Note that Cloudflare in their R2 launch post said “infrequent” storage operations, without specifying what those are and the rules that apply. Above this range, R2 will charge significantly less per-operation than the major providers.” - Cloudflare

“R2 will zero-rate infrequent storage operations under a threshold - currently planned to be in the single digit requests per second range. But, Backblaze B2 and Wasabi also have a bit of an answer to R2’s “zero egress”, which we cover in the next section.Ĭloudflare has also given itself wiggle room when it comes to the cost of read/write operations, although it’s implied that whatever it does should be very developer-friendly. Cloudflare R2 might shine better than other Amazon S3 alternatives when it comes to egress and read/write operations.Īt this point, we will take Cloudflare’s word for it: Egress will be zero cost. However, $0.015 per GB is not necessarily a deal-breaker here.

When comparing Cloudflare R2 to Backblaze B2, Wasabi or Storj DCS, R2 is about 3 times more expensive for storage. Right now, Cloudflare R2 has cheaper and simpler pricing than several incumbent cloud services like Amazon S3 and Azure Blob, but is still well behind others on raw storage cost. If you think we're on to something, you just might be able to launch the next big thing with the help of Īre the savings worth switching to Cloudflare R2?

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