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Hetzner Object Storage pricing for backup storage

Hetzner Object Storage is a bundled offer. The $5.99 base price includes 1,000 GB of storage and an outgoing-traffic quota that accrues while buckets are active. Storage and egress overages are cheap, but neither the base fee nor the time-prorated allowance may be omitted.

Price your own workload against every vendor, including the worst-day restore and how long it takes to come back.

What the pricing page does not lead with

The first 1,000 GB is bundled into a $5.99 base price.
A calculator that models the included tier as free reports $0 below 1 TB and omits the actual invoice floor.
Source, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z
Outgoing quota accrues hourly and unused quota expires monthly.
A part-month bucket is not eligible for the full-month transfer allowance.
Source, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z
Every object consumes at least 64 KB of billable storage.
A backup layout containing many small objects can exceed the included capacity while its logical payload remains far below 1 TB.
Source, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z

The rest of this vendor's non-obvious rules1 more

The modeled region is fsn1, not a US storage region.
A buyer requiring US data residency cannot rank this offer as a comparable US-region choice.
Source, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z

Worked bills

Each one states its inputs and every line, so the total can be checked rather than trusted. A state stays a word and is never counted as zero.

Full-month bundle with 1,000 GB stored and restored$5.99

Active time: full billing month · Billable storage GB: 1,000 · Internet egress GB: 1,000 · Class a operations: 500,000 · Class b operations: 2,000,000 · Mutation: none; read-only restore

Sources: Hetzner documentation: Object storage overview: base price, included storage, outgoing quota, operations, and retrieval, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z · Hetzner: Object storage: US-denominated base price and egress overage, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z

Base plan including 1,000 GB storage	$5.99
Storage overage	$0.00
Outgoing traffic inside the full-month quota	$0.00
Requests and retrieval	not charged
Early deletion	does not apply
Total	$5.99

The active full-month plan contributes $5.99 and includes 1,000 GB stored plus approximately 1,000 GB outgoing quota. Both measured quantities sit at their bundle limits. Requests and retrieval are not charged, and the read-only restore does not activate early deletion.

Full-month bundle with 1,000 GB of storage and egress overage$12.95

Active time: full billing month · Billable storage GB: 2,000 · Internet egress GB: 2,000

Sources: Hetzner documentation: Object storage overview: included quantities and storage overage, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z · Hetzner: Object storage: base fee and outgoing overage, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z

Base plan	$5.99
1,000 GB storage overage	$5.76
1,000 GB outgoing overage	$1.20
Requests and retrieval	not charged
Total	$12.95

Storage overage = (2,000 - 1,000) x $0.00576 = $5.76. Outgoing overage = (2,000 - 1,000) x $0.0012 = $1.20. Total = $5.99 + $5.76 + $1.20 = $12.95.

Twenty million 1 KB objects expose the 64 KB storage floor$7.60

Object count: 20,000,000 · Actual object size KB: 1 · Minimum billable object size KB: 64 · Internet egress GB: 0 · Active time: full billing month

Sources: Hetzner documentation: Object storage overview: 64 KB object minimum and bundled storage, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z · Hetzner: Object storage: base fee, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z

Logical payload	20 GB
Billable storage after the 64 KB per-object floor	1,280 GB
Base plan	$5.99
280 GB storage overage	$1.6128
Total	$7.60

Logical payload = 20,000,000 x 1 KB = 20 GB using the checked price data's decimal GB convention. Billable storage = 20,000,000 x 64 KB = 1,280 GB. Overage = 1,280 - 1,000 = 280 GB. Storage overage = 280 x $0.00576 = $1.6128. Total = $5.99 + $1.6128 = $7.6028, rounded to $7.60.

Bucket active for only part of a monthno complete total

Active hours: buyer-specific · Internet egress GB: 1,000

Sources: Hetzner documentation: Object storage overview: hourly quota accrual and monthly expiry, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z

Accrued outgoing quota	conditional
Outgoing overage	conditional
Exact total	conditional
Total	conditional

Hetzner accrues the outgoing allowance hourly. Without the bucket's exact active hours and billing-month length, the receipt cannot apply the full 1,000 GB allowance or compute the overage honestly.

Same-region restore avoids the public outgoing overage$11.75

Active time: full billing month · Billable storage GB: 2,000 · Same region transfer GB: 2,000 · Class a operations: 500,000 · Class b operations: 2,000,000 · Mutation: none; read-only restore

Sources: Hetzner documentation: Object storage overview: base plan, storage overage, same-region transfer, requests, and retrieval, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z · Hetzner: Object storage: US-denominated base price, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z

Base plan	$5.99
1,000 GB storage overage	$5.76
2,000 GB same-region transfer	not charged
Requests and retrieval	not charged
Early deletion	does not apply
Total	$11.75

Base plan = $5.99. Storage overage = (2,000 - 1,000) x $0.00576 = $5.76. Same-region transfer, requests, and retrieval are not charged. Total = $11.75. The comparable direct-public scenario totals $12.95 because 1,000 GB exceeds its outgoing allowance.

Every class, and the rules that change its bill

1 class checked for this vendor. Each rule below is a published condition that moves a real line on the bill, with the page it came from.

Object Storage7 rules

S3-compatible online object storage for backups kept in Hetzner's available European regions.

Published rules that move the bill for Object Storage
Rule	Value	Why it moves the bill
Base price and included storage	$5.99 per active account-month including 1,000 GB of storage	The first 1,000 GB is not free. It is bundled into a fixed charge that remains part of every active-bucket receipt.
Storage overage	$0.00576 per GB-month above 1,000 GB	Only storage beyond the bundled amount receives the per-GB overage.
Outgoing traffic allowance	Up to 1,000 GB for a full active month; quota accrues hourly and unused quota expires monthly	A bucket activated partway through a month does not receive the full-month transfer allowance.
Outgoing traffic overage	$0.0012 per GB above the accrued allowance in the checked US-denominated offer	A large restore can exceed the bundle even though the per-GB overage is small.
Minimum billable object size	64 KB	Objects smaller than 64 KB consume at least 64 KB of billable storage, which can make small-file repositories cross the included 1,000 GB.
S3 operations and retrieval	not charged	PUT, GET, DELETE, and data retrieval add no separate metered line in the checked offer; outgoing traffic remains separate.
Minimum storage duration and early deletion	not published	The checked page does not support an early-deletion calculation, so a mutation scenario cannot assume zero.