🆚 Cloudflare R2 vs. Google Cloud Storage

📈 Google Cloud Storage is much more popular than Cloudflare R2.
🌎 Google Cloud Storage is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
🌍 Cloudflare R2 is more popular in Indonesia, Cambodia, and Albania.

Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Cloudflare R2

Google Cloud Storage

Type

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

StandardStorage$0.015/GB/month
Class A operations$4.50/million
Class B operations$0.36/million

Infrequent AccessStorage$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

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

🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Cloud Storages category.
🥇 Most popular in Cambodia in the Cloud Storages category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Singapore in the Cloud Storages category.
⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the Cloud Storages category.
⭐ 6th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Cloud Storages category.

🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the Cloud Storages category.

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

Name

Rank

#23

#54

#57

#88

#98