Object storage with no request fees: which vendors, and the year's bill for many small files
Prices checked
Of the 10 vendors that charge nothing for requests, OVHcloud Object Storage Infrequent Access costs least for 1 TB of backups in 10 million small files, over a year with one full restore: $52.78, that is $4.06 a normal month and $8.12 the month you restore everything.
Requests can cost more than the storage. Backing up 10 million small files one by one, requests alone come to $142.00 a year at Amazon S3, more than the whole year at 7 of the vendors below. 10 of the 18 vendors charge nothing for uploads, lists or reads; a few of them count each small file as a minimum size, named under its row.
Charging for requests is not always a large charge: at Telnyx Cloud Storage they come to $0.04 over this year, and its whole year, $67.96, is less than the year at 9 of the vendors ranked here. The vendors that charge are listed under the table with what requests cost them.
Storage with no request fees, cheapest year first
One row per vendor: its cheapest class you can read at once, without restoring each file first. Ranked on 11 normal months and one month you restore all 1 TB.
| # | Offer | Where | Year with one restore | Normal month | Month you restore | Downloads | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OVHcloud Object Storage Infrequent Access | France (Gravelines) | $52.78 | $4.06 | $8.12 | No download fees | |
| 2 | IDrive e2 | United States (Virginia) | $72.00 | $6.00 | $6.00 | Downloads free up to 3× what you store | |
| 3 |  Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage | United States (US West) | $82.56 | $6.88 | $6.88 | Downloads free up to 3× what you store | |
| 4 |  Storj Standard Bills each object as at least 50 KB, so a smaller file costs more than its size. | Distributed worldwide | $91.00 | $7.00 | $14.00 | Every GB downloaded is billed | |
| 5 |  Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage Bills each object as at least 4 KB, so a smaller file costs more than its size. | United States (US East 1) | $95.88 | $7.99 | $7.99 | Downloads free up to what you store | |
| 6 | Hetzner Object Storage Bills each object as at least 64 KB, so a smaller file costs more than its size. | Germany (Falkenstein) | $95.88 | $7.99 | $7.99 | About 1 TB downloaded free a month | |
| 7 |  Scaleway Object Storage Standard One Zone | France (Paris) | $118.23 | $8.99 | $19.34 | First 75 GB downloaded free each month | |
| 8 | DigitalOcean Spaces Cold Storage Bills each object as at least 128 KiB, so a smaller file costs more than its size. | United States (New York 3) | $165.38 | $13.54 | $16.44 | First 1 TB downloaded free each month | |
| 9 | Vultr Object Storage Standard | United States (New Jersey) | $216.00 | $18.00 | $18.00 | First 1 TB downloaded free each month | |
| 10 | Akamai Cloud Object Storage | United States (US East) | $240.00 | $20.00 | $20.00 | First 1 TB downloaded free each month |
Scaleway Object Storage publishes its prices in euros; its bills are converted at $1.1193 per euro, the European Central Bank's reference rate of 23 October 2026.
If the restore can wait: OVHcloud Object Storage Cold Archive costs $32.45 over the same year, but each file has to be restored before you can download it (ready within 2 days), so it suits a copy you hope never to need, not the backup you restore from first.
Price your own backups Open it on the restore bill
The calculator opens on this workload, ranked as here on a year with one restore. It ranks the vendors that charge for requests as well. Change the size, the uploads and the restore, or allow a wait before the restore.
Vendors not on the list, and why
- Amazon S3: requests cost $142.00 of the $372.65 year on S3 One Zone-IA, its cheapest class here.
- Azure Blob Storage: requests cost $142.00 of the $342.02 year on Cool LRS, its cheapest class here.
- Cloudflare R2: requests cost $0.36 of the $180.36 year on Standard, its cheapest class here.
- Filebase: requests cost $0.36 of the $168.00 year on Object Storage, its cheapest class here.
- Google Cloud Storage: requests cost $140.80 of the $361.60 year on Nearline, its cheapest class here.
- Oracle OCI Object Storage: requests cost $11.36 of the $131.17 year on Infrequent Access, its cheapest class here.
- Telnyx Cloud Storage: requests cost $0.04 of the $67.96 year on Regular Storage, its cheapest class here.
- Tigris: requests cost $69.80 of the $142.49 year on Archive Instant Retrieval, its cheapest class here.
How the bills are worked out
1 TB of backups kept as 10 million files of 100 KB on average, copied file by file; each month 1 million uploads and 1 million reads to check what changed; nothing downloaded in a normal month; all 1 TB downloaded over the internet the month you restore, which reads all 10 million files back.
Each bill comes from the vendor's own published rates through the same engine as the calculator, checked on the date beside it, including any lower rate a vendor publishes for larger volumes. The month you restore adds reading every object back and downloading all 1 TB. No early-deletion charge is counted: what you delete each month depends on your retention, so check each vendor's minimum storage period.
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