What a restore actually costs

You buy backup storage in order to give it back. Price the quiet month and the worst day together, because they rank vendors differently.

Which bill are you looking at

Normal monthWorst-day restore

Protected dataTB

More workload assumptions3 inputs

Egress a normal monthTB

Restore on the worst dayTB

Bandwidth you can absorbMbps

Worked example: normal month, leading eligible offer

OVHcloud Object Storage Cold Archive France (Paris)

$18.63 a normal month

Vendor source, checked 2026-07-25

The three cheapest complete answers

1OVHcloud Object StorageCold Archive; unknown worst day$18.63
Minimum billable object size is not published. No object-size adjustment was applied.
2Oracle OCI Object StorageArchive; $43.76 worst day$26.79
Minimum billable object size is not published. No object-size adjustment was applied.
3Telnyx Cloud StorageRegular Storage; $55.83 worst day$55.83
Storage is the largest line at $55.83.

The worst-day boundary

Normal month to restore month

normal $18.63worst day unknown

One total is unknown, so no restore multiple is stated.

Back online: IncompleteRetrieval latency: latency unknown

Recovery, freshness and source boundaryshow proof

One of the two totals has no published figure, so the swing cannot be stated as a multiple.

Back online: Incomplete
Retrieval latency: latency unknown
Checked: 2026-07-25, 3d ago

This vendor publishes no machine-readable feed, so every figure here is re-checked by hand on its stated cadence. Publishing a price is not permission to collect it automatically.

ovhcloud.comchecked 2026-07-25, 3d ago

Every vendor, ranked where it can be

All 18 vendors appear. Only comparable, eligible, in-cadence, fully priced receipts carry a rank number; 16 of 61 offers cannot be priced end to end for this workload and show why instead of a total.

1OVHcloud Object StorageCold Archive, EU-WEST-PAR, +4 more offers$18.63latency unknown recovery time incomplete
$0$200.00
2Oracle OCI Object StorageArchive, us-ashburn-1, +2 more offers$26.79latency unknown recovery time incomplete
$0$200.00
5Telnyx Cloud StorageRegular Storage, us-east-1, +1 more offer$55.83instant 22 h to 22 h
$0$200.00
6IDrive e2IDrive e2, us-east-1$60.00instant 22 h to 22 h
$0$200.00
7Backblaze B2B2 Cloud Storage, us-west-004$69.43instant 22 h to 22 h
$0$200.00
8StorjStandard, global$77.00instant 22 h to 22 h
$0$200.00
9WasabiHot Cloud Storage, us-east-1$78.03instant 22 h to 22 h
$0$200.00
10Hetzner Object StorageObject Storage, fsn1$88.80instant 22 h to 22 h
$0$200.00
12Cloudflare R2Infrequent Access, global, +1 more offer$106.30instant 22 h to 22 h
$0$200.00
13Amazon S3S3 Glacier Deep Archive, us-east-1, +14 more offers$110.04hours 22 h to 34 h
$0$200.00
18Azure Blob StorageCold LRS, eastus, +7 more offers$143.30instant 22 h to 22 h
$0$200.00
21FilebaseObject Storage, global$150.00instant 22 h to 22 h
$0$200.00
24Google Cloud StorageColdline, us-east1, +4 more offers$166.41instant 22 h to 22 h
$0$200.00
31Akamai Cloud Object StorageObject Storage, us-east$200.00instant 22 h to 22 h
$0$200.00
not ranked·DigitalOcean SpacesSpaces Standard Storage, nyc3, +1 more offerUnknownknown so far $186.26latency unknown recovery time incomplete
not ranked·Scaleway Object StorageStandard Multi-AZ, fr-par, +2 more offersUnknownnothing priced yetinstant 22 h to 22 h
not ranked·TigrisStandard, global, +3 more offersUnknownknown so far $189.66instant 22 h to 22 h
not ranked·Vultr Object StorageAccelerated, ewr, +4 more offersUnknownknown so far $1,000.00instant 22 h to 22 h

Every offer, including each storage class and region43 more

Ranked offers first. An offer that cannot be priced end to end keeps its place and shows the state that stopped it, together with whatever is known so far.

3OVHcloud Object Storage Infrequent AccessGRA$40.59
4OVHcloud Object Storage Active ArchiveEU-WEST-PAR$49.56
11Oracle OCI Object Storage Infrequent Accessus-ashburn-1$100.72
14Amazon S3 S3 Glacier Deep Archiveeu-central-1$117.62
15Amazon S3 S3 Glacier Flexible Retrievalus-east-1$124.43
16Amazon S3 S3 Glacier Flexible Retrievaleu-central-1$128.65
17Amazon S3 S3 Glacier Instant Retrievalus-east-1$142.07
19OVHcloud Object Storage Standard 3-AZEU-WEST-PAR$146.31
20Cloudflare R2 Standardglobal$150.00
22Amazon S3 S3 Glacier Instant Retrievaleu-central-1$151.39
23Azure Blob Storage Cold LRSwesteurope$152.30
25Amazon S3 S3 One Zone-IAus-east-1$174.95
26Amazon S3 S3 One Zone-IAeu-central-1$182.40
27Azure Blob Storage Cool LRSwesteurope$185.30
28OVHcloud Object Storage High PerformanceGRA$188.87
29Amazon S3 S3 Standard-IAus-east-1$198.23
30Google Cloud Storage Nearlineus-east1$199.79
32Amazon S3 S3 Standard-IAeu-central-1$207.55
33Google Cloud Storage Archiveus-east1$233.18
34Telnyx Cloud Storage Regular Storageeu-central-1$236.19
35Azure Blob Storage Cool LRSeastus$237.30
36Oracle OCI Object Storage Standardus-ashburn-1$255.56
37Azure Blob Storage Hot LRSwesteurope$277.86
38Google Cloud Storage Standardus-east1$289.28
39Azure Blob Storage Hot LRSeastus$289.60
40Amazon S3 S3 Standardus-east-1$292.32
41Amazon S3 S3 Intelligent-Tieringus-east-1$294.82
42Amazon S3 S3 Standardeu-central-1$306.29
43Amazon S3 S3 Intelligent-Tieringeu-central-1$308.79
44Google Cloud Storage Rapidus-east1$1,025.98
45Amazon S3 S3 Express One Zoneus-east-1$1,099.90
not ranked·Azure Blob Storage Archive LRSeastusUnknownknown so far $1,093.20
not ranked·Azure Blob Storage Archive LRSwesteuropeUnknownknown so far $1,302.30
not ranked·DigitalOcean Spaces Spaces Cold Storagenyc3Unknownknown so far $70.19
not ranked·Scaleway Object Storage Standard One Zonefr-parUnknownnothing priced yet
not ranked·Scaleway Object Storage Glacierfr-parUnknownnothing priced yet
not ranked·Vultr Object Storage StandardewrUnknownknown so far $180.00
not ranked·Vultr Object Storage PremiumewrUnknownknown so far $360.00
not ranked·Vultr Object Storage PerformanceewrUnknownknown so far $500.00
not ranked·Vultr Object Storage ArchiveewrUnknownknown so far $60.00
not ranked·Tigris Infrequent AccessglobalUnknownknown so far $96.53
not ranked·Tigris ArchiveglobalUnknownknown so far $40.65
not ranked·Tigris Archive Instant RetrievalglobalUnknownknown so far $40.65

OVHcloud Object Storage Cold Archive line by line

Complete sourced receiptOVHcloud Object Storage Cold Archive France (Paris), priced per GiB, normal month

Policy constraintPolicy
Minimum billable object size is not published. No object-size adjustment was applied.
- docs.ovhcloud.comchecked 2026-07-25, 3d ago
Storage$18.63
How Storage was calculated
Component Quantity Rate Amount
Storage tier 9,313.226 GiB-month 0.002 $18.63
9,313.226 GiB-month after published object and capacity rules.
- ovhcloud.comchecked 2026-07-25, 3d ago
- docs.ovhcloud.comchecked 2026-07-25, 3d ago
Internet egress$0.00
931.323 GiB internet egress is within the published allowance.
- ovhcloud.comchecked 2026-07-25, 3d ago
Class A and Class B operations$0.00
How Class A and Class B operations was calculated
Component Quantity Rate Amount
Class A operations 500 blocks of 1,000 operations 0.00 $0.00
Class B operations 2,000 blocks of 1,000 operations 0.00 $0.00
Class A and Class B operations after published allowances.
- ovhcloud.comchecked 2026-07-25, 3d ago
Retrieval$0.00
No data retrieval in this scenario.
- ovhcloud.comchecked 2026-07-25, 3d ago
- ovhcloud.comchecked 2026-07-25, 3d ago
Fixed fees$0.00
Published fixed monthly fees.
- ovhcloud.comchecked 2026-07-25, 3d ago

How Storage was calculated
Component	Quantity	Rate	Amount
Storage tier	9,313.226 GiB-month	0.002	$18.63

How Class A and Class B operations was calculated
Component	Quantity	Rate	Amount
Class A operations	500 blocks of 1,000 operations	0.00	$0.00
Class B operations	2,000 blocks of 1,000 operations	0.00	$0.00

Normal month total$18.63

Time to recovery: incomplete

Network transfer time is computed, but the source has no parseable provider-ready latency.

What is known: transfer at your bandwidth would take 22 h. The missing half is not estimated.

ovhcloud.comchecked 2026-07-25, 3d ago

Worked example: 10 TB protected, 1 TB of ordinary egress, a full 10 TB restore at 1000 Mbps. These are our numbers, not yours, until you change them.

Advanced workloadobject shape, operations, restore tier, eligibility

Every control here changes at least one published meter. Nothing is inferred: a rule a vendor does not publish stays unknown no matter what you enter.

Objects stored

Uploaded this monthTB

Class A operations

Class B operations

Restore tier

Where the data goes

Keep the restored copyhours

Typical object agedays

Apply published free tiers where the vendor offers one
Require object lock or immutability
Require an S3-compatible API

A restore here is read only. It retrieves, it issues requests, it may leave a temporary copy and it egresses. It never deletes, overwrites or transitions anything, so it can never produce an early-deletion charge.

Or print this page: the receipt opens its working for the printed copy.

61 offers from 18 vendors. 4 publish no storage rate we can compare in USD and are never ranked or estimated. Three vendors publish a machine-readable feed; the rest are re-checked by hand on a stated cadence.

Everything behind the number

What each meter does to the bill21

The charges that decide a backup bill and rarely appear on a pricing page.

Storage classes, and when a colder one stops paying11

Where the retrieval charge overtakes the storage saving.

Restore, recovery time and capacity planning10

What the worst day costs, how long it takes, and how much capacity a retention policy really creates.

Vendor by vendor18

What each one bills, and the rules its own page does not lead with.

Head to head16

Where the cheaper provider stops being cheaper.