Offshore S3 storageCapacity priced once, not every time you read it.
S3-compatible object storage erasure-coded across three cabinets, and block volumes that attach to any instance and outlive it. No egress charge, no request charge, no minimum retention period. The rate on the list is the entire bill.
- 1 TBRate$4.79 / TBbilled monthlyEgressUnmeteredno per-GB feeRequestsUnmeteredno per-request feeMinimum termNoneno lock-in4,79$/mo
$6,00elsewhere - 5 TBRate$4.49 / TBbilled monthlyEgressUnmeteredno per-GB feeRequestsUnmeteredno per-request feeMinimum termNoneno lock-in22,45$/mo
$30,00elsewhere - 20 TBMost createdRate$3.99 / TBbilled monthlyEgressUnmeteredno per-GB feeRequestsUnmeteredno per-request feeMinimum termNoneno lock-in79,80$/mo
$120,00elsewhere - 50 TBRate$3.59 / TBbilled monthlyEgressUnmeteredno per-GB feeRequestsUnmeteredno per-request feeMinimum termNoneno lock-in179,50$/mo
$300,00elsewhere - 200 TBRate$3.19 / TBbilled monthlyEgressUnmeteredno per-GB feeRequestsUnmeteredno per-request feeMinimum termNoneno lock-in638,00$/mo
$1 200,00elsewhere - 500 TBRate$2.79 / TBbilled monthlyEgressUnmeteredno per-GB feeRequestsUnmeteredno per-request feeMinimum termNoneno lock-in1 395,00$/mo
$3 000,00elsewhere
Three of those four columns say the same thing on every line, and that is the point: egress, requests and retention are where this market makes its margin, and none of them are billed here. Only the rate moves, and it moves downward with volume. Elsewhere is IDrive e2 at a flat $6.00 per TB — the cheapest rate we found that holds at any capacity with no minimum retention. Backblaze and IDrive cap free egress at three times what you store, Wasabi at one times and bills ninety days whatever you do, Storj charges $7 a terabyte to read your own data back.
Included on every bucket
- S3 v4 signatures, multipart and presigned URLs
- Versioning, object lock and lifecycle rules
- Server-side AES-256, or bring your own key
- No egress charge and no request charge
- No minimum retention period, ever
- Erasure-coded 8+3 across three cabinets
- Per-bucket keys and IAM-style policies
- Cross-region replication where you want it
- Any of the eight regions
- Monthly billing, cancel anytime
When it has to be a filesystem
Volumes attach to any instance in the same region, survive the instance they were attached to, and move to another one without a rebuild.
- 2 TBMediaCapacity HDDenterprise, 3x replicaIOPS900sustained IOPSThroughput240 MB/ssequentialAttaches toAny instancesame region7,99$/mo
$10,00elsewhere - 250 GBMediaNVMe Gen4enterprise, 3x replicaIOPS60,000sustained IOPSThroughput1.2 GB/ssequentialAttaches toAny instancesame region9,49$/mo
$11,88elsewhere - 8 TBMediaCapacity HDDenterprise, 3x replicaIOPS1,800sustained IOPSThroughput480 MB/ssequentialAttaches toAny instancesame region29,99$/mo
$40,00elsewhere - 1 TBMost attachedMediaNVMe Gen4enterprise, 3x replicaIOPS120,000sustained IOPSThroughput2.4 GB/ssequentialAttaches toAny instancesame region37,99$/mo
$47,52elsewhere - 20 TBMediaCapacity HDDenterprise, 3x replicaIOPS2,400sustained IOPSThroughput700 MB/ssequentialAttaches toAny instancesame region69,99$/mo
$100,00elsewhere - 4 TBMediaNVMe Gen4enterprise, 3x replicaIOPS240,000sustained IOPSThroughput4.0 GB/ssequentialAttaches toAny instancesame region139,99$/mo
$190,08elsewhere
Two media, one price list, ordered by what it costs rather than what it is made of. NVMe where the latency is the product — databases, mail spools, container images. Capacity drives where the terabytes are — media, archives, backup targets. Every volume holds three copies on separate chassis, resizes upward without downtime and snapshots independently of the machine it is bolted to. Elsewhere is the cheapest published figure in the same class: $5.00 per TB for single-copy spinning slabs that require the seller’s own VPS in one of four locations, and $47.52 per TB for verified SSD volumes.
The three meters we did not install
Storage is rarely expensive. Getting at it is. Every provider we audited bills for at least one of these, and most bill for all three.
Where the real bill usually comes from
A terabyte read a hundred times costs what a terabyte costs.
Cheap-per-terabyte storage that charges to read is not cheap storage; it is a deposit you pay to get back. Serving a media library, restoring a backup or moving a dataset out is exactly when the meters start, which is exactly when a bill should not surprise you. Ours does not run at all — and there is no fee to leave, because a provider that is expensive to walk away from is not one you chose freely.
Read the S3 endpoint documentation- No egress charge Not capped at three times your storage, not at one times, not billed per gigabyte.
- No request charge PUT, GET, LIST, HEAD and multipart parts are all free, however many of them there are.
- No minimum retention An object written and deleted inside an hour is billed for an hour. No ninety-day floor.
Object, block, or both?
Object
Backups, archives, media libraries, static assets — anything reached over HTTP by something that speaks S3.
Block · NVMe
A database, a mail spool, container images. Anything that wants a real filesystem and does not forgive latency.
Block · Capacity
Terabytes that must be mounted rather than fetched: media roots, rendering scratch, an rsync target.
Both
Hot working set on a volume, cold history in a bucket, and a lifecycle rule moving one into the other.
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The platform
Two layers, one endpoint, no proprietary client.
Everything here speaks a protocol you already have a client for. Nothing you write needs our software to read back, and nothing about leaving requires our cooperation — which is the only durable form of a promise not to hold your data hostage.
- Object layer
- S3 v4 · erasure-coded 8+3 Every object is split into eleven fragments spread over three cabinets; any three can be lost without losing a byte. What you buy is usable capacity, not raw capacity minus overhead.
- Block layer
- NVMe Gen4 and capacity HDD Volumes attach to any instance in the same region across a dedicated 25 Gbit storage fabric, and outlive the instance they were attached to. Detach, snapshot, reattach elsewhere.
- Encryption
- AES-256, keys optional Server-side by default. Supply your own key per bucket, or encrypt client-side and hand us ciphertext we could not read if we were ordered to.
- Egress
- Not charged Not capped at three times your storage, not capped at one times, not billed per gigabyte, and no fee per PUT or GET. The rate on the list is the whole bill.
- Retention
- No minimum Delete an object an hour after writing it and you are billed for that hour. There is no ninety-day floor, no early-deletion penalty and no charge to leave.
- Durability
- Eleven nines, three cabinets Continuous background scrubbing with automatic repair, and optional replication to a second jurisdiction you nominate. Failed drives are swapped without your data noticing.
Speaks S3 natively — point it at the endpoint and it works
- rclone
- MinIO mc
- Veeam
- Duplicati
- Nextcloud
- ownCloud
- Seafile
- Synology
- TrueNAS
- Terraform
- Docker
- FileZilla
rclone
MinIO mc
Veeam
Duplicati
Nextcloud
ownCloud
Seafile
Synology
TrueNAS
Terraform
Docker
FileZillaOr reached over a mount, where the software has no S3 of its own
- Linux · s3fs
- Proxmox VE
- Docker volumes
- BorgBackup
- Immich
- Jellyfin
- Plex
Linux · s3fs
Proxmox VE
BorgBackup
Immich
Jellyfin
PlexWorth saying plainly rather than implying otherwise: these are not S3 clients. They read a bucket through an s3fs or rclone mount, which is transparent to the application but slower than a block volume for anything random. For a media library it is the right answer; for a database it is not.
An endpoint in any of the eight
The rate never changes with the region. Replicate into a second jurisdiction whenever you want one.
- ReykjavíkIceland
- BucharestRomania
- SofiaBulgaria
- ChișinăuMoldova
- ZurichSwitzerland
- AmsterdamNetherlands
- Panama CityPanama
- SingaporeSingapore
Included at every size
Four things most of the trade charges for, and one of them twice.
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Mitigation
1.2 Tbit/s DDoS protection
Always on at every edge, on the cheapest plan as much as the largest. No per-attack fee, no metered scrubbing and no protected-IP upsell.
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Availability
99.99 % uptime SLA
Credits are worked out from the public incident record and applied to your balance automatically. There is no claim form, because there is nothing to claim.
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Settlement
Crypto payment, no identity
Eight assets including Monero. No card, no bank detail, no document — not at signup, not at renewal, and not at any amount.
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Moving in
Free migration
Whole servers, control panels, databases and mail, moved by an engineer at no charge. You test the copy before anything is cut over, and you keep the old host until you are happy.
Before you write the first object.
Is it really the S3 API, or a subset?
Signature v4, multipart upload, presigned URLs, versioning, object lock, lifecycle rules, per-bucket policies and CORS all work, which covers every client we have tested. Two things are not implemented and we would rather say so: S3 Select, and Glacier-style tiering with retrieval delays. Everything here is hot.
What does egress actually cost?
Nothing. Not capped at three times what you store as at Backblaze and IDrive, not capped at one times as at Wasabi, not $7 a terabyte as at Storj. There is also no charge per PUT, GET or LIST. The rate on the price list is the entire bill, which is why a media library is worth putting here.
Can you read my objects?
Under server-side encryption we hold the key, so in principle yes and under a valid local order we could be made to. Supply your own key per bucket and we cannot; encrypt client-side and we hold ciphertext we could not decrypt if we wanted to. For anything sensitive, do the third one — it makes the question moot rather than a matter of trust.
How is a block volume different from the disk on my VPS?
It outlives the instance. Detach it, attach it to a different machine in the same region, resize it upward without rebuilding, snapshot it independently. The disk that ships with an instance is faster still because it is local, but it dies with the instance and cannot be moved.
What happens when a drive fails?
Nothing you will notice. Object storage is erasure-coded eleven ways across three cabinets and rebuilds itself from the survivors; block volumes hold three copies on separate chassis. Background scrubbing finds silent corruption before a read does, and failed drives are replaced within two hours around the clock.
Is there a minimum retention or a minimum spend?
Neither. Wasabi bills ninety days whatever you do, Storj thirty, MEGA will not sell you less than three terabytes. Here a bucket you fill and empty inside an hour costs an hour, and the smallest thing you can buy is one terabyte at $4.79.