What it costs to get your data out
Egress is the bill nobody models until it arrives. The same terabyte leaving your servers can cost less than a coffee or more than the server it left, depending only on whose network it crosses.
- Providers
- 11
- Worked example
- 1 TB
Egress cost calculator
How much data leaves your servers each month?
| Provider | Free allowance | First paid GB | Monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Cheapest | Unmetered | $0 | Free |
| DigitalOcean | 1,024 GB | $0.01 | Free |
| Hetzner | 20,480 GB | $0.0012 | Free |
| Akamai (Linode) | 1,024 GB | $0.005 | Free |
| OVHcloud | Unmetered | $0 | Free |
| Vultr | 1,024 GB | $0.01 | Free |
| Bunny.net | — | $0.01 | $10.24 |
| Scaleway | 75 GB | $0.0108 | $10.25 |
| Microsoft Azure | 100 GB | $0.087 | $80.39 |
| AWS | 100 GB | $0.09 | $83.16 |
| Google Cloud | 200 GB | $0.12 | $98.88 |
Last checked . Rates are for internet egress from a US or EU region and exclude CDN discounts. Methodology
How each provider charges
Allowances, tiers and the catch in the footnotes.
Cloudflare — unmetered
R2 and Workers do not charge for egress.
DigitalOcean — 1,024 GB free, then $0.01/GB
Allowance is pooled across droplets, starting at 1 TB on the smallest plan.
Hetzner — 20,480 GB free, then $0.0012/GB stale · last good 12 Sept
20 TB included with every cloud server, then about €0.001 per GB.
Akamai (Linode) — 1,024 GB free, then $0.005/GB stale · last good 12 Sept
Pooled across the account; overage is $0.005/GB.
OVHcloud — unmetered
Unmetered public bandwidth on most instance ranges.
Vultr — 1,024 GB free, then $0.01/GB stale · last good 12 Sept
Bandwidth allowance varies by plan; overage is $0.01/GB.
Bunny.net — no free allowance, $0.01/GB
CDN egress, priced per region; the figure is the Europe and North America rate.
Scaleway — 75 GB free, then $0.0108/GB stale · last good 12 Sept
Microsoft Azure — 100 GB free, then $0.087/GB to 10 TB, then $0.083/GB to 150 TB, then $0.07/GB
AWS — 100 GB free, then $0.09/GB to 10 TB, then $0.085/GB to 50 TB, then $0.07/GB to 150 TB, then $0.05/GB
100 GB/month free across all services; tiers are cumulative per month.
Google Cloud — 200 GB free, then $0.12/GB to 10 TB, then $0.11/GB to 150 TB, then $0.08/GB
200 GB/month free to most destinations.