Wasabi pricing 2026: storage per TB, free egress, minimums and the 90-day rule

Wasabi charges one price for storage and nothing else: $7.99 per TB a month on Pay as You Go, with no fees for egress or API requests, as of October 2026. Two rules change what you actually pay. Every account is billed for at least 1 TB of active storage, and every object is billed for at least 90 days, even if you delete it sooner. Egress is free as long as you download no more each month than you store. Every number below comes from Wasabi’s pricing page and pricing FAQ.

Wasabi pricing at a glance

The $7.99 rate is the same in North America, EMEA and APAC in Wasabi’s FAQ. Many pages still quote $6.99 per TB, the earlier rate; the official pricing page now shows “starting at $7.99”.

How Wasabi bills storage

Wasabi charges for capacity only, measured daily: its FAQ breaks $7.99 per TB down to about $0.000260 per GB per day. Three rules sit on top of that rate.

The 1 TB minimum

On Pay as You Go there is a minimum monthly charge equal to 1 TB of active storage. If you store 50 GB, you pay $7.99. If you store 1.5 TB, you pay for 1.5 TB. That makes Wasabi a poor fit for small buckets: at 100 GB the effective price is about $0.08 per GB, several times what Cloudflare R2 or Backblaze B2 would charge for the same data.

The 90-day minimum storage duration

Every object is billed for at least 90 days. If you delete it earlier, Wasabi adds a Timed Deleted Storage charge for the remaining days at the normal storage rate. Overwriting a file without versioning counts the same way: the old copy keeps being billed as deleted storage until it reaches 90 days, and the new copy starts its own 90 days.

In practice: if you upload 1 TB, keep it for 30 days and delete it, you pay 30 days of active storage plus 60 days of Timed Deleted Storage, the same as keeping it for 90 days. This matters for backup jobs with short retention, temporary files and anything rewritten often.

Small objects

Objects smaller than 4 KB are billed as 4 KB. It only matters if you store millions of tiny files.

Is Wasabi egress really free?

Wasabi does not charge per GB downloaded, but it is not unlimited. Its free egress policy says your use case is a good fit when monthly egress is less than or equal to your active storage: with 100 TB stored, up to 100 TB downloaded a month. If you regularly download more than you store, Wasabi says that is not a good fit and that it may limit or suspend the service.

So Wasabi works well for backups, archives, media libraries and datasets that are read about as much as they are stored. It is the wrong choice for a public website or a video that thousands of people download, where egress can be many times the stored volume. For that pattern look at Cloudflare R2, where egress is free with no ratio, or at providers that charge egress per GB.

No API request fees

Wasabi charges nothing for PUT, GET, LIST or DELETE requests. Its FAQ calls this a free API request policy and keeps the right to limit applications that put an unreasonable load on the service. For workloads with many small reads, such as a sync tool or an app listing folders often, this is a real saving against providers that bill per request.

Wasabi pricing examples

Example 1, a small archive: 200 GB stored.

Example 2, a media library: 5 TB stored and 2 TB downloaded a month.

Example 3, backups with 30-day retention: about 3 TB written and deleted every month on a rolling basis. Each object is deleted after 30 days but billed for 90, so you pay for roughly 3 TB active plus 6 TB of Timed Deleted Storage, around 9 TB in total, about $72 a month instead of the $24 the active data alone suggests. Setting the backup retention to 90 days or longer costs the same and keeps more history.

Reserved Capacity Storage

For larger, steady volumes Wasabi sells Reserved Capacity Storage (RCS): you buy a fixed capacity for 1, 3 or 5 years and get a bigger discount for longer terms and more capacity. Wasabi does not publish RCS prices. What the FAQ does say:

• Premium support is mandatory with every RCS plan.
• RCS purchases are non-refundable and cannot be cancelled, and unused capacity does not roll over.
• Contracts renew automatically for another year at the then-current price unless you cancel at least 30 days before the end date.
• Using more than you reserved is billed at the current rate, and adding capacity to an existing contract takes at least 25 TB.
• The minimum storage duration on RCS is 30 days instead of 90.

There is also Wasabi Cloud NAS, a separate product at $9.99 per TB a month with a 10 TB minimum.

Wasabi vs Backblaze B2, R2 and S3

For 5 TB stored, the storage line alone comes to about $40 on Wasabi, $35 on B2, $77 on R2 and $118 on S3 Standard, before egress and requests. Wasabi is rarely the cheapest on paper since the 2026 price, but its bill stays flat as long as downloads stay below storage. B2 is cheaper per TB and has no 90-day rule; R2 is the choice when egress is high. The details are in Backblaze B2 pricing and the five-provider comparison.

When Wasabi makes sense

Wasabi is a good fit when:

• You store at least 1 TB, ideally much more.
• Files stay at least 90 days: archives, finished projects, backups with long retention, media libraries.
• Downloads in a month stay below what you store.
• You want a bill with one line and no request fees to estimate.

It is a weak fit for small buckets, short-lived or frequently rewritten files and public content with heavy downloads.

Using Wasabi with Nubbo

Nubbo connects to Wasabi in any of its 16 regions with an access key and its secret, and gives you a file browser, share links, galleries and file requests on top of your bucket. Uploads and single-file downloads go straight between the browser and Wasabi through presigned URLs, and since Wasabi charges no API fees, Nubbo’s folder listings and background syncs cost nothing extra. Two things are worth knowing on Wasabi in particular: thumbnails are stored in your own bucket under .nubbo-thumbs/, and Nubbo’s trash keeps deleted files in the bucket for 30 days before purging them, so a file uploaded and deleted the same week is still billed for Wasabi’s 90 days. Multi-file ZIP downloads are assembled in your browser, which downloads each file straight from your bucket, so they count as egress like any other download.