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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Electrical_Offer5667 on 2026-07-24 15:53:45+00:00.

Original Title: I built a sourced, dated comparison of 25 object storage providers: price per TB, egress, free tiers, minimums, encryption, and whether they can cryptographically prove they still have your data [disclosure: I run one of the 25]

Disclosure first: I run Obsideo, which appears as one of the 28 rows. I'll explain why I think the table is still useful to you despite that.

https://obsideo.io/compare/

While doing competitive research I kept finding storage comparisons that were stale, unsourced, or a vendor page with the vendor's row highlighted in green. So I built the thing I wanted to exist, with rules designed to keep me honest:

• Every numeric fact links to a source URL with the date it was fetched.
• My row uses the same schema as every other row, sorted alphabetically. The only special treatment is a small "that's us" tag so you know exactly which row to be skeptical of.
• I am visibly not the cheapest option. Glacier Deep Archive is about 15x cheaper than my own row.
• On the column I care most about, cryptographic possession proofs, the table rates Arweave and Sia above me, because their proofs settle on a public chain and mine do not.

Columns: $/TB-month, egress $/TB and its semantics, free tiers, minimum charges and retention gotchas, S3 API compatibility, encryption model, and whether the provider can cryptographically prove it still holds your bytes.

The 28 rows cover the hyperscalers (S3 Standard plus all three Glacier tiers, OCI, R2), the budget S3 crowd (Backblaze B2, Wasabi, Hetzner, IDrive e2, Contabo), the backup specialists (rsync.net, BorgBase, Tarsnap), and Arweave, Sia and Storj.

I added the Glacier tiers this morning because a mod asked for them when I requested permission to post. Their notes cover the parts that bite: the 90 and 180 day minimum durations, the 40 KB per-object metadata overhead, the retrieval fees that stack on top of egress, and the fact that AWS bills in binary GB so a real TB costs about 2.4% more than the decimal figure.

The whole dataset is machine-readable JSON under CC BY 4.0 if you want it for your own projects: https://obsideo.io/compare/providers.json

If you spot an error, say so here or use the correction email on the page. Every fix ships with a source. Corrections are the point of publishing this.