Hetzner Object Storage
- Free allowance
- Up to 100 buckets, each up to 100 TB / 50 million objects; 5 TB max per object; regions FSN1/HEL1/NBG1
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- USD 7.25/TB-monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap5 TB max per object
- Evidence
- documented20 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-21checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-21
| Free tier | Up to 100 buckets, each up to 100 TB / 50 million objects; 5 TB max per object; regions FSN1/HEL1/NBG1 unit TB; metered on unstated |
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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 |
| Limits |
billed for every hour at least one bucket exists, even if empty; minimum billable object size 64 kB; 10 Gbit/s per bucket for reads or writes; 5 GB per single PUT and per multipart part, up to 10,000 parts; 8 kB of metadata per object |
| 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 |
| Per-object cap | 5 TB max per object (5000000000000 bytes) |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | s3-compatible, rclone, cli S3 API |
| Tooling | AWS CLI, rclone, all S3 SDKs |
| Composes with | S3 origin; internal traffic within the eu-central network zone is free of charge, so a Hetzner Cloud server in that zone reads the buckets without egress charges |
| Reliability | LowEndTalk scepticism: "bandwidth limit is per bucket (not per object) and the pricing is based on 1TB increments it makes feel that it's just a fancy wrapped single-node storage with S3 compatibility, rather than actual distributed object storage". |
| Evidence note | documented The page states the number in the record; the claim is documented, not measured. |
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Evidence 20
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/ | the object storage page and its price row answer. Re-read https://www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/: HTTP 200, 7102 bytes, sha256 165549bb8b5db4ee. |
| 2026-10-21 | www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/ | "base price of EUR 6.49 per month... includes 1 TB of storage (up to 744 TB-hours) and 1 TB of egress traffic"; overage "Storage: EUR 0.0087 per hour per TB-hour. Egress traffic: EUR 1.0000 per hour per TB"; 64 KB minimum billable object size |
| 2026-10-21 | docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/overview/ | egress quota accumulates hourly (max 1.1160 TB in a 31-day month); free traffic classes = ingress, internal eu-central, S3 API calls; quota does not carry over |
| 2026-10-21 | fsn1.your-objectstorage.com/ | endpoint probe -> 200, https://hel1.your-objectstorage.com/ -> 200, https://nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/ -> 200 (s3.hetzner.com does not resolve) |
| 2026-10-21 | lowendtalk.com/discussion/197903/hetzner-launches-object-sto | "traffic to other resources within the same region is free. So you can route egress via a Hetzner Cloud VM to get 20TB" |
| 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 | 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 | www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/ | part of the text of Composes with, above |
| 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/ | 750 requests/s per source IP; the same list gives 750 requests/s per bucket |
| 2026-10-30 | docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/overview/ | 256 parallel TCP sessions per source IP |
| 2026-10-30 | www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/ | 100 buckets per account, each up to 100 TB and 50 million objects |
| 2026-10-30 | docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/overview/ | 10 Gbit/s per bucket; the same section gives the 64 kB minimum billable object size and the PUT, part and metadata limits |
| 2026-10-30 | docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/overview/ | the per-object cap is 5 TB; the page also documents the 1 TB included egress quota and the S3 API endpoints |
| 2026-10-30 | docs.hetzner.com/general/billing-and-account-management/acco | registration needs a valid email address, personal or business contact information and a billing address, with a phone number optional for advanced verification |
| 2026-11-01 | www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/ | the base price is EUR 6.49 a month, excluding VAT |
| 2026-11-01 | www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/ | up to 100 buckets per account, each up to 100 TB and 50 million objects |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/overview/ | the per-object cap is 5 TB |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/overview/ | the request-rate cap is 750 requests/s per source IP |
More fields 2
| price verbatim | $8.06/TB at 5 TB stored + 5 TB egress (EUR 35.89 = $40.32); $8.21/TB at 20 TB stored + 20 TB egress (EUR 146.16 = $164.19). Roughly 3.6x the Storage Box for the same bytes. |
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| verified | [{"url": "https://www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/","date": "2026-10-22","via": null,"http_status": 200,"bytes": 7102,"sha256": "165549bb8b5db4eed914109733b559cbb78bf3f864f0612427c545a368629598","pattern_found": true,"what_changed": "no change: the page still states the claim","capture": null}] |
Unknown values 3
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
Corrections
- 2026-10-22 EUR 8.21 per TB was the dollar figure, and the ratio built on it was the wrong ratio