Storage Cost Calculator
Price permanent and monthly storage side by side - one-off put cost against monthly rent, with minimums and egress tiers.
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Storage models differ: per-TB-per-month (Filecoin, Storj, S3) vs a one-off payment for permanent storage (Arweave). Enter a size and a horizon - every row comes from our fact-checked rate card, with minimums, required copies and egress tiers applied.
Results recalculate as you type. Monthly and one-off (permanent) models are listed separately - never ranked against each other.
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Monthly vs permanent is a bet on time
Per-TB-per-month storage is cheap to start and easy to leave; permanent storage is a bigger up-front cost that only pays off over years - and only if the network's endowment economics hold. Egress fees are the classic trap: S3-style pricing can cost far more to take your data out than to keep it. For anything you will read back often, model egress; for archival "write once", permanent storage can win.
Questions about storage cost
Why are one-off and monthly rows ranked separately?
A permanent put and a monthly rent are different units. Mixing them in one sorted list produces a fake comparison; the calculator groups them.
What do egress tiers change?
Retrieval is where cheap storage gets expensive. Free allowances are applied where they exist, otherwise the documented rate is used.
Which copies are assumed?
Three copies by default, because redundancy is part of the real bill - a single copy is not a backup.