Skip to main content

Hetzner CX23

Falkenstein DC Park 1

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 26, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
653
Faster than 8% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,193
Faster than 5% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
38,471
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$6.49
184 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Hetzner
  • Plan
    CX23
  • Location
    Falkenstein DC Park 1
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
    40 GB NVMe
  • Network
    Unknown
  • OS image
    ubuntu-24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 24, 2026, 08:06:00 UTC
Visit Hetzner

CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 653 1,193 Geekbench Browser

Scores from different Geekbench versions aren't comparable with each other. Charts only use Geekbench 7.

Geekbench 7 workloads

Workload Single-core Multi-core
File Compression
696
98th of 110
1,119
59th of 60
Navigation
834
93rd of 110
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
730
90th of 110
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
785
94th of 110
Single-core only
Photo Library
566
96th of 110
1,146
57th of 60
Clang
692
93rd of 110
1,397
54th of 60
Text Processing
666
95th of 110
1,230
55th of 60
Asset Compression
537
102nd of 110
1,092
60th of 60
HDR
634
97th of 110
1,030
59th of 60
Photo Editor
620
95th of 110
1,465
53rd of 60
Ray Tracer
604
100th of 110
1,132
60th of 60
Structure from Motion
696
100th of 110
Single-core only
Game Physics
561
98th of 110
Single-core only
Video Encoder
604
97th of 110
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
654
99th of 110
Single-core only
Video Player
634
95th of 110
Single-core only

Rank among the 110 runs with Geekbench 7 workload scores. Bars are relative to the best run. Geekbench doesn't run every workload multi-core, so some rows only have a single-core score.

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 75 MB/s (19,210 IOPS) 75.2 MB/s (19,261 IOPS) 150.3 MB/s (38,471 IOPS)
64K 706.1 MB/s (11,296 IOPS) 709.8 MB/s (11,356 IOPS) 1.38 GB/s (22,652 IOPS)
512K 1.33 GB/s (2,716 IOPS) 1.4 GB/s (2,860 IOPS) 2.72 GB/s (5,576 IOPS)
1M 1.36 GB/s (1,396 IOPS) 1.45 GB/s (1,489 IOPS) 2.82 GB/s (2,885 IOPS)

fio random read and write, 50/50, run by YABS against the boot disk.

Network

IPv4 transfer speed

Loading...
Target Protocol Send Receive
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 3.5 Gbps 4.14 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 2.45 Gbps 2.57 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 1.35 Gbps 1.39 Gbps

Public iperf3 servers vary in capacity and availability. Compare a target only with itself over time.

Application workloads

PostgreSQL transactions

Measured

Durable transfers and indexed account lookups against a fixed relational dataset.

RepeatOffered / stransactions/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
11001008.48 / 9.570 / 0Met workload limits
1500498.797.41 / 10.560 / 218Met workload limits
11000997.687.49 / 22.910 / 416Met workload limits
130002975.543.3 / 118.830 / 4401latency limit exceeded
21001008.29 / 9.470 / 0Met workload limits
2500498.777.33 / 9.680 / 220Met workload limits
21000992.677 / 10.680 / 1319Met workload limits
230002978.8716.04 / 71.140 / 3793Met workload limits

p95 ≤ 50 ms · p99 ≤ 100 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

PostgreSQL large dataset

Failed

The same transaction mix against ten million accounts; the dataset never shrinks to fit a plan.

RuntimeError: RuntimeError: TimeoutError:

p95 ≤ 100 ms · p99 ≤ 250 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Redis cache

Measured

A mixed cache workload with 1 KiB values, expiration, misses and eviction.

RepeatOffered / soperations/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
1100010002.02 / 2.650 / 0Met workload limits
150004999.981.87 / 2.330 / 0Met workload limits
1100009995.41.52 / 2.790 / 822Met workload limits
12500023917.8712.16 / 15.540 / 194671latency limit exceeded
2100010001.9 / 2.170 / 0Met workload limits
250004999.971.9 / 2.30 / 0Met workload limits
2100009995.321.55 / 2.870 / 832Met workload limits
22500024219.4311.65 / 15.060 / 140489latency limit exceeded

p95 ≤ 10 ms · p99 ≤ 25 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Redis persistent queue

Measured

Enqueue, consume and acknowledge payloads with append-only persistence.

RepeatOffered / sjobs/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
11001004.82 / 5.760 / 0Met workload limits
15005003.63 / 4.650 / 0Met workload limits
11000999.993.77 / 5.060 / 0Met workload limits
130002999.986.54 / 11.40 / 0Met workload limits
21001004.76 / 5.620 / 0Met workload limits
25005003.68 / 4.70 / 0Met workload limits
21000999.993.77 / 5.30 / 0Met workload limits
230002999.886.32 / 11.40 / 18Met workload limits

p95 ≤ 20 ms · p99 ≤ 50 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Discourse community

Failed

Signed-in reading, search, posting and replies in a populated Rails forum.

RuntimeError: RuntimeError: ValueError: GET /session/csrf returned HTTP 503

p95 ≤ 1500 ms · p99 ≤ 3000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

n8n workflows

Measured

Webhook, transformation, branching and a verified final response.

RepeatOffered / sworkflows/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
15555.82 / 83.590 / 0Met workload limits
1202050.44 / 202.060 / 0Met workload limits
15007013.92 / 7013.926625 / 2375no completed operations
110007013.92 / 7013.926656 / 11344no completed operations
25554.15 / 69.020 / 0Met workload limits
2202049.93 / 172.170 / 0Met workload limits
2501.097013.92 / 7013.926422 / 2375latency limit exceeded
210007013.92 / 7013.927136 / 10864no completed operations

p95 ≤ 1000 ms · p99 ≤ 2000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

n8n queue workers

Measured

Completed queued workflows including waiting time and worker execution.

RepeatOffered / sworkflows/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
15577.9 / 117.650 / 0Met workload limits
12020353.5 / 824.90 / 0Met workload limits
15016.999085.12 / 9085.122615 / 3213latency limit exceeded
110016.019085.12 / 9085.122473 / 12527latency limit exceeded
25571.14 / 103.250 / 0Met workload limits
22020146.68 / 346.510 / 0Met workload limits
25029.29085.12 / 9085.12417 / 3137latency limit exceeded
210025.839085.12 / 9085.12989 / 12178latency limit exceeded

p95 ≤ 2000 ms · p99 ≤ 4000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Ghost publishing

Measured

Readers, authenticated draft creation, publishing and image uploads.

RepeatOffered / sjourneys/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
155703.34 / 784.820 / 0Met workload limits
12017.557013.92 / 7013.92355 / 0latency limit exceeded
1500.77013.92 / 7013.926494 / 2375latency limit exceeded
11000.677013.92 / 7013.926594 / 11281latency limit exceeded
255724.69 / 884.480 / 0Met workload limits
22017.587013.92 / 7013.92355 / 0latency limit exceeded
2500.747013.92 / 7013.926487 / 2375latency limit exceeded
21000.657013.92 / 7013.926590 / 11288latency limit exceeded

p95 ≤ 1000 ms · p99 ≤ 2000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Formbricks / Next.js

Failed

Public survey rendering, persisted responses and authenticated analysis.

RuntimeError: RuntimeError: TimeoutError:

p95 ≤ 1000 ms · p99 ≤ 2000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

GitHub self-hosted runner

Insufficient RAM

A pinned build and test workflow with separate cold and warm dependency caches.

Requires 8192 MiB RAM; plan has 4096 MiB, 3819 MiB detected.

p95 ≤ 3600000 ms · p99 ≤ 3600000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Odoo Community sales

Failed

Customer lookup, sales order confirmation, stock operations and reporting.

RuntimeError: fixture command in rc-odoo failed: -packages/odoo/cli/shell.py", line 148, in shell self.console(local_vars) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/odoo/cli/shell.py", line 82, in console exec(sys.stdin.read(), local_vars) File "<string>", line 1, in <module> PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/rc-seed.py'

p95 ≤ 2000 ms · p99 ≤ 4000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Shared vCPU 0% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 4 GB 3.7 GiB
Storage 40 GB NVMe 37.5 GiB
Architecture x86_64 x86_64
Virtualization KVM KVM

Guests usually report slightly less RAM and disk than advertised because of kernel reservations and filesystem overhead.

Detected hardware

CPU model
Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
2295 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
No
RAM reported
3.7 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
37.5 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-138-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
CX23
Product line
cost_optimized
Location
Falkenstein DC Park 1
vCPU
2 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
4 GB
Storage
40 GB NVMe
Virtualization
KVM
Network
Unknown
Transfer
21.99 TB
Port 25
On request
Monthly price at test time
$6.49
Hourly price at test time
$0.010
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 26, 2026, 19:04:38 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 24, 2026, 08:06:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 26, 2026, 19:03:41 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 26, 2026, 19:03:41 UTC
Completed
Oct 26, 2026, 23:59:26 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 26, 2026, 23:59:26 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.051
TestResultTime
GitHub self-hosted runner Requires 8192 MiB RAM; plan has 4096 MiB, 3819 MiB detected. Not run Requires 8192 MiB RAM; plan has 4096 MiB, 3819 MiB detected.
Watch party 0 watching

This party closed at . It's read only now.

Watch party

Loading the party