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PlanFeatures and capabilitiesPricing
Standard
- Standard Plan is a flexible Pay-as-You-Go option with no minimum fee—ideal for workloads with large storage needs but low or infrequent access and outbound traffic. It includes a Free Tier with 5GB of Smart Tier storage for 12 months. Charges are based on actual usage, with separate billing for storage, outbound bandwidth, API operations, and data retrieval. Multiple storage classes help you optimize costs based on how often data is accessed.
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View storage class pricing
- Free Tier allowance:
- Storage up to 5GB/month
- Up to 2000 Class A requests/month
- Up to 20,000 Class B requests/month
- Up to 10GB/month of data retrieval
- Up to 5GB/month of egress
- Applies to aggregate total across all smart tier buckets in your account
One-Rate
- One-Rate Plan is a Pay-as-You-Go option with a single, flat monthly rate ($/GB) that includes storage, API operations, retrieval, and outbound bandwidth—making it ideal for high-activity workloads with frequent access and data transfer, such as analytics, media, and web apps. The plan includes built-in allowances that scale with stored capacity and offers automatic volume discounts as usage grows
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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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Storage class pricing is based on selections, valid as of 2025-06-28 6:01 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. 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 |