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S3-compatible object storage

Object storage cost calculator

Eight options compared on storage, downloads, requests, and minimums. Pricing checked 8 October 2026; USD before tax.

Workload
Monthly usage
Average amount retained
Public egress each month
Downloads relative to storage4× stored data per month.
Request volume Optional, priced by R2 and AWS1M writes, 10M reads

Managed services

Lowest first

  1. Cloudflare R2

    $7.35Lowest

    Storage $7.35 · Egress $0.00 · Requests $0.00

  2. Backblaze B2

    $8.41+$1.06

    Storage $3.41 · Egress $5.00 · Requests $0.00

  3. Hetzner Object Storage

    $9.19+$1.84

    Storage $7.99 · Egress $1.20 · Requests $0.00

  4. IDrive e2

    $11.00+$3.65

    Storage $6.00 · Egress $5.00 · Requests $0.00

  5. Scaleway Multi-AZ

    $31.37+$24.02

    Storage $9.23 · Egress $22.14 · Requests $0.00

  6. AWS S3 Standard

    $178.35+$171.00

    Storage $10.71 · Egress $158.64 · Requests $9.00

  7. Wasabi

    $7.99Not suitable

    Storage $7.99 · Egress $0.00 · Requests $0.00

    Outside the published 1× egress fair-use guideline.

Self-hosted baseline

Not ranked

  1. MinIO on Hetzner

    $92.10Hardware only

    Storage $92.10 · Egress $0.00 · Requests $0.00

    Hardware estimate only; operator time and high availability are not priced.

Tax and optional services excluded. Options outside a published limit keep their estimate but are never ranked lowest.

Provider pricing

Standard or hot tiers before tax. Sources and verification dates beside each rate. Expand a provider for notes and caveats.

ProviderStorageEgressRequestsMinimumEvidence
Cloudflare R2Video, public assets, AI datasets

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

Automatic placement; location hints

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

$0.015 / GBFree$4.50 write · $0.36 read / MNoneOfficial pricing2026-10-08
Backblaze B2Backups, media archives, NAS

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

US + EU regions

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

$0.00695 / GB3× storage free; then $0.01 / GBCore S3 calls freeNoneOfficial pricing2026-10-08
WasabiImmutable backups, media masters

Simple capacity pricing for stable backup sets that rarely churn.

North America, EMEA, APAC

One-TiB account minimum and 90-day minimum storage duration on Pay-Go. Wasabi bills binary GB (GiB).

$7.99 / TiBFree within 1× fair-use policyFree$7.99 / monthOfficial pricing2026-10-08
Hetzner Object StorageEU workloads, backups, private assets

A European bundle with storage and traffic included in one base price.

Germany + Finland

The account-wide base charge applies whenever at least one bucket is active. Objects under 64 kB are billed as 64 kB.

$7.99 includes 1 TB; then $8.86 / TB1 TB included; then $1.20 / TBFree$7.99 while a bucket existsOfficial pricing2026-10-08
Scaleway Multi-AZSovereign EU apps, multi-AZ data

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

Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw

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

€0.01606 / GB75 GB free; then €0.01 / GBFreeNoneOfficial pricing2026-10-08
IDrive e2Backup software, migrations, archives

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

Global regions

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

$0.006 / GB3× storage free; then $0.01 / GBFree$6 / monthOfficial pricing2026-10-08
AWS S3 StandardAWS-native apps, global enterprise

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

US East baseline; many regions

US East rates with published volume tiers. AWS bills binary units (1 GB = 2^30 bytes), so a decimal terabyte is billed as 931 GB. Other regions, acceleration, replication, and CDN usage vary.

$0.023 / GB, less above 50 TB100 GB free; then $0.09 to $0.05 / GB$5 write · $0.40 read / MNoneOfficial pricing2026-10-08
MinIO on HetznerLarge self-managed archives

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

Single Hetzner EU data center

SX65-2 price baseline; assumes four 22 TB drives and two-drive parity (44,000 decimal GB before filesystem overhead). Confirm hardware configuration and availability. Labor, backups, HA, IPv4, and setup excluded.

$92.10 for ~44 TB usableUnlimited on 1 Gbit/s uplinkNo metered API fee$92.10 / month + setupOfficial pricing2026-10-08

Methodology

What the estimate includes

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

Currency
USD or EUR estimates; euro products converted at €1 = $1.15
Units
Calculator input uses decimal GB; providers that bill binary units (AWS and Wasabi) are converted before pricing.
Excluded
Ingress, tax, support, CDN, retrieval tiers, replication, and migration costs are excluded.
Sources
First-party pricing pages, linked and dated in every provider row. Found a stale number? Report a correction.