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Cloudflare R2 vs Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage: what the same workload costs

3 workloads, each described once and priced on both from the providers’ published list prices. Every figure is from a sample verdict, and every warning stays beside the option it belongs to.

Price your own workloadSee the 3 sample verdicts
Across the 3 samples
Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage cost less than Cloudflare R2
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How much more the dearer of the 2 cost, workload by workload
16% more to 2.4 times as much
Neither was the cheapest of the 5 providers priced on each workload. Microsoft Azure was.
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3 workloads, priced on both

Each bar is that provider’s cheapest option priced in full, over the whole period, in US dollars. The workload is the same on both sides; only the provider changes.

  1. Hot application storage

    • 50 TiB, growing 3% a month
    • Kept indefinitely
    • Over 3 years
    • WasabiWasabi Pay as you go in eu-west-1$25,647.39$8.11 per TiB-month all in · storage $8.11, everything else $0.00
    • Cloudflare R2R2 Standard in weur$60,654.90$19.17 per TiB-month all in · storage $16.49, everything else $2.68

    Wasabi cost $35,007.51 less over 3 years. Cloudflare R2 cost 2.4 times as much.

    Cheapest of the 31 options priced in full, 1 of these 2Wasabi Pay as you go in eu-west-1 $25,647.39, $8.11 per TiB-month all in

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  2. Backup with frequent change

    • 200 TiB, growing 1.5% a month
    • Kept 90 days
    • Over 5 years
    • WasabiWasabi Pay as you go in eu-west-1$203,170.97$10.56 per TiB-month all in · storage $10.54, everything else $0.0197
    • Cloudflare R2R2 Infrequent Access in weur$235,840.84$12.26 per TiB-month all in · storage $11.00, everything else $1.26

    Wasabi cost $32,669.87 less over 5 years. Cloudflare R2 cost 16% more.

    Cheapest of the 34 options priced in fullAzure Cold LRS in uksouth $167,606.24, $8.71 per TiB-month all in

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  3. Long-term archive

    • 1,024 TiB, growing 0.5% a month
    • Kept 2,555 days, locked against deletion throughout
    • Over 10 years
    • WasabiWasabi Pay as you go in eu-west-1$1,360,375.13$8,301.08 per PiB-month all in · storage $8,301.08, everything else $0.00
    • Cloudflare R2R2 Infrequent Access in weur$1,848,295.70$11,278.39 per PiB-month all in · storage $11,259.00, everything else $19.39

    Wasabi cost $487,920.57 less over 10 years. Cloudflare R2 cost 36% more.

    Cheapest of the 36 options priced in fullAzure Archive LRS in uksouth $315,138.42, $1,922.99 per PiB-month all in

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Before you decide

A price says nothing about how the data behaves. Every warning and note on both options is here, with the page it comes from, and none of them changes the order.

Hot application storage

WasabiWasabi Pay as you go in eu-west-1

Cloudflare R2R2 Standard in weur

Backup with frequent change

WasabiWasabi Pay as you go in eu-west-1

Cloudflare R2R2 Infrequent Access in weur

Long-term archive

WasabiWasabi Pay as you go in eu-west-1

Cloudflare R2R2 Infrequent Access in weur

How these were priced

Priced at each provider’s current published list prices, in 1 region of each, named beside its figure. Estimates, not quotations.

  • Every price names its source

    Each figure comes from the provider’s own published price list, and the report says how old it was.

  • A missing charge is never zero

    An option that cannot be priced in full is marked Partial, and is not ranked.

  • Cost alone decides the order

    Storage, requests, retrieval, data out, and early deletion are all counted, and a warning never moves an option. The method in full

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