🆚 Google Cloud Storage vs. UpCloud Object Storage

Statistics for UpCloud Object Storage are still being collected and do not yet reflect its full market share.

Google Cloud Storage

UpCloud Object Storage

Type

Cloud storage service

About

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

UpCloud Managed Object Storage is an S3-compatible object storage service with zero-cost egress and automatic scaling based on usage.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

Helsinki, Finland

Website

cloud.google.com/storage

upcloud.com #258,943

Pricing

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 version ❌

250+ GB $5+/month

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

United Kingdom

Japan

Germany

Brazil

Netherlands

India

France

Australia

Canada

Awards

🥈 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.

Online Shopping

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Fashion/Beauty

Internet Services

Travel

Health

Education/Reference

Sports

Blogs/Wiki

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#54

#57

#88

#98

#156

Name

Rank

#741,566

#2,794,985

#3,746,541

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🗃️ 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 3,604,716 websites. However, data for UpCloud Object Storage is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
Statistics were last calculated on August 4, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.