Hetzner Storage Box BX11 / BX21 / BX31 (1/5/10 TB)

Sibling records disagree:

identity_kind: storage/hetzner-storage-box-bx11-1-tb-3-20-mo says card, storage/hetzner-storage-box-bx11-bx21-bx31 says email
verdict: storage/hetzner-storage-box-bx11-1-tb-3-20-mo says fails-quota, storage/hetzner-storage-box-bx11-bx21-bx31 says qualifies

Free allowance: 1 TB / 5 TB / 10 TB
Verdict: ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
Cost: free tierpaid plans from USD 2.27/TB-month
Identity: emailno card, no phone
Binding limit: per-ip-shaping10 concurrent connections
Evidence: reported3 sources; a third party said so
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05

Free tier	1 TB / 5 TB / 10 TB unit TB; metered on unstated
Price	1 TB €3.20/TB · 5 TB €2.18/TB · 10 TB €2.08/TB · 20 TB €2.03/TB (all excl. VAT, no setup, hourly-billed)
Limits	per-ip-shaping (binding) 10 concurrent connections source 10 concurrent connections; 20/30/40 snapshots at 5/10/20 TB
Binding	per-ip-shaping one stream is shaped, and a user's throughput is the shaped rate times the number of streams
Identity	email email
Egress	Unlimited on all four tiers — the matrix row 'Traffic \| Unlimited' spans 1/5/10/20 TB. Same fair-use caveat as BX41.
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Interface	webdav, sftp, scp, rsync, smb, rclone same as BX41 (SFTP/SCP/SMB/WebDAV/rsync/Borg/Restic/rclone)
Tooling	rclone, restic, borg, rsync, davfs2
Composes with	identical; the 5 TB tier is the natural fit for the hot working set, 20 TB for archive
Reliability	Note the tier ladder is close to linear: there is no volume discount cliff between 5 and 20 TB, so splitting into 2×10 TB buys nothing except +10 connections.
Parsed numbers	price-per-tb EUR 2.03 TB / month

Evidence 3

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/?__provider=firecrawl	BX11 €3.20, BX21 €10.90, BX31 €20.80, BX41 €40.60 per month excl. VAT, all with Traffic Unlimited, setup €0.00
2026-10-21	www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/bx11/?country=gb	payment: 'bank transfer, credit card, Paypal and SEPA direct debit (only in EUR) for accounts from SEPA countries'; no minimum contract term
2026-10-21	www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-sx/	storage box price row reconfirms 1 TB €3.20 / 5 TB €10.90 / 10 TB €20.80 / 20 TB €40.60

More fields 1

{
 "price_verbatim": "1 TB €3.20/TB · 5 TB €2.18/TB · 10 TB €2.08/TB · 20 TB €2.03/TB (all excl. VAT, no setup, hourly-billed)"
}

Unknown values 4