🆚 Google Cloud Storage vs. MinIO
Statistics for MinIO are still being collected and do not yet reflect its full market share.
Google Cloud StorageType
Cloud storage service
Cloud storage service
About
Google Cloud Storage is a managed object storage service for storing and accessing unstructured data on Google's infrastructure.
It provides multiple storage classes and lifecycle management, encryption and IAM controls, strong global consistency, Turbo Replication offering a 15-minute recovery point objective (RPO), and the Cloud Storage FUSE tool for mounting buckets as local filesystems.
MinIO is an S3-compatible object storage whose open-source version is no longer maintained.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Redwood City, California, United States
cloud.google.com/storagePricing
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
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Cloud Storages › Rank #2
Cloud Storages › Rank #19
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Total websites
Market share
Cloud Storages
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
Germany
Brazil
Netherlands
India
France
Australia
Canada
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Cloud Storages category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Cloud Storages category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom 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.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Internet Services
Health
Travel
Education/Reference
Sports
Blogs/Wiki
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 4,001,723 websites. However, data for MinIO is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.