Pay Hetzner with a Visa card
Hetzner: serious servers, a bill in euros
Hetzner's price-performance is why half the self-hosting world runs there, and its billing is refreshingly old-school: a monthly invoice in euros, charged to the card on the account. A Visa that handles EUR without drama is the entire requirement, after that it is just servers, cheap and fast.
Hetzner costs and top-up amounts
Hetzner charges per account rather than a fixed monthly price, so what you plan is the card balance. These are the top-ups people start with.
Top up any amount you like | PayFar charges no monthly fee on the card, and Hetzner charges its own price.
We never ask for your Hetzner login
Every other route asks you to hand over your Hetzner username and password, or to buy a login that belongs to someone else. PayFar issues a Visa card to you instead, you pay Hetzner yourself, in your own name, from your own account.
Resellers and shared accounts
They pay on your behalf: with access to your account
- ✕They ask for your Hetzner email and password to pay for you
- ✕You wait hours: sometimes a day, for someone to process the order by hand
- ✕A middleman fee on top of the exchange rate, never itemised
- ✕One card funds dozens of accounts: they get flagged together
PayFar
You pay, yourself؛ we only issue the card
- ✓We never ask for your username or password: we have no way into your account
- ✓Pay Hetzner the moment you decide to: the charge clears instantly, at 3am if you like
- ✓No extra payment fee: just the rate of the day, shown before you confirm
Nobody logs into your Hetzner account but you. There is no shared password, no session on someone else's laptop, and nothing to revoke later.
You enter the card at Hetzner checkout and the charge settles from your balance in seconds. No order queue, no operator, no waiting for business hours.
Hetzner charges its own price and PayFar adds no payment fee and no monthly card fee. The conversion rate is quoted before you confirm.
What makes a Hetzner payment go through
Cloud platforms charge at month-end for what already ran. If the card fails then, Hetzner does not negotiate, resources get suspended with your data inside them. A card that reliably clears is infrastructure, not convenience.
Domains, compute, storage, CI minutes, the odd developer licence, a working card consolidates the entire bill. The alternative is a different borrowed workaround per vendor, each with its own way of expiring.
Most platforms, Hetzner included, ask for a valid card just to unlock the free allowance, it is their spam filter. A personal Visa passes that check without spending a cent until you actually use something.
How to pay Hetzner with a Visa card
- 1Open the Hetzner billing or payment settings
- 2Add the PayFar card as the default payment method
- 3Set the billing address country to your PayFar profile country
- 4If there is a small verification hold, it releases back automatically
- 5Keep headroom on the balance: usage bills land at the end of the cycle
What you need first
- 1A PayFar Visa in your own name, ready in under 3 minutes
- 2A balance of at least $20؛ top up in rial
- 3A billing country that matches your PayFar profile
The rest of your developer & cloud bill
One card covers all of it. These are the other developer & cloud services people pay for with PayFar.
GitHub subscription
Amazon AWS payments
Google Cloud payments
Microsoft Azure payments
DigitalOcean payments
Vercel subscription
Netlify subscription
Cloudflare payments
Supabase subscription
JetBrains subscriptionPaying Hetzner: common questions
How much does Hetzner cost, and how much should I top up?
Hetzner has no fixed monthly price; it charges per account. Most people start with a $20 top-up, any amount works, and PayFar adds no monthly card fee.
How do I pay Hetzner with a Visa card?
Open a PayFar account; the virtual Visa card is issued in under 3 minutes. Top up at least $20, enter the card number, expiry and CVV at the Hetzner checkout, and set the billing country to the one on your PayFar profile. The charge clears in seconds.
How much balance should I keep for Hetzner?
A comfortable margin over last month's bill. Usage billing means the exact figure moves; the balance just has to stay ahead of it, and a low-balance alert does the remembering.
Does the card survive the small card-verification charge?
Yes: the $0–1 authorisation platforms use to test a card is standard Visa behaviour, and it voids itself within a few days.
Can my side project and my client's account share the card?
Technically yes, but give the client project its own top-ups and keep the statement clean, future-you, reconciling an invoice, will be grateful.
Get a card that Hetzner accepts
Open an account, top up in rial or crypto, and pay Hetzner in your own name, no reseller, no shared login.