Vendor
IDrive e2 pricing for backup storage
IDrive e2 Pay As You Go combines a 1,000 GB minimum storage charge with free downloads up to three times active storage. Unlike Wasabi, it publishes a $0.01 per GB egress rate beyond that allowance, so a large restore can produce a complete dollar bill.
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 Pay As You Go account is billed for at least 1,000 GB each month.
The storage minimum and the egress allowance use different quantities: billable storage is floored at 1,000 GB, while free egress is tied to active storage.
Source, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44ZFree egress is limited to three times active storage.
A 1,000 GB active repository gets 3,000 GB free, not unlimited transfer.
Source, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44ZThe published overage is $0.01 per GB.
Unlike a policy-only boundary, this rate lets the receipt calculate the exact cost above the allowance.
Source, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z
The rest of this vendor's non-obvious rules1 more
IDrive e2 yearly capacity plans are separate from Pay As You Go, and the advertised 50% discount applies to the first year only.
A promotional first-year capacity price cannot replace the recurring Pay As You Go meter or be carried into later years.
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.
Small account inside the 3x download allowance$6.00
Active storage GB: 100 · Internet egress GB: 300 · Class a operations: 500,000 · Class b operations: 2,000,000 · Mutation: none; read-only restore
Sources: IDrive: S3 storage e2 pricing: storage rate, capacity minimum, egress allowance, requests, retrieval, and duration, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z
| Storage after the 1,000 GB capacity floor | $6.00 |
|---|---|
| Internet egress at 3x active storage | $0.00 |
| Class A and Class B requests | not charged |
| Data retrieval | not charged |
| Early deletion | does not apply |
| Total | $6.00 |
Billable storage = max(100 GB, 1,000 GB) = 1,000 GB. Storage = 1,000 x $0.006 = $6.00. The download allowance uses active storage, so 3 x 100 GB = 300 GB and no egress is billable. Requests and retrieval are not charged.
Restore 100 GB beyond the 3x download allowance$7.00
Active storage GB: 1,000 · Internet egress GB: 3,100 · Class a operations: 500,000 · Class b operations: 2,000,000 · Mutation: none; read-only restore
Sources: IDrive: S3 storage e2 pricing: storage rate, 3x allowance, and $0.01 per GB overage, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z
| Storage | $6.00 |
|---|---|
| First 3,000 GB of internet egress | $0.00 |
| 100 GB egress overage | $1.00 |
| Requests and retrieval | not charged |
| Early deletion | does not apply |
| Total | $7.00 |
Storage = 1,000 GB x $0.006 = $6.00. Free download allowance = 3 x 1,000 GB = 3,000 GB. Billable egress = 3,100 - 3,000 = 100 GB. Egress = 100 x $0.01 = $1.00. Total = $6.00 + $1.00 = $7.00.
Same-region transfer beyond the public download allowance$6.00
Active storage GB: 1,000 · Same region transfer GB: 3,100 · Class a operations: 500,000 · Class b operations: 2,000,000 · Mutation: none; read-only restore
Sources: IDrive: S3 storage e2 pricing: storage minimum, same-region transfer, requests, and retrieval, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z
| Storage | $6.00 |
|---|---|
| 3,100 GB same-region transfer | not charged |
| Requests and retrieval | not charged |
| Early deletion | does not apply |
| Total | $6.00 |
Storage = 1,000 x $0.006 = $6.00. The captured same-region transfer rate is $0 per GB, so the 3,100 GB transfer is not charged. Requests and retrieval are also not charged.
Advertised 10 GB trial versus Pay As You Go billingno complete total
Active storage GB: 10 · Trial eligibility: buyer-specific · Billing plan: buyer-specific
Sources: IDrive: S3 storage e2 pricing: advertised 10 GB trial, Pay As You Go rate, and 1,000 GB billing floor, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z
| 10 GB trial | conditional |
|---|---|
| Pay As You Go amount if the trial does not apply | $6.00 |
| Exact account total | conditional |
| Total | conditional |
The dataset marks 10 GB as a trial, not a permanent monthly allowance. If the account is on Pay As You Go and the trial does not apply, the 1,000 GB billing floor produces $6.00. Eligibility must be resolved before choosing the total.
Yearly capacity plan is not the Pay As You Go meterno complete total
Requested offer: yearly capacity plan · Captured offer: Pay As You Go · Contract year: buyer-specific
Sources: IDrive: S3 storage e2 pricing: yearly-plan distinction and first-year-only promotion, checked 2026-07-26 · GitHub: Providers: local dataset scope, which contains Pay As You Go only, checked 2026-07-27
| Pay As You Go $0.006 per GB-month meter | does not apply |
|---|---|
| First-year promotional treatment | conditional |
| Recurring yearly-plan quote | unknown |
| Cross-offer total | not comparable |
| Total | not comparable |
The yearly capacity plan and Pay As You Go are separate offers. The advertised promotion applies only to the first year, and data/providers.json contains no recurring yearly-plan rate. The Pay As You Go meter is not substituted.
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.
IDrive e26 rules
Always-online S3-compatible object storage for backup and restore workloads without cold-tier retrieval steps.
| Rule | Value | Why it moves the bill |
|---|---|---|
| Storage rate | $0.006 per GB-month | Measured storage is billed at the published rate after applying the 1,000 GB account minimum. |
| Minimum billable capacity | 1,000 GB per account-month | An account below 1,000 GB still has a $6.00 monthly storage line. |
| Internet egress | Free through 3x active storage, then $0.01 per GB | The allowance moves with active storage. A full restore can cross the boundary even though ordinary download months do not. |
| API requests and retrieval | not charged | The captured offer adds no Class A, Class B, or separate retrieval charge to the worked restore. |
| Minimum storage duration and early deletion | does not apply | IDrive states there is no minimum storage duration, so deleting data does not create a prorated duration remainder. |
| Minimum billable object size | not published | The checked pricing page does not support a small-object billing uplift. |