hetzner object storage (as the kms alternative to storage box)
- Free allowance
- No free allowance: a EUR 6.49 a month base price (excl.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- USD 7.25/TB-monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented7 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-30checked 2026-10-30 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-30
| Free tier | no free allowance: a EUR 6.49 a month base price (excl. VAT) includes 1 TB of storage and 1 TB of egress; storage and egress beyond it are billed pay-as-you-go unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | EUR 6.49 a month base price, billed at EUR 0.0104 an hour for every hour at least one bucket exists, including 1 TB of storage (up to 744 TB-hours) and 1 TB of egress; storage beyond it EUR 0.0087 per TB-hour, about EUR 6.47 per TB in a 744-hour month; egress beyond it EUR 1.0000 per TB; prices exclude VAT |
| Identity | card before an order is processed the account may have to be verified with a copy of a valid government-issued ID (ID card or passport) or with an advance payment from the holder's own credit card; registrants are asked not to use a free email address or a VPN service |
| Egress | the base price includes 1 TB of egress a month for the whole account, accumulated hourly (at most 1.1160 TB in a 31-day month) and not carried over to the next month; ingress, internal traffic within the eu-central network zone and S3 operations such as PUT, GET and DELETE are free, but the egress those operations cause is billed free allowance: 1 TB per month price per tb: EUR 1.0000 per TB beyond the included quota, excl. VAT |
| Interface | s3-compatible S3-compatible API at the fsn1, nbg1 and hel1 your-objectstorage.com endpoints |
| Tooling | not recorded |
| Reliability | The guide that surfaced it states the comparison directly. |
| Evidence note | documented the price, the included quota and the locations are quoted from the first-party product page, the egress rules and endpoints from the first-party documentation, and the verification gate from the first-party fraud prevention FAQ |
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Evidence 7
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | docs.aeroftp.app/providers/hetzner-storage-box | the text of Reliability, above |
| 2026-10-30 | www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/ | the EUR 6.49 base price (EUR 0.0104 an hour) includes 1 TB of storage and 1 TB of egress; overage is EUR 0.0087 per TB-hour stored and EUR 1.0000 per TB of egress, excl. VAT |
| 2026-10-30 | docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/overview/ | the included egress accrues hourly to at most 1.1160 TB in a 31-day month; unused quota expires at month end; ingress, eu-central internal traffic and S3 operations are free, the egress they cause is not |
| 2026-10-30 | docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/overview/ | egress beyond the included quota has a price, so traffic out is metered |
| 2026-10-30 | www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/ | the egress overage rate is EUR 1.0000, printed under Egress traffic with the unit per TB on the next line |
| 2026-10-30 | docs.hetzner.com/general/security-and-identify/fraud-prevent | the account may have to be verified before an order with an ID document or a prepayment from the holder's own credit card; the page asks registrants not to use free email addresses or VPNs |
| 2026-10-30 | docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/overview/ | the interface is the S3 API at the fsn1, nbg1 and hel1 your-objectstorage.com endpoints |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "paid","why": "The guide that surfaced it states the comparison directly.","retry_when": "if a free allowance is added","first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 5
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field