Cloudflare R2 alternatives
Depot pick when agent artifacts get downloaded a lot. S3-compatible without the egress grief.
Overall 8.75 (curated_estimate, high) · score asOf 2026-10-19 · last reviewed 2026-10-19. This is not an Elo and not a live price board. Provider · JSON
Jobs: object-storage, cheap-egress-storage, vector-object-hybrid-memory
| Provider | Why listed | Overall | Δ vs subject | asOf |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turbopuffer When your vector bill scares you and much of the corpus is cold, Turbopuffer is the interesting answer. | same_jtbd_pick · vector-object-hybrid-memory | 8.21high | -0.54 | 2026-09-14 |
| Tigris R2 remains Depot object-storage / cheap-egress default (CDN+Workers gravity). Tigris when you want global… | same_jtbd_runner · object-storage, cheap-egress-storage, vector-object-hybrid-memory | 8.15high | -0.6 | 2026-09-14 |
| Amazon S3 Default object store gravity well. Consider R2/Cloudflare or DO Spaces when egress dominates. | same_jtbd_runner · object-storage, vector-object-hybrid-memory | 8.6high | -0.15 | 2026-09-14 |
| MinIO Self-host object storage when R2/Tigris/B2 SaaS is not allowed. R2 remains managed cheap-egress default. | same_jtbd_runner · object-storage, cheap-egress-storage | 8.41high | -0.34 | 2026-09-14 |
| Backblaze B2 Best cheap always-hot archive for datasets/checkpoints. R2 still wins agent artifact serving with unbounded… | same_jtbd_runner · object-storage, cheap-egress-storage | 8.35high | -0.4 | 2026-09-14 |
| DigitalOcean Classic simple cloud. Use for steady VMs and Spaces; pair Paperspace/RunPod for GPUs. | same_jtbd_runner · object-storage, cheap-egress-storage | 8.15high | -0.6 | 2026-09-14 |
| Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage Cheap hot archive peer when R2/Tigris edge story is not required. Depot cheap-egress still defaults to R2. | same_jtbd_runner · object-storage, cheap-egress-storage | 8.12high | -0.63 | 2026-09-14 |
| Hetzner When you need cheap always-on CPU in EU, start here. DIY the agent orchestration yourself. | same_jtbd_runner · cheap-egress-storage | 8.2high | -0.55 | 2026-09-14 |
| Google Cloud Storage Use inside GCP estates. Depot object-storage/cheap-egress defaults remain R2. | same_jtbd_runner · object-storage | 8.18high | -0.57 | 2026-09-14 |
| Azure Blob Storage Azure-estate default object store. Prefer R2/Tigris when egress-free public URLs matter. | same_jtbd_runner · object-storage | 8.06high | -0.69 | 2026-09-14 |
| Pinecone Still the zero-ops vector default. If you already run Postgres, try pgvector before paying Pinecone rents. | same_jtbd_runner · vector-object-hybrid-memory | 7.95high | -0.8 | 2026-09-14 |
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