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Wasabi pricing: minimum bills, duration and egress
Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage has a simple storage rate and no metered retrieval or API-request charge, but the invoice and recovery plan are governed by three non-obvious rules: a 1 TB monthly minimum, a 90-day minimum storage duration, and an egress policy whose excess has no published per-GB price.
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What the pricing page does not lead with
Pay As You Go has a 1 TB minimum billable monthly capacity.
Small accounts do not receive a sub-$7.99 storage bill merely because their measured bytes are below 1,024 GB.
Source, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44ZObjects have a 90-day minimum storage duration.
Deleting data before day 90 can bill the unused remainder. Reading or restoring the data without mutation does not.
Source, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44ZEgress above active storage is governed by policy and has no published overage price.
A recovery estimate that crosses the 1x guideline cannot produce a complete dollar total from the published terms.
Source, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z
The rest of this vendor's non-obvious rules4 more
Free API requests are also policy-shaped: Wasabi can limit or suspend a non-validated application that creates an inefficient and unreasonable load.
There is no published per-request overage rate. A request-heavy receipt is conditional, not an unlimited $0 promise.
Source, checked 2026-07-26Pay as You Go - Commit bills the greater of committed or actual storage over one, three, or five years; Reserved Capacity Storage starts at 25 TB and uses a 30-day minimum duration instead of Pay As You Go's 90 days.
Those offers have different commitment, overage, and duration rules. Their quote-only rates cannot be substituted into the self-serve Pay As You Go receipt.
Source, checked 2026-07-26Pay As You Go records Timed Active Storage from a per-GB-per-day value and separately records Timed Deleted Storage until the minimum retention period expires.
A month-end capacity snapshot cannot reproduce a bill after mid-month uploads or deletions, and deleted bytes do not immediately disappear from billable usage.
Source, checked 2026-07-26Wasabi's trial permits up to 1 TB for 30 days and is not an ongoing monthly free tier.
Trial capacity cannot be subtracted from a recurring Pay As You Go bill after the trial period ends.
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.
Account below the 1 TB monthly minimum$7.99
Active storage GB: 100 · Internet egress GB: 100 · Class a operations: 500,000 · Class b operations: 2,000,000 · Mutation: none; read-only restore
Sources: Wasabi: Faq: storage rate, 1 TB minimum, egress policy, requests, and retrieval, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z
| Storage after the 1,024 GB capacity floor | $7.99 |
|---|---|
| Egress at the active-storage policy boundary | $0.00 |
| Egress policy | conditional |
| Class A and Class B requests | not charged |
| Data retrieval | not charged |
| Early deletion | does not apply |
| Total | $7.99 |
Billable storage = max(100 GB, 1,024 GB) = 1,024 GB. Storage = 1,024 x $0.007802734375 = $7.99. Egress equals active storage, so the metered egress line is $0.00 while the policy remains applicable. Requests and retrieval are not charged. The restore does not mutate the source, so early deletion does not apply.
Restore one GB beyond the published egress guidelineno complete total
Active storage GB: 1,024 · Internet egress GB: 1,025 · Class a operations: 500,000 · Class b operations: 2,000,000 · Mutation: none; read-only restore
Sources: Wasabi: Faq: 1x active-storage egress guideline and absence of an overage rate, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z
| Storage | $7.99 |
|---|---|
| Egress through 1,024 GB | $0.00 |
| Egress excess of 1 GB | not published |
| Policy consequence | conditional |
| Early deletion | does not apply |
| Total | not published |
The guideline is 1 x 1,024 GB active storage = 1,024 GB. Egress is 1,025 GB, so the excess is 1 GB. Wasabi publishes a policy consequence but no per-GB overage rate. The scenario therefore stops at not published rather than treating the excess as free.
Delete a 1,024 GB object set after 30 days$23.97
Stored GB: 1,024 · Object age at deletion days: 30 · Minimum storage duration days: 90 · Operation: delete, not restore
Sources: Wasabi: Faq: 90-day minimum and prorated remainder, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z
| First 30 days of storage | $7.99 |
|---|---|
| Remaining 60 minimum-duration days | $15.98 |
| Egress and retrieval | does not apply |
| Total | $23.97 |
The 90-day minimum is three 30-day billing periods for this worked boundary. First-period storage is $7.99. The 60-day remainder is 2 x $7.99 = $15.98. Total minimum-duration storage is $7.99 + $15.98 = $23.97. This is a delete scenario; a read-only restore would not create the remainder.
Request-heavy workload crosses Wasabi's API policy boundaryno complete total
Active storage GB: 1,024 · Internet egress GB: 1,024 · Application validation: not validated · Request load: inefficient and unreasonable under the published policy · Mutation: none; read-only workload
Sources: Wasabi: Faq: storage minimum, egress guideline, free request meter, and API policy consequence, checked 2026-07-26
| Storage | $7.99 |
|---|---|
| Egress at the active-storage boundary | $0.00 |
| Metered API-request charge | not charged |
| Request-policy consequence | conditional |
| Early deletion | does not apply |
| Total | conditional |
Storage is $7.99 and egress at 1 x active storage has no metered charge. Wasabi publishes no per-request overage rate, but it may limit or suspend a non-validated application that creates inefficient and unreasonable load. The scenario preserves that conditional policy instead of presenting unlimited requests as an unconditional zero-cost promise.
Commit and Reserved Capacity offers are not Pay As You Gono complete total
Requested offers: Pay as You Go - Commit; Reserved Capacity Storage · Checked offer: Pay As You Go
Sources: Wasabi: Product terms: commitment terms, 25 TB Reserved Capacity threshold, and 30-day Reserved Capacity minimum, checked 2026-07-26 · Wasabi: Faq: local Pay As You Go rate and 90-day minimum, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z
| Pay As You Go - Commit quote rate | not published |
|---|---|
| Reserved Capacity Storage quote rate | not published |
| Pay As You Go 90-day duration rule | does not apply |
| Cross-offer total | not comparable |
| Total | not comparable |
Commit bills the greater of committed or actual storage, while Reserved Capacity starts at 25 TB and uses a 30-day minimum. Neither quote rate exists in data/providers.json. The self-serve Pay As You Go rate and 90-day duration are not reused.
Mid-month deletion produces Timed Active and Timed Deleted Storage$23.97
Stored GB: 1,024 · Upload day: 1 · Delete day: 11 · Minimum storage duration days: 90 · Illustrative month days: 30 · Operation: delete, not restore
Sources: Wasabi: Faq: Pay As You Go storage rate, per-day accounting, and Timed Deleted Storage, checked 2026-07-26
| Timed Active Storage for 10 days | $2.6633 |
|---|---|
| Timed Deleted Storage for the remaining 80 days | $21.3067 |
| Total | $23.97 |
Using the worked 30-day month, Timed Active Storage = $7.99 x 10/30 = $2.6633. Deletion on day 11 leaves 80 days of the 90-day minimum, so Timed Deleted Storage = $7.99 x 80/30 = $21.3067. Total = $23.97. A month-end capacity snapshot would miss the deleted-storage line.
Thirty-day trial is not a recurring free tierno complete total
Storage GB: 1,024 · Trial age days: buyer-specific · Trial eligibility: buyer-specific
Sources: Wasabi documentation: Trial data limit: trial capacity and 30-day limit, checked 2026-07-26 · Wasabi: Faq: recurring Pay As You Go 1 TB minimum and $7.99 amount, checked 2026-07-25T15:34:44Z
| Up to 1 TB during the 30-day trial | conditional |
|---|---|
| Ongoing monthly free tier after the trial | does not apply |
| Pay As You Go amount when the trial does not apply | $7.99 |
| Total | conditional |
The trial permits up to 1 TB for 30 days but is not an ongoing allowance. Trial age and eligibility decide whether the trial applies. Otherwise the recurring Pay As You Go minimum produces $7.99.
Every class, and the rules that change its bill
1 class checked for this vendor. Each rule below is a published condition that moves a real line on the bill, with the page it came from.
Hot Cloud Storage6 rules
S3-compatible hot object storage for backups that do not need a separate cold-tier restore step.
| Rule | Value | Why it moves the bill |
|---|---|---|
| Storage rate | $0.007802734375 per GB-month, equal to $7.99 per 1,024 GB-month | The rate is applied to active storage subject to the 1 TB monthly minimum. |
| Minimum billable capacity | 1,024 GB per account-month | An account storing less than 1 TB still has a $7.99 storage line. |
| Minimum storage duration | 90 days with a prorated remainder when an object is deleted early | Deleting a young object can leave its remaining minimum-duration storage bill. A read-only restore does not activate this charge. |
| Egress policy | conditional: monthly egress at or below active storage has no egress fee; repeated excess can lead to limitation or suspension | This is a policy boundary, not a paid overage tier. The dollar rate beyond the boundary is not published. |
| API requests and retrieval | not charged | Class A, Class B, and data retrieval add no metered dollar line in the checked offer, although Wasabi's separate API-use policy still applies. |
| Minimum billable object size | not published | The checked official pricing material does not support a small-object uplift, so the page does not invent one. |