Know your archive is intact
before you need it.
Flat $4.99/TB. Recurring integrity verification, no egress, no retrieval tax. 11 nines durability.
No credit card required · No retrieval fees · Connects in minutes
Archives are assumed intact. The retrieval bill is assumed fine.
Standard archive storage gives you low write cost and no guarantee the data is still intact. It also charges a retrieval fee every time you confirm it is. Neither assumption holds in a serious long-retention scenario.
Most storage does not tell you if data changed.
Standard object storage replicates data but does not continuously verify the content of each object. An archive can silently corrupt over months or years — undetectable until a restore attempt fails.
Testing your archive costs money.
Glacier-tier storage charges per-GB retrieval plus egress on every restore. A single annual test of 10 TB costs over $1,000 on AWS. Teams stop testing their archives — not because they do not need to, but because the bill makes them.
Disaster recovery events are expensive on metered tiers.
A large restore event — the one you actually need the archive for — is a large retrieval and egress event. The cost arrives at the worst possible time. A flat-rate archive has no such moment.
100 TB archive. One 10 TB restore per year.
Same archive workload, five providers. Monthly storage cost, per-restore cost, and whether integrity is verified.
| Provider | 100 TB/mo | Retrieval + egress | Restore 10 TB | Integrity verification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS S3 Standard | $2,304 | $0.09/GB egress | $922 | No |
| AWS Glacier Instant | $2,355 | $0.03 + $0.09/GB | $1,229 | No |
| AWS Glacier Deep Archive | $101 | $0.02 + $0.09/GB | $1,126 | No |
| Wasabi | $699 | $0 | $0 | No |
| Fil OneYou | $499 | $0 | $0 | ~24 h |
AWS S3 Standard and Glacier rates from public US rate card Q2 2026. S3 Standard storage: tiered $0.023/$0.022/GB; Glacier Instant $0.023/GB; Glacier Deep Archive $0.00099/GB. Retrieval: Deep Archive $0.02/GB + $0.09/GB egress. Restore cost computed: 10,240 GB × stated rates. Wasabi $6.99/TB. Fil One $4.99/TB, $0 retrieval, $0 egress.
Verification built in. Retrieval included.
Integrity verification, ~24 h
Every archived object is verified approximately every 24 hours. Data cannot silently corrupt or disappear between writes and reads.
No retrieval tax
$0 to read back the archive. Restore testing, partial recovery, and audit reads are included in flat storage pricing.
11 nines durability
Designed for 11 nines of durability. The storage architecture makes loss a detectable and recoverable event.
S3-compatible restore
Standard GetObject and multipart download. Any tool that reads S3 restores from Fil One without modification.
One rate. $4.99/TB/month.
Storage. That is the whole bill. Integrity verification, 11 nines durability, and free restores are included.
No credit card required · No retrieval fees · Connects in minutes