Cloud Storage Prices

Block Storage

Block storage units are disk volumes attached to virtual servers. Those volumes are accessed through the file system. They can be either SSD or HDD. Disk volumes can often be moved from one server to another and persist even without being attached to any server.

Provider	Price / GB / month	Restriction	Description
AdvancedHosting	$0.020		HDD Level 2
AdvancedHosting	$0.100		SSD Level 2
Akamai	$0.100	10GB minimum size	Volumes are configured with built-in data replication. Linode Block Storage is powered by NVMe SSD drives. https://www.linode.com/products/block-storage/
Alibaba Cloud	$0.030	Standard SSD Pay as You Go Network Access Storage in US East	"Ultra Disk" is $0.01/GB for Pay as you go in the US east region. https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/nas/pricing
Amazon EC2	$0.045		Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) Volumes https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/
Amazon EC2	$0.100		gp2 is the default EBS volume type for Amazon EC2 instances (SSD). https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/volume-types/
Amazon EC2	$0.080		General purpose SSD (gp3). IOPS and throughput are charged extra. AWS also offer cold HDD for $0.025/GB/month. https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/
Amazon Lightsail	$0.100		https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/faq/#Lightsail_block_storage
Atlantic.Net	$0.079	50 GB Free to Use for One Year	Designed for 100% availability, Secure Block Storage (SBS) is automatically replicated multiple times to protect your data from component failure https://www.atlantic.net/cloud-hosting/block-storage/
BuyVM	$0.005	256GB minimum	Called Block Storage Slabs. You must own a VPS (Slice) to have a "Slab". Slabs can be attached or moved to any Slice in the same datacenter. Often unavailable. https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/
DigitalOcean	$0.100		Volumes are encrypted at rest, replicated multiple times and can be resized live. https://www.digitalocean.com/products/block-storage/
Genesis Public Cloud	$0.080	1GiB min / 4TiB max	gp1: General Purpose (3k IOPS max / 0.5GiB/sec max) https://genesishosting.com/genesis_public_cloud_vm_pricing_table.html#volumetypes
Genesis Public Cloud	$0.100	10GiB min size / 4TiB max	gp2: General Purpose (3 IOPS/GiB, 50k IOPS and 10 Million IO burst, 300 IOPS min / 3k IOPS max) https://genesishosting.com/genesis_public_cloud_vm_pricing_table.html#volumetypes
Genesis Public Cloud	$0.180	10GiB min / 4TiB max	gp3: General Purpose (6 IOPS/GiB, 100k IOPS and 20 Million IO burst, 600 IOPS min / 6k IOPS max) https://genesishosting.com/genesis_public_cloud_vm_pricing_table.html#volumetypes
Google Compute Engine	$0.170	SSD Provisioned space	Called "Persistent Disk" at Google. Also available in Standard form on HDD at $0.04/GB/month. https://cloud.google.com/persistent-disk/
Hetzner	0.048€ ($0.052)	10GB minimum	Billed hourly. SSD based. https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
IDrive Compute	$0.100		https://www.idrivecompute.com/block-storage.htm
Kamatera	$0.050		The Cloud Block Storage engine is a fully redundant, enterprise-grade storage system. Storage pricing is calculated by the minute. https://www.kamatera.com/express/compute/products.php?id=cloud_block_storage#prd2
LunaNode	$0.030		HDD volumes. Also available: SSD volumes only in Toronto: $0.06/GB/month. LunaNode volumes can be used as boot devices and you will only be charged for the portion of the volume size that exceeds the storage space included with the VM. https://www.lunanode.com/features/volumes
Microsoft Azure	$0.145	Prices decrease with disk size. LRS (locally redundant). Example price above for 64GB Premium SSD (P6).	Called "Managed disks". Throughput increases with disk size: 25MB/second for 32GB disk. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/
OVHcloud	0.042€ ($0.046)		Classic: 250 IOPS guaranteed, 4 TB max. https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/prices/
OVHcloud	0.086€ ($0.094)		High speed: Up to 3000 IOPS, 4 TB max. https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/prices/
OVHcloud	0.086€ ($0.094)		High speed gen2: 30 IOPS/GB for up to 20000 IOPS per volume https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/prices/
OVHcloud US	$0.096		Triple replication. $0.096 is for High Speed Volumes (3000 IOPS). Also available as "Classic Volumes" at lower speeds for $0.045/GB/month. https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/prices/
Scaleway	0.060€ ($0.065)		SSD based. 3x replicated. https://www.scaleway.com/en/block-storage/
TransIP	0.006€ ($0.006)	Minimum 2TB (€11.5/month)	Big Storage is reliable secondary storage for your VPS. You can attach up to ten Big Storage disks to each VPS, allowing you to expand your VPS storage by no less than 400 TB. This makes Big Storage ideal for, among other things, backup servers, file servers, and media servers. https://www.transip.eu/vps/big-storage/
UpCloud	0.056€ ($0.061)		HDD storage. https://upcloud.com/products/maxiops-storage/
UpCloud	0.220€ ($0.240)		MaxIOPS storage. https://upcloud.com/products/maxiops-storage/
Vultr	$0.100	10GB minimum	Each volume is replicated 3 times across a highly available cluster. https://www.vultr.com/pricing/blockstorage/

Object Storage

Object storage is for storing files in the cloud. Object storage files can be accessed through an API made available by the provider. Snapshots are sometimes saved into Object Storage. Network bandwidth is normally charged on top of the storage costs.

Provider	Price / GB / month	Restriction	Description
AdvancedHosting	$0.025	Traffic is free.	API is S3 compatible. Data is triple replicated https://advancedhosting.com/en/cloud-storage/
Akamai	$0.020	250GB minimum	S3 compatible. 1 TB outbound transfer included. Up to 50 Million Objects per Cluster. https://www.linode.com/products/object-storage/
Alibaba Cloud	$0.016	First 5GB free.	Standard Storage. Infrequent and Archive storage option are also available for lower prices. https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/oss/pricing
Amazon EC2	$0.023	Price for the first 50TB, slightly cheaper for monthly transfers over 50TB.	S3 standard. AWS S3 also offers infrequent access and Glacier object storage for lower prices. https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
Aruba Cloud	0.050€ ($0.054)	10GB minimum	This is the pay-per-use price. Outgoing traffic is €0.05 per GB. API is S3 compatible. https://www.arubacloud.com/object-storage/pricing.aspx
Contabo	0.010€ ($0.011)	Minimum 250GB. Sold in 250GB slices (2.49€ / 250GB).	S3-compatibility and built-in redundancy. No charges for data transfer and no long-term commitments. https://contabo.com/en/object-storage/?utm_source=vpsbenchmarks&utm_medium=paidreferral
DigitalOcean	$0.020	250GB minimum	Object storage is called "Spaces" at DO. $5 for 250GB/month that include 1TB of outbound transfer (CDN included) https://www.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/
Fybe	$0.006	1TB minimum.	S3 compatible. Unlimited Inbound out outbound transfers are included. https://fybe.com/en/object-storage
Genesis Public Cloud	$0.010		S3 and Swift compatible. Triple replication. No additional cost for bandwidth and traffic. https://genesishosting.com/genesis_public_cloud_vm_pricing_table.html#objectstorage
Google Compute Engine	$0.023	Standard Storage. First 5GB free.	Object storage is called "Cloud Storage" at Google. Nearline and Coldline storage are also available at lower prices and speeds. Data transfer and operation fees are extra. https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing
IDrive Compute	$0.004		S3 compatible. First 10GB free. No charge for egress. https://www.idrive.com/e2/
LayerStack	$0.011	250GB minimum.	S3 compatible. Available in Singapore and Hong-Kong. Free inbound transfer and 1TB outbound ($0.01/GB after 1TB). https://www.layerstack.com/object-storage
Microsoft Azure	$0.021	First 50TB, Hot, General purpose v2, LRS	Called "Azure Storage Blobs". Also available as Cool or Archive storage at lower prices. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/blobs/
OVHcloud	0.007€ ($0.008)		S3 API. Incoming traffic is free. Outgoing traffic is €0.01/GB. https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/prices/
OVHcloud US	$0.008		S3 API. Triple replication . Incoming traffic is free. Outgoing traffic is $0.011/GB. Free incoming traffic Outgoing traffic: $0.011/GB https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/prices/
Scaleway	0.010€ ($0.011)		First 75GB free. Traffic free up to 75GB then 0.01€/GB. https://www.scaleway.com/en/object-storage/
UpCloud	0.020€ ($0.022)	250GB minimum.	Transfer cost included up to twice the size of paid storage. https://upcloud.com/products/object-storage/
Vultr	$0.020	250GB minimum	Includes 1TB of bandwidth. https://www.vultr.com/products/object-storage/#pricing

Backups

Backups allow storing copies of disk volumes. They can be used to restore a server state to a state at some other point in time. The concepts of Backups and Snapshots largely overlap. Some providers offer both features, some others only one of them. The main difference is that backups are often tied to a particular server and providers add scheduling functions on top of the backups so that users don't need to manually manage them.

Provider	Price / GB / month	Restriction	Description
Akamai	$0.062	$0.06 for 2GB Linode. 20% of instance price in general.	Prices vary depending on instance size: approximately 20% of instance price. The backups service automatically performs daily, weekly, and biweekly local backups of your cloud instances https://www.linode.com/products/backups/
Aruba Cloud	0.150€ ($0.164)	10GB minimum	This is the pay-per-use price. Backups can be scheduled on an hourly, daily or weekly basis. https://www.arubacloud.com/cloud-backup/price-list.aspx
Clouding.io	0.020€ ($0.022)		Clouding.io lets you choose number of backups to retain and frequency of backups. You can then restore full servers from the backup of your choice. https://clouding.io/kb/en-us/articles/360011156739
DigitalOcean	$0.050	Prices vary depending on droplet monthly price.	Prices vary depending on droplet size: backups are 20% of droplet total price. Therefore backup prices are considerably more expansive on General Purpose droplets. When backups are enabled, DO will create a disk image of the droplet once per week and will keep it for 4 weeks. https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/images/backups/
Genesis Public Cloud	$0.010		Genesis Public Cloud has backups for $0.01/GiB/month and compresses, then stores, the backups onto object storage. https://genesishosting.com/genesis_public_cloud_vm_pricing_table.html#backups
Hetzner	0.025€ ($0.027)	Around €0.025 for CS instances. Prices vary depending on instance size.	20% of instance price. Backups are automatically scheduled. Up to 7 backups can be stored. https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
IDrive Compute	$0.050		Backups can be scheduled daily or weekly. https://www.idrivecompute.com/faq_instances.htm#5
IONOS	$0.050	Prices vary depending on storage size and add-ons, more value in larger storage needs. Pay-per-use variant for 0.07 USD/GB/month.	Backups can be encrypted, scheduled and versioned. https://www.ionos.com/cloud/cloud-backup
Togglebox	$0.070		Fully managed backups. Restores are instantaneous. https://www.togglebox.com/cloud-calc/
UpCloud	0.050€ ($0.054)	1 daily backup is free.	UpCloud Simple Backups are automatically scheduled with 3 options: 7 daily backups, 4 weekly backups, 12 monthly backups. Prices respectively 20%, 40% or 60% of VPS price in addition to $0.05/GB/month. https://upcloud.com/products/backup/
Vultr	$0.050	Prices vary depending on instance size	Actual price is 20% of the instance. Backups are automatically scheduled and the 2 most recent ones are preserved at all times. https://www.vultr.com/docs/vps-automatic-backups

Snapshots

Snapshots are images of disk volumes. They can be created at any time from any volume and can be restored to other same size volumes or even used to create a brand new server based on a snapshot image.

Provider	Price / GB / month	Restriction	Description
AdvancedHosting	$0.030		The snapshot size is the size of the disk used space.
Alibaba Cloud	$0.018	First 5GB are free	US-East price. Charges only for incremental size of the snapshot. Snapshots are stored in object storage (OSS). https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/56159.htm
Amazon Lightsail	$0.050		https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/faq/#Billing_and_account_management
Atlantic.Net	$0.050	First 50GB are free for one year	Point-in-time copy of your Cloud Server's local storage.
Clouding.io	0.020€ ($0.022)		Entire server snapshots can be made in seconds at any point in time. https://clouding.io/kb/en-us/articles/360010121480
DigitalOcean	$0.050		Snapshots are created on users requests and are images of block storage disk volumes. https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/images/snapshots/
Google Compute Engine	$0.023		GCE snapshots are incremental and stored in "Cloud Storage" (object storage) https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/snapshots?hl=en
Hetzner	0.012€ ($0.013)		These are manual backups and can be created at any time. https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
LunaNode	$0.030		Snapshots are created on users requests and are images of block storage disk volumes. They can be used to clone VMs https://www.lunanode.com/features/snapshots
OVHcloud	0.011€ ($0.012)		Storage replicated x3. https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/prices/
OVHcloud US	$0.011		Goes to object storage. https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/prices/
Vultr	$0.050		https://www.vultr.com/news/Vultr-will-begin-charging-for-snapshot-storage-on-October-1/