Guide
Retrieval makes cold data readable; egress moves it to you
Prices checked · Vendor details further down checked
Restoring all of a 10 TB backup from Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive costs $293.40 to make the data readable and $829.19 to download it. OVHcloud Object Storage Cold Archive charges $103.78 to make it readable and nothing to download.
| Vendor and offer | Ready to download | Make it readable | Download it | 10 TB restore month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle OCI Object Storage Archive United States (Ashburn) | Not confirmed | $7.55 | Free | $32.06 |
| Tigris Archive Automatic location | Not confirmed | $4.97 | Free | $42.67 |
| OVHcloud Object Storage Cold Archive France (Paris) | Within 2 days | $103.78 | Free | $122.14 |
| DigitalOcean Spaces Cold Storage United States (New York 3) | At once | Free | $82.89 | $153.08 |
| Vultr Object Storage Archive United States (New Jersey) | Not confirmed | $5.94 | $90.00 | $155.94 |
| Oracle OCI Object Storage Infrequent Access United States (Ashburn) | At once | $93.03 | Free | $186.39 |
| Tigris Infrequent Access Automatic location | At once | $93.13 | Free | $186.71 |
 Cloudflare R2 Infrequent Access Automatic location | At once | $100.00 | Free | $200.90 |
| OVHcloud Object Storage Active Archive France (Paris) | Not confirmed | $197.44 | Free | $247.00 |
| Tigris Archive Instant Retrieval Automatic location | At once | $279.40 | Free | $317.10 |
| Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval United States (Northern Virginia) | In 3 h to 5 h | $150.27 | $829.19 | $1,013.68 |
| Amazon S3 One Zone-IA United States (Northern Virginia) | At once | $93.13 | $829.19 | $1,016.45 |
| Amazon S3 Standard-IA United States (Northern Virginia) | At once | $93.13 | $829.19 | $1,039.74 |
| Azure Blob Storage Cool LRS United States (East US) | At once | $100.00 | $861.30 | $1,103.86 |
| Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive United States (Northern Virginia) | Within 12 h | $293.40 | $829.19 | $1,132.42 |
| Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval United States (Northern Virginia) | At once | $279.40 | $829.19 | $1,155.84 |
| Azure Blob Storage Cold LRS United States (East US) | At once | $300.00 | $861.30 | $1,204.83 |
| Google Cloud Storage Nearline United States (South Carolina) | At once | $93.13 | $1,105.59 | $1,292.80 |
| Google Cloud Storage Coldline United States (South Carolina) | At once | $186.26 | $1,105.59 | $1,338.60 |
| Google Cloud Storage Archive United States (South Carolina) | At once | $465.66 | $1,105.59 | $1,629.92 |
| Azure Blob Storage Archive LRS United States (East US) | Within 15 h | $711.46 | $861.30 | Price not published |
 Scaleway Object Storage Glacier France (Paris) | Not confirmed | Not published | $111.40 | Price not published |
Every class that charges to read data back or takes hours to make it ready, with 10 TB stored and all of it restored in 1 million files to the internet at the vendor's standard restore speed. "Make it readable" is the retrieval fee, the restore requests and any temporary copy; the restore month also includes that month's storage.
Put your own numbers through the calculator to see what this charge does to a normal month and to the month you restore.
Retrieval and egress measure different work
Two charges can apply to the same byte. Retrieval is the provider's charge for accessing data in an infrequent or archive tier, or for turning an offline object into a readable copy. Egress is the network charge for sending those readable bytes to the public internet, another region, or another destination class. [1] [3]
A typical backup restore from an archive to local hardware usually incurs both retrieval and internet egress. Restore and GET calls add request charges, and a temporary restored copy can add storage too. None of those read-only actions is an early deletion. [2] [1]
Show the tableas checked 25 to 26 July 2026
| Charge | What activates it | What it is not | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval | Reading an online cold object or restoring an offline archive, when the selected class publishes a retrieval rate [1] [3] | It is not a charge for crossing the provider's network boundary | [1] [3] |
| Egress | Moving readable bytes to a destination whose transfer rule is billable [1] | It is not the work required to make an archive readable | [1] |
| API requests | RestoreObject, GET, HEAD, LIST, multipart, or provider-equivalent calls [1] | Request count is separate from the number of bytes read back or transferred | [1] |
| Early deletion | Delete, overwrite, move, or transition before a published minimum, subject to provider-specific exceptions [1] [3] | does not apply to a read-only restore that leaves the source object in place | [1] [3] |
An archived restore crosses several billing checkpoints
An offline object first needs a restore request. Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval and Deep Archive create a temporary readable copy; the archived source remains in its original class unless a separate copy or transition changes it. [2]
After readability is restored, a backup client issues GET or range requests and sends bytes to the recovery destination. Retrieval can therefore finish before egress starts, and a restore kept inside the same provider network can have retrieval without public-internet egress. [4] [1]
Show the tableas checked 25 to 26 July 2026
| Restore stage | Possible bill line | How to check | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Request the archive | Restore request charge | How many objects or batches were submitted, and which speed was selected? [4] | [4] |
| Make data readable | Retrieval per GB and temporary-copy storage | Does the class charge retrieval, and how long is the readable copy retained? [1] [2] | [1] [2] |
| Read the objects | GET, HEAD, LIST, or equivalent request charges | How many objects, parts, metadata checks, and list pages did the tool touch? [1] | [1] |
| Move bytes to recovery | Egress or data transfer | Where did the bytes go, and which allowance and destination rule applies? [1] | [1] |
| Leave the source intact | Early deletion: does not apply | A temporary restore copy does not delete, overwrite, move, or transition the archived source [2] | [2] |
A 1,000 GB restore exposes both charges
A concrete Deep Archive restore separates the charges. Assume 1,000 GB in S3 Glacier Deep Archive in US East, Standard retrieval, a public-internet destination, and the full 100 GB monthly AWS transfer allowance still available. The retrieval rate we checked is $0.02 per GB and the first paid internet-transfer band is $0.09 per GB. [5] [1]
This example isolates retrieval and egress so the difference is clear. Restore requests, GET requests, and temporary S3 Standard copy storage are additional lines. Early deletion is not among them (does not apply), because the archived source is only read. [1] [2]
Show the tableas checked 25 to 26 July 2026
| Line | Arithmetic | Charge | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard retrieval | 1,000 GB x $0.02 per GB | $20.00 | [5] |
| Free internet-transfer allowance | min(1,000 GB, 100 GB) = 100 GB | $0.00 | [1] |
| Internet egress | (1,000 GB - 100 GB) x $0.09 per GB | $81.00 | [1] |
| Retrieval plus egress subtotal | $20.00 + $81.00 | $101.00 | [5] [1] |
| Early deletion | does not apply because the scenario does not delete, overwrite, move, or transition the source object | $0.00 | [1] [2] |
The retrieval rule changes by vendor and class
All 18 vendors are listed because a retrieval rate that is not published must not be read as zero. Retrieval from hot classes can be not charged, while infrequent and archive classes can have a per-GB rate, a temporary-copy charge, an allowance without an overage rate, or a rate that is not published.
Rows below use representative regions and the currencies published by each source. Region-dependent schedules are labeled rather than flattened into a universal number. Egress remains a separate charge, based on destination, even where retrieval is not charged.
Show the table (18 vendors)as checked 25 July to 11 October 2026
| Provider | Retrieval rule by applicable class | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon S3 | Standard: not charged. Standard-IA and One Zone-IA: $0.01/GB. Glacier Instant: $0.03/GB. Glacier Flexible: $0.03 expedited, $0.01 standard, $0 bulk. Deep Archive: $0.02 standard or $0.0025 bulk. Intelligent-Tiering standard and bulk: not charged; expedited Archive Access: $0.03/GB. Express One Zone: $0.0006/GB [1] [5] | [1] [5] |
| Azure Blob Storage | Hot: not charged. Cool: $0.01/GB. Cold: $0.03/GB. Archive standard: $0.02/GB East US or $0.024/GB West Europe; high priority: $0.10/GB East US or $0.13/GB West Europe [6] [7] | [6] [7] |
| Google Cloud Storage | Standard and Rapid: not charged. Nearline: $0.01/GiB. Coldline: $0.02/GiB. Archive: $0.05/GiB [3] | [3] |
| Cloudflare R2 | Standard: not charged. Infrequent Access: $0.01/GB; reads and copies count as retrieval. Internet egress is separately not charged [8] | [8] |
| Backblaze B2 | not charged; no cold retrieval tier in the offer we checked [9] | [9] |
| Wasabi | not charged; API request and egress policies remain separate constraints [10] | [10] |
| IDrive e2 | not charged [11] | [11] |
| DigitalOcean Spaces | Standard: not charged; DigitalOcean bills retrieval only for Cold Storage. Cold Storage costs $0.01/GiB after the monthly allowance equal to average daily Cold storage; public-internet egress is a separate shared allowance and overage [12] | [12] |
| Scaleway Object Storage | Standard: not charged. Glacier restore: €0.009/GB; a USD rate is not published [13] | [13] |
| OVHcloud Object Storage | Standard and High Performance: not charged. Infrequent Access: $0.0044/GB. Active Archive: $0.0212/GB. Cold Archive: $0.01062/GiB, plus Standard storage for the restored copy [14] [26] | [14] [26] |
| Hetzner Object Storage | not charged; egress from a GET remains a separate charge [16] | [16] |
| Akamai Cloud Object Storage | not charged; no paid cold retrieval tier is published in the offer we checked [17] | [17] |
| Vultr Object Storage | Online tiers: not charged. Archive must be restored and its readable copy uses Standard storage, but a per-GB archive retrieval rate is not published [18] [19] | [18] [19] |
| Storj | not charged as a separate retrieval charge [20] | [20] |
| Oracle OCI Object Storage | Standard: not charged. Infrequent Access: $0.01/GiB. Archive retrieval: not charged, but restored objects are billed in Standard while readable [21] [22] | [21] [22] |
| Tigris | Standard: not charged. Infrequent Access: $0.01/GB. Archive: not charged for retrieval, but restored data moves to Standard and is billed at the Standard rate for the days it stays restored. Archive Instant Retrieval: $0.03/GB [23] | [23] |
| Filebase | not charged for S3-compatible object storage [24] | [24] |
| Telnyx Cloud Storage | not charged; no paid retrieval tier is published in the offer we checked [25] | [25] |
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these pages, on the date shown. Each numbered reference in the text links to its entry here. Vendors change prices; if a date looks old, check the source. Three vendors publish a downloadable price feed and the rest are re-checked by hand, which is why the dates are not uniform.
Source pages checked 26 sources
- 1 AWS: Amazon S3 pricing aws.amazon.com · checked 26 July 2026
- 2 Amazon S3 docs: Restoring an archived object docs.aws.amazon.com · checked 26 July 2026
- 3 Google Cloud Storage pricing cloud.google.com · checked 26 July 2026
- 4 Amazon S3 docs: Understanding archive retrieval options docs.aws.amazon.com · checked 26 July 2026
- 5 AWS price list, US East (S3, version of 20 July 2026) pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com · checked 25 July 2026
- 6 Azure retail price list, Blob Storage (East US) prices.azure.com · checked 25 July 2026
- 7 Azure retail price list, Blob Storage (West Europe) prices.azure.com · checked 25 July 2026
- 8 Cloudflare R2 docs: Pricing developers.cloudflare.com · checked 26 July 2026
- 9 Backblaze: B2 Cloud Storage pricing www.backblaze.com · checked 25 July 2026
- 10 Wasabi: Pay as you go pricing FAQs wasabi.com · checked 26 July 2026
- 11 IDrive e2: Plans and pricing www.idrive.com · checked 26 July 2026
- 12 DigitalOcean: Spaces Object Storage pricing www.digitalocean.com · checked 26 July 2026
- 13 Scaleway: Storage pricing www.scaleway.com · checked 25 July 2026
- 14 OVHcloud: Public Cloud prices www.ovhcloud.com · checked 25 July 2026
- 15 OVHcloud: Cold Archive www.ovhcloud.com · checked 25 July 2026
- 16 Hetzner Object Storage docs: Overview docs.hetzner.com · checked 26 July 2026
- 17 Akamai Object Storage docs: Pricing techdocs.akamai.com · checked 26 July 2026
- 18 Vultr docs: How is Object Storage billed? docs.vultr.com · checked 26 July 2026
- 19 Vultr docs: Object Storage subscription limits docs.vultr.com · checked 25 July 2026
- 20 Storj pricing www.storj.io · checked 26 July 2026
- 21 Oracle docs: Object Storage storage tiers docs.oracle.com · checked 26 July 2026
- 22 Oracle Cloud PaaS and IaaS global price list (PDF) www.oracle.com · checked 25 July 2026
- 23 Tigris pricing www.tigrisdata.com · checked 26 July 2026
- 24 Filebase docs: Pricing filebase.com · checked 26 July 2026
- 25 Telnyx help: Get started with Telnyx Storage and Inference support.telnyx.com · checked 25 July 2026
- 26 OVHcloud: Public Cloud prices www.ovhcloud.com · checked 11 October 2026