Object Storage · decision tool
Migrate off S3 — worth it, in months
Your S3 bill at real usage vs the best alternative, with your migration hours priced in. Sometimes the math says stay — it decides, not a blog post.
Prices verified 2026-07-17 against official pricing pages · fit weights are our estimates (see methodology) · share the URL to share your configuration
Your situation
Usage drives both bills; effort drives the breakeven.
Migration verdict
Probably stay — payback over a year out
Saving $9.95/mo against ~$1,000.00 of migration effort takes 101 months to break even.
You today
- Egress at $0.09/GB is the reason people migrate off S3 — at 2TB/month that alone is ~$171 vs $0 on R2/Tigris
- PUT/COPY/POST/LIST $0.005/1000, GET $0.004/10,000 — ops not modeled here
Best alternative
- Class A operations (writes/lists) cost $4.50/million and Class B (reads) $0.36/million beyond the free tier — heavy small-object workloads add ops cost we don't model here
- Usage is rounded up to the next billing unit
The math, line by line
Bills computed by the same engine and verified data as the object storage selector; switching-cost inputs are yours to set — we only default them.
At a glance
| Tool | Free tier | Paid entry | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare R2 | No free tier | Pay-as-you-go | 2026-07-17 |
| Tigris | No free tier | Pay-as-you-go | 2026-07-17 |
| Backblaze B2 | No free tier | Pay-as-you-go | 2026-07-17 |
| Bunny Storage | No free tier | Standard (HDD) $1/mo | 2026-07-17 |
| Wasabi | No free tier | Pay-as-you-go $7.99/mo | 2026-07-17 |
| AWS S3 Standard | No free tier | Pay-as-you-go | 2026-07-17 |
| Supabase Storage | 1GB storage + 5GB egress on the free Supabase project | Pro plan $25/mo | 2026-07-17 |
Data sources
| Tool | Source | Verified |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare R2 | Cloudflare R2 pricing | 2026-07-17 |
| Tigris | Tigris pricing | 2026-07-17 |
| Backblaze B2 | Backblaze B2 pricing | 2026-07-17 |
| Bunny Storage | Bunny Storage pricing | 2026-07-17 |
| Wasabi | Wasabi pricing | 2026-07-17 |
| AWS S3 Standard | AWS S3 pricing | 2026-07-17 |
| Supabase Storage | Supabase pricing | 2026-07-17 |
A monitor re-checks these pages for changes; when a vendor moves a price, the date updates and every verdict recomputes.