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Alternatives to Storj
20 file storage tools sit alongside Storj in this directory. Below is what separates each from Storj on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 20
- With a free tier
- 8
- Cheaper to start
- 5
- Storj starts at
- Free, then $4/month
Why people look past Storj
Nothing on the record flags a reason to move. Storj has a free tier, and starts at $4/month against a category median of $5/month. People still switch over fit and workflow, and those are not things a catalogue entry can measure, which is what the comparisons below are for.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Unlimited cloud backup at an affordable price
- No free tier, where Storj has one.
- Starts $5 a month dearer, at $9/month.
Hot cloud storage without egress fees
- No free tier, where Storj has one.
- Starts $3.99 a month dearer, at $7.99/month.
S3-compatible object storage that charges nothing for egress to the internet
- Starts $3.985 a month cheaper, at $0.015/month.
- Sold on a Per gigabyte stored per month model rather than Per terabyte per month.
- 3 tiers to Storj's 2.
Google's consumer cloud storage app, sharing the same 15GB quota as Gmail and Google Photos
- Sold on a Free tier plus paid storage add-on model rather than Per terabyte per month.
- 3 tiers to Storj's 2.
Low cost S3-compatible object storage with egress included up to a multiple of what you store
Priced and rated the same as Storj on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Open source distributed storage providing object, block and file from one cluster
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than Per terabyte per month.
- 1 tier to Storj's 2.
Every Storj alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storj (this page) | Free, then $4/month | Per terabyte per month | 2 | |
| BackblazeA conventional centralised bucket with lower latency and simpler billing, without the per segment charge | $9/month | - | 2 | vs Storj |
| WasabiFlat pricing with no egress or operation fees, if you can live with the ninety day minimum retention | $7.99/month | - | - | vs Storj |
| Cloudflare R2Zero egress rather than cheap egress, and much better time to first byte for public downloads | Free, then $0.015/month | Per gigabyte stored per month | 3 | vs Storj |
| Google Drive | Free | Free tier plus paid storage add-on | 3 | vs Storj |
| IDrive e2 | Free, then $4/month | Per terabyte per month | 2 | vs Storj |
| Ceph | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Storj |
| MinIO | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | vs Storj |
| Tigris | Free, then $0.004/GB/month | Usage-based tiered storage with per-request fees | 4 | vs Storj |
| Box | Free, then $5/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Storj |
| Nextcloud | Free | Freemium | 4 | vs Storj |
| LucidLink | $7/month | Per member per month plus storage | 3 | vs Storj |
| VAST Data | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Storj |
| Panzura | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Storj |
| Scality RING | On request | Quote | 2 | vs Storj |
| Cloudian | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Storj |
| Nasuni | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Storj |
| Veritas NetBackup | $100/month | Subscription | 1 | vs Storj |
| Zerto | $5/month | Subscription | 1 | vs Storj |
| Microsoft OneDrive | $1.99/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Storj |
| IDrive | $2.5/month | Subscription | 7 | vs Storj |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Storj badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (8)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- Cloudflare R2 , Free, then $0.015/month
- Google Drive , Free
- IDrive e2 , Free, then $4/month
- Ceph , Free
- MinIO , Free
- Tigris , Free, then $0.004/GB/month
- Box , Free, then $5/month
- Nextcloud , Free
Cheaper than Storj (5)
Entry price under Storj's $4/month. The record does not say what unit that price is charged in, so confirm per-seat versus flat rate before comparing budgets.
- Cloudflare R2 , Free, then $0.015/month
- Tigris , Free, then $0.004/GB/month
- Nextcloud , Free
- Microsoft OneDrive , $1.99/month
- IDrive , $2.5/month
What you would be giving up
Storj is most often brought in for an offsite backup or archive target where the data is large, written once and occasionally restored, serving large media files internationally without paying hyperscaler egress rates, storing data where the objection to aws, azure or google is jurisdiction and concentration rather than cost, a second, independent copy of a dataset that already lives in a hyperscaler bucket. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Storj is broadly right and the question is cost, the Storj pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the File Storage category lists everything the directory holds, and best file storage tools ranks them.
Storj runs on web, api, linux, macos, windows. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Storj alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Storj?
- 20 other file storage tools are listed in this directory, led by Backblaze, Wasabi, Cloudflare R2, Google Drive. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Storj?
- 8 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Cloudflare R2, Google Drive, IDrive e2, Ceph, MinIO.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to Storj?
- Yes. 5 of the alternatives below start under Storj's $4/month: Cloudflare R2 at Free, then $0.015/month, Tigris at Free, then $0.004/GB/month, Nextcloud at Free, Microsoft OneDrive at $1.99/month.
- Is there a reason to switch away from Storj?
- Nothing in the data flags one. Storj has a free tier, and starts at $4/month against a category median of $5/month. Fit and workflow are the usual reasons to move, and those are not things this record can measure.
- What would I give up by switching from Storj?
- Storj is most often brought in for an offsite backup or archive target where the data is large, written once and occasionally restored, serving large media files internationally without paying hyperscaler egress rates, storing data where the objection to aws, azure or google is jurisdiction and concentration rather than cost, a second, independent copy of a dataset that already lives in a hyperscaler bucket. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Storj?
- None of the file storage tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Storj alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, File Storage, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Storj against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Storj covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every file storage tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the File Storage category, 20 tools beside Storj. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.