--- title: Wasabi slug: wasabi url: "https://toolweight.com/options/wasabi" homepage: "https://wasabi.com/cloud-object-storage" categories: s3-compatible-storage last_verified: 2026-07-23 license: CC-BY-4.0 --- # Wasabi > Flat-rate hot storage with no egress or API fees, bounded by a fair-use cap. Wasabi sells one storage class at one price with no egress and no request charges, which is genuinely simple until you read the acceptable-use policy: monthly downloads above roughly your stored volume fall outside the terms. A 90-day minimum retention period and a 4 KB minimum billable object size make it a poor fit for churny or small-object workloads. It does run a Sydney region, which most of the cheap tier does not. ## Identity | | | | --- | --- | | Name | Wasabi | | Company | Wasabi Technologies | | One-liner | Flat-rate hot storage with no egress or API fees, bounded by a fair-use cap. | | Site | https://wasabi.com/cloud-object-storage | | Docs | https://docs.wasabi.com/ | | Founded | 2015 | | Brand | https://toolweight.com/vendors/Wasabi | | Compared in | 1 | ## Where it is compared ### [S3-compatible storage](https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage) Ranked **#6 of 12** on default weights. | Field | Value | Confidence | Verified | Source | Note | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | True cost /mo (USD) | - | Unknown | 2026-07-23 | https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing | No honest figure exists for this scenario. Wasabi charges no egress fee, but its acceptable-use policy limits monthly egress to roughly your stored volume; 5 TB out against 1 TB stored is five times over, and Wasabi's remedy is to review or restrict the account rather than bill an overage. Storage alone would be $6.99 (1 TB at the $6.99/TB list rate, which is also the account minimum). We have left this null rather than quote $6.99 for a workload Wasabi would not accept. | | True cost /mo (AUD) | - | Unknown | - | - | Null for the same reason as the USD figure. | | True cost from Sydney (AUD) | - | Unknown | 2026-07-23 | - | Wasabi does run a Sydney region, so the geography is not the problem, the terms are. This scenario egresses five times stored volume, which is outside the acceptable-use policy in Sydney exactly as it is everywhere else, so there is no Australian list price either. | | Storage $/TB/mo | $6.99 /TB/mo | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-23 | https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing | Pay-as-you-go list rate with a 1 TB monthly minimum. Reserved capacity contracts are cheaper. | | Egress $/TB | $0 /TB | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-23 | https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing | Zero per gigabyte, but bounded: the acceptable-use policy expects monthly egress not to exceed stored volume. Treat Wasabi as free egress up to about 1x storage and unavailable above it. | | Egress cap (x stored) | 1 x stored | Inferred | 2026-07-23 | - | Wasabi's acceptable-use policy expects monthly downloads not to exceed roughly the volume you store, and the remedy above it is account review or restriction rather than an overage invoice. The '1' is our reading of 'roughly your stored volume'; Wasabi publishes no exact multiple, which is itself the point. This cell is why Wasabi's zero in the egress column should not be read as R2's zero. | | Class A $/M ops | $0 /M ops | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-23 | https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing | - | | Class B $/M ops | $0 /M ops | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-23 | https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing | - | | Min retention | 129600 min | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-23 | https://docs.wasabi.com/ | 90 days. An object written and deleted after two days is still billed for 90. On a workload with a one-week object lifetime this multiplies the effective storage rate roughly thirteenfold. | | Min billed object | 4 KB | Inferred | 2026-07-23 | - | Every object bills at a minimum of 4 KB. Ten million 1.5 KB objects bill as 40 GB rather than 15 GB. | | S3 API coverage | 90 % | Inferred | - | - | Close to a drop-in replacement for standard-class workloads; the gaps are storage-class transitions (there is only one class) and the notification and analytics APIs. | | Presigned URLs | ● | Inferred | - | - | - | | Multipart upload | ● | Inferred | - | - | - | | Versioning | ● | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-23 | https://docs.wasabi.com/docs/versioning | - | | Lifecycle rules | ◐ | Inferred | - | - | Expiration rules work; there are no storage classes to transition between. | | Event notifications | ○ | Inferred | - | - | No S3-equivalent bucket notification API. Poll, or trigger from your own write path. | | CDN integration | partner | Inferred | - | - | No first-party CDN; Wasabi promotes third-party partners and its own content-delivery bundles. | | Max object size | 5 TB | Inferred | - | - | - | | IAM granularity | 4 | Inferred | - | - | IAM users, groups and JSON policies closely modelled on AWS, without the condition-key depth or STS federation. | | Sydney region | ● | Inferred | 2026-07-23 | - | Wasabi operates an ap-southeast-2 Sydney region. Confirm current availability before committing, Wasabi's region list has changed more than once. | | TTFB from Sydney | 30 ms | Inferred | - | - | In-metro read from the Sydney region. | | Durability (nines) | 11 nines | Inferred | 2026-07-23 | - | - | | Uptime SLA | 99.9 % | Inferred | 2026-07-23 | - | - | | Object lock / WORM | ● | Inferred | 2026-07-23 | - | - | | Replication model | single-az | Inferred | - | - | One region per bucket by default; cross-region replication is opt-in and billed as a second copy. | | Official MCP server | ○ | Inferred | - | - | - | | GA year | 2,017 | Inferred | - | - | - | | Positioning | Flat-rate hot storage sold against S3's egress bill, for steady archives. | Inferred | - | - | - | **Verdict.** Excellent if your read volume is modest and your objects are large and long-lived, the 90-day minimum retention and 4 KB billing floor punish everything else. The egress fair-use cap means Wasabi's 'no egress fees' and R2's are not the same promise, and this page's scenario is exactly where the difference shows. ## 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. - [iDrive e2](https://toolweight.com/options/idrive-e2), USD 4/TB S3-compatible storage with zero-egress marketing and a fair-use cap. - [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. ## 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/wasabi - Machine-readable: https://toolweight.com/options/wasabi.md · https://toolweight.com/api/v1 · https://toolweight.com/mcp - toolweight takes no affiliate revenue and sells no placements. 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