Hetzner Cloud (paid)
- Free allowance
- We only bill for outgoing traffic.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota20 TB a month of included outgoing traffic per server, then billed per 100 MB block
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | We only bill for outgoing traffic. Incoming and internal traffic is free. unit TB; metered on downloaded-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | paid; no credit |
| Limits |
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| Binding | volume-quota the 20 TB a month bundle is eighteen times 1 TiB, so nothing binds at a user's volume. The constraint is price rather than allowance: there is no credit, so the first euro is spent on day one. |
| Identity | card a payment method at signup; there is no trial credit to verify against, so the first invoice is the gate |
| Egress | 20 TB a month of included outgoing traffic per server, with over-usage billed and no free credit anywhere in the offer; ingress: udp free allowance: 20 TB a month of included outgoing traffic per server, with over-usage billed and no free credit anywhere in the offer |
| Interface | cli, rest the hcloud CLI and API, and the Cloud Console |
| Tooling | wg-quick on the server; the hcloud CLI |
| Reliability | over-usage is billed in 100 MB blocks with no cap, and alerts at 75 and 100 percent do not stop the traffic |
| Notes | Recorded because it changes the ranking rather than because it is a credit: 20 TB a month included on a server that costs a few euro, against a DigitalOcean credit of 19.5 TiB that dies at 60 days. In TB per dollar over a year, Hetzner wins and it is not free, which is a different question from the one asks and belongs in the paid lane. Arithmetic: 20 TB = 18.19 TiB a month, eighteen times the 1 TiB test. The page offers no credit. The overage rate (widely quoted as EUR 1 per TB) is not on the FAQ page and is not recorded here. |
| Evidence note | documented the 20 TB and the free inbound line are first-party; the per-TB overage price was not in the FAQ text and is left unstated rather than guessed |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | docs.hetzner.com/cloud/billing/faq/ | 'We only bill for outgoing traffic. Incoming and internal traffic is free' and 'Your server has 20TB included traffic. Within a month, you use 20.00008TB. We will bill you for 0.0001TB' |
| 2026-10-23 | www.hetzner.com/cloud/ | 'with Hetzner you benefit from generous included traffic and very low prices for additional data transfer', which names the position without a number |
More fields 7
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"volume_tib_month": 18.19,
"volume_stated": "20 TB a month of included outgoing traffic per server, with over-usage billed and no free credit anywhere in the offer",
"bytes_transit": "yes",
"transit_note": "outbound bytes cross Hetzner's network and draw on the server's included 20 TB"
}Unknown values 2
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