Object Storage With No Egress Fees: Backblaze B2 Pricing Compared (2026)
Short answer: for 5 TB stored and 10 TB downloaded a month, Backblaze B2 is the cheapest at $34.75 on pay-as-you-go pricing ($6.95 per TB), because its egress is free up to three times what you store. Wasabi lists $39.95, but its free egress only holds while downloads stay at or below stored volume, and this workload breaks that rule. Cloudflare R2 charges nothing for egress and costs $83.10 with requests included. AWS S3 ($1,015) and Google Cloud Storage ($1,309) cost the most because egress makes up 88 to 92 percent of their bill.
Eight object storage services priced on the same workload, 5 TB stored and 10 TB downloaded each month, with each free-egress rule spelled out.
This guide prices eight object storage services on one workload: 5,000 GB stored, 10,000 GB downloaded to the internet, 10 million read requests and 1 million write requests a month. Every figure is the vendor's own published list price, read on its pricing page on October 10, 2026, with the plan bundles and egress rules applied the way the vendor writes them.
How we ranked: each service is priced for the same workload and sorted by monthly total at list price. Monthly free tiers that are not part of a plan are left out, which moves any total by less than $15. Where a no-egress claim depends on a fair-use rule, the result says so. Scaleway prices only in euros, so it is shown but not ranked against the USD totals.
Top Picks
Picked by editorial review, informed by G2 and Capterra review volume and rating and by media mentions, the signals behind our category rankings. How we rate
The lowest bill at this workload: $6.95 per TB a month, with egress free up to three times the data you store.
Starting price
$6.95 /TB/mo pay as you go
4.5 (196 reviews)
Best for
Teams whose downloads stay under three times their stored data and who want S3-compatible storage at the lowest list price
A flat $7.99 per TB a month with no egress line item, as long as downloads stay within the fair-use limit.
Starting price
$7.99 /TB/mo pay as you go
4.5 (80 reviews)
Best for
Archives and media libraries that are rarely downloaded, where downloads stay at or below the amount stored
No egress charge on the paths its pricing lists, with $0.015 per GB of Standard storage and operations billed per million.
Starting price
$0.015 /GB/mo Standard storage
4.5 (758 reviews)
Best for
Public downloads at high or unpredictable volume, where a fixed storage bill is the main thing to budget
| Tool | Starting price | Rating | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backblaze B2 | $6.95/TB/mo pay as you go | 4.5 196 reviews | Teams whose downloads stay under three times their stored data and who want S3-compatible storage at the lowest list price |
| Wasabi | $7.99/TB/mo pay as you go | 4.5 80 reviews | Archives and media libraries that are rarely downloaded, where downloads stay at or below the amount stored |
| Cloudflare R2 | $0.015/GB/mo Standard storage | 4.5 758 reviews | Public downloads at high or unpredictable volume, where a fixed storage bill is the main thing to budget |
| Akamai Object Storage (Linode) | From $5/mo (250 GB) | 4.6 336 reviews | Developers who want a low flat base and a cheap download overage inside one Akamai Cloud account |
| DigitalOcean Spaces | From $5/mo (250 GiB) | 4.5 49 reviews | Teams already on DigitalOcean who want storage, transfer and a CDN on one predictable base price |
| AWS S3 Standard | $0.023/GB/mo Standard | 4.7 2,062 reviews | Workloads already inside AWS, where storage, compute and egress sit on one bill and one account |
| Google Cloud Storage | $0.020/GB/mo, one US region | 4.7 2,892 reviews | Teams running workloads on Google Cloud that want regional storage close to their compute |
| Scaleway Object Storage | EUR 0.01606/GB/mo, Multi-AZ | 4.3 132 reviews | EU-based teams that want storage in Paris billed in euros, with inter-region traffic kept in mind |
Backblaze B2
The lowest bill at this workload: $6.95 per TB a month, with egress free up to three times the data you store.
- Starting price
- $6.95/TB/mo pay as you go
- Free plan
- No
- Rating
- 4.5 (196 reviews)
Best for: Teams whose downloads stay under three times their stored data and who want S3-compatible storage at the lowest list price
- Pro: At 5 TB stored and 10 TB downloaded a month the bill is $34.75, against $1,015.00 on AWS S3 for the same workload.
- Pro: Egress is free up to three times average monthly storage, so 10 TB of downloads on 5 TB stored costs nothing extra, and the first 10 GB of storage is free.
- Pro: API calls for Class A, B and C are free on pay as you go, so a read-heavy workload adds no request line at this scale.
- Con: Past three times stored data, egress costs $0.01 per GB, or $10 per TB. A backup set that is restored often can outgrow the free allowance faster than expected.
- Con: Class D transactions cost $0.004 per 10,000 calls beyond 2,500 free a day, which matters for sync tools that poll constantly.
The Business Backup at the same price point is also competitive for its feature set.
- Starting price
- $7.99/TB/mo pay as you go
- Free plan
- No
- Rating
- 4.5 (80 reviews)
Best for: Archives and media libraries that are rarely downloaded, where downloads stay at or below the amount stored
- Pro: At $39.95 for 5 TB, Wasabi has the second-lowest storage bill in this comparison, and no separate egress line when the fair-use rule holds.
- Pro: The pricing page states that egress and API requests carry no fee, so requests add nothing to the bill while the fair-use rule holds.
- Pro: The $7.99 per TB pay-as-you-go rate is listed for North America, EMEA and APAC, so one price applies to all three regions.
- Con: Egress is free only while monthly egress is at or below active storage. This workload downloads twice what it stores, so it falls outside the policy, and no rate is published above the line.
- Con: Objects deleted before 90 days are billed through the end of their 90-day period, so short-lived backups and temporary exports cost more than the storage rate suggests.
This makes it a very fair and generous option for most users.
Watch out
Minimum storage duration (90 days for deleted objects)
Cloudflare R2
No egress charge on the paths its pricing lists, with $0.015 per GB of Standard storage and operations billed per million.
- 4.5 on G2 (758 reviews)
- Starting price
- $0.015/GB/mo Standard storage
- Free plan
- Yes
- Rating
- 4.5 (758 reviews)
Best for: Public downloads at high or unpredictable volume, where a fixed storage bill is the main thing to budget
- Pro: Egress is free on every path the pricing page lists, so 10 TB of monthly downloads adds nothing to the $83.10 scenario bill.
- Pro: Standard storage has no minimum duration, and the free tier includes 10 GB-months plus 1 million Class A and 10 million Class B operations each month, which the scenario total does not subtract.
- Pro: Infrequent Access storage costs less per GB a month than Standard for colder data, which lowers the bill for objects that are read rarely.
- Con: Storage alone is $75.00 at 5 TB, more than double Backblaze B2's total for the same data. R2 beats the download-priced clouds here only because it has no download line.
- Con: Infrequent Access has a 30-day minimum and bills per GB retrieved, so it is not a cheap archive tier for data that is read often.
Cloudflare R2's pricing is exceptionally generous, especially with its free tier offering 10 GB storage and zero egress fees.
Akamai Object Storage (Linode)
A flat monthly base for 250 GB and 1 TB of pooled outbound transfer, with a low per-GB overage in most data centers.
- Starting price
- From $5/mo (250 GB)
- Free plan
- No
- Rating
- 4.6 (336 reviews)
Best for: Developers who want a low flat base and a cheap download overage inside one Akamai Cloud account
- Pro: At this workload the bill is $145.00, the fourth-lowest total here, behind Backblaze B2, Wasabi and Cloudflare R2.
- Pro: The base includes 250 GB of storage and 1 TB of outbound transfer pooled across the account, and it is prorated for partial months.
- Pro: Overage egress costs $0.005 per GB in most data centers, which is half the DigitalOcean overage rate for the same downloads.
- Con: Storage beyond 250 GB costs $0.02 per GB, which is about $20 per TB against Backblaze B2's rate, so storage-heavy archives cost more here.
- Con: Jakarta and Sao Paulo carry higher outbound rates than most data centers, so confirm the rate for your region before you commit.
Linode's pricing is generally fair and competitive, especially for its entry-level Shared CPU tier at $5/month, which offers solid resources for small projects.
Watch out
Overage fees for exceeding bandwidth limits
DigitalOcean Spaces
A monthly base with 250 GiB and 1 TiB of outbound transfer included, and a built-in CDN with no separate charge.
- 4.4 on G2 (45 reviews)
- 4.8 on SourceForge (4 reviews)
- Starting price
- From $5/mo (250 GiB)
- Free plan
- No
- Rating
- 4.5 (49 reviews)
Best for: Teams already on DigitalOcean who want storage, transfer and a CDN on one predictable base price
- Pro: The built-in CDN is included, so serving public files through Spaces adds no separate CDN line item on the bill.
- Pro: Overage is $0.02 per GiB of storage and $0.01 per GiB of outbound transfer, both printed on the pricing page, which makes the bill easy to model.
- Pro: The 1 TiB of included transfer means a small public site with modest downloads pays only the base price.
- Con: At this workload the bill is $189.76, because about 9 TB of the downloads are billed at $0.01 per GiB beyond the included terabyte.
- Con: The $0.02 per GiB storage overage is about three times Backblaze B2's effective per-TB rate, so storage-heavy archives cost more here.
DigitalOcean Spaces offers a very fair and generous pricing model at $5/month for 250 GB storage and 1 TB bandwidth.
Watch out
Overage fees: $0.02/GB for additional storage
AWS S3 Standard
The reference bill: Standard storage at a per-GB rate, with egress billed per GB after the first 100 GB.
- Starting price
- $0.023/GB/mo Standard
- Free plan
- No
- Rating
- 4.7 (2,062 reviews)
Best for: Workloads already inside AWS, where storage, compute and egress sit on one bill and one account
- Pro: Standard storage is $0.023 per GB for the first 50 TB in US East (N. Virginia), and the first 100 GB of egress each month is free.
- Pro: Request charges are small at this scale: $5.00 for 1 million writes and $4.00 for 10 million reads.
- Pro: Teams already on AWS avoid moving data out of their existing account to a second provider, which keeps access rules and tooling in one place.
- Con: Egress is the bill: $891 of the $1,015 scenario total is download traffic billed per GB after the first 100 GB.
- Con: At the per-GB rate above, S3 Standard storage costs about 3.3 times Backblaze B2's per-TB rate, so it only wins on ecosystem fit, not on price.
AWS S3's pricing is generally fair and highly competitive, especially with its diverse storage classes.
Watch out
Retrieval fees for Glacier storage
Google Cloud Storage
Standard storage at about $0.020 per GB a month in one US region, with worldwide egress at $0.12 per GB.
- Starting price
- $0.020/GB/mo, one US region
- Free plan
- No
- Rating
- 4.7 (2,892 reviews)
Best for: Teams running workloads on Google Cloud that want regional storage close to their compute
- Pro: Standard storage in a single US region is about $0.020 per GB a month, the rate used in this scenario.
- Pro: Operations are cheap at volume: fractions of a cent per thousand Class A writes and Class B reads on Standard storage.
- Pro: Always Free covers 5 GB of Standard storage a month in US regions, and Nearline, Coldline and Archive classes are priced on the same page for older data.
- Con: Egress is the cost driver: at $0.12 per GB, 10 TB of monthly downloads costs $1,200, which is 92 percent of the $1,309 scenario bill.
- Con: The download line is more than ten times the storage line at this workload, so a public download service costs far more to serve than to keep.
Google Cloud Storage offers a competitive and generally fair pricing model, especially with its generous Always Free tier of 5GB/month.
Watch out
Retrieval fees for colder storage tiers.
Scaleway Object Storage
Euro-only pricing, so it is shown last without a USD total, with 75 GB of egress free each month and no request fees.
- 4.5 on Capterra (110 reviews)
- 4.6 on G2 (21 reviews)
- 2.0 on SourceForge (1 reviews)
- Starting price
- EUR 0.01606/GB/mo, Multi-AZ
- Free plan
- No
- Rating
- 4.3 (132 reviews)
Best for: EU-based teams that want storage in Paris billed in euros, with inter-region traffic kept in mind
- Pro: Multi-AZ Standard storage is EUR 0.01606 per GB a month before tax, which is about EUR 80 a month for 5 TB.
- Pro: The price list shows requests as included, with no request fees.
- Pro: The first 75 GB of egress each month is free, and intra-region traffic is free.
- Con: The page prices only in euros, so the scenario total cannot be set against the USD totals above without a conversion this guide does not make.
- Con: The egress rate is printed as EUR 0.01 per GB with a monthly unit, so confirm on the pricing page how it is billed before you estimate a download-heavy workload.
This pricing is best for developers and small to medium businesses looking for cost-effective European cloud solutions.
Watch out
Managed service add-ons
What egress is, and why the no-egress claims differ
Egress is data leaving the provider's network: every download by a visitor, a customer, or your own server pulling files back out. Storage is billed by the gigabyte held per month. Egress is billed by the gigabyte sent out, and that second meter is where most object storage bills turn. A provider can charge a low rate to hold your data and still bill more for reading it back than for keeping it.
"No egress fees" is not one promise. Cloudflare R2 charges nothing for egress on the paths its pricing page lists, so its bill has no download line at all. Backblaze B2 lets egress run free up to three times the average amount you store each month, then bills per GB beyond that. Wasabi charges no egress fee while monthly downloads stay at or below your active storage volume, a fair-use rule on the account, and its pricing page publishes no rate above that line. Scaleway includes 75 GB a month and then bills euros per GB. Each of these offers free download traffic under a different condition, and the condition decides the bill.
Why the download line decides the cost of an object store
At this workload the download line is most of the bill for the big clouds. AWS S3 Standard lists $0.023 per GB of storage, which is $115 a month for 5 TB. But 10 TB of downloads at $0.09 per GB comes to $891 after the first 100 GB is free. Google Cloud Storage charges $0.12 per GB sent out, which makes the same downloads cost $1,200, or 92 percent of its total. The same 5 TB on Backblaze B2 costs under $35, because the 10 TB of downloads sit inside a free allowance of 15 TB.
The reverse also holds. A workload that stores a lot and downloads very little, such as a backup set that is rarely restored, pays mostly for storage, and then the storage rate and any minimum storage duration decide the winner. Read the scenario that matches your own traffic, not the headline price on the front page.
Key Features to Look For
Free egress with a ceiling (Backblaze B2) (Essential)
Egress is free up to three times the average monthly storage. Past that line the rate is one cent per GB, so the free allowance grows with the data you keep, not with the time you keep it.
No egress line at all (Cloudflare R2) (Essential)
Standard storage is $0.015 per GB a month and egress is free on every path the pricing page lists. The bill stays predictable when downloads spike, because there is no per-GB download meter to spike.
Fair-use egress (Wasabi) (Essential)
Egress and API requests carry no fee while monthly egress is at or below the active storage volume. The page sets that as the policy limit.
Flat plan with bundled transfer (DigitalOcean Spaces, Akamai Object Storage) (Important)
Both sell a base price that includes storage and a monthly transfer pool, then charge overage per GB. DigitalOcean includes 250 GiB and 1 TiB, Akamai 250 GB and 1 TB pooled across the account.
Pay per GB out (AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage) (Important)
AWS charges $0.09 per GB after the first 100 GB, and Google Cloud Storage $0.12 per GB sent out. That makes egress the cost to model first, and storage the cost to model second.
Request pricing (Nice to have)
Backblaze B2 lists Class A, B and C calls as free on pay as you go, R2 bills per million requests, AWS per thousand, and Scaleway lists requests as included. Read-heavy workloads should check this line on each vendor page.
Settle the download forecast before you compare storage prices
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Forecast downloads in gigabytes per month before anything else. Multiply expected reads by average object size. At 10 TB of downloads, AWS's $0.09 per GB rate adds $891 on its own, against $115 for 5 TB of storage.
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Decide whether you need a ceiling or no ceiling. Backblaze B2 stays free up to three times stored data and then bills, Wasabi stays free only at or below stored volume, and Cloudflare R2 never bills egress. Those three answers give three different bills for the same traffic.
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Check minimum storage durations against how long your data lives. Wasabi bills objects deleted within 90 days for the rest of that period, and R2's Infrequent Access class has a 30-day minimum, so short-lived exports pay for days they never use.
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Confirm the currency on every line. Scaleway prices in euros before tax, and a euro figure set beside USD totals without a conversion says nothing about which option is cheaper.
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Compare total cost at a stated scenario, not the storage rate alone. A low per-TB rate beats a $23 per TB rate on storage, but only the full bill tells you which one wins once downloads are added.
Evaluation Checklist
On Backblaze, confirm the pay-as-you-go per-TB rate and the three-times egress allowance on the pricing page before committing to a download-heavy workload.
On Wasabi, compare expected monthly downloads with the stored volume, because the fair-use rule decides whether egress is free.
On Cloudflare R2, check the 30-day minimum on Infrequent Access before moving cold data there, since that class also bills per GB retrieved.
On Akamai Object Storage, confirm the outbound rate for your data center, since the page lists different overage prices for Jakarta and Sao Paulo.
On Scaleway, check how the egress rate is billed, because the page prints a per-GB price next to a monthly unit.
On AWS and Google Cloud, price the egress line first, because it is most of the bill at any volume where downloads outrun storage.
Pricing Overview
Lowest bill with a download ceiling
Backblaze B2 for teams whose downloads stay under three times what they store, on pay as you go with no minimum storage duration.
Under $35/mo at 5 TB (Backblaze B2)
No egress line at all
Cloudflare R2 for public downloads that grow unpredictably, where a fixed storage bill is easier to budget than a per-GB download meter.
$83.10/mo at 5 TB (Cloudflare R2)
Download-priced hyperscale
AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage for teams already running on those clouds, who accept egress as the price of keeping everything in one account.
$1,015 to $1,309/mo at 5 TB (AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage)
Pricing Comparison
| Tool | Storage price | Cost at scenario | Egress rule | Hidden costs and billing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
$6.95/TB/mo, pay as you go | $34.75/mo | Free up to 3x stored, then $0.01/GB | First 10 GB free; Class A, B and C calls free on pay as you go; Class D $0.004 per 10,000 beyond 2,500 a day | |
Wasabi | $7.99/TB/mo, pay as you go | $39.95/mo, fair use exceeded | Free while egress is at most stored volume | 90-day minimum storage duration; no egress rate published above the fair-use line |
$0.015/GB/mo, Standard | $83.10/mo | Free on listed paths | Writes $4.50 per million, reads $0.36 per million; free operations quota not applied | |
$0.02/GB/mo beyond 250 GB | $145.00/mo | 1 TB pooled a month, then $0.005/GB | $5/mo base includes 250 GB, billed prorated; outbound rate varies by data center; no request charge listed, so none counted | |
$0.02/GiB/mo beyond 250 GiB | $189.76/mo | 1 TiB included, then $0.01/GiB | Base includes 250 GiB storage; built-in CDN, no separate charge | |
$0.023/GB/mo, first 50 TB | $1,015.00/mo | 100 GB free, then $0.09/GB | Writes and reads billed per 1,000 requests; egress is $891 of the total | |
$0.020/GB/mo, one US region | $1,309.00/mo | $0.12/GB to worldwide destinations | Class A $0.005 per 1,000; Class B $0.0004 per 1,000; egress is $1,200 of the total | |
EUR 0.01606/GB/mo, Multi-AZ | Not ranked (EUR only) | 75 GB free, then EUR 0.01/GB | No request fees; egress unit printed as monthly, so not computed; EUR never converted |
Checked on each vendor's own pricing page on October 10, 2026. Figures are published list prices, and euros are never converted. AWS figures come from its published S3 and data transfer price lists. Sources: Backblaze B2 pricing, Wasabi pricing and Wasabi FAQ, Cloudflare R2 pricing, Akamai Object Storage pricing, DigitalOcean Spaces pricing, AWS S3 pricing, Google Cloud Storage pricing, Scaleway Object Storage pricing. See best cloud storage for consumer sync tools.
Mistakes to Avoid
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Reading no egress fees as zero egress. Only Cloudflare R2 charges nothing for downloads on every path its page lists. Backblaze B2 and Wasabi attach a limit, and the limit is where the bill starts.
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Pricing storage alone. At 5 TB, AWS S3 storage is $115 and its egress is $891. The storage line is small next to the downloads, so a storage-only comparison picks the wrong vendor.
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Ignoring the Wasabi fair-use line. Egress is free only while monthly downloads stay at or below active storage. Above that line no rate is published, so a download spike has no price to plan against.
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Missing the minimum duration. Wasabi bills deleted objects for the rest of 90 days, which hurts short-lived exports and backup sets that rotate weekly.
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Comparing currencies without converting. Scaleway prices in euros before tax. A euro figure set against USD totals says nothing until it is converted on a dated rate, so check the currency on every line.
Expert Tips
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Forecast downloads in gigabytes, not in users. Multiply expected reads by average object size and request count before choosing. The forecast drives the bill more than the stored size does.
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Model the ceiling. Backblaze B2's free egress ends at three times stored data, and Wasabi's ends at stored volume. Work out where your own workload crosses each line before you commit to a plan.
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Check the overage rate, not just the bundle. The base prices on DigitalOcean and on Akamai both include a transfer pool. The per-GB overage rates are what you pay for a download spike.
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Read the request page separately. Backblaze B2 lists Class A, B and C calls as free on pay as you go, while R2 bills per million requests and S3 per thousand, so a read-heavy app needs its own line in the forecast.
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Refresh the numbers every 60 days. Object storage prices change. Every figure on this page is dated October 10, 2026, so check the vendor page again before a purchase decision.
Red Flags to Watch For
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A no-egress headline with no written condition. Ask the vendor for the rule in writing: free up to what, measured how, and billed when it stops being free.
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A fair-use rule with no published overage price. Above the limit the bill is unknown until the vendor states one, which is the worst time to find out.
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A storage price with a minimum duration you do not plan for. Early deletion is billed for the rest of the period, so short-lived exports and weekly backup rotations cost more than the headline rate.
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Prices shown only in a currency you do not pay in. Compare only after a dated conversion, and say so on the page.
The Bottom Line
Backblaze B2 for the lowest bill at this workload: about $35 a month for 5 TB with 10 TB downloaded, on a pay-as-you-go rate, as long as downloads stay under three times what you store. Cloudflare R2 when download volume is unpredictable or high, since its egress is zero and the bill at this workload is $83.10. Wasabi only when downloads stay at or below stored volume, because its fair-use rule is what makes egress free. DigitalOcean Spaces and Akamai Object Storage suit teams that want a flat base and a predictable overage. AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage make the most sense when the rest of the stack already runs on those clouds, and egress is the price of keeping everything in one place.
For the wider category, see best cloud storage and best encrypted cloud storage. Per-tool detail sits on Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, Wasabi, AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage, and the AWS S3 alternatives page covers the switch away from S3.
Cite this: Toolradar, "Object Storage With No Egress Fees: Backblaze B2 Pricing Compared (2026)," October 2026. Prices checked on vendor pages on October 10, 2026. Scenario: 5 TB stored, 10 TB downloaded, 10 million reads and 1 million writes a month.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the cheapest object storage with no egress fees in 2026?
On this workload, Backblaze B2 is the cheapest at $34.75 a month for 5 TB stored and 10 TB downloaded, on its pay-as-you-go price per TB, checked on backblaze.com on October 10, 2026. Its egress is free up to three times stored data. Cloudflare R2 has no egress charge at all and costs $83.10 at the same workload, so it wins once downloads pass about 19.8 TB a month.
How much does Backblaze B2 cost per month?
Backblaze B2 pay as you go starts at $6.95 per TB a month, so 5 TB costs $34.75 for storage. The first 10 GB is free, egress is free up to three times average monthly storage, and Class A, B and C calls are free on pay as you go. Class D calls cost $0.004 per 10,000 beyond 2,500 a day, and downloads beyond the free allowance cost a per-GB rate.
Is there a free object storage plan with no egress fees?
Yes, in part. Cloudflare R2 includes 10 GB-months of Standard storage plus a monthly quota of 1 million Class A and 10 million Class B operations. Backblaze B2 includes the first 10 GB of storage at no charge. Google Cloud Storage's Always Free quota covers 5 GB of Standard storage in US regions. These free tiers move a 5 TB bill by less than $15 a month, so none of them decides a production workload on its own.
What is the difference between zero egress and free egress up to a limit?
Zero egress means there is no download line at all, as on Cloudflare R2. Free egress up to a limit means downloads are free until they pass a threshold. Backblaze B2 sets the threshold at three times average monthly storage and bills per GB beyond it. Wasabi ties its threshold to active storage volume under a fair-use policy and publishes no rate above it. Check which one you are buying before you compare totals.
Is Wasabi cheaper than Backblaze B2?
Not at this workload. Wasabi's pay-as-you-go rate is $7.99 per TB against Backblaze B2's rate, so 5 TB costs $39.95 on Wasabi and under $35 on Backblaze B2. Wasabi also sets a 90-day minimum storage duration, and its fair-use rule is broken by 10 TB of downloads from 5 TB stored. Wasabi suits a team whose downloads stay at or below what it stores and that wants no egress line at all.
How much does AWS S3 cost for 5 TB with 10 TB downloaded?
On list prices in US East (N. Virginia), the workload costs $1,015.00 a month: $115.00 for 5 TB of storage, $891.00 for 10 TB of downloads after the first 100 GB is free, and $9.00 for 1 million writes and 10 million reads. Storage is the smaller line. Egress is 88 percent of the total, so the download forecast decides the price.
At what download volume does Cloudflare R2 become cheaper than Backblaze B2?
At 5 TB stored, Backblaze B2 costs under $35 and stays the cheapest until monthly downloads pass about 19.8 TB. Above that, its per-GB overage pushes the B2 bill past Cloudflare R2's $83.10, which carries no egress charge but costs $75.00 in storage alone. Re-run the forecast if your stored volume changes, because the crossover moves with it.
Cite this page: Toolradar, "Object Storage With No Egress Fees: Backblaze B2 Pricing Compared (2026)", updated October 2026, https://toolradar.com/guides/object-storage-no-egress-fees
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