Hetzner Storage Box (BX11/BX21/BX31/BX41)
- Free allowance
- 1 TB (BX11) / 5 TB (BX21) / 10 TB (BX31) / 20 TB (BX41); no per-file cap published, 100 sub-accounts, 10 snapshots
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tierpaid plans from USD 3.59/TB-month
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-capno per-file cap published, 100 sub-accounts, 10 snapshots 10 concurrent connections (hard, prod
- Evidence
- reported5 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 (BX11) / 5 TB (BX21) / 10 TB (BX31) / 20 TB (BX41); no per-file cap published, 100 sub-accounts, 10 snapshots unit TB; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | $2.28/TB at 20 TB (EUR 40.60 = $45.61); $2.45/TB at 5 TB (EUR 10.90 = $12.24); $3.59/TB at 1 TB (EUR 3.20 = $3.59). Cheapest genuine unlimited-egress storage found. |
| Limits |
10 concurrent connections (hard, product page); 10 snapshots; RAID on one host and explicitly 'data is not mirrored onto other servers' — single-site durability, not object-store 11-nines. |
| Binding | per-object-cap the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota |
| Identity | card card |
| Egress | Verbatim, plan table: "Traffic | - Unlimited". Unlimited outbound, no cap tier, no overage SKU exists for this product. |
| Per-object cap | no per-file cap published, 100 sub-accounts, 10 snapshots 10 concurrent connections (hard, prod |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | s3-compatible, webdav, sftp, ftps, ftp, scp, rsync, smb, ssh, rclone SFTP, FTP/FTPS, SCP, rsync-over-SSH, WebDAV, Samba/CIFS, HTTPS; BorgBackup and Restic native |
| Tooling | rclone (explicitly listed), restic, borg, rsync; no S3 API |
| Composes with | Mounts directly to AList/OpenList via WebDAV or SFTP, or to a Hetzner Cloud VM which then fronts S3/HTTP behind Cloudflare — the forum-documented pattern for turning unmetered Storage Box traffic into a served HTTP origin. |
| Reliability | LowEndTalk regularly reports throughput is node-dependent (sub-30 Mbit/s on bad nodes) and that Hetzner's automatic usage-anomaly detection has disconnected boxes triggered by third-party traffic; 10-connection cap is the real binding constraint for parallel ranged GETs. |
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Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ | (firecrawl) — BX11 EUR 3.20/mo 1 TB, BX21 EUR 10.90/mo 5 TB, BX31 EUR 20.80/mo 10 TB, BX41 EUR 40.60/mo 20 TB, excl. VAT; plan table row 'Traffic | - Unlimited' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ | RAID 'can withstand several drive failures... data is not mirrored onto other servers' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/bx11/ | 10 concurrent connections, payment: bank transfer/credit card/PayPal/SEPA, no minimum contract term, immediate cancellation |
| 2026-10-21 | lowendtalk.com/discussion/190385/looking-for-40tb-storage | two 20 TB boxes = EUR 96.62 incl. VAT = EUR 2.42/TB corroborating the 20 TB tier |
| 2026-10-21 | lowendtalk.com/discussion/169107/why-bandwidth-is-so-cheap-a | Hetzner unlimited-traffic policy text; the EUR 1.21/TB charge applies only to the 10G-uplink addon, not to Storage Box |
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