Cloud storage for a small office's 500 GB of backups: the year's bill, minimum charges included
Prices checked
For 500 GB of backups, OVHcloud Object Storage Infrequent Access costs least over a year with one full restore: $26.39, that is $2.03 a normal month and $4.06 the month you restore everything. All 18 vendors we price are ranked below on the same bill.
Below 1 TB, the cheapest price per TB is not the cheapest bill. 8 of the 18 vendors charge a minimum or a monthly base price whatever you store, and at 500 GB that floor sets most or all of their bill. Each one's floor is named under its row.
This is storage for a backup tool you already run, such as your NAS's own backup app or software on a server. For a finished service with its own app, see object storage against a managed backup service.
Storage for 500 GB, 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 500 GB.
| # | Offer | Where | Year with one restore | Normal month | Month you restore | Downloads | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OVHcloud Object Storage Infrequent Access | France (Gravelines) | $26.39 | $2.03 | $4.06 | No download fees | |
| 2 |  Telnyx Cloud Storage Regular Storage | United States (US East) | $32.76 | $2.73 | $2.73 | No download fees | |
| 3 | Tigris Archive Instant Retrieval | Automatic location | $36.29 | $1.86 | $15.83 | No download fees | |
| 4 |  Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage | United States (US West) | $40.92 | $3.41 | $3.41 | Downloads free up to 3× what you store | |
| 5 |  Scaleway Object Storage Standard One Zone | France (Paris) | $58.64 | $4.49 | $9.25 | First 75 GB downloaded free each month | |
| 6 | Oracle OCI Object Storage Infrequent Access | United States (Ashburn) | $59.27 | $4.56 | $9.11 | First 10.2 TB downloaded free each month | |
| 7 |  Storj Standard Bills at least $5.00 a month, so anything up to about 710 GB costs the same. | Distributed worldwide | $62.00 | $5.00 | $7.00 | Every GB downloaded is billed | |
| 8 | Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval | United States (Northern Virginia) | $70.30 | $1.91 | $49.29 | First 100 GB downloaded free each month | |
| 9 | Azure Blob Storage Cold LRS | United States (East US) | $70.94 | $1.72 | $52.02 | First 100 GB downloaded free each month | |
| 10 | IDrive e2 Bills at least 1 TB a month, so anything up to 1 TB costs the same. | United States (Virginia) | $72.00 | $6.00 | $6.00 | Downloads free up to 3× what you store | |
| 11 | Google Cloud Storage Archive | United States (South Carolina) | $73.88 | $0.56 | $67.72 | First 100 GB downloaded free each month | |
| 12 |  Cloudflare R2 Standard | Automatic location | $90.00 | $7.50 | $7.50 | No download fees | |
| 13 | Filebase Object Storage $7.50 a month, which includes 500 GB, so anything up to 500 GB costs the same. | Distributed worldwide | $90.00 | $7.50 | $7.50 | No download fees | |
| 14 |  Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage Bills at least 1 TB a month, so anything up to 1 TB costs the same. | United States (US East 1) | $95.88 | $7.99 | $7.99 | Downloads free up to what you store | |
| 15 | Hetzner Object Storage A $7.99 monthly base price. | Germany (Falkenstein) | $95.88 | $7.99 | $7.99 | About 1 TB downloaded free a month | |
| 16 | DigitalOcean Spaces Cold Storage A $5.00 monthly base price. | United States (New York 3) | $99.12 | $8.26 | $8.26 | First 1 TB downloaded free each month | |
| 17 | Akamai Cloud Object Storage $5.00 a month, which includes 250 GB, so anything up to 250 GB costs the same. | United States (US East) | $120.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | First 1 TB downloaded free each month | |
| 18 | Vultr Object Storage Standard $18.00 a month, which includes 1 TB, so anything up to 1 TB costs the same. | United States (New Jersey) | $216.00 | $18.00 | $18.00 | 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 $16.23 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. Change the size, the uploads and the restore, or allow a wait before the restore.
How the bills are worked out
500 GB of backups kept as 50,000 objects of 10 MB on average; 25 GB of changed data uploaded each month, which is 2,500 uploads; nothing downloaded in a normal month; all 500 GB downloaded over the internet the month you restore, which reads all 50,000 objects 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 500 GB. 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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