Backblaze B2

Cheap S3-compatible object storage

Free tier + paidImages, video & filesbackblaze.com

What it is

S3-compatible object storage priced at roughly a third of S3. Egress is free up to three times your average stored data each month, and unlimited and free when delivered through partner CDNs including Cloudflare, Fastly and bunny.net. Most API call classes cost nothing.

Why it earns a slot

The cheapest durable home for a large archive of originals and masters. Pair it with bunny.net or Cloudflare and both storage and egress land near zero while you keep a standard S3 API.

Know before you commit

Free egress is capped at 3x stored data — a small bucket serving heavy traffic blows past it and pays $0.01/GB. The unlimited-egress promise only holds through partner CDNs, not direct to the internet.

Getting started

npm i @aws-sdk/client-s3

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Pricing snapshot

$6.95/TB/month (about $0.0069/GB), first 10 GB free. Egress free up to 3x average monthly storage, then $0.01/GB. Class A/B/C API calls free; Class D $0.004 per 10K

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Evaluate Backblaze B2 (https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage) for this project, then use it only if it fits what we are already building.
Context: Cheap S3-compatible object storage. S3-compatible object storage priced at roughly a third of S3. Egress is free up to three times your average stored data each month, and unlimited and free when delivered through partner CDNs including Cloudflare, Fastly and bunny.net. Most API call classes cost nothing.
Reviewer notes (general, not written for this codebase): The cheapest durable home for a large archive of originals and masters. Pair it with bunny.net or Cloudflare and both storage and egress land near zero while you keep a standard S3 API.
Watch out for: Free egress is capped at 3x stored data — a small bucket serving heavy traffic blows past it and pays $0.01/GB. The unlimited-egress promise only holds through partner CDNs, not direct to the internet.
Pricing: $6.95/TB/month (about $0.0069/GB), first 10 GB free. Egress free up to 3x average monthly storage, then $0.01/GB. Class A/B/C API calls free; Class D $0.004 per 10K
Setup: npm i @aws-sdk/client-s3
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AWS S3 + CloudFront

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Object storage + global CDN

Free tier + paidImages, video & files

S3 Standard $0.023/GB-month (us-east-1), PUT $0.005/1K, GET $0.0004/1K. CloudFront: first 1 TB/mo and 10M requests free, then $0.085/GB NA/EU declining to $0.020/GB. S3 direct-to-internet egress $0.09/GB

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Cloudflare Images

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Image storage + edge transforms

Free tier + paidImages, video & files

5,000 unique transformations/mo free on every plan including Free. Then $0.50 per 1,000 unique transformations; $5 per 100,000 images stored/mo; $1 per 100,000 images delivered/mo

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Cloudflare R2

developers.cloudflare.com

S3-compatible storage, zero egress

Free tier + paidImages, video & files

Free 10 GB-month storage, 1M Class A ops, 10M Class B ops. Then $0.015/GB-month, $4.50/M Class A, $0.36/M Class B. Egress always $0 at any volume

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Cloudflare Stream

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Video hosting and streaming

PaidImages, video & files

$5 per 1,000 minutes stored/mo, prepaid in $5 blocks; $1 per 1,000 minutes delivered. Ingest and encoding always free. No free tier

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