Stop overpaying
for Kubernetes
Managed-grade HA Kubernetes — 3-node control plane, autoscaling, HA Postgres, LB failover — on Hetzner, fully operated by us. Same cluster, 42% less than EKS.
- Cloud infraAWS EKS, on-demand
- $825
- Someone to run itOne senior DevOps engineer, fully loaded
- ~$9,000
- Cloud infraHetzner, passed through at cost
- $478
- Someone to run itPro — 24/7 on-call, 15-min P1 ack
- $999
Salary basis: €86k average senior DevOps gross (Glassdoor Germany, 434 samples, Jan 2026) plus ~20% employer social contributions ≈ €103k/yr — rounded down to $9,000/mo. Assumes you staff the role rather than absorbing it into an existing team.
Infra only — matched 4×(4 vCPU/16 GB) + HA control plane · 2 LB · 500 GB, on-demand, ex-VAT, 730 hrs/mo. Provider list prices as of July 2026; Hetzner uses post-June-2026 rates. Add $999/mo for Pro operations to run it fully managed — no hire, no pager.
Full teardown — four sizes, egress, EU vs US →Automated 24/7 alerting · business-hours human response
Staging, internal tools, small production
- Patching & security updates
- Automated backups
- GitOps deploys
- Up to 5 nodes
True 24/7 on-call · 15-min P1 ack · 99.9% uptime target
Business-critical production HA
- Everything in Standard
- Incident response
- Monthly infrastructure review
- Up to 12 nodes · +$50 / node beyond
99.95% · 5-min ack · named contact · DR drills
Regulated workloads · multi-cluster
- Everything in Pro
- Compliance support
- Dedicated on-call rotation
- Custom SLA
Infra at cost. Hetzner servers and traffic are passed through with zero markup — the fee buys operations, not resold compute.
One-time onboarding $1,500–3,000. Cluster provisioning, migration off your current stack, and handover.
~$1,477/mo all-in for a fully-managed prod HA cluster — Pro operations plus Medium-HA infra at cost, with nobody to hire.
- 3-node HA control plane (etcd quorum)
- Cluster autoscaling
- HA Postgres (Patroni)
- HA storage + cross-DC LB failover
- 24/7 monitoring & on-call
- Patching, backups, GitOps deploys
Infra at cost. No lock-in. You own the cluster.
Hetzner servers pass through with zero markup — the fee buys operations, not resold compute. Built on our open-source k0s boilerplate, so you can take it in-house anytime.
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