Object Storage providers pricing comparison

04/09/2024 14:46

Object Storage Pricing Comparison

I'm shocked to find that people rely on the big boys (S3, Google Cloud Storage, etc.) for Cloud Storage.
They're really expensive compared to the pricing I found on lesser known services.
Perhaps people trust in the bigger companies?
Let's check all of them out.

Why?
For my upcoming app, I needed a platform to store all the user-generated media files.
That includes images and audio tracks, and also a decent amount of text.
A Managed Object Storage service was what I was looking for.
I spend a few hours researching the different platforms.

Okay, just give me the results
Here's a link to a downloadable Google Spreadsheet.

Estimated usage
I estimated I would have around 2Tb of storage and 1Tb of bandwidth / month.
Here's the pricing as of now (2024, April 9th):

2TB storage, 1TB bandwidth / month

Provider	USD
iDrive e2	8
Backblaze	12
Telnyx	12
Wasabi	13.98
Storj	15
Bunny	20
OVH Cloud	27
Scaleway Object Storage	29.2
Cloudflare R2	31
UpCloud Object Storage	40
Rabata	45
DigitalOcean	50
Azure Blob Storage	50
Google Cloud Storage	53.78
Alibaba Block Storage	92
AWS S3	146.26
Firebase Storage	172

Video of research

In this video you can how I summarized the above.
It's pretty boring to watch since I just visit the websites, but I recorded it and thought ah well I might as well upload it.

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(0/0) 04/24/2024 19:35, anonymous user wrote

I've started using Wasabi for another project, it actually works really well. I have CloudFlare in front though, that was part of their egress policy. So far so good, but I don't know if I'll ever hit a wall with CloudFlare though, but Wasabi will stay cheap.

(1/0) 04/11/2024 19:28, Wituz wrote

Yeah I can get that. I think Backblaze or perhaps Wasabi might be the more stable of the lesser known ones. But I totally get you. Also some of them I haven't included have pretty sketchy monetization, like lifetime purchases and such.

(2/0) 04/11/2024 15:37, anonymous user wrote

I am always quite reluctant to host my data in lesser known sources as they are (in my opinion) more probable to go bankrupt. But for simply following 3-2-1 backup rule I think these providers are great choices!