Vultr Object Storage Alternative

Vultr Object Storage gives you S3-compatible buckets in a handful of regions for a flat monthly fee, with bandwidth metered separately once you exceed the included allotment. That model works if you already speak the S3 protocol and you size your tier to your traffic. It works less well when you are a small team that wants files to load fast everywhere, hates capacity planning, and would rather make three plain HTTP calls than configure aws-cli, signature v4, and a separate edge layer. files.link is built for that second team.

There is no S3 SDK to install and no region to pick. You upload with a three-step REST flow and your files are immediately reachable through an integrated global CDN, so a texture, PDF, or hero image cached in Frankfurt serves a user in Frankfurt without you provisioning anything. Migrating off Vultr is mechanical. First, list and pull your objects with the tool you already use: s3cmd sync s3://your-vultr-bucket ./export against the Vultr endpoint.

Then push each file into files.link with the same flow your app will use in production. Step one, ask for a presigned target: POST /v1/files/{folderId} with your raw API key in the Authorization header (no Bearer prefix), and read back { success, urls:[{ url, id }] }. Step two, PUT the file bytes straight to the returned url. Step three, finalize with POST /v1/files/confirm-upload sending { ids:[...] }.

A short loop over your export directory moves the whole bucket. The pricing shape is the other big difference: Vultr bills a fixed monthly subscription whether or not you use the capacity, while files.link draws down prepaid credits against real storage and delivery, so a quiet month costs less than a busy one instead of the same. You also get project and folder organization and permanent shareable links out of the box, rather than treating buckets as a flat keyspace and bolting tooling on top.