Cloudflare R2 vs Vultr Object Storage

Choose Cloudflare R2 when egress is the expensive part of the bill. Choose Vultr Object Storage when you want a 1 TB bundle at $18 a month in the same account as Vultr compute.

Cloudflare R2

S3-compatible storage with free egress to the internet

$0.015/GB-month

Strengths

Egress to the internet is free
A free tier covers 10 GB-months of storage

Limits

Class A and Class B operations are billed per million requests
Infrequent Access adds a retrieval fee

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Vultr Object Storage

S3-compatible storage sold in 1 TB tiers

Standard $18/mo per TB

Strengths

Each tier includes 1 TB of storage and 1 TB of outbound transfer
An archival tier starts at $6/mo per TB

Limits

Standard storage costs more per TB than Spaces, R2, or B2
Extra outbound transfer is billed after the included terabyte

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