#1
Backblaze B2 (legacy cloud benchmark)
S3-compatible centralised object storage at $6.95/TB/mo with free egress up to 3x stored volume and no minimums.
from $6.95 per TB/mo
Decentralized storage
Rent verifiable storage on Filecoin, Arweave and friends.
Short answer: Backblaze B2 (legacy cloud benchmark) is our top-rated Decentralized storage as of 2026-09-24 (8.6/10), from $6.95 per TB/mo.
#2
Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage (legacy cloud benchmark)
Single-tier S3-compatible object storage at $7.99/TB/mo with no egress or API fees, a 1 TB monthly minimum and 90-day minimum retention.
from $7.99 per TB/mo min $7.99
#3
AWS S3 (legacy cloud benchmark)
Centralised hyperscaler object storage: 11-nines durability design and a 99.9% SLA, but ~$23/TB plus $0.09/GB egress and fiat-only payment.
from $23.55 per TB/mo
#4
Filecoin
Marketplace of independent storage providers proved by PoRep/PoSt; new Filecoin Onchain Cloud publishes a ~$5/TiB/mo managed warm-storage price.
no KYC provable
from $2.50 per TiB/mo per copy
#5
Sia
Cheap decentralised storage with on-chain storage proofs and host collateral; hosted from ~$2/TB/mo, open market ~$1.1-3.3/TB/mo.
no KYC provable
from $2 per TB/mo
#6
Storj
S3-compatible distributed object storage at $7/TB/mo with $7/TB egress and no API fees; operating under Chapter 11 after the Inveniam acquisition.
no KYC
from $7 per TB/mo min $5
#7
Walrus (Mysten Labs)
Sui-based decentralized blob storage with fixed USD pricing ($0.023/GB/mo on encoded size), paid in WAL plus SUI gas.
no KYC provable open source self-custody
from $0.023 per GB/mo
#8
Fil One (successor to Storacha / web3.storage)
S3-compatible object storage on Filecoin at a flat $4.99/TB/mo with no egress or API fees and a 99.9% SLA (2026-09-24).
no KYC
from $4.99 per TB/mo min $4.99
#9
Filebase
S3-compatible object storage plus IPFS pinning with free object egress; $15/TB, free 5 GB tier (2026-09-24).
no KYC
from $15 per TB/mo
#10
BNB Greenfield
BNB Chain storage side-chain: rented object storage at ~$0.031/GB/month (Sep 2026) with 4+2 erasure coding and S3-compatible gateways; not permanent.
no KYC
from $0.031 per GB/month (storage, Sep 2026 global price)
#11
ar.io (AR.IO Network)
Arweave access + naming layer: independent gateways serve permanent data and ArNS names lease from ~$4.60/yr; protocol state runs on Solana.
no KYC provable
from $4.60 per year (9-char ArNS lease, live quote) min $2.30
#12
Irys
Arweave-born bundler turned own L1 'datachain': pay for 30 days, a year, or permanent storage; ~$2.44/GB one-off for permanence in the documented model.
no KYC provable
from $2.44 per GB one-off (permanent storage, whitepaper model)
#13
ArDrive
Polished 'Pay Once. Store Forever.' onramp that resells Arweave permanence via Turbo; ~$89/GiB one-off for card buyers.
no KYC
from $89.02 per GB one-off
#14
Arweave
One-time per-byte upload to a permanent, public, replicated ledger - permanence is an endowment bet, not an SLA.
no KYC provable
from $57.90 per GB one-off
#15
NFT.Storage
Long-term NFT off-chain data preservation on IPFS + Filecoin at a $4.99/GB one-time fee; stewardship moved to PL Filecoin Impact Fund.
watch watch
from $4.99 per GB (one-time)
#16
Pinata
Established IPFS pinning, gateways/CDN and private IPFS; $20/mo for 1 TB, storage overage cheap but bandwidth billed (2026-09-24).
no KYC
from $20 per month (1 TB plan)
#17
4EVERLAND
Singapore-registered Web3 cloud: IPFS/Arweave pinning and S3 buckets at $0.08/GB/month, plus gateways, DWeb hosting, RPC and AI, paid with USD-pegged LAND.
from $0.080 per GB/mo
#18
Autonomi (formerly Safe Network)
Pay-once, permanent, post-quantum encrypted storage on a permissionless node network; per-node quote pricing, node app still in Beta.
no KYC open source self-custody
from $0.032 per GiB one-time (node-quote baseline, DERIVED)
#19
Swarm (Ethereum)
Swiss non-profit P2P storage/distribution network: rent expiring postage-stamp space at ~$0.064/GB/month (Sep 2026); node operators stake 10 xBZZ non-refundably.
no KYC provable
from $0.064 per GB/month (storage rent)
#20
Jackal Protocol
Cosmos L1 storage network selling JKL-priced self-custodial storage plus the card-billed Jackal Pin IPFS resale.
watch open source self-custody watch
from $15 per TB/mo min $20
#21
SealStorage
Toronto-based enterprise Filecoin storage at $5.99/TB/month or $65k/PB/year with three copies, free egress, SOC 2 + HIPAA.
from $5.99 per TB/mo
#22
Zus (Zus Network)
Decentralised zero-knowledge storage with a ZS3 S3-compatible API and zero egress/API fees, but no public list price and a flagship app domain that went dark in 2026.
watch watch
price on request
#23
Lighthouse
IPFS hot storage + Filecoin deal-making with S3 API and encryption add-ons; $12/mo for 500 GB, Walrus from $11/mo (2026-09-24).
no KYC
from $12 per month (500 GB plan)
#24
Crust Network
Polkadot-ecosystem storage network running a CRU-paid on-chain IPFS pinning market (DSM) with 180-day storage orders.
open source self-custody
price on request
#25
BTFS (BitTorrent File System)
BitTorrent's BTFS storage network; btfs.io now 301-redirects to BTTInferGrid, an AI-inference grid, and the BTFS docs are offline.
watch watch
price on request
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