Netcup Pricing 2026: The Complete Price List

Netcup's pricing is scattered across six product pages. Some lines are quoted net, others include 19% VAT, the traffic policy is different on almost every product family, and one whole line is still listed at full price despite being unavailable. This page collects everything into one place, in one unit.

All prices verified against netcup.com on 11 August 2026. Netcup's last price change took effect on 1 May 2026. Nothing has moved since.

Net vs. VAT, because Netcup mixes them

This is the single most common source of confusion when comparing Netcup to Hetzner or OVH.

Server products (VPS, VPS Lite, ARM, Root Server) are advertised at net prices. Their product pages literally render "Price incl. 0% VAT" in the footer. Webhosting and the homepage show "Price incl. 19% VAT" instead. So a "€8.71" VPS 1000 G12 and a "€4.03" Webhosting 2000 are quoted on completely different bases.

What you actually pay depends on where you are:

Your situation	What you pay on a €10.74 net server
German consumer	€12.78 (+19% VAT)
EU business with valid VAT ID	€10.74 (reverse charge, no VAT)
Consumer elsewhere in the EU	Your own country's VAT rate
Outside the EU	€10.74 (no EU VAT)

Every table below is net, including Webhosting, which I converted so the numbers are comparable. Netcup's own displayed figure is shown next to it.

VPS G12

Shared vCores on AMD EPYC 9645 "Turin", DDR5 ECC memory, NVMe storage. Hourly billing is available on this line, charged at 1/720th of the monthly price, and you can cancel at any time with prepaid months refunded.

Plan	vCores	RAM	Storage	Price/mo (net)	€/GB RAM
VPS 500 G12	2	4 GB	128 GB NVMe	€4.96	€1.24
VPS 1000 G12	4	8 GB	256 GB NVMe	€8.71	€1.09
VPS 2000 G12	8	16 GB	512 GB NVMe	€16.17	€1.01
VPS 4000 G12	12	32 GB	1 TB NVMe	€27.23	€0.85
VPS 8000 G12	16	64 GB	2 TB NVMe	€40.29	€0.63

Network speed is 1 Gbit/s or 2.5 Gbit/s depending on which location you pick, not 2.5 across the board. Guaranteed availability is 99.6% annual average.

Value per euro improves as you move up the line. The VPS 8000 G12 works out to half the cost per GB of RAM that the VPS 500 G12 does. If you're stuck between two adjacent tiers, the larger one is usually better value per unit of resource.

VPS Lite

Price-optimised plans on SSD rather than NVMe, aimed at moderate-traffic workloads. Netcup's cheapest entry points live here.

Plan	vCores	RAM	Storage	Link speed	Price/mo (net)
VPS piko G11s	1	1 GB	30 GB SSD	1 Gbps	€1.54
VPS nano G11s	2	2 GB	60 GB SSD	1 Gbps	€2.59
VPS Lite 1 G12s	2	4 GB	80 GB SSD	500 Mbps	€4.10
VPS Lite 2 G12s	4	8 GB	160 GB SSD	750 Mbps	€6.65
VPS Lite 3 G12s	8	16 GB	320 GB SSD	1 Gbps	€11.67
VPS Lite 4 G12s	16	32 GB	640 GB SSD	1 Gbps	€21.61

Three things separate this line from the main VPS range, and none of them are obvious from the price alone.

No hourly billing. The comparison table marks it "not included" on every Lite plan. You commit to a term.

Lower uptime guarantee. 99.0% annual average, against 99.6% on VPS G12. That works out to roughly 88 hours of permitted downtime a year versus 35.

A stricter, differently-shaped traffic rule, covered in its own section below.

The core trade is still worth it for the right workload. VPS Lite 1 G12s at €4.10 undercuts the VPS 500 G12 at €4.96 by 17%, and both give you 4 GB of RAM. What you give up is NVMe, 48 GB of capacity, and half the link speed. For a build agent, a small bot, or a staging box, Lite is the sensible pick. Anything doing sustained disk I/O, like a database or a busy application server, justifies the extra €0.86 for NVMe.

VPS ARM64 G11 (currently sold out)

Netcup's ARM line runs on Ampere Altra Max CPUs and cannot be ordered right now. The prices are still published, so they're recorded here, but none of these are buyable today.

Plan	vCores	RAM	Storage	Price/mo (net)	Status
VPS 1000 ARM G11	6	8 GB	256 GB NVMe	€6.53	Sold out
VPS 2000 ARM G11	10	16 GB	512 GB NVMe	€11.27	Sold out
VPS 3000 ARM G11	12	24 GB	768 GB NVMe	€15.93	Sold out
VPS 4000 ARM G11	14	32 GB	1 TB NVMe	€21.06	Sold out
VPS 6000 ARM G11	16	48 GB	1.5 TB NVMe	€27.06	Sold out
VPS 8000 ARM G11	18	64 GB	2 TB NVMe	€33.60	Sold out

The pricing explains the stock situation. VPS 2000 ARM G11 offers 10 cores and 16 GB for €11.27, against €16.17 for the 8-core x86 VPS 2000 G12. For an ARM64-native stack it's the best value in Netcup's catalogue, which is presumably why there's none left.

If you need ARM64 this month, Hetzner's CAX line is the fallback. CAX21 gives you 4 ARM vCPU, 8 GB and 80 GB for €10.49/mo. That's 61% more than Netcup's comparable ARM plan, with the advantage of actually existing.

Root Server G12

Same EPYC 9645 hardware as the VPS line, with cores and RAM that are guaranteed dedicated instead of shared. Peak clock is 3.7 GHz per core.

Plan	Dedicated cores	RAM	Storage	Price/mo (net)
RS 1000 G12	4	8 GB DDR5 ECC	256 GB NVMe	€10.74
RS 2000 G12	8	16 GB DDR5 ECC	512 GB NVMe	€18.01
RS 4000 G12	12	32 GB DDR5 ECC	1 TB NVMe	€33.55
RS 8000 G12	16	64 GB DDR5 ECC	2 TB NVMe	€59.97

This line carries the strongest guarantees Netcup offers: 99.9% minimum annual availability and a 30-day money-back guarantee refunding the full base fee if it doesn't suit you. Snapshots, image import and export, rescue system and remote console are all included, and link speed is again 1 or 2.5 Gbit/s by location.

New G12 orders also let you choose the public network configuration: IPv4 + IPv6, IPv6 only, or Cloud vLAN only. Dropping IPv4 is a genuine lever on cost if your workload doesn't need it.

The premium for dedicated cores is smaller than most people expect. RS 1000 G12 costs €10.74 against €8.71 for a VPS 1000 G12 with identical RAM and storage. That's €2.03 a month, or 23%, to stop sharing CPU time with other tenants, and it moves you from a 99.6% availability guarantee to 99.9%. If you have a latency target to hit or a sustained CPU load, it's the cheapest insurance on this page.

vGPU

Netcup also sells vGPU instances with guaranteed vCPU and VRAM, aimed at AI inference, 3D rendering, big data and video processing. Minimum term is one month. Pricing is configuration-dependent rather than a fixed tier list, so it isn't tabulated here, but it's worth knowing the line exists before renting GPU capacity elsewhere.

Webhosting

Shared hosting, no root access. Netcup advertises these with 19% VAT included, so the net column is converted.

Plan	Storage	Domains included	Netcup's listed price (incl. VAT)	Net
Webhosting 1000	50 GB SSD	1	€2.69	€2.26
Webhosting 2000	150 GB SSD	3 .de or 1 alternative	€4.03	€3.39
Webhosting 4000	500 GB SSD	6 .de or 2 alternative	€8.10	€6.81
Webhosting 8000	1 TB SSD	12 .de or 3 alternative	€13.17	€11.07

Higher tiers add SSH access plus Node.js and Ruby support.

One thing the table makes obvious: Webhosting 8000 at €11.07 net costs more than an RS 1000 G12 at €10.74. If you're willing to administer a box yourself, the Root Server gets you dedicated EPYC cores, root access and a better uptime guarantee for slightly less than the top shared plan.

Cheapest plan by RAM

The way most people actually shop. All figures net, per month.

RAM	Cheapest option	Price	Dedicated-core option	Price
1 GB	VPS piko G11s	€1.54	n/a	n/a
2 GB	VPS nano G11s	€2.59	n/a	n/a
4 GB	VPS Lite 1 G12s	€4.10	n/a	n/a
8 GB	VPS Lite 2 G12s	€6.65	RS 1000 G12	€10.74
16 GB	VPS Lite 3 G12s	€11.67	RS 2000 G12	€18.01
32 GB	VPS Lite 4 G12s	€21.61	RS 4000 G12	€33.55
64 GB	VPS 8000 G12	€40.29	RS 8000 G12	€59.97

Traffic limits, which differ by product

Netcup advertises "traffic included" with no monthly cap. That's accurate, and there's a documented fair-use throttle underneath it. The rule is not the same across the range, and the VPS Lite version works on a completely different basis from the others.

Product	Trigger	Throttled to
VPS Lite (incl. piko, nano)	24h average rate above 100 Mbit/s	100 Mbit/s
VPS G12 (x86)	More than 2 TB in the last 24h	200 Mbit/s
Root Server G12	More than 3 TB in the last 24h	300 Mbit/s

Read the first row carefully. VPS Lite is throttled on sustained rate, not on transferred volume, so a Lite box averaging over 100 Mbit/s across a day gets limited even though no volume threshold was named. A continuous 100 Mbit/s is about 1 TB per day, so in practice Lite plans have roughly half the headroom of a VPS G12 and a third of a Root Server.

In all three cases the throttle is temporary and lifts as soon as you fall back under the threshold. Nothing is suspended and there are no overage charges.

One caveat Netcup states directly: different rules may apply at the Singapore location depending on the plan. If you're deploying there, check the product page under "Product details" rather than assuming the numbers above.

For scale, 3 TB/day on a Root Server is roughly 90 TB a month. Most workloads never approach it.

Uptime guarantees

Worth comparing directly, since the gap between tiers is larger than the price gap suggests:

Product	Guaranteed annual availability	Permitted downtime/year
VPS Lite	99.0%	~88 hours
VPS G12	99.6%	~35 hours
Root Server G12	99.9%	~9 hours

Only the Root Server line carries the 30-day money-back guarantee.

Local Block Storage

Extra disk capacity, added to a running machine without downtime or a fixed term, billed daily.

€0.012 per GB per month, net. That puts 1 TB (1024 GB) at about €12.29/mo, which is more than the RS 1000 G12 itself costs.

Ceilings vary by product:

• Root Server from G9, VPS x86 from G10, VPS ARM64 G11: up to 8 TB
• vGPU plans and selected G11s / Lite plans: up to 4 TB
• VPS piko G11s and VPS nano G11s: not available

Note that Storage Space and Local Block Storage took a 21.52% increase on 1 May 2026, slightly steeper than the servers themselves.

Included at no extra cost

Easy to miss when comparing against providers who charge for these:

• DDoS protection, with 2 Tbit/s of filtering capacity handled free
• Firewall, rule-based via the Server Control Panel, enabled by default on new VPS orders
• Snapshots (copy-on-write, unlimited except by free disk space), with one snapshot export free. Further exports cost €1.50 for one, rising to €10.00 for ten
• Rescue system, remote console, preconfigured images, custom image upload, DVD/ISO boot
• Failover IPs and optional Cloud vLAN for private networking between your own machines

Server locations

Five sites, but availability is not uniform, and this catches people out:

Product	Available in
VPS G12 (x86)	Nuremberg, Vienna, Amsterdam, Manassas (US), Singapore
Root Server G12	Nuremberg, Vienna, Manassas (US), Singapore. No Amsterdam
VPS Lite	Europe only: Nuremberg, Vienna, Amsterdam, subject to availability
VPS piko / nano	Nuremberg only

The European sites sit on the Anexia backbone. If you specifically want a Root Server in Amsterdam, or any Lite plan outside Europe, neither is currently offered.

What changed in 2026

One increase, and it has held since.

Date	Change
19 March 2026	Announced. New orders up 24.33%, effective immediately
1 May 2026	Existing contracts up 18.51%
1 May 2026	Add-ons (Storage Space, Local Block Storage) up 21.52%
Since then	No change, verified 11 August 2026

The cause was the memory crisis. AI datacenter buildout absorbed DRAM and NAND supply, and the three major memory manufacturers prioritised their higher-margin buyers. Netcup confined the increase to products directly exposed to that, meaning VPS, Root Servers, storage add-ons and Webhosting. Network products and licenses were left alone, and domains still follow registry pricing. Existing customers received a special right of termination if they didn't want to accept the new rates.

For context on how restrained that was, Hetzner has raised prices three times this year: on 1 April, again in April for dedicated server setup fees, and once more on 15 June, when the dedicated-vCPU CCX line more than doubled. Hetzner's cheapest dedicated-core plan is now the CCX13 at €42.99/mo for 2 cores and 8 GB. Netcup's RS 1000 G12 is €10.74 for 4 dedicated cores and the same 8 GB. Our June price-hike analysis has the full breakdown.

Neither provider has changed anything since June. Prices are stable for now.

Will they rise again?

Nothing is announced at either provider. The pressure behind the 2026 increases hasn't gone away, though. DRAM contract prices are still projected to finish 2026 somewhere between 250% and 300% above September 2025 levels, and the industry consensus points to tightness lasting into 2027 while HBM and AI accelerator demand keeps first claim on wafer capacity.

If you're buying in the next few months, a 12-month term locks your rate. Netcup's increases have consistently hit new orders first and existing contracts later, with a termination right attached. Locking in now is the conservative play, and there's no sign of anything coming down.

Paying less than list price

Everything above is list price. Two ways to reduce it:

Voucher codes. Netcup issues free-month vouchers across the VPS and Root Server lines, and recurring percentage discounts on Webhosting. Individual codes have limited redemptions and get burned through quickly, so anything quoted in an article is stale by the time you read it. The live list is on our homepage, checked and updated continuously.

New customer offer. A discount code for first-time accounts, which stacks with a longer contract term. Details on the new customer offer page.

Worth doing the arithmetic before you commit either way. A recurring Webhosting discount can pull the mid-tier plans below €3 net, but a free-month voucher on a Root Server is a one-off saving against a 12-month commitment. On the numbers above, the RS 1000 G12 still lands close to the top Webhosting tier over a full year, with dedicated cores and root access attached.

Summary

Cheapest usable server is the VPS piko G11s at €1.54/mo net, Nuremberg only. Best all-round value is the RS 1000 G12 at €10.74, which gets you 4 dedicated EPYC cores, 8 GB of DDR5 ECC, 256 GB of NVMe and a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Best cost per GB of RAM is the VPS 8000 G12 at €0.63/GB. Dedicated cores cost roughly 23% more than shared at matching specs. ARM is unavailable, with Hetzner CAX as the fallback. Prices last changed on 1 May 2026 and have been steady since.

Two things to check before ordering rather than after: whether your plan is offered in the location you want, and which traffic rule applies to it. Both vary more than the marketing pages suggest.

For the head-to-head against Hetzner, see the August comparison. If you're choosing between a VPS and a Root Server, that breakdown is here.

Prices verified against netcup.com on 11 August 2026. Netcup changes pricing without much notice, so if you spot a discrepancy, treat the product page as authoritative.