Compare 55+ free cloud storage tools — Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, Tigris, Cloudinary, ImageKit, Google Cloud Storage, and more. Exact free tier limits by storage type. Catalogue dates May to September 2026.
Cloud storage costs add up fast — egress fees, per-request charges, and surprise overages can blow through a budget on a hobby project. The good news: the free tier landscape for storage is strong. Cloudflare R2 offers 10 GB free with zero egress fees. Backblaze B2 gives 10 GB free storage. Cloudinary provides 25 credits/month for image and video transformations. Google Cloud Storage includes 5 GB in its Always Free tier.
This page compares every free storage tool in our index — 74 tools across object storage (S3-compatible), media/image CDN, content delivery networks, file hosting/sync, and general-purpose storage utilities. Whether you need an S3 alternative or a media pipeline, we have the comparison with exact free tier limits.
S3-compatible object storage services for files, backups, and application data. These are the core building blocks for any cloud storage architecture — from static assets to data lakes.
Object storage with zero egress fees — 10 GB storage, 1M writes, 10M reads/month free
Object storage — first 10 GB always free, free egress up to 3x average monthly storage, unmetered via CDN partners
S3-compatible object storage — 5 GB free, 10K writes + 100K reads/month, zero egress fees
S3-compatible object storage — MinIO OSS is at end of life and is no longer being maintained. Its codebase is frozen, with no new features, bug fixes, or security patches.
Flamethrower Startup Program — up to $100K in B2 Cloud Storage credits. For founders and small teams building data-heavy products (AI/ML, media, gaming, SaaS). Launched Feb 2026
Hosted Package Repositories for YUM, APT, RubyGem and PyPI — Maven Repository: Create a Maven repository for Java artifacts and SNAPSHOTS in 10 seconds, for FREE. Python Repository: Easy to use private hosted PyPi repositories. Works with all Python package types. Get started for FREE! Alpine Repository: Easy to use private hosted Alpine repositories. Get started for FREE! Helm Repository: Create a Helm repository for Helm charts in 10 seconds, for FREE.
Superseded: As of 2026-08-28, pinata.cloud reads: 500 Pinned Files Total 1GB Storage Total 1 Gateway Total 10G Bandwidth Per month 10k Requests Per month. We are not publishing our stored Pinata IPFS terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-08-28, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓
Always Free: 5 GB regional storage (US regions), 5K Class A ops/month, 50K Class B ops/month, 100 GB North America egressWhen we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-20, we could read no amount, tier or rate on the page, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Image and video optimization, transformation, and delivery services. Upload once, get automatic resizing, format conversion, and CDN delivery. Essential for any app that handles user-uploaded media.
Media management — 25 credits/month (1 credit = 1 GB storage OR 1 GB bandwidth OR 1K transformations), up to 3 users
File uploading API and image CDN — Free tier includes 1,000 operations per month, 500 MB max file size, uploading widget, basic image transformations, and adaptive bitrate streaming. Personal use only.
Real-time image and video optimization with CDN — Forever free $0 / mo. Includes: 20 GB bandwidth Monthly limit, 3 GB DAM storage Fixed limit, 500 video units Monthly limit, 650 extension units Monthly limit, 2 users Fixed limit, 500 purge requests Monthly limit.
Image CDN and optimization — no permanent free tier. 30-day free trial with 100 credits, no credit card required. Paid plans start at Starter $25/mo (100 credits, 50 GB storage, 100 GB bandwidth); credit system charges 2 credits/GB/month for storage and 1 credit/GB for delivery.
Provides APIs for embedding media in a webpage, responsive image scaling, and extracting elements from a webpage. Free for up to 5,000 URLs/month at 15 requests/secondThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Image and video hosting, processing and streaming via CDN. Provides generous free tier of 250 GB / month for videos and 30 GB / month for images.
Unlimited image chart generation with a watermark
Global image CDN with sub-60-second setup, AVIF and JPEGXL support, and WordPress/Magento/React/Vue plugins. 30-day free trial only — no credit card required. Flat-rate enterprise licensing after trial; no permanent free developer tier.We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-09-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Superseded: As of 2026-08-28, imgbb.com reads: ImgBB is a free image hosting service. Upgrade to unlock all the features. 3 Year Pro $ 3.99 Billed $143.64 UPGRADE No Ads Direct Linking Unlimited space Replace image feature 64 MB file size per image API Access 69% OFF Annual Plan $ 7.99 Billed $95.88 UPGRADE No Ads Direct Linking Unlimited space Replace image feature 64 MB file size per image API Access 38% OFF Monthly Plan $ 12.99 UPGRADE No Ads Direct Linking Unlimited space Replace image feature 64 MB file size per image API Access. We are not publishing our stored ImgBB terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-08-28, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓
Free unlimited social cover image generation API, no watermark
Image optimization for website performance as a service, free 100 MB testing quota. Paid plans start at $5/mo.
Accelerate your site's speed on autopilot with complete front-end optimization (caching, images and code optimization, CDN). Free for up to 5,000 pageviews/monthThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Graph and share your data. The free tier includes unlimited public files and ten private filesThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Generate embeddable image charts, graphs, and QR codesThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
reSmush.it is a FREE API that provides image optimization. reSmush.it has been implemented on the most common CMS such as WordPress, Drupal, or Magento. reSmush.it is the most used image optimization API with more than seven billion images already treated, and it is still Free of charge.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Smart Image CDN with on-the-fly image optimization and resizing. The free tier includes 500 MB of storage and 2 GB of bandwidth.
API to compress and resize PNG and JPEG images, offers 500 compressions for free each monthThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Responsive images as a service. It provides an image CDN, a media processing API, and a frontend library to automate image optimization. The service is free for up to 3GB of traffic/per month.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Content delivery networks that cache and serve your assets from edge locations worldwide. From general-purpose CDNs to specialized JavaScript/CSS delivery.
Edge cloud platform with usage-based pricing; many of its products include a monthly free allowance. Full Site Delivery (CDN): 100 GB of bandwidth and 1 million requests free a month; beyond that, bandwidth costs $0.12 per GB in Europe and North America (100 GB to 10 TB) and requests $0.01 per 10,000. Compute: 10 million requests and 100 million vCPU milliseconds free. Object Storage: 5 GB free. KV Store: 1 GB free. Websockets and Fanout: 100 million minutes free each. Image Optimizer: 100,000 image requests. DDoS Protection: 500,000 requests. Managed TLS with a non-profit CA or your own certificates: 5 domains. Secret Store: 10 secrets. Accounts opened before 4 November 2025 have separate legacy pricing.
Free CDN for open-source — unlimited bandwidth and requests, serves npm packages and GitHub repos, multi-provider redundancy
Free CDN for open source projects — serves files from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket repos and npm packages. ~20-30 MB file size limitThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Free CDN for all npm packages. Any file on npm available via URL. Runs on Cloudflare Workers. No signup requiredThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Free ESM-first CDN for npm packages. Serves ES modules with automatic dependency resolution, TypeScript support, and tree-shaking. Runs on CloudflareThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
CDN for bootstrap, bootswatch and fontawesome.ioThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Up to 5 TB per month of Free CDN traffic, 19 Core PoPs , 1 Domain and Universal SSL.We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-09-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Simple. Fast. Reliable. Content delivery at its finest. cdnjs is a free and open-source CDN service trusted by over 11% of all websites, powered by Cloudflare.
The Google Hosted Libraries is a content distribution network for the most popular Open Source JavaScript librariesThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
The Microsoft Ajax CDN hosts popular third-party JavaScript libraries such as jQuery and enables you to easily add them to your Web applicationThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Free CDN with basic DDoS protection for Namecheap-hosted domainsWhen we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-14, we found no earlier figure of ours for the page to have narrowed, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Free DDoS protection and SSL certificate via SSL Gateway. Includes Always-on DDoS protection, free Let's Encrypt SSL, and HTTP/2 support
The Free plan is ¥0 /month, includes up to 5 users, and 3 GB of data per day.
A modern replacement of **rawgit.com** which simply hosts file using CloudflareThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
ESM-native JavaScript CDN serving optimized npm packages directly to the browser with no install or build step (minification, polyfills, compression, caching handled automatically). Free to use for personal and commercial purposes with no stated request limits; custom domains and advanced needs via contact.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
GraphQL edge CDN. Free plan: up to 100,000 requests/month, unlimited services, unlimited seats, 1-day data retention, fair-use policy. Business plan starts at $249/mo (25M metrics requests, 30-day retention, optional Edge Caching and Rate Limiting add-ons).
Proxy for Packagist and GitHub. Never fail CD. Free for personal use, one developer, no supportThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
An image cache & resize service. Manipulate images on the fly with a worldwide cache.The page we cite for this offer does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-09-05, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
File hosting, synchronization, and transfer services. From encrypted cloud drives to temporary file sharing and backup solutions.
Private or cloud storage, file sharing, sync, discussions. The cloud version has just 1 GBThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
simplest, fastest and safest interface to transfer and share files — TransferNow Free – 5 GB per transfer to send and receive files quickly and for free. 100 GB of storage. Retention up to 7 days.
Straightforward file sharing service. Share unlimited files up to 5GB with as many peers as you want.We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-09-14, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Share files up to 10 GB with end-to-end encryption. Files ≤5 GB are server-stored for 24 hours; files >5 GB use peer-to-peer transfer sent directly between endpoints.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Simple and secure offsite backup hosting for Borg Backup. 10 GB free backup space and two repositories.
AI based cloud storage with free up to 20 GB, three devices, 5 GB referral bonus (90 days account inactivity).
Zero-knowledge file sharing. End-to-end encrypted file sharing with AES-256-GCM encryption, client-side processing, and zero server-side data access. Free uploads for files up to 1GB with no data collection.We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-09-14, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Ente is an end-to-end encrypted cloud for photos, videos and 2FA secrets. URL moved to ente.com.
File.io is free to use with no gotchas and no hidden fees. Simply upload your files and share the link. You can upload as many files as you like up to 4 GB and get a link to share.The page we cite for file.io states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our read of the vendor's page on 2026-09-18.
Free file sharing and storage platform can be used via web-based UI & also API. unlimited file size, bandwidth, download count, etc. But it will be deleted when a file becomes inactive (no download for more than ten days).
Simple cloud storage service. 10 GB free storageThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-16, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Ultra-secure cloud storage for files and key documents. Free plan offers 5gb of storage space.
End-to-End cloud storage service. 5 GB of free storageThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Handles file uploads and encoding of video, audio, images, documents. Free for Open source, charities, and students via the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Commercial applications get 2 GB free for test drivingThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Cloud storage sync and unification platform — connects Google Drive, Dropbox, S3, OneDrive, and other providers into a single file manager. No free plan since 2026-03-31, when odrive ended free consumer accounts. New users get a 30-day free trial with no credit card; Standard is $20/user/month or $200/user/year.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
QR code generators, data storage utilities, and other tools with free tiers that handle storage-related tasks.
Compatible with AWS S3 - APIs, interface operations, CLI, and other upload methods, upload and store files from the IPFS and Arweave networks in a safe, convenient, and efficient manner. Registered users can get 6 GB of IPFS storage and 300MB of Arweave storage for free. Any Arweave file uploads smaller than 150 KB are free.
S3 compatibility object storage. 15 GB free storage and 15 GB downloads per month.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Superseded: As of 2026-09-01, filebase.com reads: Start at $7.50 for up to 500 GB. We are not publishing our stored Filebase terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-01, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓
Free online tools. Convert or edit documents, images, audio, video, and more.We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-09-28, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
A simple JSON data storage API perfect for personal projects, hackathons, and mobile apps!The page we cite for this offer does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-09-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Convert files in bulk. Supports many formats, including [AVIF](https://mconverter.eu/convert/to/avif/) and JXL. Extract image frames from videos. Compress PDFs. Free for 15 files per 24h, up to 100 MB each, processed in batches of eight.
JSON store with collaborative schema editing
Anonymous JSON storage for scripts and tiny apps. No signup required; uses Master AID for updates and Read-Only RID for public fetching. Free tier includes 1 bucket (1MB limit) with a 72h inactivity scavenger policy.When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-12, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Cloud storage sync and collaboration platform. Rebranded to We.Team.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Work management platform owned by Progress Software. The Free plan is $0 for up to 5 users, with unlimited workspaces and apps, 100 items per organization and 1000 API calls per hour.
There is no free tier: qrme.sh no longer serves the product. Checked 2026-09-01, the domain redirects to hz-mobile.de, which serves an online gambling site, so the expired domain has been taken over by an unrelated party. The former offer was a bulk QR code generator with no login and up to 100 URLs per export.
New Free accounts can create up to 3 dynamic codes and get 14 days of Analytics and QR Studio access. After that, Pro is required to use those premium areas. Existing codes keep redirecting and scans continue to be recorded.
Create all the optimized versions of your images and videos. For Free. In bulk. For each image, you get the following formats: AVIF, WEBP and JPG in the three selected resolutions (desktop, tablet, mobile) For videos, you get: WebM (codec VP9), MP4 (codec HEVC aka H.265) and MP4 (codec AVC aka H.264) plus the cover image with the first frame.
Easily create custom QR codes for gift cards, gift vouchers, and promotions. Support custom styling, color, logo...The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Superseded: As of 2026-09-09, storj.io/pricing reads: Object Storage offers a free trial with 25GB storage and 2 Object Mount licenses for 30 days. Paid plans include Standard ($7/TB storage, $7/TB egress, $5 monthly minimum) and Advanced tiers. Object Mount has Teams ($29/month, 500GB Storj Object Storage included) and Any S3 tiers ($39/month). A $5 minimum monthly fee applies unless usage exceeds $5 or the account pays in STORJ tokens. We are not publishing our stored Storj terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-09, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓
Top free storage tools compared by type, free tier limits, and best use case.
| Service | Type | Free Tier | Egress | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare R2 | Object Storage | 10 GB, 1M reads/mo | Free (zero egress) | S3-compatible with no egress fees |
| Backblaze B2 | Object Storage | 10 GB | Free to 3x storage | Affordable S3-compatible storage |
| Tigris | Object Storage | 5 GB, 10K requests | Included | Globally distributed, S3-compatible |
| Google Cloud Storage | Object Storage | 5 GB (US regions) | 1 GB/mo free | GCP ecosystem integration |
| MinIO | Object Storage | ∞ (self-hosted) | N/A (self-hosted) | Self-hosted S3-compatible, high performance |
| Cloudinary | Media CDN | 25 credits/mo | Included | Image/video transformations + CDN |
| ImageKit | Media CDN | 20 GB bandwidth/mo | Included | Real-time image optimization + CDN |
| Uploadcare | Media CDN | 3K uploads, 30K transforms | Included | Upload widget + image transformations |
| Fastly | CDN | Free developer account | Included | Edge computing + CDN, Varnish-based |
| jsDelivr | CDN | ∞ (open-source) | Free | npm/GitHub package CDN |
| Proton Drive | File Sync | 1 GB | N/A | End-to-end encrypted cloud storage |
| Pinata IPFS | Decentralized | 1 GB | Included | IPFS pinning for decentralized storage |
Cloudflare R2 leads on value with 10 GB free and zero egress fees — a game-changer for read-heavy workloads. Backblaze B2 undercuts it on storage and serves up to 3x what you store for nothing, charging $0.01/GB only past that. For media, Cloudinary and ImageKit both offer generous transformation pipelines. MinIO is the go-to for self-hosted S3-compatible storage. Catalogue dates May to September 2026.
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