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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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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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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. 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 |