Cloudflare R2: verified facts and rating

Checked 2026-11-04

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4

Object storage (S3-compatible) 4 of 9

70/100

Score breakdown

Price75
API and features50
Data protection60
Reliability and trust91

83% backed by facts · How we rank

Cloudflare R2 against the market

The dot is the company, the line is the median of all companies in this ranking.

Storage price per GB-month (standard class)$0.006$0.023$0.015 · median $0.01463
Egress price per GB (to the internet)$0.00$0.11176$0.00 · median $0.00816
Uptime SLA99.9%99.95%99.9% · median 99.9%

Cloudflare R2 strengths and weaknesses

Pros

  • Free or cheap egress
  • Object Lock for immutable backups
  • High uptime in a published SLA
  • Works with the Amazon S3 API

Cons

  • No confirmed object versioning

All facts

FactValueSourceChecked
Storage price per GB-month (standard class)$0.015
| Storage | $0.015 / GB-month | $0.01 / GB-month |
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Egress price per GB (to the internet)$0.00
There are no charges for egress bandwidth for any storage class.
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Permanent free tierYes
You can use the following amount of storage and operations each month for free. | Storage | 10 GB-month / month |
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Minimum storage durationNot verified—
S3 API compatibleYes
Access R2 storage through the S3-compatible API, Workers API, or Cloudflare REST API.
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Regions (provider's count)Not verified—
Object versioningNo
### Unimplemented bucket-level operations … ❌ PutBucketVersioning (legend: ❌ Feature Not Implemented)
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Lifecycle rulesYes
Object lifecycles determine the retention period of objects uploaded to your bucket and allow you to specify when objects should transition from Standard storage to Infrequent Access storage.
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Object Lock (immutable storage)Yes
Bucket locks prevent the deletion and overwriting of objects in an R2 bucket for a specified period — or indefinitely.
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Encryption at restYes
All objects stored in R2, including their metadata, are encrypted at rest.
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SOC 2 or ISO 27001Not verified—
Uptime SLA99.9%
Cloudflare will provide a Monthly Uptime Percentage of 99.9% for Customer’s use of R2
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Public status pageYes
Cloudflare System Status Subscribe to updates
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Founded2009
Where Cloudflare was founded in 2009
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Company headquartersUnited States
San Francisco (HQ) 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107
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CompanyCloudflare, Inc.
© 2026 Cloudflare, Inc.
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