IDrive Compute vs Wasabi
A detailed comparison to help you choose between IDrive Compute and Wasabi.
Quick Verdict
2.0/5
IDrive Compute
0 reviews
4.0/5
Wasabi
0 reviews
Wasabi is rated higher (4.0 vs 2.0). IDrive Compute was a VPS offering from IDrive with NVMe-backed Linux instances across 9 US and EU data centers, entry plans from $5/month. DISCONTINUED since 15 August 2023. S3-compatible cloud storage priced at a flat $7.99 per TB per month with no fees for downloads or API requests, widely used for backups.
IDrive Compute Simple VPS from trusted backup company | Wasabi Hot cloud storage at cold storage prices | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 2.0 (0 reviews) | 4.0 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $2/mo✓ | From $7.99/mo |
| Best for | Nobody today — the service is discontinued; former customers should look at active providers in our VPS comparison or IDrive e2 for object storage | Backup, offsite copy, and media-archive storage where data is written once, kept for months or years, and read occasionally — especially at 500 GB and above |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ✓ | |
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ✓ | |
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | — | 16 regions: US (N. Virginia x2, Texas, Oregon, California), Canada (Toronto), Netherlands (Amsterdam), Germany (Frankfurt), UK x2, France (Paris), Italy (Milan), Japan x2 (Tokyo, Osaka), Singapore, Australia (Sydney) |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | nvme storageipv6backups includedus datacenter | s3 compatibleeu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenterapi accessgdpr compliant |
| Visit IDrive Compute → | Visit Wasabi → | |
IDrive Compute
Pros
- + Straightforward published price list with hourly postpaid and prepaid discounts
- + Nine US and EU locations with NVMe storage and bare metal at most sites
- + Native IPv6 included at no extra charge
- + Live snapshots, cloning, and expandable block storage volumes in the base feature set
- + Unused balances refunded at shutdown — the right way to close a service
Cons
- - DISCONTINUED since 15 August 2023 — not purchasable
- - No independent long-term performance or reliability record
- - Backups were a paid add-on despite IDrive's backup heritage
- - No Kubernetes, load balancing, Windows images, or deeper cloud ecosystem
- - Homepage and data-center directory disagreed on the location list
Wasabi
Pros
- + Flat $7.99/TB/month with zero egress and API request charges — bills are predictable to the dollar
- + S3-compatible API with broad backup-software support (Veeam, rclone, Synology, MSP360 and others)
- + 16 regions with per-bucket region pinning, covering US, EU, and APAC data-residency needs
- + Credit-backed 99.9% uptime SLA with a published error-rate measurement methodology
- + No cold-tier latency: everything is hot storage, so restores are immediate
Cons
- - 90-day minimum storage duration — early deletion or overwriting incurs Timed Deleted Storage charges
- - 1 TB minimum monthly charge makes small datasets uneconomical
- - Fair-use policy implicitly caps monthly egress near stored volume — not a CDN origin play
- - Single storage tier only; no cheap cold class for rarely-retrieved archives
- - Basic support only on Pay-as-You-Go; Premium support is tied to Reserved Capacity contracts
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