Hetzner alternatives
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Overall 8.2 (curated_estimate, high) · score asOf 2026-09-14 · last reviewed 2026-09-14. This is not an Elo and not a live price board. Provider · JSON
| Provider | Why listed | Overall | Δ vs subject | asOf |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare R2 Depot pick when agent artifacts get downloaded a lot. S3-compatible without the egress grief. | same_jtbd_pick · object-storage, cheap-egress-storage | 8.75high | +0.55 | 2026-10-19 |
| DigitalOcean Classic simple cloud. Use for steady VMs and Spaces; pair Paperspace/RunPod for GPUs. | same_jtbd_runner · cheap-vms, object-storage, cheap-egress-storage | 8.15high | -0.05 | 2026-09-14 |
| MinIO Self-host object storage when R2/Tigris/B2 SaaS is not allowed. R2 remains managed cheap-egress default. | same_jtbd_runner · object-storage, cheap-egress-storage | 8.41high | +0.21 | 2026-09-14 |
| Backblaze B2 Best cheap always-hot archive for datasets/checkpoints. R2 still wins agent artifact serving with unbounded… | same_jtbd_runner · object-storage, cheap-egress-storage | 8.35high | +0.15 | 2026-09-14 |
| Tigris R2 remains Depot object-storage / cheap-egress default (CDN+Workers gravity). Tigris when you want global… | same_jtbd_runner · object-storage, cheap-egress-storage | 8.15high | -0.05 | 2026-09-14 |
| Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage Cheap hot archive peer when R2/Tigris edge story is not required. Depot cheap-egress still defaults to R2. | same_jtbd_runner · object-storage, cheap-egress-storage | 8.12high | -0.08 | 2026-09-14 |
| Amazon S3 Default object store gravity well. Consider R2/Cloudflare or DO Spaces when egress dominates. | same_jtbd_runner · object-storage | 8.6high | +0.4 | 2026-09-14 |
| Google Cloud Storage Use inside GCP estates. Depot object-storage/cheap-egress defaults remain R2. | same_jtbd_runner · object-storage | 8.18high | -0.02 | 2026-09-14 |
| Azure Blob Storage Azure-estate default object store. Prefer R2/Tigris when egress-free public URLs matter. | same_jtbd_runner · object-storage | 8.06high | -0.14 | 2026-09-14 |
| AWS EC2 Default enterprise VM substrate. Agents should wrap it — humans shouldn't live in the console. | same_jtbd_runner · cheap-vms | 8.01high | -0.19 | 2026-09-14 |
| Oracle Cloud GPU Secret weapon for cheap cloud GPUs if you tolerate OCI quirks. Not the agent-native DX winner. | same_jtbd_runner · cheap-vms | 7.65medium | -0.55 | 2026-09-14 |
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