Wasabi
Flat-rate hot storage with no egress or API fees, bounded by a fair-use cap.
Overall in s3-compatible storage
6of 12 · score 75
Data coverage
89%
25 of 28 fields sourced
Best for
- •Media archives and backup vaults with predictable, low read volume
- •Australian workloads that need in-country storage at a flat rate
- •Teams that want AWS-shaped IAM policies without the AWS bill
Strong on
- +Egress $/TB $0/TB 1/11
- +S3 API coverage 90% 3/12
- +IAM granularity 4 3/12
Weak on
- −Min retention 90d 12/12Better: Cloudflare R2: 0ms
- −Egress cap (x stored) 1x stored 4/4Better: Cloudflare R2: Unlimited
- −Min billed object 4 KB 12/12Better: Cloudflare R2: 0 B
- −Replication model single-az 8/12Better: Tigris: multi-region
vs Storj
- •Ahead on Lifecycle rules: Partial vs No
- •Ahead on Sydney region: Yes vs Partial
- •Behind on Min retention: 90d vs 0ms
- •Behind on Min billed object: 4 KB vs 0 B
How Wasabi scores among 12 s3-compatible storage25 of 28 fields known
Pricing10
True cost /mo (AUD)
—
· 2026-11-07
True cost from Sydney (AUD)
—
· 2026-11-07
Egress cap (x stored)
1x stored
4/4
Leader: Cloudflare R2 · Unlimited
· 2026-07-23
Min billed object
4 KB
12/12
Leader: Cloudflare R2 · 0 B
· 2026-07-23
Features & API11
S3 API coverage3rd
90%
3/12
Leader: AWS S3 · 100%
Presigned URLs1st
Yes
1/12
Multipart upload1st
Yes
1/12
Lifecycle rules
Partial
7/12
Leader: Cloudflare R2 · Yes
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 region1st
Yes
1/11
· 2026-07-23
TTFB from Sydney
30ms
4/10
Leader: Bunny Storage · 20ms
Durability & Retention4
Durability (nines)1st
11 nines
1/9
· 2026-07-23
Uptime SLA
99.9%
4/11
Leader: Tigris · 99.99%
· 2026-07-23
Object lock / WORM1st
Yes
1/11
· 2026-07-23
Replication model
single-az
8/12
Leader: Tigris · multi-region
Agentic1
Official MCP server
No
5/12
Leader: Cloudflare R2 · Yes
Traction1
GA year
2017
8/12
Leader: Tigris · 2024
Positioning1
Positioning
Flat-rate hot storage sold against S3's egress bill, for steady archives.
Alternatives8
AWS S3
Backblaze B2
Bunny Storage
Cloudflare R2
DigitalOcean Spaces
Hetzner Object Storage
MinIOCompare
Sources4
- wasabi.com/pricing4 fields
- wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing1 field
- www.wasabi.com/pricing1 field
- docs.wasabi.com/docs/versioning1 field
