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- Cloudflare R2
Cloudflare R2 pricing
S3-compatible storage with no egress charge at all, at any volume, permanently. For read-heavy workloads it is not marginally cheaper than S3 but cheaper by an order of magnitude.
List prices checked
By Cloudflare · Object storage
Rate card
What Cloudflare charges, by billing axis.
| Axis | Price | Applies to |
|---|---|---|
| Storage | $0.015/GB-mo | Standard or hot storage class |
| Data transfer out | Free | Standard tier, cheapest common region |
| Free tier | Yes | 10 GB-month of storage, plus zero egress fees at any volume |
Source: Cloudflare pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Last checked against the vendor’s page on 2026-08-07.
What it costs per month
Cloudflare R2 billed against three workload profiles, using the rates above. Every line shows its arithmetic.
Side project
A personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.
$0.30/mo
- 20 GB at $0.015/GB-month$0.30
- 100 GB at $0/GB$0
Growing SaaS
A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.
$7.50/mo
- 500 GB at $0.015/GB-month$7.50
- 1 TB at $0/GB$0
Media-heavy site
A publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.
$30/mo
- 2 TB at $0.015/GB-month$30
- 10 TB at $0/GB$0
Cloudflare R2 vs the alternatives
The closest object storage services on price, with the difference on object storage's headline axis.
| Service | Storage | vs Cloudflare R2 | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scaleway Object Storage | $0.018 | 1.2× dearer | Head to head |
| Azure Blob Storage | $0.018 | 1.2× dearer | Head to head |
| Google Cloud Storage | $0.020 | 1.3× dearer | Head to head |
| DigitalOcean Spaces | $0.020 | 1.3× dearer | Head to head |
| Linode Object Storage | $0.020 | 1.3× dearer | Head to head |
| Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage | $0.0080 | 1.9× cheaper | Head to head |
Questions about pricing
- How much does Cloudflare R2 cost in 2026?
- Cloudflare R2 charges $0.015 per GB-month of storage, per Cloudflare's published pricing page. There is also a free tier: 10 GB-month of storage, plus zero egress fees at any volume. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
- Does Cloudflare R2 have a free tier?
- Yes — 10 GB-month of storage, plus zero egress fees at any volume. Check whether it is permanent or a trial before you build a budget around it; the two are often presented identically.
- What does Cloudflare R2 charge for egress?
- Nothing. Cloudflare R2 does not meter data transfer out, which for read-heavy workloads is usually the single largest saving available in this category.
- Are these Cloudflare R2 prices current?
- They were checked against Cloudflare's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.
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