Is Cloudflare R2 or Storj cheaper in 2026?

Cloudflare R2 is cheaper in all 3 modelled workloads.

What is the difference in egress cost between Cloudflare R2 and Storj?

Cloudflare R2 does not charge for data transfer out at all, while Storj charges $0.0070 per GB. On a read-heavy workload that difference is the entire comparison.

What do these estimates not include?

Committed-use and reserved discounts, regional price variation, per-request API charges, support plans, and minimum retention periods. All of those move real invoices, sometimes by a lot. These figures compare published list prices for the same workload, which is the comparison the rate cards alone cannot give you.

Cloudflare R2 vs Storj

Cloudflare R2 is cheaper across every workload modelled here.

List prices checked May 2026

Rate cards side by side

Only the axes at least one of them bills on. A dash means that provider does not charge for it.

Billing axis	Cloudflare R2	Storj	Difference
Storage	$0.015/GB-mo	$0.0070/GB-mo	2.1× Storj
Data transfer out	Free	$0.0070/GB	—
Free tier	Yes	Yes	—

Source: Cloudflare pricing (May 2026) · Storj pricing (August 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

Monthly cost for three real workloads

The rate cards applied to identical usage. This is where the winner changes.

Workload	Cloudflare R2	Storj	Cheaper
Side projectA personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.	$0.30	$0.84	Cloudflare R2saves $0.54/mo (64%)
Growing SaaSA funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.	$7.50	$11	Cloudflare R2saves $3.00/mo (29%)
Media-heavy siteA publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.	$30	$84	Cloudflare R2saves $54/mo (64%)

Workload definitions are identical on every comparison page, so figures here can be read against any other pair in the same category.

What each one is for

Cloudflare R2

by Cloudflare

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.

Free tier: 10 GB-month of storage, plus zero egress fees at any volume

Storj

by Storj

Erasure-coded shards distributed across independent node operators at a flat $7/TB worldwide with no regional tiers. Latency on first byte is higher than a centralised bucket.

Free tier: 25 GB of storage and 25 GB of egress per month

Common questions

Is Cloudflare R2 or Storj cheaper in 2026?: Cloudflare R2 is cheaper in all 3 modelled workloads.
What is the difference in egress cost between Cloudflare R2 and Storj?: Cloudflare R2 does not charge for data transfer out at all, while Storj charges $0.0070 per GB. On a read-heavy workload that difference is the entire comparison.
Which has the better free tier, Cloudflare R2 or Storj?: Both publish one. Cloudflare R2: 10 GB-month of storage, plus zero egress fees at any volume. Storj: 25 GB of storage and 25 GB of egress per month.
What do these estimates not include?: Committed-use and reserved discounts, regional price variation, per-request API charges, support plans, and minimum retention periods. All of those move real invoices, sometimes by a lot. These figures compare published list prices for the same workload, which is the comparison the rate cards alone cannot give you.