Side by side
| Hetzner Cloud | Uno | |
|---|---|---|
| Smallest plan | CX23: 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 40 GB NVMe, $6.49 | Small: 1 vCPU · 1 GB · 15 GB disk, $5 |
| A 4 vCPU plan | CX33: 4 vCPU · 8 GB · 80 GB NVMe, $9.99 | Plus: 4 vCPU · 4 GB · 40 GB disk, $20 |
| Price per GB of memory | $1.25–1.62 a month | $4.2–5 a month |
| Dedicated-resources plans | Yes: CCX13, 4 vCPU · 8 GB, dedicated resources, $50.49 | No: our vCPU are shared |
| When idle | Runs and bills all month | Asleep after 10 minutes, memory kept, earns boosts |
| Who sets it up | You, over SSH | An AI agent, or you |
| Traffic | 20 TB included at European locations | Small: 500 GB a month. Plus: unmetered |
| Cloud storage | A separate product | 25 GB on Small, 100 GB on Plus |
| Sites and forms | You run a web server | Free address, forms to your email |
| AI | Not part of the plan | 5 h of AI time a month to try, on every paid plan; Uno AI optional |
| Backups | a flat 20% of the server price | Daily copies of the disk on paid plans |
| Locations | Germany, Finland, the USA and Singapore | The Netherlands today |
What one GB of memory costs in a month
Plan price divided by memory, in $ per GB. Lower is cheaper. Uno shows the range from Small to Max.
Show as a table
| Option | $ per GB | Shape |
|---|---|---|
| Uno | 4.2–5 | Small to Max, all with root, sleep and storage |
| Hetzner CX33 | 1.25 | 4 vCPU · 8 GB |
| Hetzner CX23 | 1.62 | 2 vCPU · 4 GB |
| DigitalOcean Basic | 6 | 1 vCPU · 1 GB and 4 vCPU · 8 GB |
After you pay
A Hetzner server arrives empty. You log in, install what you need, close the ports, add a web server and a certificate, then think about where files go. You do it once per server. On Uno you describe the job to an agent, and you watch every command it runs.
What an idle server costs
Most small services are quiet most of the day. A Hetzner server runs through those hours and the bill is the same. An Uno computer falls asleep after 10 minutes with nothing to do and keeps every program in memory. It wakes when you open it, a visitor opens your site, a message reaches your bot's webhook.
The plan price does not drop while it sleeps. Instead, every hour a computer sleeps earns one boost, up to the monthly cap of your plan. A boost lifts the computer to the bigger size of its plan for an hour: Plus goes from 4 to 8 vCPU and from 4 to 8 GB.
Where Uno is worse
- Memory costs about three times more per GB. Hetzner's 8 GB server is $9.99 a month. On Uno, 8 GB means a Plus boost (10 a month, one hour each), or Pro with 16 GB for $70.
- Traffic is smaller: 500 GB a month on Small against 20 TB included at European locations at Hetzner.
- Hetzner sells plans with dedicated resources. Our vCPU are shared.
- Hetzner has data centers in Germany, Finland, the USA and Singapore. Paid Uno computers run in the Netherlands today.
- If a program must run every minute of the month with nobody visiting, a plain server is the simpler fit.
Uno next to budget and cloud VPS hosts
The same 1 vCPU class. What you pay, and what comes with it.
| Uno Small | Budget VPS Hetzner, OVH, Contabo | Cloud VPS DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price a month | $5 | $4.5–6.5 | $5–7 |
| Root and Docker | yes | yes | yes |
| Who sets it up | an AI agent, or you | you, over SSH | you, over SSH |
| When idle | asleep, memory kept, earns boosts | runs and bills all month | runs and bills all month |
| Cloud storage | 25 GB included | separate product | separate product |
| Sites and forms | free, one message | set up a web server | set up a web server |
| AI in the plan | 5 h a month, Uno AI optional | no | no |
Prices checked 2026-10-01. Budget hosts sell memory cheaper per GB. If all you need is a lot of RAM and nothing else, they are the better deal.
An Uno computer, from $5 a month
Root and Docker on every plan. The agent sets it up; the computer sleeps when idle. Move up any time.
Small
A Telegram bot, a VPN, a small backend
$5/ month
- 1 vCPU · 1 GB
- 15 GB disk
- 25 GB cloud storage
- 5 boosts a month
Plus
Agents that work with your laptop closed
$20/ month
- 4 vCPU · 4 GB
- 40 GB disk
- 100 GB cloud storage
- Uno Work in the cloud
Pro
A product in production, a second MacBook
$70/ month
- 16 vCPU · 16 GB
- 120 GB disk
- 300 GB cloud storage
- Speed of a MacBook Air M4
Max
A team and many agents at once
$200/ month
- 32 vCPU · 48 GB
- 300 GB disk
- 1,024 GB cloud storage
- 5 public IPv4
Add Uno AI to any plan: 40 h of AI work a month on Small, 100 h on Plus, unlimited on Max. Today: GLM-5.3 Flash and MiMo v2.6 Pro. Or sign in with your own Claude or ChatGPT.