Best Object Storage · FREE
Best free Object Storage (2026)
3 object storage that offer a genuine free plan, ranked by entry price. 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
- Cheapest: Cloudflare R2 at $0/mo.
- Qualifying: Cloudflare R2, Storj, Backblaze B2.
- 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. 1 of 3 rows below is marked.
Comparison
| # | Object Storage | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | SOC 2 | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cloudflare R2 | $0/mo | Yes | — | Yes | Egress-heavy workloads where S3 bandwidth costs are prohibitive | developers.cloudflare.com |
| 2 | Storj | $0/mo | No | Yes | Yes | Privacy-first and zero-knowledge storage requirements | storj.io |
| 3 | Backblaze B2 STALE · 2026-09-03 | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Cost-sensitive backup and archival (70% cheaper than S3 Standard) | backblaze.com |