.