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The rest of this page is the arithmetic that follows, plus the things R2 will not do for you.\n\n[[embed:source:s2]]\n\n## Evidence status\n\n**Observed** marks first-party measurements or runtime receipts from the named environment.\n**Derived** marks arithmetic calculated from cited inputs. **Specified** marks vendor or standards\ndocumentation. **Implemented** and **deployed** name code and live-state evidence, respectively.\n**Reproduced** means the stated procedure was rerun. **Externally attested** marks operator reports;\nthose reports show that an experience occurred, not that it is universal.\n\n## Zero egress is real; the meter is on the operations\n\nR2 bills three things: how much you store, and two classes of API call. **Class A** operations change state: `PutObject`, `CopyObject`, `ListObjects`, `CreateMultipartUpload`, `UploadPart`, `CompleteMultipartUpload`. **Class B** operations read state: `GetObject`, `HeadObject`, `HeadBucket`. Deletes are free. Bandwidth to the internet is free.\n\nRates, read from the pricing page on 2026-07-26:\n\n| | Standard | Infrequent Access |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Storage | $0.015 / GB-month | $0.01 / GB-month |\n| Class A (writes, lists) | $4.50 / million | $9.00 / million |\n| Class B (reads) | $0.36 / million | $0.90 / million |\n| Data retrieval | none | $0.01 / GB |\n| Egress to the internet | free | free |\n| Free each month | 10 GB-month, 1M Class A, 10M Class B | none; the free tier is Standard only |\n| Minimum storage duration | none | 30 days |\n\nCloudflare rounds usage up to the next unit: 1,000,001 operations bills as two million, 1.1 GB-month bills as 2 GB-month.\n\n[[embed:source:s1]]\n\nA reader of that same page put the obvious objection plainly.\n\n[[embed:source:s21]]\n\nHe is describing the meter correctly and drawing the wrong conclusion. Price the overage. Class B beyond the free 10 million costs $0.36 per additional million. On the ten-terabyte workload computed below, the S3 egress line is $891.00. For R2's metered operations to cost that much, you would have to make **2.475 billion** Class B calls beyond the free allowance in one month: 891 ÷ 0.36 × 1,000,000. The class-ops meter is real. It is roughly three orders of magnitude away from being the thing that costs you money.\n\n## Serving 10 TB a month: $18.45 on R2, $923.00 on S3\n\nThe workload: 1,000 GB stored, average object 500 KB (so 2,000,000 objects), 200,000 new objects written during the month, and 10,000 GB served to the public internet, or 20,000,000 GET requests. S3 prices are `us-east-1`, pulled from the AWS Price List API on 2026-07-26: Standard storage $0.023/GB-month, Tier-1 requests (PUT, COPY, POST, LIST) $0.005 per 1,000, Tier-2 requests (GET and all others) $0.0004 per 1,000, data transfer out to the internet $0.09/GB for the first 10 TB beyond the 100 GB monthly free allowance.\n\n| Line | R2 arithmetic | R2 | S3 arithmetic | S3 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Storage | (1,000 − 10 free) × $0.015 | $14.85 | 1,000 × $0.023 | $23.00 |\n| Writes | 200,000 of 1,000,000 free | $0.00 | 200,000 × $0.005/1,000 | $1.00 |\n| Reads | (20,000,000 − 10,000,000) × $0.36/M | $3.60 | 20,000,000 × $0.0004/1,000 | $8.00 |\n| Egress | 10,000 GB, unmetered | $0.00 | (10,000 − 100) × $0.09 | $891.00 |\n| **Total** | | **$18.45** | | **$923.00** |\n\nFifty times cheaper, and the ratio is almost entirely one line: egress is 96.5% of the S3 bill. 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