Hetzner Storage Box BX11 — 1 TB, €3.20/mo
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
storage/hetzner-storage-box-bx11-1-tb-3-20-mosays paid-only, storage/hetzner-storage-box-bx11-bx21-bx31 says qualifies
- Free allowance
- No free allowance. Priced plans per month, excl.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- USD 2.27/TB-monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota1, 5, 10 or 20 TB per Storage Box (BX11 to BX41)
- Evidence
- documented12 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | No free allowance. Priced plans per month, excl. VAT: BX11 1 TB at € 3.20, BX21 5 TB at € 10.90, BX31 10 TB at € 20.80, BX41 20 TB at € 40.60. Traffic is unlimited on every plan. unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | EUR 2.03 per TB per month on BX41 (20 TB, EUR 40.60); EUR 2.08 on BX31 (10 TB, EUR 20.80); EUR 2.18 on BX21 (5 TB, EUR 10.90); EUR 3.20 on BX11 (1 TB); excl. VAT. |
| Limits |
10 concurrent connections is the binding limit, not bytes — a parallel-GET benchmark will be shaped by connection count: 32 parallel ranged GETs cannot be opened here, only 10. 10 snapshots. No per-file cap published. |
| Binding | volume-quota the largest plan is 20 TB, too small for 20 TiB of data (about 22 TB); the page does not say whether TB means 10^12 or 2^40 bytes. |
| Identity | card payment methods: bank transfer, credit card, Paypal and SEPA direct debit (SEPA-country accounts); the registration fields are unverified: behind a sign-up. |
| Egress | Unlimited traffic on every plan ('Each Storage Box comes with unlimited traffic'); capacity is the only billed axis. Concurrent connections are limited to 10. |
| Per-object cap | No per-file cap published |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | webdav, sftp, ftps, ftp, scp, rsync, smb, ssh, rclone sftp |
| Tooling | 10 concurrent connections, 10 snapshots, 100 sub-accounts. |
| Composes with | No free allowance; priced benchmark: a 20 TB archive costs € 40.60 per month excl. VAT on BX41, 10 TB costs € 20.80 on BX31. |
| Reliability | RAID with checksums, explicitly NOT mirrored off-site ('The data is not mirrored onto other servers'). Snapshots can be automated. Long-standing German host; no data-loss pattern in these forums. |
| Evidence note | documented the 2026-11-03 evidence rows read the vendor pages https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ (plan prices, storage sizes, unlimited traffic, 10 concurrent connections, payment methods) and https://docs.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/general/ (unlimited traffic); the sign-up fields, per-file cap and retention were not read on 2026-11-03 |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 12
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ | 'BX11 … € 3.20 per month, excl. VAT … € 0.0051 per hour'; 'BX21 … € 10.90'; 'BX31 … € 20.80'; 'BX41 … € 40.60' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/bx11/ | '10 concurrent connections … BorgBackup / rsync via SSH / Restic / Rclone'; 'The data is not mirrored onto other servers' |
| 2026-10-21 | hostloc.com/thread-1305667-1-1.html | Chinese forum thread '最实惠的文件备份存储空间 Hetzner Storage Boxes' (the same conclusion reached independently on Hostloc before it closed) |
| 2026-11-03 | www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ | BX11 costs 3.20 EUR per month excl. VAT |
| 2026-11-03 | www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ | part of the text of Free tier, above |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/general/ | part of the text of Free tier, above |
| 2026-11-03 | www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ | BX41 costs 40.60 EUR per month for 20 TB |
| 2026-11-03 | www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ | BX31 costs 20.80 EUR per month for 10 TB |
| 2026-11-03 | www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ | plan sizes run from 1 TB to 20 TB |
| 2026-11-03 | www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ | the listed payment methods |
| 2026-11-03 | www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ | BX21 costs 10.90 EUR per month for 5 TB |
| 2026-11-03 | www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ | 10 concurrent connections on every plan |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "paid","why": "BX11 = 1 TB at €3.20/month excl. VAT (€0.0051/hr). Ladder: BX21 5 TB €10.90, BX31 10 TB €20.80, BX41 20 TB €40.60. Zero setup fee on every tier. No free tier of any size.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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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