--- title: iDrive e2 slug: idrive-e2 url: "https://toolweight.com/options/idrive-e2" homepage: "https://www.idrive.com/e2/" categories: s3-compatible-storage last_verified: 2026-07-23 license: CC-BY-4.0 --- # iDrive e2 > USD 4/TB S3-compatible storage with zero-egress marketing and a fair-use cap. e2 undercuts almost everyone on storage at USD 0.004 per gigabyte per month and advertises no egress fees, subject to a fair-use multiple of what you store. It supports object lock and versioning, which is more than the price suggests. The documentation is thinner than its competitors' and the egress overage terms are the least clearly published in this comparison. ## Identity | | | | --- | --- | | Name | iDrive e2 | | Company | iDrive | | One-liner | USD 4/TB S3-compatible storage with zero-egress marketing and a fair-use cap. | | Site | https://www.idrive.com/e2/ | | Docs | https://www.idrive.com/e2/guides/ | | Founded | 1995 | | Compared in | 1 | ## Where it is compared ### [S3-compatible storage](https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage) Ranked **#7 of 12** on default weights. | Field | Value | Confidence | Verified | Source | Note | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | True cost /mo (USD) | - | Unknown | 2026-07-23 | https://www.idrive.com/e2/pricing | No honest figure exists for this scenario. Storage alone is 1 TB x $4 = $4.00, and that much reconstructs from this row. The other $20 does not: e2's zero-egress promise is bounded by a fair-use multiple of stored data, and e2 publishes neither the multiple nor the rate it charges above it. This page previously quoted $24.00 by assuming a 3x free allowance and a $0.01/GB overage, two numbers that appear nowhere on e2's rate card and could not be checked against any other cell in this row, which is exactly what this column promises you can do. If e2's remedy above the cap is to restrict the account rather than to bill, as Wasabi's is, then there is no price here at all rather than an uncertain one. Withdrawn until the overage rate is published or measured. | | True cost /mo (AUD) | - | Unknown | 2026-07-23 | - | Null for the same reason as the USD figure. | | True cost from Sydney (AUD) | - | Unknown | 2026-07-23 | - | Null twice over: there is no price for this scenario, and we could not confirm that e2 has an Australian location to serve it from. | | Storage $/TB/mo | $4 /TB/mo | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-23 | https://www.idrive.com/e2/pricing | $0.004/GB-month at pay-as-you-go. Annual prepay is cheaper again. | | Egress $/TB | $0 /TB | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-23 | https://www.idrive.com/e2/pricing | Marketed as zero egress, capped by a fair-use policy expressed as a multiple of stored data. Behaviour above the cap is not clearly documented. | | Egress cap (x stored) | - | Unknown | 2026-07-23 | https://www.idrive.com/e2/pricing | e2 states that free egress is bounded by a fair-use multiple of stored data but does not publish the multiple. We could not establish whether it is 1x, as Wasabi's is, or 3x, as Backblaze's is, a difference that decides whether this scenario is merely dear or outside the terms entirely. This page previously modelled 3x; that was an assumption, not a source, and it has been withdrawn. | | Class A $/M ops | $0 /M ops | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-23 | https://www.idrive.com/e2/pricing | - | | Class B $/M ops | $0 /M ops | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-23 | https://www.idrive.com/e2/pricing | - | | Min retention | 0 ms | Inferred | - | - | - | | Min billed object | 0 B | Inferred | - | - | - | | S3 API coverage | 80 % | Inferred | - | - | Standard operations plus versioning and object lock. Documentation is thinner than competitors', so edge-case behaviour is harder to predict without testing. | | Presigned URLs | ● | Inferred | - | - | - | | Multipart upload | ● | Inferred | - | - | - | | Versioning | ● | Inferred | 2026-07-23 | - | - | | Lifecycle rules | ◐ | Inferred | - | - | - | | Event notifications | ○ | Inferred | - | - | - | | CDN integration | none | Inferred | - | - | - | | Max object size | 5 TB | Inferred | - | - | - | | IAM granularity | 3 | Inferred | - | - | Access keys scoped per bucket with read/write control. | | Sydney region | - | Unknown | - | - | e2 advertises a long region list and we could not confirm whether an Australian location is currently among them. Treat as no until you have seen the endpoint. | | TTFB from Sydney | - | Unknown | - | - | Depends entirely on whether an APAC region is available to you. | | Durability (nines) | 11 nines | Inferred | - | - | - | | Uptime SLA | 99.9 % | Inferred | - | - | - | | Object lock / WORM | ● | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-23 | https://www.idrive.com/e2/object-lock | - | | Replication model | single-az | Inferred | - | - | - | | Official MCP server | ○ | Inferred | - | - | - | | GA year | 2,021 | Inferred | - | - | - | | Positioning | Lowest headline storage price, sold into the backup and MSP market. | Inferred | - | - | - | **Verdict.** The cheapest storage rate here alongside Storj, with object lock included, and the least legible egress terms in the roster, legible enough that we will not put a number in the cost column for it. Fine as a backup target, where you store far more than you read; do not build a public asset pipeline on a fair-use cap you cannot find written down. ## Alternatives - [AWS S3](https://toolweight.com/options/aws-s3), The API everything else copies, and by far the most expensive egress in this roster. - [Backblaze B2](https://toolweight.com/options/backblaze-b2), Cheap US and EU object storage with free egress up to three times stored volume. - [Bunny Storage](https://toolweight.com/options/bunny-storage), Edge storage built as a CDN origin, with its own API rather than a faithful S3 one. - [Cloudflare R2](https://toolweight.com/options/cloudflare-r2), S3-compatible object storage with zero egress fees, on Cloudflare's network. - [DigitalOcean Spaces](https://toolweight.com/options/digitalocean-spaces), Bundled object storage plus free CDN, priced as a flat base fee with overages. - [Hetzner Object Storage](https://toolweight.com/options/hetzner-object-storage), The cheapest credible S3 endpoint in Europe, with a deliberately thin feature set. - [MinIO](https://toolweight.com/options/minio), The self-hosted S3 reference implementation, your hardware, your bandwidth, your SLA. - [Scaleway Object Storage](https://toolweight.com/options/scaleway-object-storage), European-sovereign S3 storage with multi-AZ classes and a real IAM system. - [Storj](https://toolweight.com/options/storj), Decentralised erasure-coded storage: USD 4/TB stored, USD 7/TB egress, no regions. - [Tigris](https://toolweight.com/options/tigris), Globally distributed S3-compatible storage that caches objects near readers. - [Wasabi](https://toolweight.com/options/wasabi), Flat-rate hot storage with no egress or API fees, bounded by a fair-use cap. ## Licence and attribution Data from toolweight (https://toolweight.com), licensed CC-BY-4.0. - Licence: [CC-BY-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) - Canonical HTML: https://toolweight.com/options/idrive-e2 - Machine-readable: https://toolweight.com/options/idrive-e2.md · https://toolweight.com/api/v1 · https://toolweight.com/mcp - toolweight takes no affiliate revenue and sells no placements. 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