Hetzner Storage Share (managed Nextcloud)
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- Free allowance
- No free tier, no trial, and no hourly cap.
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- free tierpaid plans from USD 3.07/TB-month
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-capnot published; the JVM-free Nextcloud upload chunking limits a single object in practice and the smaller partners cap at 10 GB per file
- Evidence
- documented5 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-14checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-14
| Free tier | No free tier, no trial, and no hourly cap. The smallest plan NX11 is 1 TB at EUR 4.29/month excluding VAT, billed by the hour to a monthly maximum unit TiB; metered on stored-bytes; Hetzner writes the sizes as TB. The figure is quoted as stated and not converted |
|---|---|
| Price | EUR 4.29/TB/month on NX11, falling to EUR 2.74/TB/month on NX31 at 10 TB, excluding VAT, read 2026-10-22 |
| Limits |
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| Binding | per-object-cap The instance total is bought and the traffic is unlimited, so what decides the object size is the per-file ceiling nobody publishes. A single 300 GiB file is. |
| Identity | card a Hetzner account with a payment method; the order form is at konsoleH. No identity document and no phone verification was seen on the order path. A new account goes through Hetzner's own risk review, which is not the same gate as a card check |
| Egress | Unlimited internal and external traffic, stated as a product feature rather than implied: 'Storage Shares have unlimited internal and external traffic' free allowance: unlimited |
| Per-object cap | Not published as a per-file cap. The limit that is published is the instance quota, and the FAQ states that an administrator's 'unlimited' per-user quota is bounded by the instance total |
| Retention | Until deleted. No minimum contract period and no cancellation period, and the vendor states that a plan change causes no data loss. Backups of the database and the storage backend run several times a day, to a host the instance is not running on, restorable from konsoleH |
| Interface | webdav, rest, rclone |
| Tooling | rclone webdav backend, the Nextcloud desktop and mobile clients, davfs2, curl -u, and the Nextcloud OCC command line through the managed instance |
| Composes with | WebDAV is the whole point: OpenList mounts it as a first-class remote, and a Cloudflare cache in front turns it into a serving origin. One 10 TB instance can also be sharded internally into per-user quotas with separate credentials, which is the only way in this survey to divide one paid unit rather than make more accounts |
| Reliability | Falkenstein, Germany. RAID backend with checksummed integrity checking, several backups a day to a different host, restore from konsoleH. Managed Nextcloud inherits Nextcloud's sync semantics, which is worse for millions of small objects than a raw storage box |
| Notes | The cheapest verified managed Nextcloud per terabyte in this survey is not this one, and the reason is the tier shape: EUR 2.74/TB/month at 10 TB against Serverdiscounter's EUR 2.40/TB including VAT at 25 TB. What Hetzner sells instead is the shortest contract and the most boring operations record. The user count is per instance and additional users are not a listed add-on, so a sharded plan must live inside that number. |
| Evidence note | documented Every number is from the vendor's own pricing block, read. It is documented and not measured because no instance was ordered and no WebDAV endpoint was exercised: the order path needs a card. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/ | the pricing block reads 'NX11 max/mo. EUR 4.29 per month, excl. VAT ... Storage 1 TB ... 3 Users ... unlimited Simultaneous Connections 50', 'NX21 EUR 14.19 ... Storage 5 TB ... 7 Users ... 100', 'NX31 EUR 27.39 ... Storage 10 TB ... 10 Users ... 200'; all three FSN1 |
| 2026-10-22 | www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/ | 'Storage Shares have unlimited internal and external traffic' in the Features block, and 'WebDAV lets you automate your access to it' |
| 2026-10-22 | www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/ | FAQ: 'this "unlimited" space will actually be limited by the overall storage quota size of the Storage Share instance that you (the admin) have bought', and a backup 'is always made to another host machine on which the instance is not running' |
| 2026-10-22 | www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/ | 'No minimum contract period. No cancellation period.' and 'upgrade or downgrade your Storage Share ... without worrying about data loss' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/ | 1 TB EUR 4.29, 5 TB EUR 14.19, 10 TB EUR 27.39 per month excluding VAT, and the same three tiers |
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},
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},
"webdav": "enabled on every tier; the vendor FAQ documents subdomains and CNAME for a custom domain",
"vat_position": "prices are stated excluding VAT, so a private buyer in the EU pays the local rate on top"
}