CloudExitCalc vs the Other Cloud Exit Calculators (2026)

If you search "cloud exit calculator" right now, you get a surprisingly crowded page. Some tools only price egress. Some are built to start a sales conversation for a managed service. A couple are genuinely detailed repatriation models.

We built CloudExitCalc, so we're obviously not neutral. But we went through every tool on the first page, and we'll tell you where each one is better than ours. Pick whichever fits your question.

Quick comparison: cloud exit calculators at a glance

The cloud exit calculators, one by one

CloudExit Pro (cloudexit.pro)

CloudExit Pro is really a migration service rather than a self-serve calculator. We couldn't find a standalone calculator page that loaded when we checked in late October 2026, so we're going off the main site. Their pitch is clear and kind of refreshing: they move you to bare metal (Hetzner, OVH, Equinix, Vultr or your own colo) and charge a percentage of what you save, with nothing to pay if the bill doesn't drop. They also offer data migration and managed operations.

Who it suits: teams who already believe the numbers and want experienced hands to do the actual migration.

DevOps Squad (devopssquad.dev)

DevOps Squad's "Infrastruktur Arbitrage Calculator" compares AWS, GCP and Azure instances against Hetzner dedicated servers and comes as a free Google Sheet with no email required. The strongest thing about the page is its honesty: the example table includes their managed platform retainer, and they say plainly that below roughly $4k a month of cloud spend the retainer outweighs the savings. They also suggest keeping stateful data on the cloud at first and moving stateless compute.

Who it suits: mid-size and larger teams thinking about a managed Kubernetes platform on Hetzner rather than running it themselves.

EscapeCloud (escapecloud.io)

This one answers a different question. EscapeCloud estimates what it costs to produce the exit-strategy evidence regulators like DORA and FINMA expect, not what it costs to move. Every assumption (day rates, person-days, multi-provider multipliers) is published and editable, which we really like. They're upfront that migration itself is excluded.

Who it suits: EU financial services and other regulated firms who need an exit plan on paper, whether or not they ever leave.

SovereignSky (sovereignsky.eu)

SovereignSky's exit cost calculator takes your monthly spend, current provider, data volume, VM count and how many proprietary services you rely on, then estimates exit cost and break-even against a European sovereign cloud. Including proprietary services as an input is a smart touch, because lock-in is often where the real cost hides. It's described as a ballpark based on industry averages, with a paid analysis as the next step.

Who it suits: European teams where data sovereignty is as important as price.

ExitCost (exitcost.com)

Honestly, ExitCost is the most thorough free model on this list. It prices the one-time egress bill (including the hyperscalers' free-egress-for-leaving programmes and faster transfer options), maps your setup piece by piece onto Hetzner, Scaleway, OVHcloud and Exoscale, handles Snowflake and Databricks data, and works out payback using engineering days, day rates and months running both setups. It runs entirely in your browser and the whole calculation lives in a shareable link.

Who it suits: engineers doing serious due diligence on an EU cloud move who have time to fill in a lot of fields.

EgressCost (egresscost.com)

If your question is purely "what is my cloud egress bill?", EgressCost is the one to use. It applies each provider's real tier table, handles the fact that AWS, Google and Azure don't even agree on what a TB is, and shows the source page and date for every rate. It covers AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, Wasabi, Hetzner, Vultr, Linode, DigitalOcean Spaces, OVHcloud and more.

Who it suits: anyone who needs a precise cloud egress cost calculator, especially for storage-heavy or download-heavy apps.

barddoo (barddoo.com)

barddoo's calculator compares three ways out: Hetzner VPS, rented dedicated servers (from the server auction) and buying your own servers for colocation. What sets it apart is that it includes people: extra ops engineers, migration effort in engineer-months, payback and 3-year totals. It even points out that at a $5,000 monthly bill none of the options pay back within three years with default staffing. That kind of candour is rare. It also has a smaller "just move object storage to R2" option.

Who it suits: teams weighing real cloud repatriation costs, including hiring, over several years.

Maple-Hosting egress calculator (maple-hosting.com)

Maple-Hosting's cloud egress cost calculator takes your throughput or monthly TB, estimates AWS, Google Cloud and Azure egress at published July 2026 rates, and puts it next to a flat-price dedicated server with unmetered bandwidth. It shows the rate tables it uses and is clear that it covers egress only, not compute or storage.

Who it suits: streaming, download and other bandwidth-heavy workloads where egress is the main pain.

Ark Cloud Calculator (arkdna.com)

Ark's calculator lets you pick a Small, Medium or Large baseline or enter VMs, vCPUs, RAM, storage and add-ons like firewalls, load balancers and backups. It compares public cloud against Ark's managed private cloud and leans on labour savings as the big driver. Ark says it's a rough baseline and final pricing comes after a workload review.

Who it suits: organisations that want a fully managed private cloud rather than running their own servers.

Where CloudExitCalc stands out

CloudExitCalc is deliberately quick. It won't out-detail ExitCost or barddoo, and we'd rather say that than pretend. Here's what it does well.

More than an egress number

Lots of tools on this page stop at egress. CloudExitCalc breaks your estimate into compute, database and egress savings, then suggests a matching Hetzner cluster for the same workload, so you see a rough whole-bill picture rather than one line item.

Three ways to enter your setup, including multi-cloud

You can paste in your monthly bill, enter specs (vCPUs, RAM, NVMe storage and egress TB per month), or use the multi-cloud mode to combine spend across providers. It supports AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, DigitalOcean, Linode and Vultr, plus dedicated pages for things like AWS RDS, NAT gateway egress, Cloud SQL and Supabase.

A shareable results card

Your result turns into a plain-English savings card you can copy as text or share straight to X. Handy when you need to make the case to a cofounder or your boss without sending a spreadsheet.

A plain-English Hetzner explainer

The "Why Hetzner?" section explains who Hetzner is (a German company operating since 1997 with its own data centres) and why it can be so much cheaper than the hyperscalers. One honest note on traffic: Hetzner Cloud servers include 20 TB a month in the EU (Falkenstein, Nuremberg, Helsinki), 1 to 5 TB in the US (Ashburn, Hillsboro) and 0.5 to 5 TB in Singapore, depending on plan. Extra traffic is about $1.20/TB in the EU and US and about $8.49/TB in Singapore, so check the current terms for your region.

Script previews if you decide to go

You can preview real Terraform, RDS to Postgres, Cloudflare R2 and WireGuard scripts on the page. There's an optional paid migration pack if you want the full set, but the calculator itself is free with no signup.

What CloudExitCalc doesn't do (yet)

It doesn't model migration labour, extra ops headcount, payback months or one-time egress for moving your data out, and it only targets Hetzner. If those matter for your decision, run your numbers through ExitCost or barddoo as well. Using two calculators is a pretty good sanity check anyway.

Cloud exit calculator FAQ

What is a cloud exit calculator?

It's a tool that estimates what you'd pay, or save, by moving workloads off a public cloud like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud to another provider, dedicated servers or your own hardware.

How much does it cost to leave AWS?

It depends on three things: your data volume (one-time egress, though AWS offers an egress waiver for customers leaving, with conditions), the engineering time to migrate, and what you run afterwards. Many teams find the ongoing compute and bandwidth savings are larger than the one-off move, but that's not guaranteed, especially at smaller bills.

What's the difference between a cloud egress cost calculator and a cloud repatriation cost calculator?

An egress calculator prices data leaving the cloud. A repatriation calculator tries to price the whole move: new servers, people, migration time and payback. EgressCost and Maple-Hosting are egress tools. ExitCost and barddoo are closer to full repatriation models. CloudExitCalc sits in between as a quick savings estimate.

Are these calculators accurate?

They're all estimates. Reserved instances, savings plans, negotiated discounts and your actual architecture can move the numbers a lot. Treat any calculator as a starting point, then check provider pricing pages yourself.

Is it free to use CloudExitCalc?

Yes. The calculator is free and needs no account or email.

Try it on your own bill

If you want a quick sense of what your AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Linode or Vultr setup might cost on Hetzner, give CloudExitCalc a go. It takes about a minute. Then, if the number looks interesting, dig deeper with one of the more detailed tools above.

Disclaimer

All figures from CloudExitCalc and every tool mentioned here are estimates only. Nothing in this post is financial, legal, tax or engineering advice. Competitor details are based on their public pages as viewed in October 2026 and may have changed since. Pricing, free allowances and exit programmes change often, so always verify current pricing and terms directly with each provider before making a decision. CloudExitCalc accepts no liability for decisions made using this information. All trademarks belong to their respective owners, and we're not affiliated with any of the companies listed.