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The overage rate is published as EUR 1.00 per additional TB; Corrected 2026-10-22: the record states no free tier exists, so the verdict is paid-only. docs/conventions/README.md defines paid-only as 'it was never free' and the earlier verdict treated a cheap paid shape as a qualified free one. Corrected 2026-10-24: m24h_usd read 6.49, which is Hetzner's own USD conversion of the same CX23 plan, while the corpus converts the published EUR 5.99 at the recorded 1.1193 and gets 6.70. Both figures are on the record; the corpus convention is the EUR figure, so 6.70 is the value and 6.49 is retained in evidence. The plan-level record is hetzner-cx23. PAYMENT CORRECTION 2026-10-24: the payment-method list, the absence of a debit card from it, and the ID-or-prepayment verification are documented on the vendor's own docs domain. 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Hetzner's own price-adjustment table prints the same plan as 'USD 0.0104 an hour or USD 6.49 a month excluding IPv4 and VAT', so the 0.21 gap is Hetzner's FX rate against the recorded 1.1193, not a different machine.","burst_x":2,"burst_bill":"min 1 h","wave2":{"verdict_change":"qualifies -> paid-only on 2026-10-22 (enum conformance)","merged_agents":["micro-floor"],"merged_evidence_rows":3,"merged_note":"CX23 on the Cost-Optimized line: 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe, EUR 5.99/month excluding VAT or EUR 0.0096/hour, with 20 TB of traffic included at EU locations. The plan shows 'not available' in the eu-central locations NBG1 and HEL1 at the time of reading."},"payment_methods":{"card_at_signup":"yes","debit":"not-stated","prepaid":"not-stated","virtual":"not-stated","hold_amount":null,"hold_detail":"no hold amount published","identity":"government-issued ID or an advance credit-card payment, at Hetzner's discretion","source_url":"https://docs.hetzner.com/general/billing-and-account-management/billing-at-hetzner/payment-overview/","read_on":"2026-10-24"}},"binding":"per-ip-shaping","binding_note":"20 TB a month of included traffic is the term that binds for a serving workload, at EUR 1.00 per extra TB","confidence_note":"Payment facts re-read on 2026-10-24: the card types, the hold and the identity gate each come from a first-party page quoted in evidence[]."},"claims":[{"path":"$.extras.m10h_usd","kind":"price","num":3.12,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":3.12,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.extras.m24h_usd","kind":"price","num":6.7,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":6.7,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-ip-shaping","num":20,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:per-object-cap","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"]],"history":[{"hid":"history/2026-10-22T150200Z/compute-paid-only-enum-conformance.md","when":"2026-10-22T15:02:00Z","status":"corrected","title":"Four records said 'no free tier' and still carried a qualifies verdict"}],"drift":[]}