Moderate to move
Cloud Run on Hetzner: what it becomes and what it costs.
On Hetzner, Cloud Run becomes Knative or OpenFaaS on k3s or Knative on k3s / Talos on Hetzner Cloud servers. Knative is what Cloud Run runs; scale-to-zero needs a cluster.
Effort grade
Moderate
Same software, self-hosted: you patch, back up and fix it
Cost after the move, before engineer time
30% of today
$0.000024 per vCPU-second is about $63 per always-on vCPU; a CX33 (4 vCPU) is €8.49, so 30% with scale-to-zero traffic patterns.
Engineer time
6 h a month
To run the replacement: patching, backups, on-call. Plus about 5 engineer days for the move itself.
Your own Cloud Run line, from your export
Drop one month of your Google Cloud cost export and the report prices every service, Cloud Run included, on Hetzner list prices of 17 Oct 2026, net of the engineer time to run it. In your browser; nothing is uploaded.