Hetzner, CX23 (Cost-Optimized, shared vCPU)
- Free allowance
- No free tier; the cheapest cloud server is 'from EUR 5.99 per month, excl.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- USD 6.7/monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota20 TB a month of included traffic
- Evidence
- documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-24checked 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
| Free tier | no free tier; the cheapest cloud server is 'from EUR 5.99 per month, excl. VAT' unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits | |
| Binding | volume-quota the price is what fails here, not the quota: 20 TB is the most generous traffic allowance and the reason the rows above it are worth their premium. |
| Identity | card an account with a payment method. |
| Egress | 'Traffic inclusive 20 TB'; additional traffic at EU-Central locations is charged per TB (the extracted sentence renders the unit as 'per hour' but the sentence is about each additional TB) free allowance: 20 TB price per tb: not recorded: the extracted text renders the per-TB rate with a per-hour unit and the number was not confirmed against the raw page |
| Retention | the server is billed until deleted: 'We will bill you for each cloud server until you choose to delete them.' |
| Interface | ssh, rest root SSH, the Hetzner Cloud Console, and the Hetzner Cloud API |
| Tooling | any SSH client; hcloud CLI and API; the widest third-party tooling of any host |
| Composes with | the default daily driver if the budget moves, but not at today's price |
| Reliability | the plan is listed as 'not available' on the vendor's own cost-optimized page at read time, and the page says of this tier: 'this resource-saving use means that the number of available servers is limited' |
| Notes | VAT, which is USD 6.70 at the ECB rate, and the page marks it 'not available'. The ARM rung CAX11 has moved to EUR 6.49. |
| Evidence note | documented price, shape, traffic and availability are quoted from the vendor page read; the per-TB overage rate is not recorded because the extracted unit was ambiguous. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | www.hetzner.com/cloud/cost-optimized/ | quoted: 'CX23 not available 2 Intel/AMD 4 GB 40 GB NVMe from /month EUR 5.99 per month, excl. VAT' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.hetzner.com/cloud/cost-optimized/ | quoted: 'Traffic inclusive 20 TB' and 'Cloud servers located in the EU include at least 20 TB of included traffic' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.hetzner.com/cloud/cost-optimized/ | quoted for the ARM rung: 'CAX11 not available 2 Ampere 4 GB 40 GB NVMe from /month EUR 6.49 per month, excl. VAT' |
More fields 19
| shape | {"vcpu": 2,"ram_gib": 4,"disk_gib": 40,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null} |
|---|---|
| billing model | hourly with a monthly cap |
| term | monthly (hourly billing, capped at the monthly price) |
| m10h usd | 6.7 |
| m24h usd | 6.7 |
| price arithmetic | EUR 5.99/month excl. VAT x 1.1193 = USD 6.70/month; hourly EUR 0.0096 x 730 = EUR 7.01, so the monthly cap binds |
| out of pocket usd | 6.7 |
| renewal usd | 6.7 |
| renewal note | monthly price, no contract; the vendor bills monthly at the listed rate |
| promo | no |
| over line | yes |
| stock | 'not available' on the vendor page |
| fx | {"pair": "EUR/USD","rate": 1.1193,"date": "2026-10-23","source": "ECB reference via frankfurter.app"} |
| port mbps | 1000 |
| ipv4 included | yes |
| ipv6 | yes |
| free tier kind | none |
| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": true,"ports": "all","static_ip": true,"ipv6": true,"per_session_bytes": null} |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "none; it is a VPS"} |
Unknown values 1
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer