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Akamai Cloud Object Storage pricing: what backups and restores cost

Based in the United States · Prices checked

Akamai Cloud Object Storage costs $0.02 per GB a month beyond the 250 GB its $5 monthly fee includes, with the first 1 TB of downloads free each month. 10 TB of backups: from $200.00 a month, $250.00 the month you restore it all.

10 TB, normal month
$200.00Object Storage, US East
10 TB, month you restore it all
$250.00Object Storage, US East

10 TB kept, 1 TB downloaded in a normal month, all 10 TB downloaded in the month you restore; the other calculator defaults apply.

Akamai Cloud Object Storage costs more to keep than some vendors but less to get back: on a 10 TB backup it is the most expensive of the 18 vendors with both bills for a normal month and the 14th cheapest for the month you restore everything.

What adds to an Akamai Cloud Object Storage bill besides storage

From Akamai Cloud Object Storage's published rules, per class and region. "Not published" means Akamai Cloud Object Storage's pricing pages do not state it.

Class and regionMinimum storage periodSmallest billed objectMinimum monthly billReading data
Object Storage, US East Not published Not published $5 a month, with 250 GB included Free

Reading data is the charge for reading what is stored, billed on top of any download charge. Downloads: the first 1 TB of downloads free each month. Deleting an object before its minimum storage period ends still bills the remaining time.

One storage class

Akamai Cloud Object Storage sells one storage class, so a restore has no cheaper class to move to: 10 TB costs $200.00 in a normal month and $250.00 the month you restore it all.

Akamai Cloud Object Storage pricing calculator

Every Akamai Cloud Object Storage class priced on your numbers, for a normal month and for the month you restore. A charge Akamai Cloud Object Storage does not publish stays named on the bill, never counted as zero.

Which bill are you looking at?
Cheapest for a normal month

Akamai Cloud Object Storage US East

$200.00 a normal month

$250.00on the month you restore

Calculated from the provider's listed rates, not a quote. Checked 23 October 2026

Workload behind this answer10 TB backed up · 1 TB downloaded a month · 10 TB in a restore · 1,000 Mbps · readable at once · any listed region

10 TB backed up; 1 TB downloaded in a normal month; 10 TB downloaded in a restore; 1,000 Mbps download speed; data readable at once, with no restore step; no deadline for everything to be back; any listed region.

Other defaults: 1,000,000 objects; 0 TB upload; 500,000 Class A / 2,000,000 Class B operations; each vendor's standard restore speed; the public internet destination; restored copy for 24 h; 365-day object age; no free tier; object lock not required; S3-compatible API not required.

Lowest normal-month totals

  1. 1Akamai Cloud Object Storage
    Normal
    $200.00
    Restore
    $250.00

    Ready at once · all back in 22 h at the soonest · meets your limits

    What decides it: Storage ($195.00).

Worked example for a 10 TB backup. Change a field and the answer follows.

Files, requests, download speed and restore deadline 9 settings

Other settings stay at the calculator's labelled defaults. Use the full comparison calculator when a region, Object Lock or S3 compatibility decides the choice.

How much more the restore month costs

Normal month to restore month
normal $200.00restore month $250.00

The month you restore: 1.3 times this vendor's quiet month.

Back online: 22 h at the soonestData ready: Ready at once

Recovery time, price date, and sourceshow details

Restoring everything costs 1.3 times a quiet month with this vendor. That multiple, not the storage rate, is what a backup decision turns on.

Back online
22 h at the soonest
Data ready
Ready at once
Prices checked
23 October 2026

This vendor publishes no downloadable price feed, so every figure here is re-checked by hand.

Akamai Cloud Object Storage line by line

Every charge, how it is worked out, and the restore time$200.00 in 6 lines
Normal-month bill, line by lineAkamai Cloud Object Storage US East, priced per GB, normal month
Storage $195.00Requests $0.00Downloads (egress) $0.00Retrieval and restored copy $0.00Fixed fees $5.00
Normal month total$200.00

Calculated from the provider's listed rates.

Vendor wait and download

22.2 hEverything back, at the soonest

Vendor gets data readyReady at once

Download at your speedat least 22.2 h

Data in this class can be read at once, with no restore step, so the soonest it can all be back is the download at your full 1000 Mbps. The vendor does not publish how fast it serves a whole restore, so a real restore can take longer.

Restore time in detail
Shortest wait0 h
Longest wait0 h
Download time (at least)22.2 h
Everything back, at the soonest22.2 h
With the longest wait, at the soonest22.2 h
Blue shows the vendor's published wait, hatched where it can run longer; orange shows the download at your speed. Dashed parts are not published. A real restore can take longer.
Time to recovery

At least 22 h before the last file arrives, at the vendor's standard restore speed

022 h
Vendor gets data ready
Ready at once
Download at your speed
22 h

Data in this class can be read at once, with no restore step, so the soonest it can all be back is the download at your full 1000 Mbps. The vendor does not publish how fast it serves a whole restore, so a real restore can take longer.

When Akamai Cloud Object Storage does not save you money

Akamai Cloud Object Storage costs more than most vendors in both months for a 2 TB NAS offsite copy, a 10 TB backup repository, a 5 TB photo archive and a 100 TB compliance archive. The widest gap is a 100 TB compliance archive, a normal month: $2,000.00 at Akamai Cloud Object Storage against $99.34 at Amazon S3 (S3 Glacier Deep Archive).

Backup Akamai Cloud Object Storage, normal month Cheapest normal month Akamai Cloud Object Storage, month you restore Cheapest month you restore
NAS offsite, 2 TB2 TB, 50 GB downloaded a month, 200,000 files $40.0018th of 18 $8.32OVHcloud Object Storage · Infrequent Access $45.2514th of 18 $11.12Telnyx Cloud Storage · Regular Storage
Backup repository, 10 TB10 TB, 1 TB downloaded a month, 1 million objects, readable at once $200.0018th of 18 $44.65OVHcloud Object Storage · Infrequent Access $250.0014th of 18 $55.83Telnyx Cloud Storage · Regular Storage
Photo archive, 5 TB5 TB, little downloaded, 250,000 files $100.0018th of 18 $6.92Amazon S3 · S3 Glacier Deep Archive $120.2514th of 18 $27.88Telnyx Cloud Storage · Regular Storage
App files with public downloads, 1 TB1 TB stored, 5 TB downloaded a month, 50 million reads $40.008th of 17 $7.65Telnyx Cloud Storage · Regular Storage $45.009th of 17 $7.69Telnyx Cloud Storage · Regular Storage
Compliance archive, 100 TB100 TB kept for years, 10 TB restored at a time $2,000.0018th of 18 $99.34Amazon S3 · S3 Glacier Deep Archive $2,045.0018th of 18 $250.10Oracle OCI Object Storage · Archive

Each backup is a preset of the home calculator, priced with its other defaults on prices checked 17 October to 6 November 2026. A place counts each vendor's cheapest class that meets the backup's limit on how long data may take to be ready, among the vendors with a full bill for that month. Price your own backup above.

Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive: each file must be restored before you can download it, which takes up to 12 hours, and Amazon S3 bills each file for at least 180 days.

Oracle OCI Object Storage Archive: each file must be restored before you can download it (Oracle says the first byte comes back within an hour, but not when the whole file is ready), and Oracle bills each file for at least 90 days.

Head to head: Akamai Cloud Object Storage against Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage and Google Cloud Storage, both bills on the same backups.

Price update

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Bills for the 10 TB workload

Object Storage, US East

Normal month $200.00
Normal-month bill, line by lineAkamai Cloud Object Storage US East, priced per GB, normal month
Storage $195.00Requests $0.00Downloads (egress) $0.00Retrieval and restored copy $0.00Fixed fees $5.00
Normal month total$200.00

Calculated from the provider's listed rates.

Month you restore $250.00
Restore-month bill, line by lineAkamai Cloud Object Storage US East, priced per GB, month you restore
Storage $195.00Requests $0.00Downloads (egress) $50.00Retrieval and restored copy $0.00Fixed fees $5.00
Month you restore total$250.00

Calculated from the provider's listed rates.

Price your own workload against every vendor, including the month you restore and how long it takes to come back.

What the pricing page does not lead with

Every class, and the rules that change its bill

What each class is for and the published rules that do not depend on its rate, each with the day it was checked. Current rates are in the bills above.

Object Storage 2 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
Network-transfer allowance 1,000 GB added to the monthly global transfer pool and prorated for active time The allowance belongs to the account's pool, and a part-month service adds less than 1 TB. Vendor's page, checked 27 September 2026
API requests not charged Akamai says there are currently no charges for API requests on any Object Storage endpoint type. Vendor's page, checked 27 September 2026

Questions buyers ask about Akamai Cloud Object Storage

Does Akamai charge for Object Storage API requests?

No. Akamai says there are currently no charges for API requests, and that per-request charges will not appear on invoices earlier than October 1, 2027. It publishes no request rates.

What does an Akamai restore add, and is there an early-deletion charge?

Retrieval is not charged and there is no minimum billable object size. Network transfer is the per-byte charge on a restore. Minimum storage duration and early-deletion rules are not published, so we do not assume an early delete or overwrite is free.

Can I use Akamai Object Storage as an immutable target?

Yes, conditionally. Akamai documents S3 Object Lock on clusters using E0 through E3 endpoints. Object Lock is enabled at bucket creation and automatically enables versioning. The checked guide does not publish a numeric maximum retention or name an immutable-backup application.