Hetzner vs Supabase

• Hetzner provides a massive 20000 GB egress allowance, dwarfing Supabase’s 250 GB cap, making the former cheaper for high-bandwidth media delivery.
• Disk storage overages favor Hetzner at $0.06/GB, whereas Supabase charges $0.13/GB for additional capacity.
• Supabase egress overage is significantly more cost-effective at $0.09/GB, compared to the steep $1.19/GB penalty Hetzner applies if you exceed their generous base limit.
• Hetzner hardware, often running on EPYC processors, offers 32 GB of RAM for $51.59/mo, while Supabase’s managed Postgres instances scale up to 256 GB of RAM for $4329.00/mo.

Choosing between these two depends on whether you are renting raw metal or a managed database ecosystem. Hetzner functions as a traditional IaaS provider, similar to Linode, offering high-performance NVMe storage and massive network throughput for a flat, predictable monthly fee. You are responsible for the entire software stack, including database maintenance, backups, and security patching. If you have the internal engineering bandwidth to manage your own Postgres instances on Linux, Hetzner’s price-to-compute ratio is difficult to beat.

Supabase removes the burden of database administration but shifts the cost structure toward managed services and memory-heavy workloads. Their tiering is designed for developers who need specialized features like real-time subscriptions and built-in authentication without managing underlying infrastructure. While Supabase provides significantly higher RAM ceilings for massive analytical datasets, the storage limits are restrictive. Hetzner handles large data volumes more cheaply, but Supabase protects you from the operational risk of misconfiguring a database server by handling the backend architecture for you.