Vendor Guide · 27-Provider Comparison · Rates verified 2026-09-01

R2: pricing, perks & traps

An S3-compatible object store billed in USD. Every number below comes from the same catalog that drives the live comparison table — no marketing prose, captured rates only.

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Storage $15.00/TB·mo

Egress Free

API ops A $4.50 · B $0.360/1M

Min commitment None

Retention floor None

Regions automatic

What it costs at a typical backup workload

5 TB stored · 0.5 TB egress · light API usage: $74.85/mo (Egress is free). Change the workload sliders on the comparison page to price your exact scenario.

Fine print worth knowing

One bit of fine print is worth knowing before committing storage here: API calls are metered — writes run $4.50/million and reads $0.36/million, which adds up for chatty applications doing many small operations.

Where it shines: outbound traffic is genuinely free worldwide, so serving files to customers costs nothing beyond the storage itself; there is no minimum spend or storage floor — the bill tracks actual usage exactly; and 10 GB of storage is simply free, commitment or not.