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PlanFeatures and capabilitiesPricing
Standard
- Standard plan is our most popular Pay-as-You-Go option with no minimum fee, ideal for most enterprise workloads. It includes a Free Tier with 5GB of free storage for 12 months. To access the Free Tier, choose Smart Tier for your bucket storage class. The Free Tier has no cost; you pay only if your usage is beyond the free tier allowance.
- Free Tier allowance:
- Storage up to 5GB/month
- Up to 2000 Class A (PUT, COPY, POST, and LIST) requests/month
- Up to 20,000 Class B (GET and all others) requests/month
- Up to 10GB/month of data retrieval
- Up to 5GB/month of Public outbound bandwidth
- Applies to aggregate total across all smart tier buckets and Cloud Object Storage instances within your account.
The Standard plan is best suited for workloads that have large amount of storage and relatively small Outbound bandwidth. The plan offers flexible choices for storage class based on data access patterns (lower the cost, the less frequently data is accessed). The Standard plan bills for storage capacity, Outbound bandwidth, operational requests, and data retrieval, where applicable.
One Rate
- One Rate plan offers a flat monthly charge that includes capacity, and built-in allowances for outbound bandwidth and data access. It is best suited for active workloads with large amounts of outbound bandwidth as a percent of their storage capacity.
The One-rate plan offers large enterprises and ISVs (with multiple divisions or end-users) a predictable TCO based on one flat rate. The flat rate has built-in allowances for outbound bandwidth and operational requests. These allowances depend on the amount of storage capacity aggregated across multiple instances within a One Rate pricing region. There is no data retrieval charge.
Summary
Summary
IBM Cloud Object Storage is a highly scalable cloud storage service, designed for high durability, resiliency and security. Store, manage and access your data via our self-service portal and RESTful APIs. Connect applications directly to Cloud Object Storage use other IBM Cloud Services with your data. Sign up for an IBM Cloud account
Pricing
IBM Cloud Object Storage offers flexible pricing options. Pricing varies based on location, resiliency and storage class selection. View storage class pricing that can be compared against competitors. Choose a plan and estimate your cost on the create tab. The pricing table below shows what charges apply when using Cloud Storage. Compare four storage class pricing options to fit different types of workloads.
Free Tier
To use Free Tier with 5GB of free storage for 12 months, create a Smart Tier bucket in any location.
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Monthly Usage
Automatic
Automatic cost optimized for data of any activity or access
Predictable
Active data accessed frequently
Predictable
Less active data accessed once a month
Predictable
Cold data accessed a few times yearly
Storage capacity (USD/GB/month)
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0-499.9 TB
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500+ TB
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Operational requests (USD)
Data retrieval (per GB)
No charge
No charge
Public outbound bandwidth (USD/GB)
--128 KB256 KB
--30 days90 days
The One Rate plan offers a predictable cost of ownership with an all-inclusive flat monthly charge ($/GB/month) that includes capacity, and built-in allowances for outbound bandwidth and Operational requests. The One Rate plan is best suited for active workloads with large amount of outbound bandwidth as a percent of the storage capacity.
Flat monthly charge for One Rate pricing regions
The One-Rate plan has four pricing regions: North America, Europe, South America, and Asia Pacific. The plan aggregates usage metrics across multiple instances within a region to determine the allowances for outbound bandwidth and Operational requests.RegionStorage Capacity (USD/GB/month)
North America
us-south, us-east, ca-tor, mon01, sjc04
$0.0418 (GB/month)
Europe
eu-gb, eu-de, ams03, mil01, par01, eu-es
$0.0418 (GB/month)
South America
br-sao
$0.0460 (GB/month)
Asia Pacific
au-syd, jp-osa, jp-tok, che01, sng01
$0.0460 (GB/month)
Included allowances
The built-in allowances for outbound bandwidth and Operational requests (Class A, Class B) depend on the monthly stored capacity (the higher the aggregated storage capacity, higher the allowances). There is no data retrieval charge.RegionClass A (USD per 1,000)Class B (USD per 10,000)Outbound bandwidth (USD/GB)Data Retrieval (USD/GB)
North America
No charge up to 100 x storage in GB, then $0.0052.
No charge up to 1000 x storage in GB, then $0.0042.
No charge up to 100% of storage in GB then $0.0500.
No charge
Europe
No charge up to 100 x storage in GB, then $0.0052.
No charge up to 1000 x storage in GB, then $0.0042.
No charge up to 100% of storage in GB then $0.0500.
No charge
South America
No charge up to 100 x storage in GB, then $0.0052.
No charge up to 1000 x storage in GB, then $0.0042.
No charge up to 100% of storage in GB then $0.0800.
No charge
Asia Pacific
No charge up to 100 x storage in GB, then $0.0052.
No charge up to 1000 x storage in GB, then $0.0042.
No charge up to 100% of storage in GB then $0.0800.
No charge
Notes
- You can not switch pricing plans between Standard and One Rate plans for a given storage instance.
- There is only one storage class (Active) available for the One Rate plan.
- Archive and Accelerated Archive are billed at the rate of the site where the bucket is created.
- Aspera transfers egress are charged at same price as the Standard plan.
Additional charges for optional features
IBM Cloud® Object Storage "Archive" and "Accelerated Archive" are low cost options for data that is rarely accessed. To understand how additional charge works, read archiving and accessing cold data.
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Archive12 hours restore
Archive unused or infrequently requested data to save cost on storage of long-term data. Restoring data may take up to 12 hours. Archive has a minimum storage-duration of 90 days. Learn more
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Data storage (USD/GB/month)
Data restore (USD/GB)
Accelerated archive2 hours restore
Archive with a faster restore option (under 2 hours) while still saving cost on storage of long-term data. Accelerated Archive has a minimum storage-duration of 90 days. Learn more
Charge metricPricing
Data storage (USD/GB/month)
Data restore (USD/GB)
Aspera© transfersHigh Speed Transfer
Improves data transfer performance in networks with high latency and packet loss. Learn more
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Aspera ingress (USD/GB/month)
Aspera egress (USD/GB)
Storage class pricing is based on selections, valid as of 2025-02-12 3:05 AM
SummaryIBM Cloud Object Storage is a highly scalable cloud storage service, designed for high durability, resiliency and security. Store, manage and access your data via our self-service portal and RESTful APIs. Connect applications directly to Cloud Object Storage use other IBM Cloud Services with your data. Pricing variablesIBM Cloud Object Storage offers flexible pricing options. Pricing varies based on location, resiliency and storage class selection. View storage class pricing that can be compared against competitors. Resiliency selected: Regional Multiple data centers within a region for high availability and performance Location selected: us-south Country selected: United States USD Standard pricing planCloud Object Storage offers four storage class pricing options to fit different types of workloads. Monthly UsageAutomatic Automatic cost optimized for data of any activity or access Predictable Active data accessed frequently Predictable Less active data accessed once a month Predictable Cold data accessed a few times yearly Storage capacity (USD/GB/month) - - - - - - - - - 0-499.9 TB - 500+ TB - Operational requests (USD) Data retrieval (per GB) No charge No charge Public outbound bandwidth (USD/GB) --128 KB256 KB --30 days90 days Additional charges for optional featuresIBM Cloud® Object Storage "Archive" and "Accelerated Archive" are low cost options for data that is rarely accessed. To understand how additional charge works, read archiving and accessing cold data. Currently showing pricing selected forus-southChange Archive |