Wasabi egress fees: free, bounded at 1x active storage
Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage charges $0 for egress and API requests, and its invoice definitions back that up: data transfer out appears on the invoice but is not charged. The price of that zero is a policy, not a meter. Wasabi's free egress policy expects monthly egress to stay at or below your active storage volume, and above that line there is no price at all, only a published right to limit or suspend service. This page lays out the policy verbatim, the minimums that do cost money, and how the bound compares with the other free-egress providers.
What Wasabi publishes
| Item | Published price | As published |
|---|---|---|
| Egress (data transfer out) | $0 | “No charge for egress or API requests.” The invoice line-item definition adds that the egress volume is displayed on the invoice but not charged. |
| API requests | $0 | Covered by the same statement on the pricing page. |
| Storage, pay as you go | $7.99 / TB / month | US and Europe pay-as-you-go rate. Wasabi's own breakdown divides this by 1,024 GB per TB. |
| Monthly minimum | 1 TB of active storage | Store less than 1 TB and you are still charged for 1 TB at the region's rate. |
| Minimum storage duration | 90 days | Objects deleted earlier incur a Timed Deleted Storage charge equal to the storage fee for the remaining days. |
Sources: wasabi.com/pricing and wasabi.com/pricing/faq, read 2026-09-30.
The free egress policy, in Wasabi's words
“If your monthly egress data transfer is less than or equal to your active storage volume, then your storage use case is a good fit for Wasabi's free egress policy. If your monthly egress data transfer is greater than your active storage volume, then your storage use case is not a good fit.”
Wasabi's own example: store 100 TB and download 100 TB or less within a monthly billing cycle and you fit the policy. Download more and you do not. And the consequence of regularly exceeding it, verbatim: “we reserve the right to limit or suspend your service.”
Note what is missing: a price. Wasabi publishes no overage rate for egress above the bound, so there is no number to extrapolate. Our calculator shows Wasabi scenarios above 1x stored volume as not priced, because printing $0 for a volume the policy does not cover would be wrong in the direction that costs you a migration.
One more unit detail worth knowing: Wasabi's arithmetic is base-2. Its FAQ divides the $7.99 TB rate by 1,024 GB, and its calculator footnote says billing estimates use a base-2 system, so 10 TB on Wasabi's meter is 10,240 GB.
Against the other bounded-free providers
| Provider | Free egress bound | Above the bound |
|---|---|---|
| Wasabi | 1x active storage volume per month | No published price. The policy reserves the right to limit or suspend service for regular breaches. |
| Impossible Cloud | 1x actively stored data per month (fair-use guideline) | No published price. The vendor confirmed to us that cases are handled case-by-case rather than charged. |
| Backblaze B2 | 3x average monthly stored volume | Priced: $0.01 per GB, plus unlimited free egress through listed partner CDNs. |
| Cloudflare R2 | None. Egress is free at any volume | Not applicable, but reads are metered as Class B operations at $0.36 per million on Standard storage. |
The practical split: under 1x egress-to-storage, Wasabi, Impossible Cloud and Backblaze B2 all cost the same for egress: nothing. Between 1x and 3x, only B2 has a published position at all. Past 3x, B2 is the only one of the three with a price, and the R2 model starts to win on structure.
About Wasabi's own comparison figures
Wasabi's pricing FAQ compares itself against AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, and discloses that those competitor rates reflect its interpretation of their pricing as of March 2021. They have drifted since: the FAQ's $0.08 per GB for Azure does not match Azure's current published $0.087 first-tier rate. The Wasabi-side figures on this page come from Wasabi's own pricing; for the competitor side, use the providers' current published tables, which is what our calculator does, with a source URL and read date on every rate.
Run your own numbers
Enter your stored volume as well as your egress: Wasabi's bound is the ratio between the two, so the calculator cannot price it from an egress figure alone, and says so rather than guessing.
Open the calculator with a 10 TB / 20 TB scenario →Questions people actually ask
Does Wasabi charge egress fees?
No. Wasabi's pricing page states 'No charge for egress or API requests', and its invoice definitions confirm it: data transfer out is displayed on the invoice but not charged. The condition is Wasabi's free egress policy, which expects monthly egress to stay at or below your active storage volume.
What is Wasabi's free egress limit?
Wasabi's own guideline: if your monthly egress is less than or equal to your active storage volume, your use case fits the free egress policy; if it is greater, it does not. Wasabi's example: store 100 TB and download 100 TB or less in a monthly billing cycle and you fit the policy; download more and you do not.
What happens if I exceed Wasabi's free egress policy?
There is no overage price. Wasabi publishes no rate for egress above the 1x bound; the published consequence is: 'If your use case exceeds the guidelines of our free egress policy on a regular basis, we reserve the right to limit or suspend your service.' Our calculator shows such scenarios as not priced rather than extrapolating $0.
What are Wasabi's minimums and hidden charges?
Two published minimums matter. Pay-as-you-go accounts are billed for at least 1 TB of active storage even if they store less. And objects deleted before 90 days incur a Timed Deleted Storage charge equal to the storage fee for the remaining days. Storage itself is $7.99 per TB per month in the US and Europe pay-as-you-go regions.
Does Wasabi use 1,000 or 1,024 GB per TB?
1,024. Wasabi's own FAQ arithmetic divides $7.99 per TB by 1,024 GB, and the pricing calculator footnote states that billing estimates use a base-2 system. A 10 TB figure on Wasabi's meter is therefore 10,240 GB.
How does Wasabi's egress policy compare with Backblaze B2 and Impossible Cloud?
Wasabi and Impossible Cloud both bound free egress at 1x stored volume with no published overage price; Wasabi frames breaches as grounds to limit or suspend service, while Impossible Cloud frames the bound as a guideline handled case-by-case. Backblaze B2 is more generous on the bound (3x average monthly storage) and, unlike both, publishes an overage price: $0.01 per GB.
- wasabi.com/pricing and wasabi.com/pricing/faq · read 2026-09-30. The free egress policy and both minimums are quoted from the FAQ verbatim.
- Comparator figures are from each provider's published pricing; every rate in the calculator carries its own source and date. See the methodology.