🆚 Cloudflare R2 vs. Google Cloud Storage

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *
Cloudflare R2
Google Cloud Storage

Type

Cloud storage service
Cloud storage service

About

Cloudflare R2 is a globally distributed, S3-compatible object storage service designed to store large amounts of unstructured data without charging egress bandwidth fees.

It supports Standard and Infrequent Access storage classes, provides strong durability and security features with bucket tokens and CORS, and includes tools for migration and event notifications that integrate with serverless compute.

Google Cloud Storage is a RESTful service for storing and accessing your data on Google's infrastructure.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States

Website

cloudflare.com #20
cloud.google.com/storage

Pricing

Free tier ✔️10 GB of storage + 1M class A operations + 10 class B operations per month
Standard
Storage$0.015/GB/month
Class A operations$4.50/million
Class B operations$0.36/million
Infrequent Access
Storage$0.01/GB/month
Class A operations$9/million
Class B operations$0.90/million
Data retrieval$0.01/GB
Free tier ✔️5 GB of Standard storage + 5,000 write and 50,000 read operations + 100 GB transfer from North America/month
Standard storage$0.020-$0.026/GB/month
Nearline storage$0.010-$0.015/GB/month
Cold storage$0.004-$0.007/GB/month
Archive storage$0.0012-$0.0024/GB/month
Operations on Standard storage (per 1,000)
Read$0.0050
Write$0.0004
Data transfer (per month)
First 1 TB$0.12+/GB
1–10 TB$0.11+/GB
10+ TB$0.08+/GB

Categories

Cloud Storages › Rank #6
Cloud Storages › Rank #2

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Google Cloud Storage service is 11 times more popular than Cloudflare R2.
Total websites

Market share

Cloud Storages

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Google Cloud Storage is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while Cloudflare R2 is more popular in Indonesia, Cambodia, and Albania.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Indonesia
Germany
Brazil
Netherlands
India
France
Australia

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Google Cloud Storage is more popular than Cloudflare R2 in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Internet Services
Travel
Education/Reference
Health
Blogs/Wiki
Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#5,045
#7,483
#13,120
#18,427
#18,859
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Name
Rank
#23
#54
#57
#88
#98
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See also

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