A mid-2026 price survey of object storage for the Anarchive's media — the stores compared per terabyte stored and per gigabyte moved. The two numbers pick different winners: Hetzner is the cheapest place to keep a byte, Cloudflare R2 the cheapest place to move one.
## The Field
- Hetzner Storage Box — €3.20 per TB-month (BX11), 10 TB for €20.80. SFTP, rsync and WebDAV. Backup-grade, not a public web server. - Backblaze B2 — $6 per TB-month, S3-compatible. Egress free up to 3× stored data, and free without limit through Cloudflare. - Cloudflare R2 — $15 per TB-month, S3-compatible, zero egress unconditionally. 10 GB free tier. - Wasabi — about $5 per TB-month, but a 1 TB minimum, a 90-day retention minimum, and an unpublished fair-use egress policy. A poor fit for an archive growing from small. - Contabo Storage VPS — about $8 a month for 400 GB. Less storage per euro than Hetzner. - Filebase — about $5 per TB-month, IPFS-native with a standard pinning API. Free tier: 5 GB, 1,000 pins, 5 GB egress.
## Reading the Numbers
Every store above beats Nextcloud-on-a-managed-server by an order of magnitude for write-once media. The choice between them is really the choice in Egress Economics: how much of the archive will the public actually watch, and through what front door.
## Links
- Hetzner Storage Box 
- Backblaze B2 pricing
- Cloudflare R2 pricing
- LeanOps: six cloud storage bills compared, 2026
- Contabo Storage VPS
- Filebase IPFS pinning
# See
- Anarchive Hosting, The Cost of Video, Egress Economics - Hetzner, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2 - IPFS Pinning, Distributed File Systems — earlier research on this site