How does XNS pricing compare to AWS S3, Wasabi and Backblaze B2?

XNS is $6.00 per TB per month with $0 egress and no request charges. AWS S3 Standard bills storage, requests and per-GB egress separately, so the egress line dominates any workload that is read regularly. Wasabi and Backblaze B2 also cap or waive egress, but Wasabi applies a 90-day minimum retention against the 30-day minimum on XNS. Current figures for every vendor in the table are shown side by side at https://xns.tech/pricing-comparison/.

What does egress actually cost on XNS?

Nothing. Egress is $0 with no ratio cap and no overage price, so a full restore, a restore test and a re-run of the same pipeline all cost the same as leaving the data alone. The reasoning and the comparison against per-GB egress billing is at https://xns.tech/egress-fees/.

Are there hidden fees on XNS object storage?

No retrieval fees, no early-delete fee, no per-request charges and no storage classes to choose between. Billing is usage-only at one flat rate with a 30-day minimum retention on stored objects, and the machine-readable terms are published at https://xns.tech/pricing.json.

$6.00 per TB per month. $0 egress, uncapped. 30-day minimum retention, no early-delete fee.

Early-Adopter Rate

Come in now. Your data is grandfathered forever.

$6.00 per TB per month, $0 egress, uncapped — that's today's rate, available now to customers who sign up now.

We're still learning what egress actually costs us at scale. Egress pricing may be introduced later as that picture fills in. Any storage uploaded before that happens stays on $0-egress terms — early customers are never repriced on data they already put in.

The Bill That Actually Arrives

Store 10 TB. Read it back once. Here’s the month.

Provider	Storage	Egress	Monthly total
XNS Relayer	$60.00	$0.00	$60.00
Backblaze B2	$69.50	$0.00	$69.50
Wasabi	$79.90	$0.00	$79.90
Storj	$70.00	$70.00	$140.00
AWS S3 Standard	$235.50	$912.60	$1,148.10

Every figure is list price × 10 TB, except AWS egress: $912.60 for 10 TB net of the 100 GB free allowance (AWS tiers at $0.09/GB for the first 10 TB). Wasabi's egress lands at $0.00 because 10 TB read stays inside its 1:1 storage cap; Backblaze B2's lands at $0.00 because its free allowance is three times what you store, and 10 TB out is well inside 30 TB.

On AWS, reading your data back once costs about 3.5× a month of storing it — $83.16 to pull 1 TB out, versus $23.55 to store it.

List Prices, Side by Side

Provider	Storage /TB-mo	Egress	Minimum retention	Other floors
XNS Relayer	$6.00	$0, uncapped	30 days, no early-delete fee	—
AWS S3 Standard (us-east-1, first 50 TB)	$23.55	$0.09/GB after 100 GB/mo free	None on Standard	—
Backblaze B2	$6.95	Free to 3× your stored volume, then $0.01/GB	None	—
Wasabi	$7.99	"Free," capped at 1:1 against stored volume	90 days	1 TB monthly minimum; 4 KB min billable object
Storj (Standard)	$7.00	$7.00/TB, no free allowance	30 days	$5/mo account minimum; 50 kB min billable object

Wasabi raised to $7.99 effective July 1, 2026. Storj's Standard plan took effect the same day. Backblaze B2 charges no minimum storage duration and sets no minimum billable object size.

What’s Under the Asterisk

Wasabi: free, until it isn’t

If your monthly egress data transfer is greater than your active storage volume, then your storage use case is not a good fit… If your use case exceeds the guidelines of our free egress policy on a regular basis, we reserve the right to limit or suspend your service.
— Wasabi pricing FAQ, accessed 19 August 2026

Free egress applies only while your monthly download stays at or below what you store. Exceed the ratio on a regular basis, and Wasabi can limit or suspend the account.

Storj No free egress at all. $7.00 per TB out, on top of $7.00 per TB stored. Reading your data back doubles the bill.

AWS $0.09 per GB after the first 100 GB each month. No cap, no ratio — the meter just keeps running.

XNS Relayer $0. Uncapped. No ratio, no review, no clause.

Where Wasabi Is the Better Answer

Backup-vendor certification Wasabi holds Veeam Ready status in both the Object Storage and Object Storage with Immutability categories, and publishes joint solutions with Commvault and Rubrik. If your procurement checklist says the target has to appear on the Veeam Ready list, price never enters the conversation — and we are not on that list.

Geographic footprint Sixteen region codes across three continents, all at one price. Data-residency requirements are satisfiable off the shelf rather than by arrangement.

Compliance paperwork ISO 27001:2022 certification, a Cohasset 17a-4 assessment, a HIPAA Type 2 audit opinion, per-facility SOC 2 reports on request, and a published BAA process. That file takes years to assemble and we have not assembled it.

A contractual support path A paid Premium Support plan exists and is mandatory on their reserved-capacity contracts. Buyers who need support written into an agreement have somewhere to point.

And Backblaze B2, on the row this page is about B2 lists below Wasabi and Storj at $6.95 per TB, and its free-egress allowance is three times what you store rather than one — for a backup workload that means restores are effectively free, because restores rarely exceed three times stored volume in a month. Anyone writing that B2 “charges for egress” without that qualifier is misleading you. Our claim against B2 is narrower than against the others: no ratio to stay under, no per-GB rate waiting past it, and placement you choose. B2 has been running its model for years; we have not.

What none of them publish Wasabi states no committed availability figure, discloses no intra-region redundancy design, and offers no placement control below the region. Our erasure-coding scheme, host count, repair interval and the arithmetic behind our durability figure are all on the durability page, including what we have not yet measured.

What You Get That Isn’t on a Price Sheet

You choose where it lives
Pin placement by geography, provider, or specific host name — not wherever the vendor feels like putting it.
Erasure-coded across 120 independent hosts
Lose up to 40 of them, and you lose nothing.
Your existing tools, unmodified
Current boto3, AWS CLI, and rclone point at it today. No SDK fork, no special client.
Dollars, not tokens
Pay in plain dollars. No wallet, no coin, no exchange step between you and your bill.

Run the Numbers on Your Own Data

Put your own volume in and read the monthly total for every provider on this page. Open the cost calculator →

The egress column is the one that decides most of these bills. How egress pricing actually works → — six models compared on the same 10 TB workload, every figure sourced and dated.

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Public list prices as of 19 August 2026 for XNS, AWS, Wasabi and Storj, and 4 September 2026 for Backblaze B2; us-east-1 where pricing is regional. The same figures drive the cost calculator, which reads them from one published file rather than a second copy. Competitor names are trademarks of their respective owners.

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$6.00 per TB per month. $0 egress, uncapped. 30-day minimum retention, no early-delete fee.

The Bill That Actually Arrives

List Prices, Side by Side

What’s Under the Asterisk

Wasabi: free, until it isn’t

Where Wasabi Is the Better Answer

What You Get That Isn’t on a Price Sheet

You choose where it lives

Erasure-coded across 120 independent hosts

Your existing tools, unmodified

Dollars, not tokens

Run the Numbers on Your Own Data

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