Cloudflare R2 is the cheapest place to move a byte: object storage at $15 per terabyte-month with zero egress fees — no conditions, no fair-use caps, no throttling. Its 10 GB free tier alone could hold thousands of 420px fair-use clips.
## The Prices
Storage is $0.015 per GB-month, 2.5× the price of Backblaze B2. Egress is $0.00. When downloads dominate — public media, popular clips — R2's total bill undercuts every store that meters egress.
## The Free Tier
10 GB of storage free, forever, with the same zero egress. At ~8 MB per clip that is over a thousand clips served to the world for nothing. The Anarchive's clip layer could live here before any money changes hands.
## Fit
S3-compatible API. Best role for the Anarchive: the public serving layer — the place Media Commons gateway URLs point — while bulk full-length videos sit on cheaper cold storage. Storage you can afford is easy; surprise egress bills are what kill media archives.
## Links
- R2 pricing 
- LeanOps: the three costs Cloudflare buries — reads the fine print
- R2 vs B2 vs Wasabi compared
# See
- Anarchive Hosting, Cheap Object Storage, Egress Economics - Backblaze B2 — cheaper storage, free egress only via Cloudflare - The Cost of Video