4 free alternatives in Storage. Sorted by pricing stability.
Current Storj Situation
Risk Level:caution
Why:effective 2026-09-25 — On September 25, 2026, Storj stopped accepting STORJ token deposits for its service bills and switched to USDC. Accounts that deposit USDC are exempt from the $5 minimum monthly fee, as STORJ payers had been. The 10% discount on STORJ deposits ended the same day. Source ↗
On September 25, 2026, Storj stopped accepting STORJ token deposits for its service bills and switched to USDC. Accounts that deposit USDC are exempt from the $5 minimum monthly fee, as STORJ payers had been. The 10% discount on STORJ deposits ended the same day. Source ↗
removedeffective 2025-07-01high impact
Storj introduced a $5 minimum monthly usage fee for all accounts, announced 2025-05-30 and effective 2025-07-01, leaving a 30-day trial where the free tier used to be. The pricing page, read 2026-08-27, offers '25GB free storage for 30 days' with 'no credit card required' and applies the minimum fee once the trial ends, except for accounts paying in STORJ token. Source ↗
Object storage with zero egress fees — 10 GB storage, 1M writes, 10M reads/month free. Standard storage beyond the free tier is $0.015 per GB-month, Class A operations $4.50 per million, Class B $0.36 per million.
S3-compatible object storage — AIStor Free is free to download and deploy and includes the full AIStor feature set for a single-node deployment. Redistribution is prohibited.
StorageRead 2026-10-28 · catalogue date 2026-08-24
Making a bucket public needs a payment history on file, or a small card payment that Backblaze credits to the account balance. Private buckets need neither. (From backblaze.com/docs/cloud-storage-create-and-manage-buckets, read 2026-11-06.)
4 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 0 are demoted with the reason named, and 0 are listed last because they are not generally available or are not a free offer. How we rank.
Object storage with zero egress fees — 10 GB storage, 1M writes, 10M reads/month free. Standard storage beyond the free tier is $0.015 per GB-month, Class A operations $4.50 per million, Class B $0.36 per million.
S3-compatible object storage — AIStor Free is free to download and deploy and includes the full AIStor feature set for a single-node deployment. Redistribution is prohibited.
StorageRead 2026-10-28 · catalogue date 2026-08-24
Making a bucket public needs a payment history on file, or a small card payment that Backblaze credits to the account balance. Private buckets need neither. (From backblaze.com/docs/cloud-storage-create-and-manage-buckets, read 2026-11-06.)
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 4 free alternatives to Storj, each listed below with its tier, category and the read and catalogue dates we hold. Of those, 4 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
Is Storj's free tier still available?
No. What Storj offers is a trial that expires (Trial). Storj's free offer requires caution because of one specific recorded change, on 2026-09-25: On September 25, 2026, Storj stopped accepting STORJ token deposits for its service bills and switched to USDC. Accounts that deposit USDC are exempt from the $5 minimum monthly fee, as STORJ payers had been. The 10% discount on STORJ deposits ended the same day. Source: https://forum.storj.io/t/storj-is-moving-node-operator-payouts-and-customer-deposits-to-usdc/32809
How many free alternatives to Storj exist?
There are 4 free alternatives to Storj tracked on AgentDeals across the Storage category.
Has Storj changed their pricing?
Storj has 2 recorded pricing changes. The most recent was on 2026-09-25: On September 25, 2026, Storj stopped accepting STORJ token deposits for its service bills and switched to USDC. Accounts that deposit USDC are exempt from the $5 minimum monthly fee, as STORJ payers had been. The 10% discount on STORJ deposits ended the same day. Source: https://forum.storj.io/t/storj-is-moving-node-operator-payouts-and-customer-deposits-to-usdc/32809