Hetzner Object Storage

Hetzner Object Storage — The cheapest credible S3 endpoint in Europe, with a deliberately thin feature set. Hetzner's object storage is EUR 5.99 a month for a terabyte of capacity and a terabyte of traffic, with additional traffic at EUR 1.19 per terabyte — about a sixty-fifth of the AWS rate. What you give up is feature surface: no object lock, unclear versioning, partial lifecycle support, no bucket notifications, coarse credentials, and locations only in Germany and Finland. Excellent for backups and build artefacts, unsuitable as a user-facing origin outside Europe. Built by Hetzner Online. Founded 1997.

We track it in 1 comparison — S3-compatible storage — so every claim below is a cell in a table you can open and check rather than an impression. Across those rosters it sits against 11 other tools, and what follows is where it visibly separates from them.

Where it wins.

• True cost /mo (USD) — $12.47 /mo, the best figure of the 9 here.
• True cost /mo (AUD) — A$18.95 /mo, the best figure of the 9 here.

Each of those is ranked against the whole roster on its category page, not against a hand-picked subset, so a first place here means first of everything we list.

Where it gives ground.

• Sydney region — No. Wasabi records Yes.
• TTFB from Sydney — 300 ms, 9th of 10. Bunny Storage records 20 ms.
• Object lock / WORM — No. Backblaze B2 records Yes.
• IAM granularity — 2, 11th of 12. MinIO records 5.

None of these disqualify it on their own. They are the fields to check against your own requirements before you commit, because they are the ones where a competitor genuinely does better.

Provenance. 24 of 28 tracked fields carry a value for Hetzner Object Storage, and 7 of those cite a document you can open. Last verified 2026-07-23. Every figure keeps its own provenance — measured by us, claimed by the vendor, inferred, or community-reported — and we would rather print a dash than a guess.

Its nearest neighbour in our data is AWS S3. Hetzner Object Storage is ahead on Egress $/TB ($1.38 /TB against $90 /TB) and True cost /mo (USD) ($12.47 /mo against $472.6 /mo). AWS S3 takes Sydney region (Yes against No) and Object lock / WORM (Yes against No). That pattern repeats across the rest of the roster — see Hetzner Object Storage alternatives for the other rivals, each compared the same way.

Company

Hetzner Online

Founded

1997

Fields we track

24 of 28

Last verified

2026-07-23

Wins the headline number by a mile and loses the feature comparison by a similar margin. No object lock, ambiguous versioning, no notifications, no APAC location, no published durability figure — brilliant for build caches and cold backups, wrong for a system of record.

True cost /mo (USD)

$12.47 /mo1st of 9

Inferredverified 2026-07-23source

Egress $/TB

$1.38 /TB5th of 11

Inferredverified 2026-07-23source

Sydney region

○No9th of 11

Vendor-claimedverified 2026-07-23source

TTFB from Sydney

300 ms9th of 10

Inferred

Object lock / WORM

○No9th of 11

Inferred

True cost /mo (AUD)

A$18.95 /mo1st of 9

Inferredverified 2026-07-23

IAM granularity

211th of 12

Inferred

CDN integration

diy10th of 12

Inferred

Hetzner Object Storage is the right call in these situations, each one drawn from a field we actually record:

• CI artefacts, build caches and cold backups where the bill is the point.
• European origins where EUR 1.19/TB egress changes what is economically possible.
• Anyone already running Hetzner dedicated or cloud servers.
• True cost /mo (USD) is your binding constraint. Hetzner Object Storage records $12.47 /mo, the best figure in the S3-compatible storage roster.
• True cost /mo (AUD) is your binding constraint. Hetzner Object Storage records A$18.95 /mo, the best figure in the S3-compatible storage roster. We define that field as the same computed scenario as the USD column, converted at a fixed 1 USD = 1.52 AUD, struck 2026-07-23.

Reach for something else when any of the following is a requirement rather than a nice-to-have:

• Sydney region. Hetzner Object Storage records No on the S3-compatible storage table. Wasabi records Yes on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• TTFB from Sydney. Hetzner Object Storage records 300 ms, 9th of 10 in the S3-compatible storage roster. Bunny Storage records 20 ms on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• Object lock / WORM. Hetzner Object Storage records No on the S3-compatible storage table. Backblaze B2 records Yes on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• IAM granularity. Hetzner Object Storage records 2, 11th of 12 in the S3-compatible storage roster. MinIO records 5 on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• CDN integration. Hetzner Object Storage records diy, 10th of 12 in the S3-compatible storage roster. Cloudflare R2 records free-bundled on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.

We publish this block because a comparison that only lists what a tool is good at is marketing. Every figure above sits on the same page as its source, and the field definitions are on the category tables if you want to check how we measured them.

What we don't know. 4 of the 28 fields we track for Hetzner Object Storage are still blank: True cost from Sydney (AUD), Egress cap (x stored), Versioning and Durability (nines). Those render as dashes rather than as zeroes or assumptions, because an empty cell and a bad cell are not the same thing and only one of them is honest. If you know any of these figures and can point at a document, tell us.