What is the cheapest object storage per gb-month in 2026?

IDrive e2 from IDrive tops this ranking at $0.0060/GB-mo. The full table below shows all 12 entries with the same measure applied to each.

Why is the cheapest option not always the right one?

Because a single axis never captures the whole bill. A provider with the lowest storage rate may have the highest egress rate; a model with the cheapest input tokens may be the most expensive for agentic work. The comparison pages model both sides against identical workloads, which is the check worth doing before switching.

Cheapest object storage per GB-month

S3-compatible buckets ranked by standard-tier storage price. Storage alone rarely decides the bill — check the egress column, because the cheapest gigabyte to store is often the most expensive one to read back.

List prices checked August 2026

All 12, ranked

#	Name	Provider	Storage	Notes
1	IDrive e2	IDrive	$0.0060/GB-mo	10 GB free, with egress included up to 3x stored data
2	Backblaze B2	Backblaze	$0.0069/GB-mo	10 GB of storage, with free egress up to 3x data stored
3	Storj	Storj	$0.0070/GB-mo	25 GB of storage and 25 GB of egress per month
4	Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage	Wasabi	$0.0080/GB-mo	30-day trial; no egress or API request charges
5	Cloudflare R2	Cloudflare	$0.015/GB-mo	10 GB-month of storage, plus zero egress fees at any volume
6	Scaleway Object Storage	Scaleway	$0.018/GB-mo	75 GB of egress free every month
7	Azure Blob Storage	Microsoft	$0.018/GB-mo	5 GB of hot block storage for 12 months
8	Google Cloud Storage	Google	$0.020/GB-mo	5 GB-month always free in US regions
9	DigitalOcean Spaces	DigitalOcean	$0.020/GB-mo	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.
10	Linode Object Storage	Akamai	$0.020/GB-mo	A flat $5 per month for 250 GB and 1 TB of transfer, with no per-request charges — which removes the API-call line item that complicates S3 modelling.
11	AWS S3	Amazon Web Services	$0.023/GB-mo	5 GB of standard storage for 12 months
12	Oracle Object Storage	Oracle	$0.025/GB-mo	20 GB of storage, always free

Source: IDrive (August 2026) · Backblaze (August 2026) · Storj (August 2026) · Wasabi (August 2026) · Cloudflare (May 2026) · Scaleway (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.

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What is the cheapest object storage per gb-month in 2026?: IDrive e2 from IDrive tops this ranking at $0.0060/GB-mo. The full table below shows all 12 entries with the same measure applied to each.
How is this ranking calculated?: S3-compatible buckets ranked by standard-tier storage price. Storage alone rarely decides the bill — check the egress column, because the cheapest gigabyte to store is often the most expensive one to read back. Every figure is the provider's own published list price, linked in the source column and stamped with the month it was checked.
Why is the cheapest option not always the right one?: Because a single axis never captures the whole bill. A provider with the lowest storage rate may have the highest egress rate; a model with the cheapest input tokens may be the most expensive for agentic work. The comparison pages model both sides against identical workloads, which is the check worth doing before switching.

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