# Tigris review (2026): is the free plan enough? > S3-compatible object storage with no egress fees Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Tigris is S3-compatible object storage for developers, with data distributed across regions and no charge for data leaving it. Pricing is usage-based per gigabyte stored and per request, with a monthly free allowance on every account. Dropbox announced on November 5, 2026 that it plans to acquire the company. - **Category:** File Storage & Sync - **Made by:** Tigris Data - **Website:** https://www.tigrisdata.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a folder to drop files into, as it is infrastructure with no sharing app. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Tigris has a free plan. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Every month: 5 GB of Standard storage, 10,000 write and list requests and 100,000 read requests. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free tier | $0 | Monthly allowance of 5 GB Standard storage, 10,000 Class A and 100,000 Class B requests; no card needed. | | Enterprise | Custom | Custom pricing and service contract for larger workloads; contact the company. | Read from https://www.tigrisdata.com/pricing/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Tigris before buying. ## Key features - **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. ## Good for - Developers who want S3 storage without per-gigabyte egress charges - Workloads that read the same data from many regions or clouds - AI and data pipelines that read large datasets repeatedly ## Worth knowing - 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Tigris is S3-compatible object storage with no egress fees and a free monthly allowance of 5 GB. You pay per GB and per request beyond that, the cooler tiers add minimum-storage charges, and you need to be comfortable with APIs. - **Value for money: C.** Standard is $0.02 per GB a month, with requests billed beyond the free allowance. It is metered rather than a subscription, so it cannot be lined up against the category's $7 middle, and egress is free. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Every month gives 5 GB of Standard storage, 10,000 write and list requests and 100,000 reads, with no card. A real project goes past that fast. - **Features: B.** S3 API, global distribution, storage tiers, bucket forking, soft deletes and object notifications. Nothing in the listing is missing from object storage's job. - **Ease of use: D.** You work through the S3 API, access keys and a command line, as it is a developer service with no end-user app. No store rating is on record. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web console and API only, with no desktop or phone app. It lists Amazon S3 compatibility and nothing else. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Tigris Data's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among file storage and sync services - Tigris's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 13 of the 91 other file storage and sync services we grade, and level with 20. - It stands best on features (B, above 70 of 91) and worst on ease of use (D, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/file-storage ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Nothing Tigris does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 3 things listed below take a company. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 58 of the 91 other file storage and sync services grade higher. - You could not: A file manager working directly on your disk. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Amazon S3 among them, and has an API. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Amazon S3 **Tags:** Public API, File management ## Alternatives - [Backblaze B2](https://toolgpa.com/tools/backblaze-b2): S3-compatible object storage billed per terabyte. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/backblaze-b2-vs-tigris) - [Wasabi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wasabi): S3-compatible cloud object storage at a flat per-TB rate. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/tigris-vs-wasabi) - [MinIO](https://toolgpa.com/tools/minio): S3-compatible object storage software you run yourself. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/minio-vs-tigris) - [Storj](https://toolgpa.com/tools/storj): Distributed S3-compatible object storage priced per terabyte. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/storj-vs-tigris) - [Filebase](https://toolgpa.com/tools/filebase): S3-compatible object storage with IPFS pinning and free egress. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/filebase-vs-tigris) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.tigrisdata.com/ - https://www.tigrisdata.com/pricing/ - https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/dropbox-plans-acquire-tigris/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/tigris Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).