Real prices. Checked, dated, and linked.
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. On the 29 August rate card, CX and CAX cost about three to five times less per GB of RAM than DigitalOcean and Vultr, but showed as not available for new orders in September and October checks. CPX and CCX are not cheaper any more.
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.
Compare n8n Cloud and self-hosted costs over 12 months, including VPS prices, backups, maintenance time and the current Cloud versus Business plan structure.
Every n8n hosting guide recommends a $4 box. This comparison starts at 2 GB instead, not because we measured a minimum but because we have not measured one. Official prices checked September 1, 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.