Wasabi pricing: what backups and restores cost
Based in the United States · Prices checked
Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage costs $7.99 per TB of 1,024 GB a month, with free downloads up to the amount stored. 10 TB of backups: from $72.67 a month, $72.67 the month you restore it all.
- 10 TB, normal month
- $72.67Hot Cloud Storage, US East 1
- 10 TB, month you restore it all
- $72.67Hot Cloud Storage, US East 1
10 TB kept, 1 TB downloaded in a normal month, all 10 TB downloaded in the month you restore; the other calculator defaults apply.
Wasabi costs more to keep than some vendors but less to get back: on a 10 TB backup it is the 7th cheapest of the 18 vendors with both bills for a normal month and the 4th cheapest for the month you restore everything.
What adds to a Wasabi bill besides storage
From Wasabi's published rules, per class and region. "Not published" means Wasabi's pricing pages do not state it.
| Class and region | Minimum storage period | Smallest billed object | Minimum monthly bill | Reading data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hot Cloud Storage, US East 1 | 90 days | 4 KB | 1 TB a month | Free |
Reading data is the charge for reading what is stored, billed on top of any download charge. Downloads: free downloads up to the amount stored. Deleting an object before its minimum storage period ends still bills the remaining time.
One storage class
Wasabi sells one storage class, and getting all 10 TB back adds nothing to its bill: $72.67 in a normal month and in the month you restore.
Wasabi pricing calculator
Every Wasabi class priced on your numbers, for a normal month and for the month you restore. A charge Wasabi does not publish stays named on the bill, never counted as zero.
When Wasabi does not save you money
Wasabi costs more than most vendors in a normal month for a 2 TB NAS offsite copy, a 5 TB photo archive and a 100 TB compliance archive. The widest gap is a 100 TB compliance archive, a normal month: $726.69 at Wasabi against $99.34 at Amazon S3 (S3 Glacier Deep Archive). 2 bills are not ranked. Outside its download policy: Wasabi charges nothing for downloads, but downloading more than you store every month is outside its free-download policy, and it may limit or suspend such an account.
| Backup | Wasabi, normal month | Cheapest normal month | Wasabi, month you restore | Cheapest month you restore |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NAS offsite, 2 TB2 TB, 50 GB downloaded a month, 200,000 files | $14.5310th of 18 | $8.32OVHcloud Object Storage · Infrequent Access | $14.534th of 18 | $11.12Telnyx Cloud Storage · Regular Storage |
| Backup repository, 10 TB10 TB, 1 TB downloaded a month, 1 million objects, readable at once | $72.677th of 18 | $44.65OVHcloud Object Storage · Infrequent Access | $72.674th of 18 | $55.83Telnyx Cloud Storage · Regular Storage |
| Photo archive, 5 TB5 TB, little downloaded, 250,000 files | $36.3310th of 18 | $6.92Amazon S3 · S3 Glacier Deep Archive | $36.334th 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 | Not rankedOutside its download policy | $7.65Telnyx Cloud Storage · Regular Storage | Not rankedOutside its download policy | $7.69Telnyx Cloud Storage · Regular Storage |
| Compliance archive, 100 TB100 TB kept for years, 10 TB restored at a time | $726.6914th of 18 | $99.34Amazon S3 · S3 Glacier Deep Archive | $726.698th 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: Wasabi against Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, IDrive e2, Storj, DigitalOcean Spaces, OVHcloud Object Storage and Vultr Object Storage, both bills on the same backups.
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Bills for the 10 TB workload
Hot Cloud Storage, US East 1
Normal month $72.67
Calculated from the provider's listed rates.
Month you restore $72.67
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
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Pay As You Go has a 1 TB minimum billable monthly capacity.
Source, checked 25 July 2026 -
Objects have a 90-day minimum storage duration.
Deleting data before day 90 can bill the days left of the minimum. Reading or restoring the data does not.
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Egress above active storage costs nothing but is outside Wasabi's free-egress guideline.
A full restore is a one-off month above the guideline and adds no egress fee; regularly downloading more than you store can get the account limited or suspended.
Source, checked 12 October 2026
The rest of this vendor's non-obvious rules 4 more
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Free API requests are also policy-shaped: Wasabi can limit or suspend a non-validated application that creates an inefficient and unreasonable load.
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Pay 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 minimum-duration terms. Their prices are by quote only and cannot stand in for the self-serve Pay As You Go price.
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Pay As You Go counts Timed Active Storage from a per-GB-per-day value and separately counts 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.
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Wasabi'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 26 July 2026
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.
Hot Cloud Storage 5 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum billable capacity | 1,024 GB per account-month | Vendor's page, checked 25 July 2026 |
| 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. Vendor's page, checked 25 July 2026 |
| Wasabi's download policy | conditional: no egress fee at any volume; regularly downloading more than you store can lead to limitation or suspension | This is a policy boundary, not a paid overage tier: a full restore above it costs nothing in egress, but making a habit of it risks the account. Vendor's page, checked 12 October 2026 |
| API requests and retrieval | not charged | Wasabi charges nothing for Class A requests, Class B requests or data retrieval, although its separate API-use policy still applies. Vendor's page, checked 25 July 2026 |
| Minimum billable object size | 4 KB per object | Objects smaller than 4 KB are billed as 4 KB. Vendor's page, checked 2 October 2026 |
Questions buyers ask about Wasabi
Is Wasabi egress really free?
Yes, at any volume: Wasabi does not charge for egress. Monthly egress at or below active storage fits its free-egress guideline; above it there is still no fee, but doing it on a regular basis can get the account limited or suspended.
What does a Wasabi restore cost?
Wasabi charges no retrieval or per-request API fee. Egress has no fee either, under a fair-use guideline tied to active storage. A full restore adds no retrieval, request or egress charge, even in a month when you download more than you store; only doing that on a regular basis risks a limited account.
What happens if I delete or overwrite Wasabi data before 90 days?
Pay As You Go uses a 90-day minimum storage duration. Deleting a young object can bill the prorated unused period as Timed Deleted Storage. Reading or restoring the object does not trigger early deletion.
Are Wasabi API requests unlimited and free?
Yes, they are free, under a policy: Wasabi can limit or suspend an application it has not validated if it puts an inefficient, unreasonable load on the service. There is no per-request price.
Can I use Wasabi as an immutable backup target?
Yes, conditionally. Wasabi documents S3 Object Lock with governance, compliance, and legal hold. Versioning must be enabled first and cannot be disabled after Object Lock is enabled. Its Veeam guidance says Veeam uses Compliance mode and warns against setting bucket-level default retention for that repository.
Do Wasabi's committed and reserved offers use the same minimums?
No. Pay As You Go - Commit and Reserved Capacity Storage have different commitment and overage terms. Reserved Capacity Storage starts at 25 TB and uses a 30-day minimum duration rather than Pay As You Go's 90 days. Their prices are by quote only and cannot stand in for the self-service price.