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Scality RING pricing
Scality RING publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 1 September 2026, Scality RING pricing is on request across 2 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- On request
- Model
- Quote
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Not on record
Scality RING plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scality RING | On request | 4 | Entry tier |
| Scality ARTESCA | On request | 3 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Scality RING
On requestThe entry tier. It covers priced per usable terabyte, subscription or perpetual, server hardware purchased separately by the customer, support tiers quoted separately, multi-petabyte deployments standard.
Scality ARTESCA
On requestOver Scality RING, this tier adds:
- Lighter object store for smaller footprints
- Priced per usable terabyte
- Commonly deployed as an immutable backup target
What the product covers
The full Scality RING feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- S3-compatible object storage
- File and object access
- Erasure coding
- Object lock
- Multi-site geodistribution
- Hardware independence
- ARTESCA
People bring Scality RING in for a broadcaster archiving decades of video where hyperscaler storage and egress costs would be prohibitive, a hospital group holding medical imaging on premises for data residency and retention reasons, an enterprise building an immutable on premises backup target for veeam or commvault with object lock, a service provider offering s3-compatible storage to its own customers on hardware it controls. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Scality RING are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in File Storage
Too few file storage tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scality RING (this page) | On request | quote | - | |
| Cloudian | On request | quote | - | vs Scality RING |
| Panzura | On request | quote | - | vs Scality RING |
| VAST Data | On request | quote | - | vs Scality RING |
| LucidLink | $7/month | Per member per month plus storage | - | vs Scality RING |
| Google Drive | Free | Free tier plus paid storage add-on | - | vs Scality RING |
| Storj | Free, then $4/month | Per terabyte per month | - | vs Scality RING |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Scality RING badges page.
Before you pay for Scality RING
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between On request and On request, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Scality RING against the tools that do have one before committing.
Scality RING runs on linux, and is published by Scality of San Francisco, California, United States. The full record is on the Scality RING review, and the rest of the category is under best file storage tools.
Scality RING pricing questions
- How much does Scality RING cost?
- Scality RING publishes 2 tiers, from On request for Scality RING up to On request for Scality ARTESCA. The cheapest paid tier is On request.
- Does Scality RING have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Scality RING is listed as quote. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Scality RING and Scality ARTESCA on Scality RING?
- Scality ARTESCA costs On request against On request, and adds lighter object store for smaller footprints, priced per usable terabyte, commonly deployed as an immutable backup target.
- Which file storage tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 file storage tools listed alongside Scality RING have a free tier: Google Drive, Storj, Cloudflare R2, IDrive e2.
- What am I actually paying for with Scality RING?
- The record lists 7 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a broadcaster archiving decades of video where hyperscaler storage and egress costs would be prohibitive, a hospital group holding medical imaging on premises for data residency and retention reasons, an enterprise building an immutable on premises backup target for veeam or commvault with object lock.
- Does Scality RING charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Scality RING prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Scality RING against before paying?
- The closest file storage tools in this directory are Cloudian, Panzura, VAST Data, LucidLink. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Scality RING covering price, platforms and features.