# Which Object Storage Solutions offer the lowest total cost of ownership at scale

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Sticker price per gigabyte rarely tells the whole story once egress fees, retrieval charges, and management overhead enter the picture. Real G2 reviews point to a few <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/object-storage-solutions">object storage</a> platforms built specifically around lowering that total cost at scale:</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/backblaze-b2-cloud-storage/reviews">Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage</a> (4.6★, 114 reviews, G2 Grid Leader): Reviewers consistently cite transparent, predictable pricing with free egress well above what competitors offer, and several specifically call out moving off S3 to cut costs without giving up S3-API compatibility. The honest caveat: a few reviewers note the web interface feels dated and canned support responses can be a pain point when something goes wrong.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-s3-glacier/reviews">Amazon S3 Glacier</a> (4.5★, 139 reviews, G2 Grid Leader): Built specifically for low-cost archival at scale, and reviewers confirm it drives down long-term retention costs while keeping AWS-native integration. The recurring tradeoff is that retrieval timing and pricing tiers can get confusing, and data isn't available instantly.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/cloudian-hyperstore/reviews">Cloudian HyperStore</a> (4.7★, 13 reviews, G2 Grid High Performer): Worth flagging this is a thinner review sample, but reviewers managing large research and enterprise datasets specifically describe moving to it for predictable costs and reduced cloud storage spend versus public cloud, via its on-prem, S3-compatible hybrid architecture. A couple of reviewers note the interface and reporting could be more intuitive.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For workloads at real scale, does an on-prem or hybrid S3-compatible platform actually beat public cloud storage on total cost, or does the operational overhead of running it yourself eat those savings?</p>

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The savings are usually real but they shift the cost rather than eliminate it, hardware and staff time to run a hybrid setup replace the egress fees you&#39;d pay in public cloud. Whether that trade actually wins out probably comes down to whether a team already has the ops capacity to absorb that work, versus paying a cloud vendor to handle it for them.

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