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title: "Storage Pricing"
description: "S3-compatible object storage on NVMe with a free tier — 2 buckets and 5 GB — then $0.015/GB-month pay-as-you-go. Zero egress fees at every scale, never billed silently."
url: https://edge.network/storage/pricing/
---

# Storage Pricing

[Storage](https://edge.network/storage)

Storage

# Pricing

S3-compatible object storage on NVMe with a free tier to start and zero egress fees at
every scale. Hard-capped by default — it never silently starts billing.

## Start free, on real hardware

The free tier runs on the same all-NVMe infrastructure as everything else — the full
S3-compatible API with presigned URLs, multipart uploads, and access keys included.

Without a card on file, hitting the 5 GB cap blocks writes rather than starting a
bill — your existing objects stay readable. Paid usage only ever happens once you've
added a card.

Beyond the free tier

$0.015 per GB per month

With a card on file, pay-as-you-go keeps you writing past 5 GB automatically.
Overage is prorated hourly from your prepaid balance — add an optional monthly cap
if you want a hard ceiling — and writes pause again if the headroom runs out, never
a surprise bill. Egress stays free.

Free tier

### Storage Free Tier

$0 /mo — billed only beyond the free tier
2 buckets
5 GB storage
S3-compatible API
Zero egress fees
All NVMe hardware
Presigned URLs
Any S3 SDK you already use

[Create a Bucket](https://edge.network/account)

## What would your bill be?

Slide in your workload. Downloads are where storage bills hide — and where Edge charges nothing.

Storage Total data stored

GB

Downloads per month Data served or retrieved (egress)

GB

Reads per month GET requests

million

Writes per month PUT / POST requests

million

Edge Storage $3.67 /mo
5 GB free, then 245 GB × $0.015/GB. Downloads and requests are free at any volume.

Paid usage is opt-in: set a monthly budget on the billing page, billed hourly from prepaid balance.

The same workload elsewhere
AWS S3

$5.75 storage + $36 egress + $9.00 requests

$51 /mo
Google Cloud Storage

$5.00 storage + $60 egress + $9.00 requests

$74 /mo
Cloudflare R2

$3.60 storage + $0 egress + $0 requests

$3.60 /mo

$47/month saved vs AWS S3 — 93% less.

Published standard on-demand rates: storage, egress, and per-request operations. Permanent free allowances are credited (AWS 100 GB/month transfer; R2 10 GB storage, 10M reads and 1M writes/month); time-limited promotional tiers are not. Edge charges nothing for egress or requests.

## Your data. Free to leave.

Egress is where object storage bills hide their cost — retrieving a terabyte from S3
costs around $90. From Edge Storage it costs nothing, at any scale.

### Zero egress fees

Serve public files, restore backups, or migrate away entirely — data transfer out is always included.

### All NVMe

No spinning disks and no archive-tier retrieval delays. Every object is on NVMe and served at full speed.

### Volume pricing at scale

Enterprise volume pay-as-you-go from $499/month with per-GB volume pricing, a 99.99% SLA, and an account manager.

[See how we compare to S3](https://edge.network/storage/compare)

## Pricing FAQ

Everything you need to know about how storage billing works.

### How does the free tier work?

Every account gets 2 buckets and 5 GB of NVMe-backed, S3-compatible storage. A card on file is required, but the free tier never charges — it's sized to evaluate with a real workload.

### What happens at the 5 GB cap?

With a card on file, pay-as-you-go covers it automatically: writes continue at $0.015/GB-month, prorated hourly from your prepaid balance (add an optional monthly cap for a hard ceiling). Without a card, writes are blocked — never billed silently — and your existing objects stay readable and served.

### Are downloads really free?

Yes. There are no egress fees at any scale, which is where S3 bills hurt most — retrieving your own data from Edge Storage costs nothing, whether it's a backup restore or public file serving.

### Is it actually S3-compatible?

Yes — the API speaks S3, so the AWS SDKs, rclone, s3cmd, and existing tooling work by changing the endpoint and keys. Presigned URLs and multipart uploads are supported.

### What if I need more than the free tier?

Enterprise volume pay-as-you-go covers storage at scale with per-GB volume pricing, a 99.99% SLA, and an account manager. Talk to us about your workload and we'll price it precisely.

## Create your first bucket free

S3-compatible, all NVMe, zero egress. Point your existing SDK at Edge and go.

[Get Started](https://edge.network/account) [View SDK Examples](https://edge.network/docs/storage/sdk-examples)