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 2026-11-25checked 2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-25
| 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 | The corpus's long-standing 'CX22 at about EUR 3.79, the default cheap VPS' is wrong today: the rung is CX23 at EUR 5.99 excl. 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. Recorded as over_line because ceiling is USD 5.00 |
| 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' |
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"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": false,
"over_line": true,
"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": true,
"ipv6": true,
"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.statedthe field does not apply to this kind of offer