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Akamai Cloud Object Storage pricing for backup storage
Akamai Cloud Object Storage is another bundled offer: $5 per month includes 250 GB of storage and contributes 1 TB to a network-transfer pool. The transfer allowance is prorated with active time, and request pricing is announced for a future date rather than active on this page's as-of date.
Price your own workload against every vendor, including the worst-day restore and how long it takes to come back.
What the pricing page does not lead with
The first 250 GB is bundled into a $5 subscription.
Treating the zero per-GB tier as free would omit the fixed monthly bill.
Source, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44ZThe 1 TB transfer contribution is prorated for active time.
A part-month restore cannot assume the complete monthly allowance.
Source, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44ZSeparate Jakarta and Sao Paulo transfer pools do not receive an added Object Storage allowance.
The destination pool changes allowance eligibility even when the storage price looks identical.
Source, checked 2026-07-26
The rest of this vendor's non-obvious rules1 more
Request charges are announced for no earlier than 2026-10-01, not active on 2026-07-25.
A future quote must refresh the effective state; a current quote must not charge the announced rates early.
Source, checked 2026-07-26
Worked bills
Each one states its inputs and every line, so the total can be checked rather than trusted. A state stays a word and is never counted as zero.
Full-month bill above both bundled allowances$12.50
Active time: full billing month · Storage GB: 500 · Network transfer GB: 1,500 · Class a operations: 500,000 · Class b operations: 2,000,000 · Region: us-east · Mutation: none; read-only restore
Sources: Akamai techdocs: Object storage pricing: subscription, storage overage, transfer pool, transfer overage, current requests, and retrieval, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z
| Subscription including 250 GB storage | $5.00 |
|---|---|
| 250 GB storage overage | $5.00 |
| 500 GB network-transfer overage | $2.50 |
| Class A and Class B requests as of 2026-07-25 | not charged |
| Retrieval | not charged |
| Early deletion | does not apply |
| Total | $12.50 |
Subscription = $5.00. Storage overage = (500 - 250) x $0.02 = $5.00. Transfer overage = (1,500 - 1,000) x $0.005 = $2.50. Current requests and retrieval are not charged. Total = $5.00 + $5.00 + $2.50 = $12.50.
Part-month service with a prorated network poolno complete total
Active hours: buyer-specific · Network transfer GB: 1,000
Sources: Akamai techdocs: Object storage pricing: active-time proration, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z
| Prorated transfer allowance | conditional |
|---|---|
| Transfer overage | conditional |
| Exact total | conditional |
| Total | conditional |
The 1 TB contribution is prorated by active time. Exact active hours and the applicable billing month are required before subtracting the allowance.
Quote whose service month starts after the earliest request-pricing dateno complete total
Service date: 2026-10-01 or later · Class a operations: 2,000,000 · Class b operations: 15,000,000
Sources: Akamai techdocs: Object storage pricing: announced request schedule and activation condition, checked 2026-07-26
| Request-pricing activation | conditional |
|---|---|
| Class A requests if active | $5.00 |
| Class B requests if active | $1.00 |
| Current-date total | does not apply |
| Total | conditional |
If the announced schedule activates, Class A billable requests = 2,000,000 - 1,000,000 = 1,000,000, costing 1,000 x $0.005 = $5.00. Class B billable requests = 15,000,000 - 12,500,000 = 2,500,000, costing 2,500 x $0.0004 = $1.00. Activation was not yet effective on the page's as-of date, so the future total remains conditional.
Jakarta or Sao Paulo transfer does not inherit the Object Storage poolno complete total
Region: Jakarta or Sao Paulo · Network transfer GB: 1,000 · Storage and requests: held constant and excluded
Sources: Akamai techdocs: Object storage pricing: separate regional transfer pools and absence of an added Object Storage allowance, checked 2026-07-26 · GitHub: Providers: local Akamai offer, which captures US East rather than either named regional pool, checked 2026-07-27
| Added Object Storage transfer allowance | does not apply |
|---|---|
| Regional transfer-pool charge | unknown |
| Complete regional total | unknown |
| Total | unknown |
The cited Akamai page says Jakarta and Sao Paulo use separate transfer pools and do not receive an added Object Storage allowance. The local dataset captures only the US East offer and does not carry either regional pool's price, so the amount remains unknown and is not copied from the US East rule.
Every class, and the rules that change its bill
1 class captured for this vendor. Each rule below is a published condition that moves a real line on the bill, with the page it came from.
Object Storage8 rules
Online S3-compatible object storage for backups and application data in an eligible Akamai Cloud Computing region.
| Rule | Value | Why it moves the bill |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription and included storage | $5 per month including 250 GB | The included storage tier has a fixed fee and must not render as a free 250 GB offer. |
| Storage overage | $0.02 per GB-month above 250 GB | Only capacity beyond the bundle receives the per-GB line. |
| Network-transfer allowance | 1,000 GB added to the monthly global transfer pool and prorated for active time | The allowance is pool-scoped and a part-month service receives less than 1 TB. |
| Network-transfer overage | $0.005 per GB in the modeled region; regional exceptions exist | A restore destination and data-center pool must be eligible for this rate before the receipt uses it. |
| API requests as of 2026-07-25 | not charged | The future request schedule is not yet an active bill line. |
| Announced future request schedule | conditional: no earlier than 2026-10-01; Class A $0.005 per 1,000 after 1 million monthly and Class B $0.0004 per 1,000 after 12.5 million monthly | A quote for service after activation must refresh eligibility rather than silently carrying the current $0 request line forward. |
| Retrieval and minimum object size | retrieval not charged; minimum object size does not apply | The captured online class has no separate retrieval line and Akamai states there is no billable object-size floor. |
| Minimum storage duration and early deletion | not published | The checked pricing document does not support a duration-remainder calculation. |