Exoscale vs Storj (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Exoscale if

• Fits if your data must stay in European data centers
• Works for backup jobs that already write to an S3 endpoint

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you want a file-sharing app, as there are no desktop sync clients or folder sharing
• Skip it if you want to try before paying, since nothing is free and no trial is shown
• Watch out: outbound traffic costs $0.02 per GiB on top of storage
• Watch out: prices exclude tax and may show in EUR, CHF or USD, and Archival Storage has no published rate

Pick Storj if

• Fits if you're a developer who wants S3 storage and is fine with a trial first
• Works for teams that store a lot and read it back rarely

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want a drive that syncs, as this is object storage
• Watch out: a $5 monthly minimum applies after the trial and is a floor, not a credit
• Pricey if you read data often: egress is another $7 per TB
• Watch out: Standard bills a 30-day minimum retention, and Object Mount licenses are $29 or $39 a month

Exoscale

• This is infrastructure, not a file-sharing app: there are no desktop sync clients or folder sharing for end users.
• Prices are listed per GiB-hour; at 720 hours that is about $0.0198 per GiB-month, plus $0.02 per GiB of outbound traffic.
• Prices exclude any applicable tax and can be shown in EUR, CHF or USD.
• Archival Storage is listed as available on request, with no published rate.

Storj

• A $5 monthly minimum fee applies after the trial; it is a floor, not a usage credit, and USDC payers are exempt.
• Standard bills a 30-day minimum retention and rounds objects under 50 KB up to 50 KB.
• Paid Object Mount licenses are $29 per license per month (500 GB of Storj storage included) or $39 for use with other S3 storage.
• Standard and Advanced are bought through sales contact on the pricing page.

Exoscale

S3-compatible API

Existing S3 clients and libraries work with the service, and it can also be used through a web interface or scripts.

European zones

Data is held in zones across Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria and Croatia, in data centers the vendor says are ISO 27001 certified.

Versioning and object lock

Versioning, object lock and bucket replication are offered for backups and long-term archives.

Volume tiers

The per-GiB rate falls beyond 512 TiB and again beyond 1 PiB; the pricing page lists three storage tiers.

Usage-based billing

Resources are billed by the second with no long-term commitment, and the same rates apply across zones.

Storj

Distributed storage

Data is stored across tens of thousands of locations and designed for 11 nines of durability using erasure coding.

S3-compatible access

The pricing page calls it a drop-in replacement for AWS S3 that works with S3-compatible apps; segment and API fees are not charged on new tiers.

Object Mount

A desktop client for Mac, Windows and Linux that streams cloud files as if they were local, working with Storj or any S3 storage.

Regional option

The Advanced tier keeps data in U.S. SOC 2 Type 2 compliant data centers for buyers who need to control where data lives.

Exoscale

• Simple Object Storage$0

  Pay as you go, no up-front cost. Storage $0.0000275 per GiB-hour up to 512 TiB; outbound traffic $0.02 per GiB.

Storj

• Free trial$0

  for 30 days

  S3-compatible storage with 25 GB for 30 days and 2 free Object Mount licenses. No credit card needed.

• Standard$7

  per TB / month stored, plus $7 per TB egress

  Globally distributed storage. 30-day minimum retention, 50 KB minimum object size and a $5 monthly minimum fee.

• Advanced$10

  per TB / month stored, plus $7 per TB egress

  Storage kept in U.S. SOC 2 Type 2 compliant data centers. $5 monthly minimum fee.