Cloud Exit Index
What a typical AWS account keeps by leaving, this price round.
Three modelled accounts, priced on nine destinations with the calculator’s default assumptions: whole servers with standbys, backups, engineer time by effort grade. Net per year, after engineer time, before the one-off move. Recomputed from the list prices of 18 Oct 2026; the changelog has every round.
| Destination | Early-stage SaaS$2,981/mo on AWS today | Scale-up on Kubernetes$24,950/mo on AWS today | Data-heavy platform$79,640/mo on AWS today |
|---|---|---|---|
Hetzner A German hosting company with the lowest list prices of the nine | −$16,842 more a year · 47% over likely $5,308 more to $622 less a month | $141,771 kept a year · 47% less likely $2,594 to $17,201 less a month | $500,344 kept a year · 52% less likely $23,993 to $53,526 less a month |
OVHcloud A French cloud with managed services, dedicated servers and a sovereignty story | −$22,961 more a year · 64% over likely $5,895 more to $185 less a month | $96,814 kept a year · 32% less likely $1,544 more to $13,842 less a month | $454,541 kept a year · 48% less likely $20,637 to $50,737 less a month |
Scaleway A French, EU-only cloud with the broadest managed catalogue of the European destinations | −$23,892 more a year · 67% over likely $5,955 more to $94 less a month | $80,917 kept a year · 27% less likely $2,984 more to $12,636 less a month | $236,925 kept a year · 25% less likely $153 more to $33,770 less a month |
DigitalOcean A US developer cloud priced in USD, the same in every region | −$26,649 more a year · 75% over likely $251 to $6,047 more a month | $53,109 kept a year · 18% less likely $4,058 more to $9,347 less a month | $233,103 kept a year · 24% less likely $5,748 to $29,623 less a month |
Vultr A US cloud with the widest footprint of the nine, priced in USD | −$25,645 more a year · 72% over likely $167 to $5,963 more a month | $69,000 kept a year · 23% less likely $2,734 more to $10,671 less a month | $261,152 kept a year · 27% less likely $7,313 to $31,244 less a month |
Akamai (Linode) Akamai's cloud, the old Linode, with a CDN attached and USD list prices | −$26,581 more a year · 74% over likely $245 to $6,041 more a month | $60,912 kept a year · 20% less likely $3,408 more to $9,997 less a month | $250,896 kept a year · 26% less likely $7,231 to $31,106 less a month |
Exoscale A Swiss cloud with zones in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Bulgaria | −$32,991 more a year · 92% over likely $587 to $6,791 more a month | $4,749 kept a year · 2% less likely $9,968 more to $6,925 less a month | −$13,539 more a year · 1% over likely $22,270 more to $15,631 less a month |
UpCloud A Finnish cloud with unmetered traffic and zones in Europe, the US and Asia | −$27,474 more a year · 77% over likely $172 to $6,286 more a month | $43,110 kept a year · 14% less likely $6,453 more to $9,803 less a month | $62,943 kept a year · 7% less likely $16,102 more to $20,721 less a month |
Hetzner (US) Hetzner's two US locations at the US price list, in USD | −$25,454 more a year · 71% over likely $145 to $5,954 more a month | $87,503 kept a year · 29% less likely $1,197 more to $12,219 less a month | $403,295 kept a year · 42% less likely $19,930 to $43,805 less a month |
Accounts described below. Destinations in the calculator’s order, Hetzner first; the modelled accounts are AWS exports, so the destination’s prices and traffic allowance are the only thing that changes across a row.
How to read it
Green is a saving after someone is paid to run the servers; red means the engineer time outweighs the hardware saving at that size. The range is what the ratio-priced services and the engineer-time assumption can move the number by. Your bill will differ; the index is for direction, not for a budget.
What is in the accounts
- Early-stage SaaS: A few web nodes, a Postgres pair, Redis, S3 and a CDN.
- Scale-up on Kubernetes: EKS, several Postgres instances, Kafka, OpenSearch and tens of TB of egress.
- Data-heavy platform: Hundreds of TB in storage, Redshift, streaming, a GPU box and heavy egress.
Data
- Hetzner list prices of 17 Oct 2026 (EUR)
- OVHcloud list prices of 18 Oct 2026 (EUR)
- Scaleway list prices of 18 Oct 2026 (EUR)
- DigitalOcean list prices of 18 Oct 2026 (USD)
- Vultr list prices of 18 Oct 2026 (USD)
- Akamai (Linode) list prices of 18 Oct 2026 (USD)
- Exoscale list prices of 18 Oct 2026 (EUR)
- UpCloud list prices of 18 Oct 2026 (EUR)
- Hetzner (US) list prices of 18 Oct 2026 (USD)
Machine-readable at /api/index. The rules are on the model page.
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