OVHcloud Object Storage vs Cloudflare R2
A detailed comparison to help you choose between OVHcloud Object Storage and Cloudflare R2.
Quick Verdict
3.8/5
OVHcloud Object Storage
0 reviews
4.4/5
Cloudflare R2
0 reviews
Cloudflare R2 is rated higher (4.4 vs 3.8). 13 regions in Europe (France, Germany, Italy, UK, Poland), Canada and Asia-Pacific; no US region Cloudflare R2 is S3-compatible object storage with zero egress fees — ever. $0.015/GB/month storage, no data transfer costs. Tightly integrated with Cloudflare Workers and CDN.
OVHcloud Object Storage S3-compatible object storage from €0.014/GB (Standard), Cold Archive from €0.00128/GB | Cloudflare R2 Zero egress S3 storage on Cloudflare's network | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.8 (0 reviews) | 4.4 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | usage-based | freemium (free tier plus usage-based pricing) |
| Starting price | From $0.014/mo | Free tier available✓ |
| Best for | EU-resident, read-heavy object storage — media libraries, backup repositories and CMS assets — where free egress keeps bills predictable. | Teams serving media, assets, downloads or backups where egress dominates their current object storage bill — especially those already building on Workers or Pages. |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ✓ | |
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ✓ | |
| Free tier | ✓ | |
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | — | Global — Cloudflare network |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | s3 compatibleeu datacentergdpr compliantapi access | free tiers3 compatibleeu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenterapi access |
| Visit OVHcloud Object Storage → | Visit Cloudflare R2 → | |
OVHcloud Object Storage
Pros
- + Free egress and free API requests on Standard storage — rare among S3 providers
- + Volume-tiered pricing from €0.014/GB/month, billed per GiB-hour
- + Cold Archive at about €0.00128/GB/month for French-resident archives
- + 13 regions across Europe, Canada and Asia-Pacific with clear per-region endpoints
- + Five storage classes with documented class-to-region availability
Cons
- - No US region — North America is served from Canada
- - Cold Archive is Paris-only with 180-day minimum retention and €0.005/GB restores
- - Most regions are 1-AZ; multi-region redundancy must be designed by the user
- - S3 compatibility is not full AWS parity; console is dense
Cloudflare R2
Pros
- + Zero egress fees on all storage classes — no data transfer bill at all
- + Standing free tier: 10 GB-month storage, 1M Class A and 10M Class B ops monthly
- + S3-compatible API works with existing SDKs and migration tooling
- + Published durability (11 nines) and a 99.9% monthly uptime SLA with credits
- + Binds directly to Workers, Pages and public buckets with no cross-product egress
Cons
- - S3 feature surface is thinner — no replication topology, simpler lifecycle tooling
- - Class A operations at $4.50/million make write-heavy workloads pricier than storage-only math
- - Infrequent Access has a 30-day minimum storage duration and retrieval fees
- - Real lock-in sits in Workers-based processing around buckets, not the storage itself
- - Not suited to analytics-style scans or small-object high-churn data
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