Cloudflare R2: verified facts and rating
Checked 2026-11-04
Score breakdown
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
| Fact | Value | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storage price per GB-month (standard class) | $0.015 | Storage | $0.015 / GB-month | $0.01 / GB-month | | developers.cloudflare.com | 2026-11-04 |
| Egress price per GB (to the internet) | $0.00 There are no charges for egress bandwidth for any storage class. | developers.cloudflare.com | 2026-11-04 |
| Permanent free tier | Yes You can use the following amount of storage and operations each month for free. | Storage | 10 GB-month / month | | developers.cloudflare.com | 2026-11-04 |
| Minimum storage duration | Not verified | — | |
| S3 API compatible | Yes Access R2 storage through the S3-compatible API, Workers API, or Cloudflare REST API. | developers.cloudflare.com | 2026-11-04 |
| Regions (provider's count) | Not verified | — | |
| Object versioning | No ### Unimplemented bucket-level operations … ❌ PutBucketVersioning (legend: ❌ Feature Not Implemented) | developers.cloudflare.com | 2026-11-04 |
| Lifecycle rules | Yes 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. | developers.cloudflare.com | 2026-11-04 |
| Object Lock (immutable storage) | Yes Bucket locks prevent the deletion and overwriting of objects in an R2 bucket for a specified period — or indefinitely. | developers.cloudflare.com | 2026-11-04 |
| Encryption at rest | Yes All objects stored in R2, including their metadata, are encrypted at rest. | developers.cloudflare.com | 2026-11-04 |
| SOC 2 or ISO 27001 | Not verified | — | |
| Uptime SLA | 99.9% Cloudflare will provide a Monthly Uptime Percentage of 99.9% for Customer’s use of R2 | cloudflare.com | 2026-11-04 |
| Public status page | Yes Cloudflare System Status Subscribe to updates | cloudflarestatus.com | 2026-11-04 |
| Founded | 2009 Where Cloudflare was founded in 2009 | cloudflare.com | 2026-11-04 |
| Company headquarters | United States San Francisco (HQ) 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107 | cloudflare.com | 2026-11-04 |
| Company | Cloudflare, Inc. © 2026 Cloudflare, Inc. | cloudflare.com | 2026-11-04 |