Moderate to move
Cloud SQL on Hetzner: what it becomes and what it costs.
On Hetzner, Cloud SQL becomes PostgreSQL / MySQL on Hetzner Cloud servers (Patroni or replicas, pgBackRest). Same engines. On Hetzner you run it yourself; where the destination sells the managed engine (DigitalOcean, OVHcloud and Scaleway for most of them) it costs roughly twice the bare server, still well under today's price.
Effort grade
Moderate
Same software, self-hosted: you patch, back up and fix it
Cost after the move, before engineer time
40% of today
db-custom-2-8192 is about $0.14/h = $100/mo; a CX33 (4 vCPU, 8 GB) is €8.49; with HA, storage and backups, 40%.
Engineer time
6 h a month
To run the replacement: patching, backups, on-call. Plus about 5 engineer days for the move itself.
Other ways to replace it
The report lets you pick any of these per service; the figure and the grade follow.
Managed PostgreSQL / MySQL at Hetzner
Where Hetzner sells the managed engine, backups, failover and patching stay someone else's job. Roughly twice the bare server, still well under today's price.
55% of today · Easy
Hosted Postgres elsewhere (Neon, Supabase, Crunchy Bridge)
A managed Postgres vendor next to Hetzner: no operations, a modest saving, and cross-provider latency to watch.
80% of today · Easy
Your own Cloud SQL line, from your export
Drop one month of your Google Cloud cost export and the report prices every service, Cloud SQL included, on Hetzner list prices of 17 Oct 2026, net of the engineer time to run it. In your browser; nothing is uploaded.