Hetzner
Hetzner Online is a German hosting provider offering cloud servers, dedicated servers, and domain services. Hetzner provides a Cloud API for programmatic management of cloud resources, as well as a DNS API for managing DNS zones and records.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Hetzner the way a machine reads it — 40 machine-readable artifacts across 32 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Hetzner scores 51.1/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Hetzner
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Hetzner. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 32
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Hetzner DNS API
The Hetzner DNS API provides programmatic access to manage DNS zones, records, and configurations for domains hosted with Hetzner's DNS service.
Hetzner Actions API
Actions represent asynchronous tasks within the API, targeting one or more resources. See [Actions](#description/actions) for more details.
Hetzner Certificate Actions API
The Certificate Actions API from Hetzner — 5 operation(s) for certificate actions.
Hetzner Certificates API
TLS/SSL Certificates prove the identity of a Server and are used to encrypt client traffic.
Hetzner Data Centers API
Each Datacenter represents a _virtual_ Datacenter which may consist of possibly many physical Datacenters. A physical Datacenter is where [Servers](#tag/servers) are hosted. See...
Hetzner Firewall Actions API
The Firewall Actions API from Hetzner — 7 operation(s) for firewall actions.
Hetzner Firewalls API
Firewalls can limit the network access to or from your resources. - When applying a firewall with no `in` rule all inbound traffic will be dropped. The default for `in` is `DROP...
Hetzner Floating IP Actions API
The Floating IP Actions API from Hetzner — 8 operation(s) for floating ip actions.
Hetzner Floating IPs API
Floating IPs help you to create highly available setups. You can assign a Floating IP to any Server. The Server can then use this IP. You can reassign it to a different Server a...
Hetzner Image Actions API
The Image Actions API from Hetzner — 5 operation(s) for image actions.
Hetzner Images API
Images are blueprints for your VM disks. They can be of different types: ### System Images Distribution Images maintained by us, e.g. “Ubuntu 20.04” ### Snapshot Images Maintain...
Hetzner ISOs API
ISOs are read-only Images of DVDs. While we recommend using our Image functionality to install your Servers we also provide some stock ISOs so you can install more exotic operat...
Hetzner Load Balancer Actions API
The Load Balancer Actions API from Hetzner — 17 operation(s) for load balancer actions.
Hetzner Load Balancer Types API
Load Balancer types define kinds of Load Balancers offered. Each type has an hourly and a monthly cost. You will pay whichever amount is lower for your usage of this specific Lo...
Hetzner Load Balancers API
The Load Balancers API from Hetzner — 3 operation(s) for load balancers.
Hetzner Locations API
Datacenters are organized by Locations. Datacenters in the same Location are connected with very low latency links.
Hetzner Network Actions API
The Network Actions API from Hetzner — 10 operation(s) for network actions.
Hetzner Networks API
Networks is a private networks feature. These Networks are optional and they coexist with the public network that every Server has by default. They allow Servers to talk to each...
Hetzner Placement Groups API
Placement groups are used to influence the location of interdependent virtual servers in our data centers. The distribution of the different servers within a group is based on a...
Hetzner Pricing API
Returns prices for resources.
Hetzner Primary IP Actions API
The Primary IP Actions API from Hetzner — 8 operation(s) for primary ip actions.
Hetzner Primary IPs API
Primary IPs help you to create more flexible networking setups. You can assign at most one Primary IP of type `ipv4` and one of type `ipv6` per Server. This Server then uses the...
Hetzner Server Actions API
The Server Actions API from Hetzner — 27 operation(s) for server actions.
Hetzner Server Types API
Server types define kinds of Servers offered. Each type has an hourly and a monthly cost. You will pay whichever cost is lower for your usage of this specific Server. Costs may ...
Hetzner Servers API
Servers are virtual machines that can be provisioned.
Hetzner SSH Keys API
SSH keys are public keys you provide to the cloud system. They can be injected into Servers at creation time. We highly recommend that you use keys instead of passwords to manag...
Hetzner Volume Actions API
The Volume Actions API from Hetzner — 8 operation(s) for volume actions.
Hetzner Volumes API
A Volume is a highly-available, scalable, and SSD-based block storage for Servers. Pricing for Volumes depends on the Volume size and Location, not the actual used storage. Plea...
Hetzner Zone Actions API
The Zone Actions API from Hetzner — 8 operation(s) for zone actions.
Hetzner Zone RRSet Actions API
The Zone RRSet Actions API from Hetzner — 6 operation(s) for zone rrset actions.
Hetzner Zone RRSets API
This API operates on resource record sets (RRSets) instead of individual resource records (RRs). An RRSet is identified by a name and type. For example, the two RRs - (name: `@`...
Hetzner Zones API
A Zone represents a [Domain Name System (DNS) zone](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_zone) managed by Hetzner authoritative nameservers. Please see [Hetzner Docs](https://docs.het...
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Hetzner Cloud API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Hetzner Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Hetzner Finops
FINOPSSecurity Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Hetzner — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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