What are the best indie alternatives to Amazon S3?

6 curated indie and bootstrapped alternatives to Amazon S3: Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, Tigris, Wasabi, MinIO and more. All are smaller, founder-led tools that compete with Amazon S3 on price, openness or developer experience.

What category does Amazon S3 fall under?

Amazon S3 is listed in Cloud File Storage. See all cloud file storage tools in our directory.

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Alternatives to Amazon S3

S3 is the default object storage. Indie alternatives offer compatible APIs with friendlier pricing or no egress fees.

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Side-by-side pricing, founders and indie status.

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Amazon S3 is a great alternative to

Tools in our directory that Amazon S3 can replace or compete with.

Cloudflare R2

Top indie alternatives

Smaller, founder-led tools that quietly compete with Amazon S3.

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Cloudflare R2

S3-compatible object storage with zero egress.

Same API, no egress fees, indie-friendly pricing.

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Backblaze B2

Cheap S3-compatible storage.

Long-running indie team, $6/TB/mo.

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Tigris

Globally-distributed object storage.

Indie team, S3-compatible, replicated globally.

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Wasabi

S3-compatible storage, no egress fees.

Boston-based, flat per-TB pricing.

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MinIO

Self-hosted S3-compatible storage.

OSS server you can run yourself.

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Garage

Self-hosted S3-compatible storage.

OSS by Deuxfleurs — designed for geo-distributed nodes.

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