---
title: iDrive e2
slug: idrive-e2
url: "https://toolweight.com/tools/idrive-e2"
homepage: "https://www.idrive.com/e2/"
categories: s3-compatible-storage
last_verified: 2026-11-07
dataset_version: 0738be72
license: CC-BY-4.0
---

# iDrive e2

> USD 4/TB S3-compatible storage with zero-egress marketing and a fair-use cap.

- Undercuts almost everyone on storage at USD 0.004 per gigabyte per month
- Advertises no egress fees, subject to a fair-use multiple of what you store
- Supports object lock and versioning, more than the price suggests
- Thin documentation, and the least clearly published egress overage terms 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 | Permalink |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| True cost /mo (USD) | - | Inferred | 2026-11-07 | https://www.idrive.com/e2/pricing | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--true_cost_usd |
| True cost /mo (AUD) | - | Unknown | 2026-11-07 | - | Null for the same reason as the USD figure. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--true_cost_aud |
| 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. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--sydney_cost_aud |
| Storage $/TB/mo | $6/TB/mo | Vendor-claimed | 2026-11-06 | https://www.idrive.com/e2/pricing | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--storage_price |
| Egress $/TB | $0/TB | Vendor-claimed | 2026-11-06 | https://www.idrive.com/e2/pricing | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--egress_price |
| Egress cap (x stored) | 3x stored | Vendor-claimed | 2026-11-06 | https://www.idrive.com/e2/pricing | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--egress_cap_multiple |
| Class A $/M ops | $0/M ops | Vendor-claimed | 2026-11-06 | https://www.idrive.com/e2/pricing | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--class_a_price |
| Class B $/M ops | $0/M ops | Vendor-claimed | 2026-11-06 | https://www.idrive.com/e2/pricing | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--class_b_price |
| Min retention | 0ms | Vendor-claimed | 2026-11-06 | https://www.idrive.com/e2/pricing | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--min_retention |
| Min billed object | 0 B | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--min_billed_object |
| 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. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--s3_api_coverage |
| Presigned URLs | ● | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--presigned_urls |
| Multipart upload | ● | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--multipart_upload |
| Versioning | ● | Inferred | 2026-07-23 | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--versioning |
| Lifecycle rules | ◐ | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--lifecycle_rules |
| Event notifications | ○ | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--event_notifications |
| CDN integration | none | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--cdn_integration |
| Max object size | 5 TB | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--max_object_size |
| IAM granularity | 3 | Inferred | - | - | Access keys scoped per bucket with read/write control. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--iam_granularity |
| 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. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--sydney_region |
| TTFB from Sydney | - | Unknown | - | - | Depends entirely on whether an APAC region is available to you. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--ttfb_sydney |
| Durability (nines) | 11 nines | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--durability_nines |
| Uptime SLA | 99.9% | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--uptime_sla |
| Object lock / WORM | ● | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-23 | https://www.idrive.com/e2/object-lock | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--object_lock |
| Replication model | single-az | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--replication_model |
| Official MCP server | ○ | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--mcp_server |
| GA year | 2,021 | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--ga_year |
| Positioning | Lowest headline storage price, sold into the backup and MSP market. | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#idrive-e2--positioning |

**Verdict.** Cheapest storage alongside Storj, object lock included, but egress terms too illegible to price; fine for backups.

## Alternatives

- [AWS S3](https://toolweight.com/tools/aws-s3), The API everything else copies, and by far the most expensive egress in this roster.
- [Backblaze B2](https://toolweight.com/tools/backblaze-b2), Cheap US and EU object storage with free egress up to three times stored volume.
- [Bunny Storage](https://toolweight.com/tools/bunny-storage), Edge storage built as a CDN origin, with its own API rather than a faithful S3 one.
- [Cloudflare R2](https://toolweight.com/tools/cloudflare-r2), S3-compatible object storage with zero egress fees, on Cloudflare's network.
- [DigitalOcean Spaces](https://toolweight.com/tools/digitalocean-spaces), Bundled object storage plus free CDN, priced as a flat base fee with overages.
- [Hetzner Object Storage](https://toolweight.com/tools/hetzner-object-storage), The cheapest credible S3 endpoint in Europe, with a deliberately thin feature set.
- [MinIO](https://toolweight.com/tools/minio), The self-hosted S3 reference implementation, your hardware, your bandwidth, your SLA.
- [Scaleway Object Storage](https://toolweight.com/tools/scaleway-object-storage), European-sovereign S3 storage with multi-AZ classes and a real IAM system.
- [Storj](https://toolweight.com/tools/storj), Decentralised erasure-coded storage: USD 4/TB stored, USD 7/TB egress, no regions.
- [Tigris](https://toolweight.com/tools/tigris), Globally distributed S3-compatible storage that caches objects near readers.
- [Wasabi](https://toolweight.com/tools/wasabi), Flat-rate hot storage with no egress or API fees, bounded by a fair-use cap.

## Licence and attribution

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- Licence: [CC-BY-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- Canonical HTML: https://toolweight.com/tools/idrive-e2
- Machine-readable: https://toolweight.com/tools/idrive-e2.md · https://toolweight.com/api/v1 · https://toolweight.com/mcp
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