8 Best Hetzner Object Storage Alternatives (2026)
The closest alternatives to Hetzner Object Storage are AWS S3, Backblaze B2, Bunny Storage and Cloudflare R2, with 4 more below. Each shares a comparison category with it, so every rationale here names both tools' real values. Hetzner Object Storage is marked No on Sydney region, where Wasabi records Yes — usually where a switch starts.
Why do people look for Hetzner Object Storage alternatives?
Most people searching for Hetzner Object Storage alternatives are not shopping — they already run it and something has stopped fitting. That something is usually a specific number rather than a feeling, so this page starts from the fields where Hetzner Object Storage genuinely trails the rosters it appears in, and only then covers the reasons that never show up in a table.
The measured reasons.
- 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.
- CDN integration — diy, 10th of 12. Cloudflare R2 records free-bundled.
Any one of those is enough on its own if you sized your architecture around it. None of them is enough if you didn't — which is why the list is short and specific rather than a general case against Hetzner Object Storage.
The reasons that never make it into a table. A price rise after a funding round. A licence change that turns a self-host into a subscription. A region you now need and they do not have. An acquisition. A support experience that quietly degrades. None of those are fields, and all of them move teams — which is why every entry below links back to S3-compatible storage, where the full field set and its sources live. The ones we catch get logged on the Hetzner Object Storage timeline.
How the shortlist is ordered. Every tool below shares at least one comparison category with Hetzner Object Storage, sorted by how many categories the two overlap in. There is no editorial ranking, no sponsorship and no affiliate link — the order is the overlap count, and the rationale under each is generated from the two tools' own cells, so it names real values rather than adjectives.
1.
AWS S3
AWS S3 — The API everything else copies, and by far the most expensive egress in this roster. It meets Hetzner Object Storage in S3-compatible storage. It is ahead on Sydney region (Yes against No), Object lock / WORM (Yes against No) and TTFB from Sydney (25 ms against 300 ms). What you give up: Egress $/TB ($90 /TB, where Hetzner Object Storage records $1.38 /TB) and True cost /mo (USD) ($472.6 /mo, where Hetzner Object Storage records $12.47 /mo). Best for workloads already inside AWS where traffic stays on the internal network. Still the most capable object store by a wide margin, and thirty-eight times the cost of Hetzner on this scenario almost entirely because of bandwidth. Stay on S3 if you genuinely use Object Lock compliance mode, Access Points, cross-region replication or IAM condition keys; otherwise you are paying $441 a month for an API you can get elsewhere.
- TTFB from Sydney
- 25 msHetzner Object Storage: 300 ms Inferred
- Event notifications
- YesHetzner Object Storage: No Inferred
2.
Backblaze B2
Backblaze B2 — Cheap US and EU object storage with free egress up to three times stored volume. It meets Hetzner Object Storage in S3-compatible storage. It is ahead on Object lock / WORM (Yes against No), Event notifications (Yes against No) and TTFB from Sydney (180 ms against 300 ms). What you give up: GA year (2015, where Hetzner Object Storage records 2024) and Egress $/TB ($10 /TB, where Hetzner Object Storage records $1.38 /TB). Best for backup and archive targets where object lock matters and latency does not. The sensible middle: cheap, boring, feature-complete enough, and the Bandwidth Alliance makes egress free outright if Cloudflare or Fastly is already in your stack. The absence of any APAC region is the single reason to rule it out for Australian workloads.
- TTFB from Sydney
- 180 msHetzner Object Storage: 300 ms Inferred
- GA year
- 2,015Hetzner Object Storage: 2024 Inferred
- IAM granularity
- 3Hetzner Object Storage: 2 Inferred
3.Bunny Storage
Bunny Storage — Edge storage built as a CDN origin, with its own API rather than a faithful S3 one. It meets Hetzner Object Storage in S3-compatible storage. It is ahead on Sydney region (Yes against No), TTFB from Sydney (20 ms against 300 ms) and CDN integration (free-bundled against diy). What you give up: Multipart upload (No, where Hetzner Object Storage records Yes) and S3 API coverage (30 %, where Hetzner Object Storage records 70 %). Best for static sites, images and video served to a global audience through Bunny's CDN. Included because people shortlist it against S3 providers, but it is a CDN origin with storage attached rather than an object store with a CDN attached. Superb Sydney delivery; do not expect S3 semantics, and read the regional egress table before modelling the cost.
- TTFB from Sydney
- 20 msHetzner Object Storage: 300 ms Inferred
- Multipart upload
- NoHetzner Object Storage: Yes Inferred
- CDN integration
- free-bundledHetzner Object Storage: diy Inferredverified 2026-07-23
- Replication model
- multi-regionHetzner Object Storage: single-az Inferredverified 2026-07-23
- S3 API coverage
- 30 %Hetzner Object Storage: 70 % Inferred
4.
Cloudflare R2
Cloudflare R2 — S3-compatible object storage with zero egress fees, on Cloudflare's network. It meets Hetzner Object Storage in S3-compatible storage. It is ahead on Event notifications (Yes against No), TTFB from Sydney (45 ms against 300 ms) and Official MCP server (Yes against No). What you give up: Class A $/M ops ($4.5 /M ops, where Hetzner Object Storage records $0 /M ops) and Class B $/M ops ($0.36 /M ops, where Hetzner Object Storage records $0 /M ops). Best for public assets, media and package registries where egress dwarfs storage. The default answer for anything read-heavy, and the only provider here where egress genuinely stops being a line item you have to model. Watch the $4.50 per million Class A charge on write-heavy workloads, remember that 'Oceania' is a hint rather than a region, and check that you are not quietly depending on versioning — R2 does not implement it, which is a bigger gap than the zero-egress headline lets people notice.
- TTFB from Sydney
- 45 msHetzner Object Storage: 300 ms Inferred
- Official MCP server
- YesHetzner Object Storage: No Inferred
- CDN integration
- free-bundledHetzner Object Storage: diy Inferred
- Sydney region
- PartialHetzner Object Storage: No Inferred
5.
DigitalOcean Spaces
DigitalOcean Spaces — Bundled object storage plus free CDN, priced as a flat base fee with overages. It meets Hetzner Object Storage in S3-compatible storage. It is ahead on Sydney region (Yes against No), TTFB from Sydney (25 ms against 300 ms) and CDN integration (free-bundled against diy). What you give up: Storage $/TB/mo ($20 /TB/mo, where Hetzner Object Storage records $6.95 /TB/mo) and GA year (2017, where Hetzner Object Storage records 2024). Best for static assets and user uploads served from Sydney with a bundled CDN. Buy it for the bundling and the Sydney region, not the feature set. No versioning and no bucket events rules it out as a system of record; as a CDN-fronted asset bucket sitting next to your Droplets it is genuinely convenient and hard to misbudget.
- TTFB from Sydney
- 25 msHetzner Object Storage: 300 ms Inferred
- Storage $/TB/mo
- $20 /TB/moHetzner Object Storage: $6.95 /TB/mo Vendor-claimedverified 2026-07-23source
- Official MCP server
- PartialHetzner Object Storage: No Inferred
- IAM granularity
- 3Hetzner Object Storage: 2 Inferred
6.iDrive e2
iDrive e2 — USD 4/TB S3-compatible storage with zero-egress marketing and a fair-use cap. It meets Hetzner Object Storage in S3-compatible storage. It is ahead on Object lock / WORM (Yes against No), IAM granularity (3 against 2) and S3 API coverage (80 % against 70 %). What you give up: CDN integration (none, where Hetzner Object Storage records diy) and GA year (2021, where Hetzner Object Storage records 2024). Best for backup and MSP workloads where storage volume dominates and reads are rare. The cheapest storage rate here alongside Storj, with object lock included, and the least legible egress terms in the roster — legible enough that we will not put a number in the cost column for it. Fine as a backup target, where you store far more than you read; do not build a public asset pipeline on a fair-use cap you cannot find written down.
- IAM granularity
- 3Hetzner Object Storage: 2 Inferred
- CDN integration
- noneHetzner Object Storage: diy Inferred
- S3 API coverage
- 80 %Hetzner Object Storage: 70 % Inferred
- GA year
- 2,021Hetzner Object Storage: 2024 Inferred
7.
MinIO
MinIO — The self-hosted S3 reference implementation — your hardware, your bandwidth, your SLA. It meets Hetzner Object Storage in S3-compatible storage. It is ahead on Sydney region (Yes against No), Object lock / WORM (Yes against No) and Event notifications (Yes against No). What you give up: GA year (2015, where Hetzner Object Storage records 2024). Best for on-premises or air-gapped deployments where data cannot leave your control. The reference point rather than a competitor: it shows you what full S3 fidelity looks like and therefore what you are giving up when you buy cheap. Worth running only if you already operate storage hardware — and note the community build lost its admin console in 2025, which changed a lot of people's assumptions about what 'free and complete' meant. Note that we carry MinIO as the do-it-yourself baseline in that roster — the "what if we just ran this ourselves" reference point. The honest answer is usually that it is cheaper and considerably more work.
- Sydney region
- YesHetzner Object Storage: No Inferred
- Object lock / WORM
- YesHetzner Object Storage: No Inferred
- Event notifications
- YesHetzner Object Storage: No Inferred
- IAM granularity
- 5Hetzner Object Storage: 2 Inferred
- Official MCP server
- YesHetzner Object Storage: No Inferred
- S3 API coverage
- 98 %Hetzner Object Storage: 70 % Inferred
8.
Scaleway Object Storage
Scaleway Object Storage — European-sovereign S3 storage with multi-AZ classes and a real IAM system. It meets Hetzner Object Storage in S3-compatible storage. It is ahead on Object lock / WORM (Yes against No), IAM granularity (4 against 2) and CDN integration (first-party-paid against diy). What you give up: Storage $/TB/mo ($16.94 /TB/mo, where Hetzner Object Storage records $6.95 /TB/mo) and GA year (2019, where Hetzner Object Storage records 2024). Best for EU data residency obligations with a European legal entity behind them. The most feature-complete of the non-hyperscalers — genuine IAM, multi-AZ placement, object lock, real lifecycle rules — and irrelevant for Australian traffic at 300 ms away. Pick it when EU data residency is a requirement rather than a preference.
- IAM granularity
- 4Hetzner Object Storage: 2 Inferred
- CDN integration
- first-party-paidHetzner Object Storage: diy Inferred
- S3 API coverage
- 85 %Hetzner Object Storage: 70 % Inferred
How this list was built
There is no editorial ranking on this page and no sponsorship behind it. The order is mechanical: every tool that shares a comparison category with Hetzner Object Storage, sorted by how many categories the two overlap in. A tool that meets Hetzner Object Storage in three rosters sits above one that meets it in a single roster, because more overlap means the comparison is more like-for-like.
The rationale under each entry is composed from the two tools' own cells. Where they differ on a field we score, the sentence names both values and the unit. Where they don't differ, it says so instead of manufacturing a distinction — which is why some entries are short.
Values, sources and verification dates all live on the category tables: S3-compatible storage. If a figure here disagrees with a vendor's current pricing page, the vendor is right and we are stale.
Still deciding whether to move at all? The Hetzner Object Storage profile has the when-to-use and when-not-to-use blocks, and the Hetzner Object Storage timeline has the dated changes that usually trigger a migration.