Pricing checked 12 August 2026

Your storage bill has a bandwidth problem.

Compare the real monthly cost of S3-compatible storage—capacity, egress, requests, minimums, and the policy traps hiding behind “free.”

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Independent estimates · first-party sources · no sponsored ranking

Scenario / 001500 GB in · 2 TB out

live math

Hetzner Object Storage

$7.13best

Cloudflare R2

$7.35

Wasabi

$7.99

AWS S3 Standard

$191.50

26.8×

difference between the cheapest managed estimate and AWS S3 for this workload.

Compared

Cloudflare R2Backblaze B2WasabiHetznerScaleway Multi-AZIDrive e2AWS S3

01 Cost calculator

Put your workload on the scale.

Monthly estimate in USD. Change any number—the ranking updates instantly.

Estimated monthly bill

Lowest first

01
HZ
Hetzner Object Storage
Managed
$7.13/ month
Storage $5.99 · Egress $1.14 · Requests $0.00
02
R2
Cloudflare R2
Managed
$7.35/ month
Storage $7.35 · Egress $0.00 · Requests $0.00
03
WA
Wasabi
Managed
$7.99/ month
Storage $7.99 · Egress $0.00 · Requests $0.00
Outside the published 1× egress fair-use guideline.
04
B2
Backblaze B2
Managed
$8.41/ month
Storage $3.41 · Egress $5.00 · Requests $0.00
05
e2
IDrive e2
Managed
$11.00/ month
Storage $6.00 · Egress $5.00 · Requests $0.00
06
SC
Scaleway Multi-AZ
Managed
$31.37/ month
Storage $9.23 · Egress $22.14 · Requests $0.00
07
MI
MinIO on Hetzner
Self-hosted baseline
$92.10/ month
Storage $92.10 · Egress $0.00 · Requests $0.00
Hardware estimate only; operator time and high availability are not priced.
08
S3
AWS S3 Standard
Managed
$191.50/ month
Storage $11.50 · Egress $171.00 · Requests $9.00

Prices exclude tax and optional services. A low estimate can still carry a policy warning.

02 The field

Eight options. Fine print intact.

Hot/standard tiers, public list prices, before tax. Every row links to the first-party page we checked.

Provider	Storage	Egress	Requests	Minimum	Evidence
R2Cloudflare R2Video, public assets, AI datasets	$0.015 / GB	Free	$4.50 write · $0.36 read / M	None	Source 2026-08-12
B2Backblaze B2Backups, media archives, NAS	$0.00695 / GB	3× storage free; then $0.01 / GB	Core S3 calls free	None	Source 2026-08-12
WAWasabiImmutable backups, media masters	$7.99 / TB	Free within 1× fair-use policy	Free	$7.99 / month	Source 2026-08-12
HZHetzner Object StorageEU workloads, backups, private assets	$5.99 includes 1 TB	1 TB included; then $1.20 / TB	Free	$5.99 while a bucket exists	Source 2026-08-12
SCScaleway Multi-AZSovereign EU apps, multi-AZ data	€0.01606 / GB	75 GB free; then €0.01 / GB	Free	None	Source 2026-08-12
e2IDrive e2Backup software, migrations, archives	$0.006 / GB	3× storage free; then $0.01 / GB	Free	$6 / month	Source 2026-08-12
S3AWS S3 StandardAWS-native apps, global enterprise	$0.023 / GB	100 GB free; then $0.09 / GB	$5 write · $0.40 read / M	None	Source 2026-08-12
MIMinIO on HetznerLarge self-managed archives	$92.10 for ~44 TB usable	Unlimited on 1 Gbit/s uplink	No metered API fee	$92.10 / month + setup	Source 2026-08-12

Cloudflare R2

Automatic placement; location hints

The cleanest fit for public assets and download-heavy applications.

Operation fees can dominate workloads with millions of tiny-object reads.

Backblaze B2

US + EU regions

Low hot-storage price with a generous, but finite, egress allowance.

Traffic above three times average monthly storage is billed at $0.01/GB.

Wasabi

North America, EMEA, APAC

Simple capacity pricing for stable backup sets that rarely churn.

One-terabyte account minimum and 90-day minimum storage duration on Pay-Go.

Hetzner Object Storage

Germany + Finland

A remarkably cheap European bundle when one terabyte is the right starting size.

The account-wide base charge applies whenever at least one bucket is active.

Scaleway Multi-AZ

Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw

European multi-AZ storage with no request line item and clear data residency.

Euro prices are converted at €1 = $1.15 for calculator ranking; tax excluded.

IDrive e2

Global regions

Budget-friendly capacity with free API calls and a broad egress allowance.

Pay-as-you-go bills a full one-terabyte minimum even when less is stored.

AWS S3 Standard

US East baseline; many regions

The compatibility baseline and ecosystem leader—not the low-cost option.

US East public rates shown; regions, tiers, acceleration, replication, and CDN vary.

MinIO on Hetzner

Single Hetzner EU data center

The raw-cost floor: excellent unit economics, with operations and resilience on you.

SX65-2, four 22 TB drives, two-parity assumption. Labor, backups, HA, IPv4, and setup excluded.

03 Opinionated picks

The right answer depends on what moves.

Storage price gets the headline. Retention, traffic, geography, and operator time decide the winner.

Public delivery01

Cloudflare R2

Our default for video, assets, and datasets that leave the bucket often. Zero egress is the feature; watch read-operation volume.

Backup value02

Backblaze B2

The sensible all-round backup target. Cheap bytes, no retention minimum, and three times stored volume included for recovery traffic.

European budget03

Hetzner

The one-terabyte bundle is difficult to beat for EU-based workloads. Choose Scaleway when multi-AZ placement matters more than price.

Raw economics04

MinIO + Hetzner

At tens of terabytes, hardware wins the spreadsheet. It does not include your pager, redundancy design, upgrades, or disaster recovery.

04 Methodology

Useful estimates, visible assumptions.

We model one full month on the standard/hot tier. Provider-specific free allowances and minimums are applied before sorting.

Currency: USD before tax; euro products converted at €1 = $1.15
Units: Provider-marketed GB/TB units are retained; calculator input uses decimal GB.
Excluded: Ingress, tax, support, CDN, retrieval tiers, replication, and migration costs are excluded.
Sources: First-party pricing or product documentation, linked in every provider row.

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