Scaleway Object Storage vs Cloudflare R2
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Scaleway Object Storage and Cloudflare R2.
Quick Verdict
4.0/5
Scaleway Object Storage
0 reviews
4.4/5
Cloudflare R2
0 reviews
Cloudflare R2 is rated higher (4.4 vs 4.0). Scaleway Object Storage is S3-compatible cloud storage hosted in Amsterdam and Paris. €0.01/GB with generous free tier. GDPR-compliant French company. Easy migration from AWS S3. 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.
Scaleway Object Storage S3-compatible storage in EU from €0.01/GB | Cloudflare R2 Zero egress S3 storage on Cloudflare's network | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 4.0 (0 reviews) | 4.4 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | usage-based | freemium (free tier plus usage-based pricing) |
| Starting price | From $0.00803/mo | Free tier available✓ |
| Best for | EU businesses needing S3-compatible storage for backups, media, data lakes and disaster recovery under GDPR/HDS constraints | 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 | FranceNetherlandsPolandItaly | Global — Cloudflare network |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | free tiers3 compatibleeu datacentergdpr compliantapi access | free tiers3 compatibleeu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenterapi access |
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Scaleway Object Storage
Pros
- + S3-compatible API with no request fees and free ingress — predictable invoices for request-heavy workloads
- + Standard Multi-AZ across three zones with 11-nines durability and a 99.9% availability SLA
- + 75GB storage and 75GB egress free every month, plus a 750GB/90-day trial for new accounts
- + EU-only operation (Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Milan) with HDS and ISO 27001 certification, outside the CLOUD Act
- + Glacier archive class at about €0.00254/GB/month with lifecycle rules for automated tiering
Cons
- - Egress metered at €0.01/GB after 75GB free — CDN-fronting is needed for read-heavy media delivery
- - Glacier only in Paris and Amsterdam; no regions outside Europe at all
- - Versioning caps at 1,000 versions per object and console batch deletion caps at 1,000 objects
- - A started GB-hour is billable (1KB for 1 second bills as a GB-hour), which punishes tiny objects
- - Class migrations between buckets are manual and support is ticket-based
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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