Easy to move
Elastic Load Balancing on Hetzner: what it becomes and what it costs.
On Hetzner, Elastic Load Balancing becomes Hetzner Load Balancer or HAProxy / Traefik. L4/L7 load balancing with TLS termination is available natively.
Effort grade
Easy
Drop-in replacement at the destination or mature open source
Cost after the move, before engineer time
30% of today
{load_balancer} is €7.49–16.79 (≈ $12) per month against $16+ per ALB plus LCU charges, about 30%.
Engineer time
none added
Priced from usage; it runs on the servers already counted.
In three modelled AWS accounts
What Elastic Load Balancing costs in the modelled accounts and what the estimator makes of it on Hetzner, with the default assumptions. Not customer data.
| Account | AWS /mo | Hetzner /mo | Change | Priced by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early-stage SaaS$2,981/mo in total | $16 | $5 | −$11 | ratio |
| Scale-up on Kubernetes$24,950/mo in total | $350 | $105 | −$245 | ratio |
| Data-heavy platform$79,640/mo in total | $700 | $210 | −$490 | ratio |
Your own Elastic Load Balancing line, from your export
Drop one month of your AWS cost export and the report prices every service, Elastic Load Balancing included, on Hetzner list prices of 17 Oct 2026, net of the engineer time to run it. In your browser; nothing is uploaded.