Hetzner spending · August 2026

Invoice 082001109660 · billing period 2026-08-01 – 2026-08-31 · issued 2026-09-02 · pending

169.81 incl. 0% VAT · every line item reconciled

What the money bought

Six charge classes. Persistent servers are 92% of the bill — the dynamic instances everyone worries about are a rounding error.

Charge classEURShare
Persistent servers19 named machines, 12 still running 155.85 91.8%
Primary IPv4151 allocations (IPv6 is free) 5.68 3.3%
Ephemeral servers130 short-lived instances 4.92 2.9%
Storage BoxBX11 · mainbrain-wiki-restic 3.20 1.9%
Snapshots50 line items 0.16 0.1%
Trafficall within the included allowance 0.00 0.0%
Total169.81100.0%

Every server, ranked

Nineteen named machines were billed in August. Twelve are still running; seven were deleted in a cleanup on 3 August. One server — agentradar-runner-us — is 37% of the entire month.

ServerTypeBilled EURShare
agentradar-runner-usAshburn VA · from 04 Aug CPX31 from 04 Aug 62.49 36.8%
contentfactoryNuremberg · full month CPX22 full month 19.49 11.5%
chiefFalkenstein · full month CX43 full month 15.99 9.4%
spielberg-prodFalkenstein · from 26 Aug CPX42 from 26 Aug 14.37 8.5%
liveceoNuremberg · full month CX23 full month 5.49 3.2%
reddit-mobile-executorFalkenstein · full month CX23 full month 5.49 3.2%
liveceo-vaultHelsinki · full month CX23 full month 5.49 3.2%
agentradar-runnerFalkenstein · from 03 Aug CX23 from 03 Aug 5.49 3.2%
novikov-standalonedeleted · 1–03 Aug CCX13 1–03 Aug 4.00 2.4%
chiefaiacademy-siteFalkenstein · full month CX23 full month 3.99 2.3%
redditadmin-v2Falkenstein · full month CX23 full month 3.99 2.3%
mediamagic-landingFalkenstein · full month CX23 full month 3.99 2.3%
liveceo-pe-demoNuremberg · from 24 Aug CX23 from 24 Aug 1.58 0.9%
openclawdeleted · 1–03 Aug CPX21 1–03 Aug 1.08 0.6%
ai-gamedevdeleted · 1–03 Aug CX33 1–03 Aug 0.76 0.4%
mediamagic-proddeleted · 1–03 Aug CPX22 1–03 Aug 0.74 0.4%
admin-redditdeleted · 1–03 Aug CPX11 1–03 Aug 0.56 0.3%
mockgames-proddeleted · 1–03 Aug CX23 1–03 Aug 0.49 0.3%
mediamagicdeleted · 1–03 Aug CX23 1–03 Aug 0.37 0.2%
Persistent servers 155.85 91.8%

The dynamic fleet

130 instances were created and destroyed between 19 and 31 August — the agentradar spill/compute workers. Almost all lived exactly one hour. Together with their throwaway IPs they cost €5.04, or 3.0% of the bill.

15 19
51 20
12 21
7 22
14 23
5 24
25
5 26
8 27
7 28
29
30
6 31
Instances created per day, 19–31 August. Days with no activity (25, 29, 30 Aug) are shown as empty slots rather than omitted. Hover a column for its cost.

By role

Name patternCountEUR
agentradar-compute-*732.58
agentradar-spill-*552.31
agentradar-hostkey-*20.03

By instance type

TypeCountEUR
CPX32643.87
CX33661.05

Eight months of Hetzner

Spend grew 160× from January to August, but the curve has flattened: July → August was +3.4%, the smallest month-on-month rise all year. That flatness is temporary — see below.

1 Jan
23 Feb
39 Mar
59 Apr
72 May
126 Jun
164 Jul
170 Aug
Monthly invoice totals, EUR. Hetzner bills a month in arrears — each invoice is dated the 2nd of the following month.

What to do about it

−€45.00/mo

Ashburn is 3.6× the EU price

agentradar-runner-us is a cpx31 in Ashburn at €62.49/mo. The identical cpx31 in Falkenstein, Nuremberg or Helsinki is €17.49. If it does not genuinely need US egress or US-local latency, moving it is the single biggest saving available — bigger than everything else on this page combined.

+€55.12

September is already committed to a jump

spielberg-prod (CPX42) only ran from 26 August, so it billed €14.37 of its €69.49 monthly rate. At current shape September lands near €221.00 — about +30% — with nothing new provisioned.

€8.00

The 3 August cleanup worked

Seven servers were deleted 56–58 hours into the month: novikov-standalone, openclaw, ai-gamedev, mediamagic-prod, admin-reddit, mockgames-prod, mediamagic. They cost €8.00 instead of the ~€87 they would have run at full month rates.

€5.04

The dynamic fleet is not your problem

130 throwaway instances across 10 active days cost €5.04 all-in. Per-hour billing is doing exactly what it should. There is no saving worth chasing here.

€1.50/mo

Three CX23s are on a grandfathered price

chiefaiacademy-site, redditadmin-v2 and mediamagic-landing bill at a €3.99 monthly cap; newer CX23s bill at €5.49. Rebuilding any of them forfeits the old rate — worth knowing before you migrate them.

€0.00

Traffic is a non-issue

Every server stayed inside its included allowance. The heaviest, chief, used 11.4 GB of a 22 TB allowance — 0.05%. No overage was billed all month.