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Best DigitalOcean Spaces alternatives (2026)
7 alternatives to DigitalOcean Spaces in object storage, ranked by entry price. DigitalOcean Spaces starts at $5/mo. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Cheaper than DigitalOcean Spaces: Cloudflare R2, Storj.
- Free alternatives: Cloudflare R2, Storj, Backblaze B2.
- Closest by price: Cloudflare R2 ($0/mo), Storj ($0/mo), Vultr Object Storage ($6/mo).
DigitalOcean Spaces alternatives compared
| # | Alternative | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cloudflare R2 | $0/mo | Yes | — | Egress-heavy workloads where S3 bandwidth costs are prohibitive | developers.cloudflare.com |
| 2 | Storj | $0/mo | No | Yes | Privacy-first and zero-knowledge storage requirements | storj.io |
| 3 | Vultr Object Storage STALE · 2026-09-03 | $6/mo | No | Yes | Multi-tier storage strategy where different data sets have different performance needs | vultr.com |
| 4 | Akamai Cloud Object Storage STALE · 2026-09-03 | not priced monthly | No | — | Developers already running VMs/Kubernetes on Akamai Cloud (Linode) | akamai.com |
| 5 | Amazon S3 STALE · 2026-09-05 | usage-priced | No | Yes | Enterprise data lakes and analytics at petabyte scale | aws.amazon.com |
| 6 | Backblaze B2 STALE · 2026-09-03 | not priced monthly | Yes | Yes | Cost-sensitive backup and archival (70% cheaper than S3 Standard) | backblaze.com |
| 7 | Wasabi STALE · 2026-09-27 | not priced monthly | No | Yes | Backup and DR workloads where egress fees from AWS/Azure are painful | wasabi.com |
Data current through 2026-11-01. STALE marks a row whose price we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days; a vendor with no published price is marked when any of its plans is. 5 of 7 rows above are marked. Compare any two directly on the Object Storage index.