OVHcloud Object Storage vs Hetzner Storage Box
A detailed comparison to help you choose between OVHcloud Object Storage and Hetzner Storage Box.
Quick Verdict
3.8/5
OVHcloud Object Storage
0 reviews
4.1/5
Hetzner Storage Box
0 reviews
Hetzner Storage Box is rated higher (4.1 vs 3.8). 13 regions in Europe (France, Germany, Italy, UK, Poland), Canada and Asia-Pacific; no US region Hetzner Storage Box is a managed online storage service offering 1 TB to 20 TB capacity with access via SFTP, SCP, rsync, Samba/CIFS, WebDAV and HTTPS, plus native BorgBackup, Restic and Rclone support. Built for developers, small businesses and content creators needing cost-effective backup and file hosting.
OVHcloud Object Storage S3-compatible object storage from €0.014/GB (Standard), Cold Archive from €0.00128/GB | Hetzner Storage Box Affordable managed online storage with SFTP, rsync, WebDAV and Samba access | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.8 (0 reviews) | 4.1 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | usage-based | paid |
| Starting price | From $0.014/mo✓ | From $3.2/mo |
| Best for | EU-resident, read-heavy object storage — media libraries, backup repositories and CMS assets — where free egress keeps bills predictable. | European teams and developers who need cheap, predictable backup storage or file hosting over standard file protocols, especially as a Borg/Restic target for Hetzner workloads. |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | — | — |
| RAM | — | — |
| Storage | — | 1,024 GB |
| Bandwidth | — | — |
| SLA uptime | 99.9% | — |
| Data-center count | 13✓ | 2 |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ✓ | |
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ✓ | |
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | — | Falkenstein (DE)Helsinki (FI) |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | s3 compatibleeu datacentergdpr compliantapi access | eu datacentergdpr compliant |
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OVHcloud Object Storage
Pros
- + Free egress and free API requests on Standard storage — rare among S3 providers
- + Volume-tiered pricing from €0.014/GB/month, billed per GiB-hour
- + Cold Archive at about €0.00128/GB/month for French-resident archives
- + 13 regions across Europe, Canada and Asia-Pacific with clear per-region endpoints
- + Five storage classes with documented class-to-region availability
Cons
- - No US region — North America is served from Canada
- - Cold Archive is Paris-only with 180-day minimum retention and €0.005/GB restores
- - Most regions are 1-AZ; multi-region redundancy must be designed by the user
- - S3 compatibility is not full AWS parity; console is dense
Hetzner Storage Box
Pros
- + Predictable flat pricing: 1 TB from €3.20/month up to 20 TB for €40.60/month, with hourly billing and no retrieval or request fees
- + Unlimited traffic and free transfers to Hetzner Cloud and dedicated products at the same location
- + Protocol breadth: SFTP/SCP/rsync/WebDAV/Samba plus first-class BorgBackup, Restic and Rclone support
- + 10–40 snapshots included per tier with a scheduler, 100 sub-accounts, no minimum contract, cancel immediately
- + German/Finnish storage (GDPR-friendly) on Hetzner's own ISO 27001:2022 certified infrastructure
Cons
- - No S3 API and no NFS on Hetzner's published protocol list — cloud-native tooling needs workarounds
- - Data is not mirrored to other servers: RAID plus checksums only, so snapshots are the sole built-in recovery
- - 10 concurrent connections per box and a 20 TB ceiling per box; no per-user quotas or documented encryption at rest
- - No published throughput figures and no product-level SLA or credits
- - Email support only for this product line
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