Cheapest hosting for bandwidth-heavy sites

A site whose bill is dominated by outbound traffic rather than by compute.

List prices checked

How this is scored

Every category considered together, scored on 20 TB of monthly egress. Unmetered and bundled-traffic hosts take the top, and the frontend platforms that charge premium bandwidth rates land at the very bottom — often 100x apart.

All 45, ranked for this workload

#ServiceProviderCost for this workloadNotes
1Cloudflare CDNCloudflare$0/mo at 20 TBUnmetered CDN bandwidth on every plan including free
2Cloudflare R2Cloudflare$0/mo at 20 TB10 GB-month of storage, plus zero egress fees at any volume
3Wasabi Hot Cloud StorageWasabi$0/mo at 20 TB30-day trial; no egress or API request charges
4Hetzner CloudHetzner$3.79/mo at 20 TB20 TB of traffic included with every server
5IONOS Cloud ServersIONOS$4.00/mo at 20 TBUnlimited traffic included
6OVHcloud VPSOVHcloud$4.20/mo at 20 TBUnmetered traffic on most VPS plans
7Contabo VPSContabo$5.50/mo at 20 TBUnlimited traffic, throttled after 32 TB
8Linode (Akamai Cloud)Akamai$100/mo at 20 TB1 TB of egress included on the $5 plan
9Linode Object StorageAkamai$100/mo at 20 TB—
10StorjStorj$140/mo at 20 TB25 GB of storage and 25 GB of egress per month
11Oracle Cloud ComputeOracle$170/mo at 20 TB4 Arm cores, 24 GB RAM, and 10 TB egress per month, always free
12Oracle Object StorageOracle$170/mo at 20 TB20 GB of storage, always free
13UpCloudUpCloud$195/mo at 20 TB—
14DigitalOcean SpacesDigitalOcean$195/mo at 20 TB—
15Vultr Cloud ComputeVultr$198/mo at 20 TBNone; the $2.50 IPv6-only plan is the entry point
16DigitalOcean DropletsDigitalOcean$199/mo at 20 TB500 GB to 1 TB of pooled egress per Droplet
17Bunny CDNbunny.net$200/mo at 20 TB14-day trial, then a $1 monthly minimum
18Backblaze B2Backblaze$200/mo at 20 TB10 GB of storage, with free egress up to 3x data stored
19IDrive e2IDrive$200/mo at 20 TB10 GB free, with egress included up to 3x stored data
20Scaleway InstancesScaleway$204/mo at 20 TB—
21DigitalOcean KubernetesDigitalOcean$212/mo at 20 TBControl plane free on the standard tier
22Scaleway Object StorageScaleway$218/mo at 20 TB75 GB of egress free every month
23DigitalOcean App PlatformDigitalOcean$403/mo at 20 TBThree free static sites
24Fly.ioFly.io$403/mo at 20 TB—
25CDN77CDN77$500/mo at 20 TB14-day trial with 1 TB of traffic
26CacheFlyCDN77$600/mo at 20 TB—
27KoyebKoyeb$606/mo at 20 TBOne free instance with limited resources
28Gcore CDNGcore$760/mo at 20 TB1 TB per month on the free CDN plan
29KeyCDNKeyCDN$800/mo at 20 TB$10 of trial credit; $4 monthly minimum thereafter
30RailwayRailway$1,005/mo at 20 TB$5 of usage included on the Hobby plan
31Google Cloud CDNGoogle$1,600/mo at 20 TB—
32AWS CloudFrontAmazon Web Services$1,615/mo at 20 TB1 TB egress and 10M requests per month, always free
33Azure Front DoorMicrosoft$1,620/mo at 20 TB—
34AWS LightsailAmazon Web Services$1,625/mo at 20 TBThree months free on the smallest plan
35Akamai CDNAkamai$1,700/mo at 20 TB—
36Azure Virtual MachinesMicrosoft$1,740/mo at 20 TB750 hours per month of a B1s instance for 12 months
37Azure Blob StorageMicrosoft$1,740/mo at 20 TB5 GB of hot block storage for 12 months
38AWS EC2Amazon Web Services$1,800/mo at 20 TB750 hours per month of a t-class micro instance for 12 months
39AWS S3Amazon Web Services$1,800/mo at 20 TB5 GB of standard storage for 12 months
40SupabaseSupabase$1,825/mo at 20 TB500 MB database and 5 GB of egress per month
41FastlyFastly$2,388/mo at 20 TB100 GB of bandwidth per month, permanently free
42Google Compute EngineGoogle$2,400/mo at 20 TBOne e2-micro instance per month, always free
43Google Cloud StorageGoogle$2,400/mo at 20 TB5 GB-month always free in US regions
44VercelVercel$2,870/mo at 20 TBHobby plan with 100 GB of transfer per month
45RenderRender$2,992/mo at 20 TBFree static sites and 750 instance hours per month

Published list prices only. Rows that do not publish a rate for an axis this workload depends on are excluded rather than shown as cheap.

Questions

Cheapest hosting for bandwidth-heavy sites in 2026?
Cloudflare CDN from Cloudflare — $0/mo at 20 TB. Cloudflare R2 is second at $0/mo at 20 TB. This ranking is specific to the workload described above; a different usage shape reorders it.
How is this ranking weighted?
Every category considered together, scored on 20 TB of monthly egress. Unmetered and bundled-traffic hosts take the top, and the frontend platforms that charge premium bandwidth rates land at the very bottom — often 100x apart.
Why does this differ from the general cheapest list?
Because a single price axis never describes a real workload. Ranking by headline rate answers "who is cheapest per unit"; this page answers "who is cheapest for this job", and the two orders are often very different — which is the whole reason it exists as a separate table.
What is not accounted for?
Committed-use discounts, regional price variation, per-request charges, support plans, and minimum retention. These are published list prices applied to one stated workload — a shortlist to price properly with the vendor, not a quotation.

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