DigitalOcean Spaces vs Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage
Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage is cheaper across every workload modelled here.
List prices checked
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 | DigitalOcean Spaces | Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry plan | $5.00/mo | — | — |
| Storage | $0.020/GB-mo | $0.0080/GB-mo | 2.5× Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage |
| Data transfer out | $0.010/GB | Free | — |
| Free tier | No | Yes | — |
Source: DigitalOcean pricing (May 2026) · Wasabi 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 | DigitalOcean Spaces | Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Side projectA personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process. | $0.40 | $0.16 | Wasabi Hot Cloud Storagesaves $0.24/mo (60%) |
| Growing SaaSA funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers. | $10 | $4.00 | Wasabi Hot Cloud Storagesaves $6.00/mo (60%) |
| Media-heavy siteA publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought. | $130 | $16 | Wasabi Hot Cloud Storagesaves $114/mo (88%) |
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
DigitalOcean Spaces
by DigitalOcean
A flat $5 per month covers 250 GB of storage and 1 TB of transfer, which makes small buckets cost nothing extra and large ones uncompetitive.
Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage
by Wasabi
Flat per-terabyte pricing at $7.99/TB with no egress or request fees, subject to a fair-use policy that egress should not exceed stored volume and a 90-day minimum retention per object.
Free tier: 30-day trial; no egress or API request charges
Common questions
- Is DigitalOcean Spaces or Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage cheaper in 2026?
- Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage is cheaper in all 3 modelled workloads.
- What is the difference in egress cost between DigitalOcean Spaces and Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage?
- Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage does not charge for data transfer out at all, while DigitalOcean Spaces charges $0.010 per GB. On a read-heavy workload that difference is the entire comparison.
- Which has the better free tier, DigitalOcean Spaces or Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage?
- Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage does — 30-day trial; no egress or API request charges. DigitalOcean Spaces bills from the first unit of usage.
- 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.