Hetzner server auction

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// lowest auction price right now€45.00

The lowest monthly price on the whole auction at the last poll, net of VAT.

Machine: Intel Core i7-6700
Memory: 64 GB
Disk: 2.0 TB
Where: FSN1-DC13
IPv4: €1.70 /mo net, on top

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Every entry is a reduction the poller actually observed. Last poll 20:42 UTC (87s ago) — this is a snapshot, not a socket, so reload for newer.

02Best value right now

Every figure below is net of VAT, exactly as Hetzner publishes it.

Best EUR / TB

€2.34/TB

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 · 64.0 TB · HEL1-DC6 · €146.00 a month net

Best EUR / GB RAM

€0.43/GB

Intel Xeon E5-1650V3 · 256 GB · FSN1-DC1 · €111.00 a month net

Biggest cut today

€3.00off

-1.39 % off the old price

Listing #3085135 · €216.00 → €213.00 a month net · 8h ago

Median price

€93.00/mo

182 listings, from €45.00 to €896.00 a month, all net of VAT

03Cheapest terabytes on the board

Ranked by price per terabyte of disk. Prices are monthly and net of VAT.

The 25 auction listings with the lowest price per terabyte of disk
CPU	RAM GB	Disks	Datacenter	Price EUR/mo	EUR/TB	Since first seen	Next drop
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 iNIC	64GB ECC	4× 16.0 TB HDD	HEL1-DC6	€146.00	2.34	no change yet3h on board	2h 59m
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 iNIC	64GB ECC	4× 16.0 TB HDD	FSN1-DC16	€161.00	2.58	no change yet3h on board	8h 27m
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X iNIC	128GB ECC	1× 161.9 TB NVMe + HDD across 12 disks	HEL1-DC7	€419.00	2.65	−3.5%−€15.007d · at its low	2h 6m
AMD Ryzen 9 3900 iNIC	128GB ECC	1× 161.9 TB NVMe + HDD across 12 disks	HEL1-DC7	€448.00	2.83	−3.2%−€15.004d · at its low	30m
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X iNIC	128GB ECC	1× 161.9 TB NVMe + HDD across 12 disks	FSN1-DC4	€460.00	2.91	−1.7%−€8.0040h · at its low	3h 45m
AMD Ryzen 9 3900 iNIC	128GB ECC	1× 161.9 TB NVMe + HDD across 12 disks	FSN1-DC16	€460.00	2.91	−1.9%−€9.0039h · at its low	3h 53m
Intel Xeon E3-1270V3 iNIC	32GB ECC	4× 10.0 TB HDD	HEL1-DC4	€118.00	3.02	−3.3%−€4.003d · at its low	15m
Intel Xeon E3-1271V3 iNIC	32GB ECC	4× 10.0 TB HDD	HEL1-DC4	€118.00	3.02	−6.3%−€8.004d · at its low	11h 55m
Intel Xeon E3-1271V3 iNIC	32GB ECC	4× 10.0 TB HDD	FSN1-DC14	€119.00	3.05	−1.7%−€2.0027h · at its low	19h 37m
Intel Xeon E3-1270V3 iNIC	32GB ECC	4× 10.0 TB HDD	FSN1-DC4	€122.00	3.12	−0.8%−€1.0022h · at its low	3h 19m
Intel XEON E-2176G iNIC	64GB ECC	2× 8.0 TB HDD	HEL1-DC4	€86.00	5.50	−3.4%−€3.003d · at its low	4h 46m
Intel Core i7-8700 iNIC	64GB	2× 8.0 TB HDD	HEL1-DC12	€86.00	5.50	−1.1%−€1.0039h · at its low	20h 27m
Intel Core i7-8700 iNIC	64GB	2× 8.0 TB HDD	FSN1-DC14	€86.00	5.50	no change yet12h on board	10h 33m
Intel XEON E-2176G iNIC	64GB ECC	2× 8.0 TB HDD	FSN1-DC3	€89.00	5.70	−1.1%−€1.0036h · at its low	1d 1h
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 iNIC	64GB	2× 6.0 TB HDD	HEL1-DC1	€74.00	6.31	−2.6%−€2.003d · at its low	1d 3h
Intel Core i7-8700 iNIC	64GB	2× 6.0 TB HDD	HEL1-DC2	€76.00	6.49	−3.8%−€3.008d · at its low	1d 1h
AMD Ryzen 5 3600	64GB	2× 6.0 TB HDD	HEL1-DC12	€77.00	6.57	−4.9%−€4.004d · at its low	10h 51m
Intel Core i7-8700 iNIC	128GB	2× 8.0 TB HDD	FSN1-DC14	€104.00	6.66	−1.0%−€1.0034h · at its low	10h 31m
Intel Core i7-8700 iNIC	64GB	2× 6.0 TB HDD	FSN1-DC4	€79.00	6.74	−1.3%−€1.0047h · at its low	1h 39m
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X iNIC	64GB ECC	2× 8.0 TB HDD	FSN1-DC15	€108.00	6.91	−0.9%−€1.0023h · at its low	21h 44m
Intel Core i7-6700 iNIC	32GB	2× 4.0 TB HDD	FSN1-DC1	€64.00	8.19	−1.5%−€1.002d · at its low	12h 45m
Intel Core i7-6700 iNIC	64GB	2× 4.0 TB HDD	FSN1-DC8	€65.00	8.32	no change yet10h on board	7h 8m
Intel Core i7-7700 iNIC	64GB	2× 4.0 TB HDD	HEL1-DC2	€65.00	8.32	no change yet5h on board	9h 3m
Intel Xeon E3-1275v5 iNIC	64GB ECC	2× 4.0 TB HDD	FSN1-DC1	€65.00	8.32	no change yet12h on board	16h 9m
Intel Core i7-6700 iNIC	32GB	2× 4.0 TB HDD	FSN1-DC13	€65.00	8.32	−1.5%−€1.0034h · at its low	10h 44m

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04How it works

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Only transitions are stored, so a poll where nothing moved changes nothing. A price that sits still is not stale data; it is a price that has not moved.
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A monitor is a set of bounds — price, RAM, disks, region, cloud type. When a real listing crosses them you get one Telegram message or one email. Not a daily digest.

Prices here are net of VAT because that is how Hetzner's feed publishes them; your own rate is applied on your settings page and never mixed in silently. Droptape is not affiliated with Hetzner.

Everything above came out of one gzipped JSON object in object storage — the same document for every visitor, rewritten only when a poll finds a real change. It is also a public read-only API: no key, no rate limit, CORS open, and versioned so it is safe to build on. Read the API reference .

/api/current.json json

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Abridged above: auction.listings carries all 182 rows, and facets, cloud and drops are omitted for length. Every timestamp is unix seconds UTC; every price is EUR net of VAT.

The auction moves while you are asleep.

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// 02Best value right now

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// 04How it works

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