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Overage verbatim: \"Egress traffic: EUR 1.0000 per hour... per TB\". Ingress, internal eu-central traffic, and all S3 API calls are free.","metered":true,"free_allowance":"1 TB per month"},"interface":["s3-compatible","rclone","cli"],"interface_detail":"S3 API","tooling":"AWS CLI, rclone, all S3 SDKs","chaining":"S3 origin","limits":[{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"5 TB max per object","source":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/"}],"limits_note":"Base price EUR 6.49/mo billed hourly at EUR 0.0104/h, charged for every hour a bucket exists even if empty. Storage overage EUR 0.0087 per TB-hour (= EUR 6.35/TB/month). Minimum billable object size 64 KB — pathological for small files.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"card","country":null},"reliability_note":"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\".","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"re-read from read-broker on 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200, 7102 bytes, sha256 165549bb8b5db4ee). The page states the number in the record; the claim is documented, not measured.","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the object storage page and its price row answer. Re-read https://www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/: HTTP 200, 7102 bytes, sha256 165549bb8b5db4ee."},{"url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"\"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"},{"url":"https://docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/overview/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"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"},{"url":"https://fsn1.your-objectstorage.com/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"endpoint probe -> 200, https://hel1.your-objectstorage.com/ -> 200, https://nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/ -> 200 (s3.hetzner.com does not resolve)"},{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/197903/hetzner-launches-object-storage-6-50-tb/p2","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"\"traffic to other resources within the same region is free. So you can route egress via a Hetzner Cloud VM to get 20TB\""}],"verdict":"qualifies","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"$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.","notes":"Up to 100 buckets, each up to 100 TB / 50 million objects; 5 TB max per object; regions FSN1/HEL1/NBG1","extras":{"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). 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