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You can buy credits using a bank transfer [1]. You can also set E-Mail alerts in case your monthly invoice is higher then expected (more traffic etc.) [2]. However, there is no auto-delete as far as I can tell.

[1] https://docs.hetzner.com/accounts-panel/accounts/payment-faq... [2] https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/billing/faq/#how-do-i-keep-my...

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Didn't know you could buy credits, but well, for me the key is that no debt is generated when your credit goes to zero. In this case, if you exhaust your credit but your server keeps running, Hetzner will not stop it and will send you the bill next month. Yes, you may have received an email warning but it does not give the same peace of mind.

I’ve been waiting for Hetzner to allow adding credits into one’s account using credit cards or debit cards (or other modes like PayPal). Being outside Germany (and the EU), a bank transfer is not possible or is difficult and prohibitively expensive.

Hetzner also didn’t seem to support credits across all its services when I checked a few years ago.

You can use a bank like Wise which lets you have accounts in many currencies for such bank transfers. Fees between their accounts are quite competitive (I used them many times in the past).

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