Storage that outlives
the grant cycle.
Flat $4.99/TB. A cost you can write into a data management plan and trust to hold. No exit or retrieval fees.
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The grant has an end date. The retention requirement does not.
Funders want data kept and verifiable for years after the award closes. But the budget is fixed, the costs are variable, and the bill keeps arriving long after the grant period ends.
Variable costs, fixed award.
A data-management plan needs a storage number that holds for the life of the grant. Metered tiers with egress and retrieval charges produce a bill that moves with usage — impossible to commit to in a proposal written years in advance.
Retention outlasts the funding.
Funders increasingly require data kept and re-verifiable for five to ten years. The award covers a fraction of that. Whatever storage you choose has to stay cheap and intact long after the grant line is closed.
Moving the data costs money.
When the project ends, and data migrates to an institutional or disciplinary repository, retrieval fees turn the handover into an unbudgeted expense — charged precisely when every dollar has been spoken for.
5 TB of data. One review a year.
Same dataset, same annual integrity review, four providers. Monthly storage, the cost to read it back to verify it, and the all-in number you would put in the budget.
| Provider | Storage 5 TB/mo | Retrieval + egress | All-in /mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS S3 Standard | $118 | ~$38/mo | $156 |
| AWS Glacier Deep Archive | $5 | ~$47/mo | $52 |
| Wasabi | $35 | $0 | $35 |
| Fil OneYou | $25 | $0 | $25 |
Scenario: 5 TB of research data with one annual integrity review, amortized monthly. AWS S3 Standard: ≈$118/mo storage ($0.023/GB) + ≈$38/mo amortized review (5 TB × $0.09/GB egress per year) ≈ $156/mo. AWS Glacier Deep Archive: ≈$5/mo storage ($0.00099/GB) + ≈$47/mo amortized review (5 TB × ($0.02 retrieval + $0.09 egress)/GB per year) ≈ $52/mo. Wasabi: $6.99/TB = $35/mo, no egress. Fil One: $4.99/TB = $25/mo, $0 egress, no exit fees, integrity verified ~24 h. AWS and Wasabi rates from public US price cards, Q2 2026; figures indicative and rounded.
One number for the budget. Intact for the duration.
Predictable flat rate
$4.99/TB/month, flat. A number you can write into a data management plan and a multi-year budget and trust to hold up.
No exit fees
Leaving costs nothing. When the grant ends or the data moves to an institutional repository, you read everything back at $0 — no invoice on the way out.
Integrity verification, ~24 h
Every object is verified approximately every 24 hours, satisfying the integrity expectations of funder data retention requirements without a manual process.
S3-compatible
Standard S3 API. The tools, scripts, and repository software your project already uses connect without modification — and so will whoever inherits the data later.
One rate. $4.99/TB/month.
Storage. That is the whole bill. Integrity verification, 11 nines durability, free reads, and no exit fees are all included — the number you budget is the number you pay.
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