Wasabi Storage Alternative

Wasabi's pitch is simple: hot object storage at a flat per-TB rate with no egress fees. It's genuinely cheap on the storage line, but the headline price hides two costs that bite small and bursty workloads. First, the 90-day minimum storage charge — delete an object after a week and you still pay for the remaining ~83 days, which quietly punishes anything with churn, like temp files, daily exports, or short-lived build artifacts.

Second, there's no CDN: Wasabi is an origin, so to serve files quickly worldwide you bolt on Cloudflare or another CDN and manage two systems, two bills, and a cache-invalidation story. files.link folds delivery into the product — a global CDN spanning 450+ edge locations sits in front of your files with nothing to wire up — and bills with prepaid credits, so a small project pays for a small project.

There's no minimum storage duration to outlast and no 1 TB-scale assumption baked into the pricing. The trade-off worth stating plainly: Wasabi exposes an S3-compatible API, so if your stack is built around s3cmd, rclone, or the AWS SDK and you need protocol compatibility, Wasabi fits that better. files.link uses its own REST API instead — three calls to upload (POST /v1/files/{folderId} → PUT the presigned URL → POST /v1/files/confirm-upload), with the raw API key as the Authorization header.

For teams that want files online and fast without standing up a CDN beside their bucket, or that hate the 90-day-minimum surprise on the invoice, the consolidation is the point: one prepaid account covers storage, delivery, private files with signed URLs, and a cold storage tier for archives — instead of a storage vendor plus a CDN vendor stitched together. Comparing the rest of the field?

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