8 Best Cloudflare R2 Alternatives (2026)
The closest alternatives to Cloudflare R2 are AWS S3, Backblaze B2, Bunny Storage and DigitalOcean Spaces, with 4 more below. Each shares a comparison category with it, so every rationale here names both tools' real values. Cloudflare R2 is marked No on Versioning, where Backblaze B2 records Yes — usually where a switch starts.
Why do people look for Cloudflare R2 alternatives?
Most people searching for Cloudflare R2 alternatives are not shopping — they already run it and something has stopped fitting. That something is usually a specific number rather than a feeling, so this page starts from the fields where Cloudflare R2 genuinely trails the rosters it appears in, and only then covers the reasons that never show up in a table.
The measured reasons.
- Versioning — No. Backblaze B2 records Yes.
- Class A $/M ops — $4.5 /M ops, 10th of 12. Backblaze B2 records $0 /M ops.
- Class B $/M ops — $0.36 /M ops, 10th of 12. Backblaze B2 records $0 /M ops.
- Storage $/TB/mo — $15 /TB/mo, 7th of 11. Storj records $4 /TB/mo.
Any one of those is enough on its own if you sized your architecture around it. None of them is enough if you didn't — which is why the list is short and specific rather than a general case against Cloudflare R2.
The reasons that never make it into a table. A price rise after a funding round. A licence change that turns a self-host into a subscription. A region you now need and they do not have. An acquisition. A support experience that quietly degrades. None of those are fields, and all of them move teams — which is why every entry below links back to S3-compatible storage, where the full field set and its sources live. The ones we catch get logged on the Cloudflare R2 timeline.
How the shortlist is ordered. Every tool below shares at least one comparison category with Cloudflare R2, sorted by how many categories the two overlap in. There is no editorial ranking, no sponsorship and no affiliate link — the order is the overlap count, and the rationale under each is generated from the two tools' own cells, so it names real values rather than adjectives.
1.
AWS S3
AWS S3 — The API everything else copies, and by far the most expensive egress in this roster. It meets Cloudflare R2 in S3-compatible storage. It is ahead on Versioning (Yes against No), IAM granularity (5 against 3) and Sydney region (Yes against Partial). What you give up: Egress $/TB ($90 /TB, where Cloudflare R2 records $0 /TB) and True cost /mo (USD) ($472.6 /mo, where Cloudflare R2 records $22.74 /mo). Best for workloads already inside AWS where traffic stays on the internal network. Still the most capable object store by a wide margin, and thirty-eight times the cost of Hetzner on this scenario almost entirely because of bandwidth. Stay on S3 if you genuinely use Object Lock compliance mode, Access Points, cross-region replication or IAM condition keys; otherwise you are paying $441 a month for an API you can get elsewhere.
- Versioning
- YesCloudflare R2: No Inferred
- True cost /mo (AUD)
- A$718.35 /moCloudflare R2: A$34.56 /mo Inferredverified 2026-07-23
2.
Backblaze B2
Backblaze B2 — Cheap US and EU object storage with free egress up to three times stored volume. It meets Cloudflare R2 in S3-compatible storage. It is ahead on Versioning (Yes against No), Class A $/M ops ($0 /M ops against $4.5 /M ops) and Class B $/M ops ($0 /M ops against $0.36 /M ops). What you give up: Official MCP server (No, where Cloudflare R2 records Yes) and Sydney region (No, where Cloudflare R2 records Partial). Best for backup and archive targets where object lock matters and latency does not. The sensible middle: cheap, boring, feature-complete enough, and the Bandwidth Alliance makes egress free outright if Cloudflare or Fastly is already in your stack. The absence of any APAC region is the single reason to rule it out for Australian workloads.
- Official MCP server
- NoCloudflare R2: Yes Inferred
3.Bunny Storage
Bunny Storage — Edge storage built as a CDN origin, with its own API rather than a faithful S3 one. It meets Cloudflare R2 in S3-compatible storage. It is ahead on Class A $/M ops ($0 /M ops against $4.5 /M ops), Class B $/M ops ($0 /M ops against $0.36 /M ops) and Replication model (multi-region against multi-az). What you give up: Lifecycle rules (No, where Cloudflare R2 records Yes) and Event notifications (No, where Cloudflare R2 records Yes). Best for static sites, images and video served to a global audience through Bunny's CDN. Included because people shortlist it against S3 providers, but it is a CDN origin with storage attached rather than an object store with a CDN attached. Superb Sydney delivery; do not expect S3 semantics, and read the regional egress table before modelling the cost.
- Lifecycle rules
- NoCloudflare R2: Yes Inferred
- Event notifications
- NoCloudflare R2: Yes Inferred
- S3 API coverage
- 30 %Cloudflare R2: 82 % Inferred
- Multipart upload
- NoCloudflare R2: Yes Inferred
- Official MCP server
- NoCloudflare R2: Yes Inferred
4.
DigitalOcean Spaces
DigitalOcean Spaces — Bundled object storage plus free CDN, priced as a flat base fee with overages. It meets Cloudflare R2 in S3-compatible storage. It is ahead on Class A $/M ops ($0 /M ops against $4.5 /M ops), Class B $/M ops ($0 /M ops against $0.36 /M ops) and Sydney region (Yes against Partial). What you give up: Event notifications (No, where Cloudflare R2 records Yes) and Object lock / WORM (No, where Cloudflare R2 records Partial). Best for static assets and user uploads served from Sydney with a bundled CDN. Buy it for the bundling and the Sydney region, not the feature set. No versioning and no bucket events rules it out as a system of record; as a CDN-fronted asset bucket sitting next to your Droplets it is genuinely convenient and hard to misbudget.
- Event notifications
- NoCloudflare R2: Yes Inferred
- Object lock / WORM
- NoCloudflare R2: Partial Inferred
- Lifecycle rules
- PartialCloudflare R2: Yes Inferred
5.
Hetzner Object Storage
Hetzner Object Storage — The cheapest credible S3 endpoint in Europe, with a deliberately thin feature set. It meets Cloudflare R2 in S3-compatible storage. It is ahead on Class A $/M ops ($0 /M ops against $4.5 /M ops), Class B $/M ops ($0 /M ops against $0.36 /M ops) and Storage $/TB/mo ($6.95 /TB/mo against $15 /TB/mo). What you give up: Event notifications (No, where Cloudflare R2 records Yes) and TTFB from Sydney (300 ms, where Cloudflare R2 records 45 ms). Best for CI artefacts, build caches and cold backups where the bill is the point. Wins the headline number by a mile and loses the feature comparison by a similar margin. No object lock, ambiguous versioning, no notifications, no APAC location, no published durability figure — brilliant for build caches and cold backups, wrong for a system of record.
- Event notifications
- NoCloudflare R2: Yes Inferred
- TTFB from Sydney
- 300 msCloudflare R2: 45 ms Inferred
- Official MCP server
- NoCloudflare R2: Yes Inferred
- CDN integration
- diyCloudflare R2: free-bundled Inferred
6.iDrive e2
iDrive e2 — USD 4/TB S3-compatible storage with zero-egress marketing and a fair-use cap. It meets Cloudflare R2 in S3-compatible storage. It is ahead on Versioning (Yes against No), Class A $/M ops ($0 /M ops against $4.5 /M ops) and Class B $/M ops ($0 /M ops against $0.36 /M ops). What you give up: CDN integration (none, where Cloudflare R2 records free-bundled) and Event notifications (No, where Cloudflare R2 records Yes). Best for backup and MSP workloads where storage volume dominates and reads are rare. 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.
- Versioning
- YesCloudflare R2: No Inferredverified 2026-07-23
- CDN integration
- noneCloudflare R2: free-bundled Inferred
- Event notifications
- NoCloudflare R2: Yes Inferred
- Official MCP server
- NoCloudflare R2: Yes Inferred
7.
MinIO
MinIO — The self-hosted S3 reference implementation — your hardware, your bandwidth, your SLA. It meets Cloudflare R2 in S3-compatible storage. It is ahead on Versioning (Yes against No), Class A $/M ops ($0 /M ops against $4.5 /M ops) and Class B $/M ops ($0 /M ops against $0.36 /M ops). What you give up: CDN integration (diy, where Cloudflare R2 records free-bundled) and GA year (2015, where Cloudflare R2 records 2022). Best for on-premises or air-gapped deployments where data cannot leave your control. The reference point rather than a competitor: it shows you what full S3 fidelity looks like and therefore what you are giving up when you buy cheap. Worth running only if you already operate storage hardware — and note the community build lost its admin console in 2025, which changed a lot of people's assumptions about what 'free and complete' meant. Note that we carry MinIO as the do-it-yourself baseline in that roster — the "what if we just ran this ourselves" reference point. The honest answer is usually that it is cheaper and considerably more work.
- Versioning
- YesCloudflare R2: No Inferred
- Class A $/M ops
- $0 /M opsCloudflare R2: $4.5 /M ops Inferred
- CDN integration
- diyCloudflare R2: free-bundled Inferred
- Class B $/M ops
- $0 /M opsCloudflare R2: $0.36 /M ops Inferred
- IAM granularity
- 5Cloudflare R2: 3 Inferred
- Sydney region
- YesCloudflare R2: Partial Inferred
8.
Scaleway Object Storage
Scaleway Object Storage — European-sovereign S3 storage with multi-AZ classes and a real IAM system. It meets Cloudflare R2 in S3-compatible storage. It is ahead on Versioning (Yes against No), Class A $/M ops ($0 /M ops against $4.5 /M ops) and Class B $/M ops ($0 /M ops against $0.36 /M ops). What you give up: TTFB from Sydney (300 ms, where Cloudflare R2 records 45 ms) and Official MCP server (No, where Cloudflare R2 records Yes). Best for EU data residency obligations with a European legal entity behind them. The most feature-complete of the non-hyperscalers — genuine IAM, multi-AZ placement, object lock, real lifecycle rules — and irrelevant for Australian traffic at 300 ms away. Pick it when EU data residency is a requirement rather than a preference.
- TTFB from Sydney
- 300 msCloudflare R2: 45 ms Inferred
- Official MCP server
- NoCloudflare R2: Yes Inferred
- Sydney region
- NoCloudflare R2: Partial Inferredverified 2026-07-23
How this list was built
There is no editorial ranking on this page and no sponsorship behind it. The order is mechanical: every tool that shares a comparison category with Cloudflare R2, sorted by how many categories the two overlap in. A tool that meets Cloudflare R2 in three rosters sits above one that meets it in a single roster, because more overlap means the comparison is more like-for-like.
The rationale under each entry is composed from the two tools' own cells. Where they differ on a field we score, the sentence names both values and the unit. Where they don't differ, it says so instead of manufacturing a distinction — which is why some entries are short.
Values, sources and verification dates all live on the category tables: S3-compatible storage. If a figure here disagrees with a vendor's current pricing page, the vendor is right and we are stale.
Still deciding whether to move at all? The Cloudflare R2 profile has the when-to-use and when-not-to-use blocks, and the Cloudflare R2 timeline has the dated changes that usually trigger a migration.