European Alternatives to Wasabi
Looking for a European alternative to Wasabi? Wasabi Technologies LLC is a Boston company whose Customer Agreement is governed by the laws of Massachusetts, with disputes brought exclusively in the state or federal courts of Massachusetts, even when you store your data in its Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris or Milan regions.
Eleven European S3-compatible object storage providers cover the job, from companies in France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland and Italy, ranging from budget storage with published per-GB prices to sovereign-cloud platforms and a geo-distributed newcomer.
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11 European Alternatives to Wasabi
Scaleway
Paris cloud with S3 Object Storage from €0.00803 per GB a month (One Zone) and 75 GB of free egress a month
Hetzner Object Storage
German S3 storage with 1 TB of storage and 1 TB of egress in the base price, in Falkenstein, Nuremberg and Helsinki
OVHcloud Object Storage
French S3 storage with no charge for API calls or traffic and several storage classes down to tape archive
Safespring Storage
Swedish S3 storage with published prices: €44.50 per TB for 30 days, €31.15 for the archive tier
Cubbit DS3 Cloud
Bologna geo-distributed S3 storage with a flat per-TB rate and no egress, deletion or API charges
Clever Cloud Cellar
Nantes platform with S3-compatible Cellar storage, tiered pricing and a free first 100 MB
Exoscale
Swiss cloud with S3 Simple Object Storage across 8 European zones and a €0.0042 per GB archive tier
IONOS Cloud Object Storage
S3-compatible storage from IONOS Cloud GmbH with Object Lock and regions in Germany, Spain and the US
STACKIT Object Storage
German cloud with S3 storage in Germany and Austria, listed at about €0.03 per GB a month
UpCloud Managed Object Storage
Finnish S3 storage in 250 GB steps, billed hourly, with zero-cost egress
Aruba Cloud Object Storage
Italian S3 storage from €0.011 per GB a month plus VAT, with data centers in Italy and across Europe
Key takeaways
- Wasabi Technologies LLC is a Boston company; its agreement applies Massachusetts law and sends disputes exclusively to Massachusetts courts, with a one-year claim limit.
- Scaleway (Paris) publishes its prices: Standard Multi-AZ at €0.01606, One Zone at €0.00803 and Glacier at €0.00254 per GB a month, with 75 GB of free egress a month.
- Hetzner (Gunzenhausen) includes 1 TB of storage and 1 TB of egress in its base price and bills by the hour, with German law in its terms; OVHcloud (Roubaix) says it charges nothing for API calls or traffic.
- Safespring (Solna) lists S3 at €44.50 per TB for 30 days and €31.15 for its archive tier, well above Wasabi's headline price.
- Cubbit (Bologna) has a flat per-TB rate with no egress, deletion or API charges, and a free trial, but does not publish the rate.
- Clever Cloud, Exoscale, IONOS, STACKIT, UpCloud and Aruba each fit a narrower case: a platform you already use, a Swiss entity, Object Lock on a German host, a German cloud with a public price list, hourly billing with zero egress fees, or an Italian provider from €0.011 per GB.
Why people leave Wasabi
Wasabi sells one thing: hot S3-compatible object storage at a flat headline price. Its pricing page lists Pay as You Go from $7.99 per TB a month with no fees for egress or API requests, and Reserved Capacity in 1, 3 or 5 year terms. A free trial is on offer. People use it for backups, media archives and as a cheaper home for data they would otherwise keep on a hyperscaler.
It is run by Wasabi Technologies LLC in Boston. Its Customer Agreement says the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts govern the agreement and any dispute, that disputes are brought exclusively in the state or federal courts of Massachusetts, and that you must file a claim within one year or lose it.
Wasabi does have European storage regions (London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Milan are listed), but choosing one changes where the bytes sit, not who you have the contract with.
The eleven tools below are European providers of S3-compatible object storage, from France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland and Italy. They are not interchangeable. A few publish a price per TB or per GB, several give you egress inside the plan, and some are full cloud platforms where storage is one product among many.
- The contract and the courts are in Massachusetts Wasabi's Customer Agreement is with Wasabi Technologies LLC, section 12.6 applies Massachusetts law, and disputes go exclusively to the courts of Massachusetts. That holds whichever region you pick. If you want a contracting party in the EU, the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, and a court on your side of the Atlantic, the providers here give you that.
- Wasabi's simple price has conditions The $7.99 per TB headline comes with rules on its own FAQ: free egress applies while monthly egress stays at or below your active storage, objects deleted within 90 days are still billed for the remaining days, files under 4 KB count as 4 KB, and at least 1 TB is billed. For steady, large archives that is fine. For small or short-lived data, providers that bill by the hour or by the GB can come out ahead.
- No European provider here copies the flat model exactly OVHcloud and UpCloud say they charge nothing for outgoing traffic, Cubbit has no egress or API charges, Hetzner includes 1 TB of egress in the base price, and Scaleway gives 75 GB of free egress a month. Others, such as Exoscale, bill outbound traffic separately. The honest comparison is your own monthly storage and download volume, not a headline price.
- Sovereignty is a feature some of these sell Scaleway, OVHcloud, Clever Cloud, Exoscale, STACKIT, Safespring and Aruba all position their object storage around European or Nordic operation. Take that as their own claim, and read the entity and the terms before you rely on it for regulated data.
What you have to replace, not just match
Write down what you actually store and how it moves: terabytes at rest, how much you download each month, how long objects live, and whether you need Object Lock for backups. Those four numbers decide which of these is cheaper, far more than the per-GB price on a landing page.
Test with a bucket and your real tool (rclone, a backup agent, your application SDK) before you move data. Copy a sample, check that multipart upload, versioning and lifecycle rules behave, then sync the rest and switch the endpoint. Keep the Wasabi data until the new copy has been restored once.
The alternatives compared
| Position | Tool | Headquarters | Pricing | Jurisdiction |
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| #1 | Scaleway | Paris, France | From about €0.0025/hour (DEV1-S) | EU (France) |
| #2 | Hetzner Object Storage | Gunzenhausen, Germany | From about €4.51/month (Cloud VPS) | EU (Germany) |
| #3 | OVHcloud Object Storage | Roubaix, France | PostgreSQL essential from about €0.16/hour (2 vCPU / 8GB RAM); MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Cassandra, OpenSearch, M3DB and Valkey priced separately by engine and tier | EU (France) |
| #6 | Clever Cloud Cellar | Nantes, France | Pay per use; prices are not shown in the page text of the pricing page. Heptapod Cloud is described as pay-per-use based on active users | EU (France) |
| #7 | Exoscale | Lausanne, Switzerland | From about CHF 5.50/month (Compute) | Switzerland (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
| #8 | IONOS Cloud Object Storage | Montabaur, Germany | PostgreSQL from about €0.06/core/hour plus €0.007/GB RAM/hour, plus storage from about €0.04-0.15/GB per 30 days depending on tier; MongoDB and In-Memory DB priced separately | EU (Germany) |
| #9 | STACKIT Object Storage | Bad Friedrichshall, Germany | EU (Germany) | |
| #10 | UpCloud Managed Object Storage | Helsinki, Finland | From about €5/month (Cloud Server) | EU (Finland) |
How each alternative compares to Wasabi
- Which law reaches it. EU (France). Wasabi is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw — EU only.
- Source code. Closed source, as Wasabi is.
Best for: Teams that want published euro prices, Object Lock and a modest free egress allowance
Scaleway SAS is a Paris company (SIREN 433 115 904, 8 rue de la Ville-l'Eveque). Its object storage is S3-compatible with versioning and Object Lock, and it lists ISO 27001 and HDS certifications. Its terms are published as PDFs, so the governing law was not checked for this page.
The pricing page for Paris lists Standard Multi-AZ at €0.01606, Standard One Zone at €0.00803 and Glacier at €0.00254 per GB a month, with requests and ingress included and 75 GB of free egress a month, then €0.01 per GB.
One Zone is close to Wasabi's headline $7.99 per TB, but it keeps data in a single zone. Multi-AZ costs about twice as much. Scaleway also bills by the hour, so short-lived data does not pay a 90-day minimum the way it does at Wasabi.
What Scaleway does better than Wasabi
- French company with a published legal notice, where Wasabi is a Massachusetts LLC
- Hourly metering instead of a 90-day minimum storage period
- Prices for each class are published per GB on the page
- Object Lock and versioning listed on the product page
Where Scaleway is a step down from Wasabi
- Egress is free only up to 75 GB a month, then charged at €0.01 per GB
- Multi-AZ costs about twice Wasabi's headline price per TB
- Governing law of the terms was not checked here
Standout against Wasabi. Prices published per storage class, with One Zone close to Wasabi's headline rate
- Which law reaches it. EU (Germany). Wasabi is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Germany (Falkenstein, Nuremberg) and Finland (Helsinki), plus Oregon, Virginia and Singapore.
- Source code. Closed source, as Wasabi is.
- Independently checked. ISO 27001.
Best for: Small teams and developers who want a predictable base price with storage and egress included
Hetzner Online GmbH is in Gunzenhausen (Amtsgericht Ansbach, HRB 6089). Its terms apply German law (14.1) and name Gunzenhausen as the exclusive venue, while leaving Hetzner free to sue at the customer's place of business.
Object Storage is S3-compatible, with locations in Falkenstein, Nuremberg and Helsinki, up to 100 buckets of 100 TB each, and features that include object locking, versioning, expiry, pre-signed URLs and optional server-side encryption. The base price includes 1 TB of storage and 1 TB of egress, then storage and traffic beyond that are billed pay as you go. The amount is not in the page text we could read, so no figure is quoted here.
What Hetzner Object Storage does better than Wasabi
- German company under German law, where Wasabi applies Massachusetts law
- 1 TB of egress included in the base price
- Billed by the hour rather than with a 90-day minimum
- Object locking and versioning listed
Where Hetzner Object Storage is a step down from Wasabi
- Egress beyond 1 TB is charged, where Wasabi advertises none within its conditions
- No price visible in the readable page text
- Three locations, all in Germany and Finland
Standout against Wasabi. Storage and egress bundled in one base price, with hourly billing
- Which law reaches it. EU (France). Wasabi is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. 30+ data centres, majority in Europe.
- Source code. Closed source, as Wasabi is.
- Independently checked. SecNumCloud (ANSSI), GAIA-X founding member.
Best for: Teams that want to avoid egress and API charges and may also need a cold archive
The contracting company is OVH SAS (RCS Lille Metropole 424 761 419, 2 rue Kellermann, Roubaix), a subsidiary of OVH Groupe SA. The governing law of its contract documents was not checked for this page.
Its object storage page says there are "no charges for API calls, incoming traffic, or outgoing traffic". It lists several storage classes, including Cold Archive on magnetic tape, and one class with a minimum storage period of 90 days. The page we read showed no prices, so none are quoted.
What OVHcloud Object Storage does better than Wasabi
- French company with a registered legal notice
- States no charge for API calls or traffic in either direction
- Storage classes down to tape-based Cold Archive
Where OVHcloud Object Storage is a step down from Wasabi
- No price visible, so you cannot compare per TB without an account
- At least one class has a 90-day minimum, like Wasabi
- A broad cloud console with more to learn than a single-purpose service
Standout against Wasabi. States no charges for API calls or traffic, with a tape archive tier
Safespring Storage
Nordic S3 with published prices, but at a higher level
Best for: Organisations that want a Swedish provider with Nordic data centers and a price list they can read
Safespring AB (org. number 559075-0245) has its head office in Solna, Sweden, and describes its ownership as private and not listed. It describes Safespring Storage as S3-compatible object storage for European organisations, with encryption options. The terms and governing law were not checked here.
Its price page lists two S3 products: S3-archive at €31.15 per TB for 30 days, tailored for larger volumes kept over longer periods, and S3-storage at €44.50 per TB for 30 days, for applications that use the S3 protocol actively.
Those are well above Wasabi's $7.99 per TB headline price, so it is a choice for sovereignty and operations, not for the cheapest terabyte.
What Safespring Storage does better than Wasabi
- Swedish company with a public company page, where Wasabi is a Massachusetts LLC
- Separate archive and active tiers with clear per-TB prices
- Nordic operation of the platform
Where Safespring Storage is a step down from Wasabi
- Several times the price per TB of Wasabi's headline rate
- Egress terms were not checked
- No free trial found on the pages read
Standout against Wasabi. A readable price list for S3 storage and archive, from a Nordic provider
Cubbit DS3 Cloud
the nearest to a no-egress flat rate, from Bologna
Best for: Teams that want a flat per-TB rate with no egress or API charges and a geo-distributed design
Cubbit S.r.l. is in Bologna, Italy (VAT 03562001200). Its DS3 terms of service (version 3.0) apply Italian law and the court of Bologna, with consumers resident in the EU keeping their mandatory protections, and the Italian text prevails over the English one.
Its pricing page says there is one flat rate per TB a month with no charges for egress, deletion, bucket replication or API calls, and invites you to try DS3 Cloud free without a credit card. DS3 Composer, its software-defined option for larger deployments, has a 3 TB free tier. The rate itself is not published, and DS3 Cloud is sold through partners.
What Cubbit DS3 Cloud does better than Wasabi
- Italian company under Italian law, with the court of Bologna
- Says there are no egress, deletion, replication or API charges
- Free trial without a credit card
Where Cubbit DS3 Cloud is a step down from Wasabi
- The per-TB rate is not published, so you need a quote
- Sold through partners, which adds a step compared with signing up directly
- A newer and smaller operator than Wasabi or the large clouds
Standout against Wasabi. A flat per-TB rate with no egress, deletion or API charges, plus a free trial
- Which law reaches it. EU (France). Wasabi is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. France (company, website hosted by Clever Cloud SAS); Heptapod Cloud described as managed and hosted in Europe.
- Independently checked. Compliance menu lists Health Data Hosting, ISO 27001 and SecNumCloud.
Best for: Teams already deploying on Clever Cloud, or small projects that want to start on a free tier
Clever Cloud SAS is a Nantes company (RCS Nantes 524 172 699, 4 rue Voltaire). Its general terms (16.1) say the contract is governed by French law, with Nantes as the place of performance.
Cellar is its S3-compatible object storage in European datacenters. It says its price grid scales with outbound bandwidth and storage, and that egress fees are removed when a customer leaves. There is a free plan for the first 100 MB. No price was readable on the pages we opened.
What Clever Cloud Cellar does better than Wasabi
- French company under French law, where Wasabi applies Massachusetts law
- A free tier of 100 MB to try the service
- Removes egress fees when you offboard
Where Clever Cloud Cellar is a step down from Wasabi
- Outbound bandwidth is part of the price grid, unlike Wasabi's advertised no-egress model
- No price readable in the text we saw
- Primarily an application platform, with storage as one product
Standout against Wasabi. A free first 100 MB and no egress fee when you leave
- Which law reaches it. Switzerland (adequacy decision, outside the EEA). Wasabi is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria.
- Source code. Closed source, as Wasabi is.
Best for: Teams that want a Swiss contracting entity and a choice of European zones
Exoscale's supplier is Akenes SA in Lausanne, Switzerland. Its terms apply Swiss law and name the courts of the canton of Vaud, district of Lausanne, though Exoscale may bring a case in any competent court. Switzerland is outside the EU, but it is a European country.
Simple Object Storage is S3-compatible across 8 European zones, with versioning, Object Lock and bucket replication. It says inbound traffic is free and outbound traffic is billed. The page shows an archival tier at €0.0042 per GB a month, and the Standard rates are filled in by the browser, so they are not quoted.
What Exoscale does better than Wasabi
- Swiss company with a published legal address and Swiss law
- Choice of 8 European zones
- Object Lock, versioning and replication on the product page
Where Exoscale is a step down from Wasabi
- Outbound traffic is billed, where Wasabi advertises none inside its conditions
- Standard prices could not be read
- Switzerland is outside the EU, which matters if you need an EU entity
Standout against Wasabi. Eight European zones and a €0.0042 per GB archive tier
- Which law reaches it. EU (Germany). Wasabi is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. ISO 27001-certified European data centres.
- Source code. Closed source, as Wasabi is.
- Independently checked. ISO 27001-certified data centres (stated).
Best for: Teams that already use IONOS or need WORM-style retention on a German provider
IONOS Cloud GmbH is in Montabaur, Germany (Amtsgericht Montabaur, HRB 31110). The governing law of its terms was not checked here.
Its object storage page describes fully S3-compatible storage with Object Lock for WORM retention, an optional georedundant setup at an extra charge, and data centers in the USA, Germany and Spain. The page quotes $4.99 per TB for the US market, so choose a European region when you create the bucket and check the euro price in your own account.
What IONOS Cloud Object Storage does better than Wasabi
- German company with a commercial register entry, where Wasabi is a Massachusetts LLC
- Object Lock described as meeting WORM requirements
- Georedundant option available
Where IONOS Cloud Object Storage is a step down from Wasabi
- The headline price is a US dollar price aimed at the US market
- Regions include the USA, so the choice is yours to make
- Terms and governing law were not checked
Standout against Wasabi. Object Lock for retention on a German provider, with a georedundant option
- Which law reaches it. EU (Germany). Wasabi is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Germany: the AI Model Serving pricing table names the region Germany South.
- Source code. Closed source, as Wasabi is.
Best for: Organisations that want a large European cloud with a public price list
The legal entity on the imprint is STACKIT Schwarz Digits Cloud GmbH & Co. KG, Am Campus 1, Bad Friedrichshall (Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRA 741347). Its terms and governing law were not checked here.
STACKIT Object Storage is S3-compatible and spread over several locations. The price list PDF shows Premium-EU01 in Germany South at €0.00003697772 per GB per hour, about €0.03 per GB a month rounded, and a similar price in Austria West. That is about three to four times Wasabi's headline price per TB.
What STACKIT Object Storage does better than Wasabi
- German entity with a commercial register number
- Price list available as a document
- Hourly billing and locations in Germany and Austria
Where STACKIT Object Storage is a step down from Wasabi
- About €30 per TB a month against Wasabi's $7.99 headline
- Egress terms were not checked
- Part of a large corporate group, with a console aimed at platform users
Standout against Wasabi. A large German-run cloud with S3 storage in Germany and Austria and a public price list
- Which law reaches it. EU (Finland). Wasabi is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Finland, Germany, Netherlands, UK, Poland, Spain, and beyond.
- Source code. Closed source, as Wasabi is.
- Independently checked. 100% uptime SLA.
Best for: Teams that want S3 storage billed in 250 GB steps with no egress charges
UpCloud Oy is a Helsinki company (business ID 2431560-5), confirmed in the Finnish trade register. Its terms page returned HTTP 403, so the governing law is not stated here.
The billing documentation says storage is billed in increments of 250 GB, each billed per hour, scales up automatically, and carries zero egress fees. The amount is on a pricing page that was not readable, so no figure is quoted.
What UpCloud Managed Object Storage does better than Wasabi
- Finnish company registered in the trade register
- Zero egress fees, as its own documentation says
- Hourly billing in small steps
Where UpCloud Managed Object Storage is a step down from Wasabi
- No price readable on the pages we could open
- Minimum unit is 250 GB, which is coarse for small buckets
- Terms could not be read
Standout against Wasabi. Zero egress fees and hourly billing in 250 GB steps
Aruba Cloud Object Storage
Italian S3 storage with a starting price on the page
Best for: Teams that want an Italian provider with data centers in Italy and across Europe
Aruba S.p.A. is in Ponte San Pietro (Bergamo), Italy (P.IVA 01573850516, REA BG-434483), as printed in the page footer. The terms page did not yield a governing law, so none is stated here.
Its Cloud Object Storage page says "from €0.011 + VAT per GB per month", S3-compatible, with multiple copies on separate storage devices and 7 data centers in Italy and across Europe, with a choice of region. At that starting price one TB is about €11 a month, a little above Wasabi's $7.99. Egress terms were not found on the page.
What Aruba Cloud Object Storage does better than Wasabi
- Italian company with a published company address and register number
- A starting price per GB visible on the page
- Choice of region in Italy and across Europe
Where Aruba Cloud Object Storage is a step down from Wasabi
- Starting price is above Wasabi's headline price per TB
- Egress and API terms not found
- Governing law of the terms not checked
Standout against Wasabi. A starting price on the page, with data centers in Italy and across Europe
What actually breaks when you switch
Egress is where the bills differ. Moving a lot of data out of Wasabi is free within its own conditions, but at Scaleway, Exoscale and Hetzner anything beyond the included allowance is charged. Estimate your monthly downloads before you pick, and plan the one-off copy from Wasabi so that it fits inside a free allowance or a short billing window.
Minimum periods and billing steps change the maths. Wasabi bills objects deleted within 90 days and at least 1 TB, while Hetzner, Scaleway, STACKIT and UpCloud bill by the hour, and UpCloud only in 250 GB steps. Bursty or short-lived data favours hourly billing, steady archives favour a flat rate.
Several providers here do not show a price in readable text (Hetzner, OVHcloud, Cubbit, Clever Cloud, Exoscale Standard, IONOS in euro). Ask for a quote or open a small account before you commit, and write down the egress and API terms.
Which of these is closest to Wasabi's model?
Cubbit and OVHcloud come closest on the billing idea: Cubbit says it has one flat rate per TB with no egress, deletion or API charges, and OVHcloud says it charges nothing for API calls or traffic. UpCloud states zero-cost egress. Neither Cubbit nor OVHcloud shows a price in text we could read, so ask for the number.
Hetzner is the nearest on simplicity for a team that just wants a bucket: a base price with 1 TB of storage and 1 TB of egress included, then pay as you go.
Which have a published price I can check today?
Scaleway lists its per-GB prices in euro on its pricing page, Safespring lists its S3 prices per TB for 30 days, STACKIT lists a per-hour price in its price list PDF (about €0.03 per GB a month), and Aruba shows a starting price of €0.011 per GB a month plus VAT.
Hetzner, OVHcloud, Cubbit, Clever Cloud, Exoscale (Standard) and IONOS render their amounts in the browser, on a geo-dependent dollar page or behind a sales contact, so this page does not quote them.
Can I get Object Lock or immutable backups?
Scaleway, Hetzner, OVHcloud, Exoscale and IONOS all list Object Lock or object locking on their own pages. IONOS describes it as meeting WORM requirements for long-term storage. Check the retention modes you need against the provider's documentation, and test it with your backup software before relying on it.
Does the contract really matter for backup storage?
It matters most when something goes wrong: which law applies, where a dispute is heard, and who your data processor is. With Wasabi the agreement applies Massachusetts law and Massachusetts courts. With the providers here the contracting entity is in France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland or Italy.
For encrypted backup data that you hold the keys to, the practical risk is lower. For regulated or customer data it is part of the picture along with data location and sub-processors.
Which one to pick
If you want published euro prices and a modest free egress allowance, start with Scaleway. If you want a simple bucket with storage and 1 TB of egress in one base price, Hetzner. If the question is no traffic charges, look at OVHcloud, Cubbit and UpCloud, and ask each for the price in writing.
Safespring, STACKIT and Aruba publish prices but at levels above Wasabi's headline rate, so choose them for sovereignty, Nordic or Italian operation, or because you already use the platform. Exoscale suits a Swiss entity and a choice of zones, IONOS a German host with Object Lock, and Clever Cloud a small project or an existing Clever Cloud user.
Be realistic about the gap. Wasabi is a single-purpose service with a very low headline price and a simple model, and none of the eleven matches its per-TB price with the same egress terms on every plan. Switch if you want a European or EEA contracting party and a court close to home, and keep Wasabi if the cost of large, steady storage is the only thing that matters.
Frequently Asked Questions
There is no single best one. Scaleway is the easiest to check, because it publishes per-GB prices and gives 75 GB of free egress a month. Hetzner suits teams that want a simple bucket with 1 TB of egress included. OVHcloud and Cubbit are the closest to a no-egress-fee model. Pick by your storage and download volumes.
No. Wasabi Technologies LLC has its corporate office at 75 Arlington Street in Boston, and its Customer Agreement is governed by Massachusetts law with exclusive Massachusetts courts. It does offer storage regions in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Milan.
Its pricing page lists Pay as You Go from $7.99 per TB a month, and its FAQ lists Cloud NAS at $9.99. There are no listed fees for egress or API requests, but free egress is tied to your active storage volume, objects deleted within 90 days are billed for the remaining days, and at least 1 TB is billed.
On its pricing page for Paris, Standard Multi-AZ is €0.01606 per GB a month, One Zone is €0.00803, and Glacier is €0.00254, before tax. Requests and ingress are included, and egress is free for 75 GB a month, then €0.01 per GB. That makes One Zone about €8.03 per TB, close to Wasabi's headline price, while Multi-AZ is about twice that.
Safespring lists S3-storage at €44.50 per TB for 30 days and S3-archive at €31.15. STACKIT's price list shows Object Storage at €0.00003697772 per GB per hour in Germany South, rounded to €0.03 per GB a month. Aruba shows object storage from €0.011 per GB a month plus VAT. All three are above Wasabi's headline price per TB.
Cubbit S.r.l. is a company in Bologna, Italy (VAT 03562001200). Its terms of service apply Italian law and the court of Bologna, and the Italian text prevails over the English translation. Its pricing page says DS3 Cloud is available via partners, with a free trial and no credit card needed.
Hetzner Online GmbH is in Gunzenhausen, Germany, and its terms apply German law. Exoscale's supplier is Akenes SA in Lausanne, Switzerland, which is outside the EU but a European country; its terms apply Swiss law with the courts of the canton of Vaud.
IONOS Cloud GmbH is in Montabaur, Germany, and its object storage page lists data centers in the USA, Germany and Spain, so you need to choose a European region when you create the bucket. The page shows a dollar price aimed at the US market, so check the euro price for your own account.
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