Cloudflare R2 Free Tier

Free forever

S3-compatible object storage with 10 GB-month of Standard storage, 1M Class A and 10M Class B operations per month, and no egress fees.

Verified ·Oct 15, 2026

Free allowance

What the free plan includes, as the provider states it.

storage: 10 GB; Measured in GB-month (average of daily peak storage over the billing period). Standard storage only; Infrequent Access has no free tier.
Class A operations / month: 1M
Class B operations / month: 10M
egress / month: Unlimited; Egress via the Workers API, S3 API and r2.dev is not charged. r2.dev URLs are rate-limited and meant for testing; production traffic should use a custom domain.

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Free for: As long as you stay within the limits
At the limit: Overage is billed
Spending cap: None: usage past the limit is billed
Idle projects: No pause rule documented
Data retention: No deletion rule documented
Card at sign-up: RequiredR2 is enabled through a checkout flow for the R2 subscription, which needs a valid payment method even when usage stays within the free tier.
Identity check: An email address
Commercial use: AllowedThe free allowance is included usage on the standard pay-as-you-go R2 service, not a separate plan with its own terms.
Mainland China: Partly reachableGreatFire rates r2.dev (public bucket URLs) as mixed, though none of the pub-*.r2.dev URLs it tested is blocked. For the S3 API, https://r2.cloudflarestorage.com opens only sometimes, and cloudflarestorage.com, which hosts the account endpoints, is mixed. Custom domains were not assessed.
Sign-up regions: No restrictions documented
Quotas apply per: Account

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Better: Mainland China reachability corrected: not verified → partly reachable
Oct 15, 2026
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