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This isn't finalized yet, apologies for the confusion. We'll be updating the pricing for Blob shortly (it's in private beta and invite only). The pricing for KV and Postgres is up to date.

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I already lean away from S3/Azureblob/etc because their egress prices are terrible. .15/GB is borderline criminal.

150$ for a TB traffic?! Wtf

What’s happening right now is a story we’ve seen plenty of times before. Overhead cost of convenience mixed with vendor lock-in, all while boasting about open source.

I’d love to create tools that were convenient and had fair pricing. The challenge is that you’re trying to grow into a market with worse acquisition economics. Tough to win if winning is the goal. If anyone has a solution reach out. XD

Our egress bill from Cloudfront last month, inc. the 1TB/per region free tier, was nearly $2,000. That's egress traffic ALONE (~20TB of it).

Needlessly to say, we're wrapping up testing on migrating our production (public) buckets to Cloudflare (R2) taking our cost from those $2,000 (and going up every month), to (drum roll)... $0,000/mo.

Have I mentioned AWS egress charges are borderline "extortionary"? :X

What's a cheaper alternative that is of similar quality?

Backblaze is $0.01/GB egress and $0.005/GB/Month storage.

I am currently developing an option that offers identical quality and features but at a significantly lower cost. Unfortunately, you will have to wait for approximately a year until I complete the development process. However, I believe that the wait will be worth it, and you will be pleased with the outcome.

If you have a relationship with an account manager, talk to them. There are options for better rates.

Why not remove the pricing table or add a note about that then? It’s not great having it there if it’s incorrect, especially after an announcement.

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