# Hetzner vs Scaleway Object Storage in 2026

Last updated: 2026-11-10

**Hetzner Object Storage** costs less for most app and backup workloads: you pay at most €6.49 a month excl. VAT, that sum already pays for your first TB on disk and your first TB of downloads, and extra traffic is €1 per TB. **Scaleway Object Storage** costs more per TB but gives you more to work with: four regions, a copy spread over three availability zones, a cheaper single-zone class, Glacier archiving and a CDN in front of buckets. If the files only serve an app you host on **Eurobase**, its built-in Storage may be enough, though it isn't an S3 service.

## Hetzner and Scaleway storage at a glance

| Platform | Company | Locations | Storage price | Outgoing traffic | Storage classes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hetzner | Hetzner Online GmbH, Germany | Falkenstein, Nuremberg, Helsinki | €6.49 a month excl. VAT with 1 TB included, then €0.0087 per TB-hour excl. VAT | 1 TB included, then €1 per TB excl. VAT | Not documented |
| Scaleway | Scaleway SAS, France | Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Milan | Multi-AZ €0.000022 per GB-hour, One Zone €0.0000103 per GB-hour | €0.01 per GB | Multi-AZ, One Zone, Glacier |
| Eurobase | Registered in Warsaw, Poland | European infrastructure run by Scaleway, a French provider | Included in the plan | 25 GiB to 500 GiB a month by plan | Not documented |

Prices are from each provider's own pages and Scaleway's public price catalog, checked on 10 November 2026.

## What to compare before you pick one

- **The shape of the bill.** Hetzner charges a fixed base for every hour you have at least one bucket, even an empty one, and bills only what goes past the included quota. Scaleway has no base fee: you pay per GB stored per hour and per GB sent out.
- **How much you download.** On Scaleway, outgoing traffic often costs more than the storage. On Hetzner, the first TB of egress each month is in the base price.
- **How many copies you need.** Scaleway's Multi-AZ class spreads data across three availability zones in one region. Hetzner's docs say your data sits in a Ceph cluster but say nothing about zone redundancy.
- **Object size.** Hetzner bills any object under 64 KB as 64 KB, which adds up with millions of thumbnails or log lines.
- **Throughput.** Hetzner caps a bucket at 750 requests per second and 10 Gbit/s. Scaleway says a bucket can deliver up to 100 Gbit/s per region.

## What 1 TB and 5 TB cost a month

The figures below assume a 730-hour month and 1 TB as 1,000 GB, and they leave out free trials.

| Platform | 1 TB stored, 1 TB downloaded | 5 TB stored, 5 TB downloaded |
|---|---|---|
| Hetzner | About €6.49 excl. VAT | About €35.89 excl. VAT |
| Scaleway Multi-AZ | About €26.06 | About €130.30 |
| Scaleway One Zone | About €17.52 | About €87.60 |

For Hetzner at 5 TB, that's the base plus 4 TB of extra storage and 4 TB of extra traffic. Scaleway's lines are the hourly GB price times 730, plus €0.01 per GB downloaded.

## 1. Hetzner

Hetzner Online is a German data center operator founded in 1997. Its Object Storage runs in Falkenstein and Nuremberg in Germany and Helsinki in Finland, with an S3 endpoint for each. You can have up to 100 buckets per account, each holding up to 100 TB and 50 million objects, and a single object can reach 5 TB.

The feature list covers object locking, versioning, expiry rules, pre-signed URLs and optional server-side encryption. Uploads, S3 calls such as PUT, GET and DELETE, and traffic inside its eu-central network zone are free. The console handles the basics, creating a bucket and generating keys, while everything else goes through the S3 API or S3 tools.

- **Best for:** backups, archives and app files with steady, moderate downloads, especially next to Hetzner servers.
- **Price:** the base runs at €0.0104 an hour and stops at €6.49 a month excl. VAT, and it carries 1 TB of stored data and 1 TB of downloads. Past that, storage is €0.0087 per TB-hour and traffic €1 per TB, both excl. VAT. Quota you don't use expires when the month ends.
- **What it lacks:** locations outside Germany and Finland, and most settings in the console. Per-bucket limits of 750 requests per second and 10 Gbit/s can matter for busy public files.

## 2. Scaleway

Scaleway is a French cloud provider. Object Storage runs in Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Milan, and every object goes into one of three classes. Standard Multi-AZ keeps data across three availability zones, is offered in Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw, and carries a 99.9% monthly availability SLA. Standard One Zone stores data on three racks in a single zone, is available in all four regions and comes with a 99% availability SLA. Glacier is an archive class in Paris and Amsterdam, held in a bunker 25 metres underground in Paris, and objects must be restored before you can read them again.

Lifecycle rules move objects down the classes, with a minimum of 30 days before One Zone and 90 days before Glacier. Encryption comes in three flavours: keys you send with each request, keys Scaleway manages, or keys held in Scaleway Key Manager. Versioning and Object Lock can be set from the console, buckets can serve a static website, and Edge Services can cache a bucket closer to visitors. New users can activate a 90-day trial with 750 GB of free storage.

- **Best for:** data that needs a three-zone copy, a specific region such as Warsaw or Milan, or a cheap archive tier, and teams already running other Scaleway services.
- **Price:** Standard Multi-AZ €0.000022 per GB an hour in the price catalog, Standard One Zone €0.0000103 per GB an hour, which Scaleway puts at about €0.0075 per GB a month. Outgoing internet traffic is €0.01 per GB, and traffic between buckets in the same region is free.
- **What it lacks:** a flat base price with downloads included. The price catalog lists only the per-GB rate for outgoing traffic, so a download-heavy app pays for every GB it serves. Glacier isn't available in Warsaw or Milan.

## 3. Eurobase

Eurobase isn't a third S3 store. It's an app platform: you connect a Git repository and it builds and serves the app on European infrastructure run by Scaleway, a French provider, while the business itself is registered in Warsaw, Poland. Its [Storage](/products/storage) keeps a project's files in public or private buckets beside the app: public files get a Eurobase URL, and private files use signed access.

- **Best for:** user uploads and assets of an app you already host on Eurobase, when you don't want a separate storage account.
- **Price:** the Free plan gives you 500 MiB of files and 25 GiB of transfer each month. Starter, at €10 a month, raises that to 5 GiB and 100 GiB, and Pro, at €20 a month, to 20 GiB and 500 GiB, + VAT. Nothing is billed by usage today: an action that would go over a limit is refused instead.
- **What it lacks:** an S3 API and room beyond 20 GiB of files on Pro. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certification are in progress, not held yet. For large files, keep Hetzner or Scaleway as the store and let your Eurobase app sign the uploads, as [user uploads to object storage](/i/user-uploads-object-storage) explains.

## How to choose

1. **Backups or a few TB of app files with modest traffic:** Hetzner, since the base price carries the first TB of both storage and downloads.
2. **Data that must survive the loss of a whole data center:** Scaleway Standard Multi-AZ.
3. **Cheap storage that's rarely downloaded:** Scaleway One Zone, or Glacier for archives you'd touch once or twice in years.
4. **A region in Poland, Italy, France or the Netherlands:** Scaleway. Hetzner offers Germany and Finland.
5. **Files that only feed an app you deploy from Git:** Eurobase Storage inside the plan, moving to an S3 store when you outgrow it.

For more providers, such as OVHcloud, Exoscale and Impossible Cloud, see [S3-compatible object storage in Europe](/i/european-object-storage). For the wider server and database comparison, read [Hetzner vs Scaleway](/i/hetzner-vs-scaleway).

## Frequently asked questions

### Is Hetzner Object Storage cheaper than Scaleway?

Usually, yes. At 1 TB stored and 1 TB downloaded, Hetzner comes to about €6.49 a month excl. VAT, against roughly €17.52 on Scaleway One Zone and €26.06 on Multi-AZ at catalog prices. Scaleway can come out lower when you store well under 1 TB and download little, since Hetzner charges its base price as soon as one bucket exists.

### Are both S3-compatible?

Yes. Both expose the S3 API, so S3 tools and SDKs generally work once you change the endpoint and keys. Hetzner publishes a list of the S3 actions it supports, so check the calls your code makes, such as lifecycle rules, object lock or multipart uploads, on whichever store you pick.

### Does Scaleway charge for egress from Object Storage?

Yes. Its price catalog lists €0.01 per GB for traffic leaving to the internet from every region, and the same for copies between two of its regions. Traffic inside one region is free. Hetzner includes 1 TB a month in its base price and charges €1 per TB after that, excl. VAT. [Egress fees explained](/i/egress-fees-explained) covers how to keep that number small.

### Is my data GDPR compliant on either one?

Both are European companies storing data in European data centers, which settles where the files live. You still need a data processing agreement, access rules and a retention plan of your own; work through the rest with the [GDPR hosting checklist](/i/gdpr-hosting-checklist).

## Sources

- [Hetzner Object Storage](https://www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/) and [Hetzner Object Storage overview](https://docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/overview/)
- [Scaleway Object Storage FAQ](https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/object-storage/faq/), [Scaleway Object Storage concepts](https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/object-storage/concepts/) and [Scaleway changelog](https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/changelog/)
- [Scaleway public price catalog for Object Storage](https://api.scaleway.com/product-catalog/v2alpha1/public-catalog/products?product_types=object_storage) and [Scaleway storage pricing](https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/storage/)
- [Eurobase Storage](/products/storage) and [Eurobase plans](/docs/plans)