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Flat-rate object storage · by Wasabi Technologies

Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage

S3-compatible hot storage at one flat per-TB price with no egress or API fees, but a 1 TB monthly minimum and 90-day minimum retention.

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Overview

Wasabi sells a single hot storage tier with an S3- and IAM-compatible API at one flat price in every region: $7.99 per TB per month on pay-as-you-go since 1 July 2026, up from $6.99. There are no charges for egress, ingress or API requests, which makes the bill easy to predict: capacity times price.

The catches are in the minimums. You pay for at least 1 TB each month even if you store less, so the effective floor is $7.99 a month. Objects deleted before they are 90 days old are still billed for the rest of the 90 days. For a small web app with a few gigabytes of uploads, that makes Wasabi more expensive than R2 or B2.

Free egress is governed by a fair-use policy: if your monthly downloads exceed the amount you store, your use case is 'not a good fit' and Wasabi may limit or suspend service. It is designed for storing data you read occasionally, such as backups, surveillance footage and media archives, rather than serving a busy public site.

Reserved Capacity Storage lets larger customers prepay capacity for 1, 3 or 5 years at a discount. Wasabi integrates with many backup products (Veeam, Acronis and others) and offers immutability and SSO.

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Pricing and plans

Plan Price What you get
Pay as You Go $7.99/TB-month All regions; 1 TB minimum monthly charge; 90-day minimum storage duration; no egress or API fees
Reserved Capacity Storage Custom Prepaid capacity in 1, 3 or 5-year terms with discounts and premium support
Wasabi Cloud NAS $9.99/TB-month 10 TB minimum monthly charge

Pay-as-you-go rose from $6.99 to $7.99 per TB-month for all regions on 1 July 2026. Prices exclude taxes and optional services (premium support, Direct Connect, Ball transfer appliance). If you store under 1 TB you are billed for 1 TB. Objects deleted before 90 days are billed for the remaining days as Timed Deleted Storage. Free egress applies when monthly egress is no more than your active storage; Wasabi reserves the right to limit or suspend accounts that regularly exceed that. A free trial exists but its terms were not on the pages read. The SOC 2 and ISO 27001 claims refer to its data centers.

Source: wasabi.com/pricing/faq · prices as published, excluding tax.

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What it does

Flat pricing
One per-TB price in North America, EMEA and APAC, with no separate egress or API request fees.
S3 and IAM compatibility
Wasabi states full compatibility with the AWS S3 and IAM APIs.
Immutability
Object Lock-style immutability, virtual air-gapped Covert Copy and multi-user authorization protect backups.
Reserved capacity
Buy capacity in 1, 3 or 5-year terms for lower rates and premium support.
Account security
IAM policies, MFA and enterprise SSO options.
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Strengths and limitations

Strengths

  • No egress or API fees within the fair-use policy
  • Same price in every region
  • Easy-to-forecast bills for large, stable datasets
  • Broad support in backup software

Limitations

  • 1 TB minimum monthly charge, so small datasets cost at least $7.99 a month
  • 90-day minimum storage duration charged on early deletes
  • Free egress only while monthly downloads stay at or below stored volume; heavy use can be limited or suspended
  • No permanent free tier
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Who it suits

Good for

  • Backup and disaster-recovery copies
  • Media and surveillance archives
  • Companies moving terabytes off hyperscalers

Look elsewhere if

  • Small apps storing a few gigabytes
  • Public downloads or CDN origins with high egress relative to storage
  • Short-lived or frequently deleted files
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Pricing history

  • Wasabi pay-as-you-go rises to $7.99/TB

    Announced May 2026 and effective 1 July 2026: Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage pay-as-you-go went from $6.99 to $7.99 per TB-month in all regions; reserved capacity pricing is based on the new rate at renewal. Source ↗

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Alternatives to Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage

Tool From Free option Stages
Supabase Managed Postgres backend platform
$25/mo Free tier
Uploadcare File upload, processing and CDN
$66/mo Free tier
Cloudinary Image and video media platform
$89/mo Free tier
Amazon S3 Object storage (hyperscaler)
Usage-based Paid
Azure Blob Storage Object storage (hyperscaler)
Usage-based Paid
SeaweedFS Self-hosted distributed storage
— Open source

All file and object storage →

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Questions

How much does Wasabi cost per TB?

$7.99 per TB-month on pay-as-you-go in all regions since 1 July 2026, with a 1 TB monthly minimum.

Is Wasabi egress free?

Yes, as long as your monthly egress is no more than the data you store. Regularly exceeding that can lead Wasabi to limit or suspend service.

Does Wasabi have a minimum storage duration?

Yes. On pay-as-you-go, objects deleted before 90 days are billed for the remaining days.

Does Wasabi have a free tier?

No. There is a free trial, but paid accounts are billed for at least 1 TB a month.

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