Cloud bandwidth cost calculator
Data transfer out is the line that most often makes a cloud bill surprising, and the rates across these 45 services span more than two orders of magnitude. Enter your monthly volume to see what each one would charge.
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GB per month
At 1,000 GB per month the spread across these providers is $142 — AWS CloudFront at $0 against Render at $142.
| # | Service | Rate | Included | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS CloudFrontAmazon Web Services · cdn | $0.085/GB | 1 TB | $0 |
| 2 | Cloudflare CDNCloudflare · cdn | Free | — | $0 |
| 3 | Gcore CDNGcore · cdn | $0.040/GB | 1 TB | $0 |
| 4 | Cloudflare R2Cloudflare · storage | Free | — | $0 |
| 5 | Wasabi Hot Cloud StorageWasabi · storage | Free | — | $0 |
| 6 | Hetzner CloudHetzner · compute | $0.0012/GB | 20 TB | $3.79 |
| 7 | IONOS Cloud ServersIONOS · compute | Free | — | $4.00 |
| 8 | OVHcloud VPSOVHcloud · compute | Free | — | $4.20 |
| 9 | Linode (Akamai Cloud)Akamai · compute | $0.0050/GB | 1 TB | $5.00 |
| 10 | UpCloudUpCloud · compute | $0.010/GB | 1 TB | $5.00 |
| 11 | AWS LightsailAmazon Web Services · compute | $0.090/GB | 2 TB | $5.00 |
| 12 | DigitalOcean SpacesDigitalOcean · storage | $0.010/GB | 1 TB | $5.00 |
| 13 | Linode Object StorageAkamai · storage | $0.0050/GB | 1 TB | $5.00 |
| 14 | Contabo VPSContabo · compute | Free | — | $5.50 |
| 15 | StorjStorj · storage | $0.0070/GB | — | $7.00 |
| 16 | Vultr Cloud ComputeVultr · compute | $0.010/GB | 500 GB | $7.50 |
| 17 | Oracle Cloud ComputeOracle · compute | $0.0085/GB | — | $8.50 |
| 18 | Oracle Object StorageOracle · storage | $0.0085/GB | — | $8.50 |
| 19 | DigitalOcean DropletsDigitalOcean · compute | $0.010/GB | 500 GB | $9.00 |
| 20 | Bunny CDNbunny.net · cdn | $0.010/GB | — | $10 |
| 21 | Backblaze B2Backblaze · storage | $0.010/GB | — | $10 |
| 22 | IDrive e2IDrive · storage | $0.010/GB | — | $10 |
| 23 | Scaleway Object StorageScaleway · storage | $0.011/GB | — | $11 |
| 24 | Scaleway InstancesScaleway · compute | $0.010/GB | — | $14 |
| 25 | VercelVercel · paas | $0.150/GB | 1 TB | $20 |
| 26 | DigitalOcean KubernetesDigitalOcean · compute | $0.010/GB | — | $22 |
| 27 | DigitalOcean App PlatformDigitalOcean · paas | $0.020/GB | 100 GB | $23 |
| 28 | Fly.ioFly.io · paas | $0.020/GB | — | $23 |
| 29 | CDN77CDN77 · cdn | $0.025/GB | — | $25 |
| 30 | CacheFlyCDN77 · cdn | $0.030/GB | — | $30 |
| 31 | KoyebKoyeb · paas | $0.030/GB | — | $36 |
| 32 | KeyCDNKeyCDN · cdn | $0.040/GB | — | $40 |
| 33 | RailwayRailway · paas | $0.050/GB | — | $55 |
| 34 | Google Cloud CDNGoogle · cdn | $0.080/GB | — | $80 |
| 35 | Azure Front DoorMicrosoft · cdn | $0.081/GB | — | $81 |
| 36 | Akamai CDNAkamai · cdn | $0.085/GB | — | $85 |
| 37 | Azure Virtual MachinesMicrosoft · compute | $0.087/GB | — | $87 |
| 38 | Azure Blob StorageMicrosoft · storage | $0.087/GB | — | $87 |
| 39 | AWS EC2Amazon Web Services · compute | $0.090/GB | — | $90 |
| 40 | AWS S3Amazon Web Services · storage | $0.090/GB | — | $90 |
| 41 | FastlyFastly · cdn | $0.120/GB | 100 GB | $108 |
| 42 | SupabaseSupabase · database | $0.090/GB | — | $115 |
| 43 | Google Compute EngineGoogle · compute | $0.120/GB | — | $120 |
| 44 | Google Cloud StorageGoogle · storage | $0.120/GB | — | $120 |
| 45 | RenderRender · paas | $0.150/GB | 100 GB | $142 |
Questions
- What counts as egress?
- Data leaving the provider's network towards the public internet — page loads, API responses, file downloads, video segments. Traffic between services inside the same region is usually free or much cheaper, and inbound traffic is almost always free.
- Why is egress so expensive at the hyperscalers?
- It is not a cost-recovery price. Transit at scale costs a fraction of a cent per gigabyte, and providers like Cloudflare and Hetzner charge nothing or near-nothing for it. The rate at AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure is a commercial decision that makes moving data out of the platform expensive relative to keeping it there.
- Does this include bundled traffic allowances?
- Yes. Where a plan includes transfer — Hetzner's 20 TB, Lightsail's 2 TB, Linode's pooled 1 TB — the calculator subtracts the allowance before applying the per-gigabyte rate, which is why some providers stay at zero until you cross their threshold.
- What is not included?
- Regional price variation, per-request charges, committed-use discounts, and origin-fill costs for CDNs. These are list prices for the cheapest common region — a starting point for comparison, not a quotation.