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

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

Pick Tigris if

• Fits if you read the same data from many regions and want no egress bill
• Works for developers who already use S3 tools and want a swap-in endpoint

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you want a folder to drop files into, as it is infrastructure with no sharing app
• Tight if you stay free, because 5 GB is the whole free storage
• Watch out: Infrequent Access and Archive objects carry 30 to 90 day minimum storage charges and retrieval fees
• Watch out: Dropbox plans to acquire Tigris, and the company says pricing and product stay the same

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.

Tigris

• Standard storage is $0.02 per GB per month; Infrequent Access is $0.01 and Archive tiers $0.004.
• Requests are billed: $0.005 per 1,000 Class A and $0.0005 per 1,000 Class B, beyond the free allowance.
• Infrequent Access and Archive objects carry 30 to 90 day minimum storage charges and retrieval fees.
• Dropbox plans to acquire Tigris; the company says pricing and the product stay the same.

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.

Tigris

S3-compatible API

Applications talk to one S3-compatible endpoint, so existing S3 tools and libraries can point at Tigris.

Global distribution

The default bucket type distributes data globally and follows access patterns, with single-region, multi-region and dual-region options.

Storage tiers

Standard, Infrequent Access, Archive and Archive Instant Retrieval tiers, with minimum retention of 30 to 90 days on the colder ones.

Bucket forking and soft deletes

Bucket forking, lifecycle rules and soft deletes carry no separate charge; you pay for stored data at its tier's rate.

Object notifications

Changes to objects in a bucket can trigger webhook events, charged per event.

No egress fees

Reads from any region, any cloud or the open internet cost nothing for data transfer.

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.

Tigris

• Free tier$0

  Monthly allowance of 5 GB Standard storage, 10,000 Class A and 100,000 Class B requests; no card needed.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Custom pricing and service contract for larger workloads; contact the company.