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Decentralised erasure-coded storage: USD 4/TB stored, USD 7/TB egress, no regions.

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Overall in s3-compatible storage
5of 12 · score 77.1
Data coverage
96%
27 of 28 fields sourced

Best for

  • •Large-object distribution, datasets, model weights, video masters
  • •Backups where surviving a whole-region failure matters more than latency
  • •Workloads that benefit from delegatable, expiring, prefix-scoped access grants

Strong on

  • +Replication model erasure-coded 3/12
  • +IAM granularity 4 3/12
  • +Storage $/TB/mo $7/TB/mo 3/11
  • +Uptime SLA 99.95% 3/11
  • +True cost from Sydney (AUD) A$59.28/mo 3/6

Weak on

  • −Lifecycle rules No 11/12
    Better: Cloudflare R2: Yes
  • −S3 API coverage 80% 8/12
    Better: AWS S3: 100%
  • −TTFB from Sydney 150ms 7/10
    Better: Bunny Storage: 20ms

vs iDrive e2

  • •Ahead on CDN integration: partner vs none
  • •Ahead on Replication model: erasure-coded vs single-az
  • •Behind on Lifecycle rules: No vs Partial
  • •Behind on Egress $/TB: $7/TB vs $0/TB

How Storj scores among 12 s3-compatible storage27 of 28 fields known

Pricing10

True cost /mo (USD)
$39/mo
5/9
Leader: Hetzner Object Storage · $12.47/mo
storj.io · 2026-07-23
True cost /mo (AUD)
A$59.28/mo
5/9
Leader: Hetzner Object Storage · A$18.95/mo
· 2026-07-23
True cost from Sydney (AUD)3rd
A$59.28/mo
3/6
Leader: Cloudflare R2 · A$34.56/mo
· 2026-07-23
Storage $/TB/mo3rd
$7/TB/mo
3/11
Leader: iDrive e2 · $6/TB/mo
storj.io · 2026-11-06
Egress $/TB
$7/TB
6/11
Leader: Cloudflare R2 · $0/TB
storj.io · 2026-11-06
Egress cap (x stored)
—
storj.io · 2026-11-07
Class A $/M ops1st
$0/M ops
1/12
storj.io · 2026-11-06
Class B $/M ops1st
$0/M ops
1/12
storj.io · 2026-11-06
Min retention1st
0ms
1/12
Min billed object1st
0 B
1/12

Features & API11

S3 API coverage
80%
8/12
Leader: AWS S3 · 100%
Presigned URLs1st
Yes
1/12
Multipart upload1st
Yes
1/12
Versioning1st
Yes
1/12
storj.dev · 2026-11-06
Lifecycle rules
No
11/12
Leader: Cloudflare R2 · Yes
storj.dev · 2026-11-07
Event notifications
No
6/12
Leader: Cloudflare R2 · Yes
CDN integration
partner
7/12
Leader: Cloudflare R2 · free-bundled
Max object size1st
5 TB
1/11
IAM granularity3rd
4
3/12
Leader: MinIO · 5
Sydney region
Partial
7/11
Leader: Wasabi · Yes
TTFB from Sydney
150ms
7/10
Leader: Bunny Storage · 20ms

Durability & Retention4

Durability (nines)1st
11 nines
1/9
· 2026-07-23
Uptime SLA3rd
99.95%
3/11
Leader: Tigris · 99.99%
· 2026-07-23
Object lock / WORM1st
Yes
1/11
storj.dev · 2026-11-06
Replication model3rd
erasure-coded
3/12
Leader: Tigris · multi-region
storj.dev · 2026-11-06

Agentic1

Official MCP server
No
5/12
Leader: Cloudflare R2 · Yes

Traction1

GA year
2020
5/12
Leader: Tigris · 2024

Positioning1

Positioning
Decentralised storage sold on price and on surviving whole-facility failure.

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