Storage classes
Where each OVHcloud class stops being the cheaper option
A five-class OVHcloud comparison with a 361.85% Infrequent Access crossover, a 49.00% Active Archive crossover, an unresolved Cold Archive retrieval conflict, and free public egress kept explicit.
Put your own numbers through the calculator to see what this meter does to a normal month and to the day you restore.
OVHcloud needs two warmer baselines because the captured classes are not all in one Region
The captured High Performance and Infrequent Access records are both in GRA, so they form one compatible byte comparison. High Performance costs $0.0202794 per GiB-month, Infrequent Access costs $0.0043581 per GiB-month, and retrieval costs $0.0044 per GiB. The crossover is 361.85% read per month. [1]
The captured Standard 3-AZ, Active Archive, and Cold Archive records are in EU-WEST-PAR. Active Archive costs $0.0053217 per GiB-month and retrieval costs $0.0212 per GiB. Against the first Standard 3-AZ storage band at $0.0157096, the crossover is 49.00% per month. [1]
| Comparable pair | Arithmetic | Access breakpoint | Minimum-duration treatment | Source ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRA High Performance versus Infrequent Access | ($0.0202794 - $0.0043581) / $0.0044 | 361.85% per month | 3.6185 full reads during Infrequent Access's 30-day minimum | [1] |
| EU-WEST-PAR Standard 3-AZ first band versus Active Archive | ($0.0157096 - $0.0053217) / $0.0212 | 49.00% per month | Minimum duration not published, so minimum-window access count is not published | [1] [2] |
| EU-WEST-PAR Standard 3-AZ versus Cold Archive | Retrieval rate not published in the dataset | not published | 180 days | [1] [3] |
| Standard 3-AZ versus High Performance | Different captured Regions and different service capability | not comparable | does not apply | [1] [2] |
Every class has a breakpoint or an explicit refusal to invent one
The Standard 3-AZ record uses graduated storage bands. Its first band is the compatible baseline for the captured Active Archive result, so higher-volume workloads require the applicable Standard band to be substituted before the crossover is recomputed. [1]
The dataset records incoming, internal, and public outgoing traffic as included for all five classes, and records Class A and Class B operations as not charged. Retrieval and minimum duration are therefore the class-changing byte meters, except where a missing retrieval rate blocks the result. [1]
| Class and Region | Storage and retrieval | Minimum duration | Break-even access frequency | Wrong access pattern | Source ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard 3-AZ, EU-WEST-PAR | $0.0157096/GiB-month in the first band; retrieval not charged | does not apply | does not apply; warmer baseline for the Paris archive records | A workload whose required Region or capability is represented only by another captured record | [1] [2] |
| High Performance, GRA | $0.0202794/GiB-month; retrieval not charged | does not apply | does not apply; warmer baseline for GRA Infrequent Access | A workload that does not need the performance capability and reads below the Infrequent Access crossover | [1] [2] |
| Infrequent Access, GRA | $0.0043581/GiB-month + $0.0044/GiB retrieved | 30 days | 361.85% per month; 3.6185 full reads during the minimum | More than 361.85% read per month or delete, overwrite, move, or transition before day 30 | [1] [2] |
| Active Archive, EU-WEST-PAR | $0.0053217/GiB-month + $0.0212/GiB retrieved | not published | 49.00% per month versus the first Standard 3-AZ band; minimum-window result not published | More than 49.00% read per month or any retention plan that needs a published minimum duration | [1] [2] |
| Cold Archive, EU-WEST-PAR | Starting at $0.002/GiB-month; retrieval rate not published in the dataset | 180 days | not published | Any restore plan that requires a complete price, plus mutation before day 180 | [1] [3] |
Public egress is not charged, but archive retrieval can still dominate
The captured worldwide price list includes public outgoing traffic for every OVHcloud class. A public restore therefore keeps egress as not charged rather than dropping the line, while Infrequent Access and Active Archive retain their per-GiB retrieval charges. [1]
Restoring without mutating the source does not incur an early-deletion remainder. Add that meter only when the workflow also deletes, overwrites, moves, or transitions the source before a published minimum. Cold Archive has a 180-day minimum; Active Archive's minimum remains not published in the dataset. [2] [3]
| Restore line | Standard and High Performance | Infrequent Access | Active Archive | Cold Archive | Source ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval | not charged | $0.0044/GiB | $0.0212/GiB | not published in the dataset | [1] [3] |
| Public egress | not charged | not charged | not charged | not charged | [1] |
| Class A and Class B operations | not charged | not charged | not charged | not charged | [1] |
| Early deletion on read-only source | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | [2] [3] |
The current price list exposes a Cold Archive retrieval rate that the dataset omits
A live check on 2026-07-26 found a $0.011 per GiB Cold Archive retrieval rate on OVHcloud's official public-cloud price list. The July 25 provider record says the rate is not published because the checked product text stated only that retrieval fees apply. [4] [3]
The live rate is not imported into the break-even because the project contract requires rates to come from providers.json. Cold Archive therefore remains stale with a not published crossover until the dataset is refreshed and its dataset-to-source mismatch is resolved. [4] [3]
| Property | July 25 dataset | Official price list checked July 26 | Page treatment | Source ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cold Archive retrieval | not published | $0.011/GiB | stale; excluded from the crossover | [3] [4] |
| Cold Archive storage | Starting at $0.002/GiB-month | $0.0000027/GiB-hour on the current price list | Dataset rate retained; no silent replacement | [3] [4] |
| Cold Archive minimum | 180 days | 180 days | No disagreement | [3] [4] |
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these pages, on the date shown. Each numbered reference in the text links to its entry here. Vendors change prices; if a date looks old, check the source. Three vendors publish a machine-readable feed and the rest are re-checked by hand, which is why the dates are not uniform.
The source ledger4 sources
- 1OVHcloud: Public cloud priceswww.ovhcloud.com · checked 2026-07-25 15:34:44+00:00
- 2OVHcloud documentationdocs.ovhcloud.com · checked 2026-07-25 15:34:44+00:00
- 3OVHcloud: Cold archivewww.ovhcloud.com · checked 2026-07-25 15:34:44+00:00
- 4OVHcloud: Public cloud priceswww.ovhcloud.com · checked 2026-07-26