Title: Cloud machines on Hetzner · Codemany docs
URL: https://codemany.com/docs/machines/cloud/hetzner
Description: Connect Hetzner Cloud to Codemany with a Read & Write API token from a project used only by Codemany, and what to expect: EUR prices, Arm (CAX) sizes, and machines billed in full while stopped.
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# Hetzner

Hetzner Console › your project › Security › API tokens › Generate, with Read & Write. Use a project for Codemany alone.

## Use a project for Codemany alone

A Hetzner API token can do everything in its project: Hetzner has no finer scope. So create a project just for Codemany's machines, and the token can't reach your other servers. Codemany also only touches servers it labelled `codemany=managed`, even there.

## Create the token

1. Open the **Hetzner Console** and create a project, for example `codemany`.
2. Open that project and go to **Security** › **API tokens**.
3. Choose **Generate API token**. Give it a description (`codemany`) and choose **Read & Write**: Codemany creates, starts, stops and deletes servers.
4. Choose **Generate API token** and copy the token now. Hetzner shows it only once.

## Connect

1. In [Add a cloud machine](https://codemany.com/docs/machines/cloud#add), choose **Hetzner**.
2. Paste the token into **API token** (one line, no spaces) and choose **Connect**.

One read call checks the token before it is kept. It is kept in the Mac Keychain or the Linux keyring on this machine, never in a file, and never sent to Codemany's servers.

## Regions and sizes

- **Regions:** Hetzner's locations (`fsn1`, `nbg1` and so on), shown with their city and country.
- **Sizes:** every current Cloud server type in that location, x86 and Arm (CAX). Deprecated types aren't offered.
- **Image:** Ubuntu 24.04 LTS; the disk is the server type's own.
- **Prices:** Hetzner's gross EUR prices (VAT included where Hetzner charges it), as the account is billed.

Hetzner Cloud servers have no nested virtualization, so they can't give each job a fresh VM.

## Cost

**Hetzner bills a stopped server in full.** Idle stop saves nothing here, so it is off by default, and a spending cap isn't offered. Only removing the machine stops the bill. See [Remove a cloud machine](https://codemany.com/docs/machines/cloud#remove).

## Revoke access

Delete the token under the project's Security › API tokens. Remove the machines from Codemany first, so their runners, seats and fleet membership go too.

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