Pricing behavior — Object Storage Pricing

Pricing for Cloudflare R2

How pricing changes as you scale: upgrade triggers, cost cliffs, and plan structure (not a live price list).

Sources linked — see verification below.
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Freshness & verification

Last updated 2026-02-09 Intel generated 2026-02-06 2 sources linked

Pricing behavior (not a price list)

These points describe when users typically pay more and what usage patterns trigger upgrades.

Actions that trigger upgrades

  • Need broader enterprise governance and compliance integrations
  • Need deeper data platform adjacency (analytics, ML pipelines) in a hyperscaler
  • Need multi-cloud standardized governance patterns across many teams

What gets expensive first

  • Your access pattern (requests + egress) determines economics more than storage size
  • S3-compatibility gaps can surface with advanced lifecycle/replication requirements
  • Edge-adjacent benefits depend on how your app and users route through Cloudflare

Plans and variants (structural only)

Grouped by type to show structure, not to rank or recommend SKUs.

Plans
  • Pricing - Usage-based - Economics depend on requests and access pattern (verify on official pricing page)
  • Compatibility - S3-compatible - Validate features you rely on (verify on official docs)
  • Egress model - Network-driven - Model where reads come from and how traffic routes

Next step: constraints + what breaks first

Pricing tells you the cost cliffs; constraints tell you what forces a redesign.

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Sources & verification

Pricing and behavioral information comes from public documentation and structured research. When information is incomplete or volatile, we prefer to say so rather than guess.

  1. https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/ ↗
  2. https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/pricing/ ↗