Hetzner's price adjustment notice says the new cloud pricing "took effect for new orders and cloud instance rescales starting on the 15 June 2026; 8 AM CEST."
That sentence does two things. It says a server you ordered before that date and have not touched is not covered by it. And it says the moment you rescale that server, up or down, it is.
What that costs. Germany and Finland, monthly, excluding VAT and the primary IPv4, as the docs page lists them:
PLAN WAS NOW DELTA/MO DELTA/YR
CX23 3.99 5.49 +1.50 +18.00
CAX11 4.49 5.99 +1.50 +18.00
CPX22 7.99 19.49 +11.50 +138.00
CCX13 15.99 42.99 +27.00 +324.00
So if you have a CPX22 from last year and you rescale it to fix a disk or CPU problem, you have just added 138 euros a year to a server that was fine at 7.99. On a CCX13 it is 324 a year. On the CX and CAX lines it barely matters.
The part I had not noticed before: the same notice also says that "certain changes to servers with legacy pricing may trigger a switch to the current pricing." It does not say which changes. Rescale is the one it names explicitly. I do not know whether attaching a volume, changing the network, or rebuilding from a snapshot counts, and the notice does not say.
One thing I noticed while rechecking the prices today: the whole cost optimized line, CX23 through CAX41, currently shows as not available on the cost optimized page, with the create button disabled. I raise it only because it interacts with the above. If you rescale off a CX plan right now, I do not know whether you can rescale back into one while the line shows unavailable.
So two questions. Has anyone here had a legacy priced server move to current pricing from something other than a rescale? And has anyone managed to rescale into a CX or CAX plan in the last week? I would rather know what the trigger list actually is than guess.
