Upstash Blob Now Includes 1 TB of Free Egress Every Month
Upstash Blob now gives you 1 TB of free egress every month on the pay-as-you-go plan. You pay for bandwidth only after the first terabyte, at $0.02 per GB.
Egress is the data that leaves your bucket: every image, video, PDF or export your users download. One upload can turn into thousands of downloads, so bandwidth grows with your traffic while storage can stay small. With 1 TB included, an app that serves less than a terabyte a month gets all of its bandwidth for free.
What you pay for now
- Egress: free up to 1 TB a month, then $0.02 per GB
- Storage: $0.02 per GB per month, billed on the monthly average of the bucket
- Reads: $0.30 per million
- Uploads, copies and lists: $4.50 per million
- Upload bandwidth and deletes: free
The free plan stays the same. It includes 1 GB of storage and 10 GB of egress a month, and you can sign up for it without a credit card.
Egress costs the same whether a file comes from the CDN cache or from the origin. Public files are served through Cloudflare's CDN with no extra CDN fees, and the same rate applies worldwide.
How it compares
| Service | Free egress per month | After that |
|---|---|---|
| Upstash Blob (pay as you go) | 1 TB | $0.02 per GB |
| AWS S3 | 100 GB, shared across all AWS services | $0.09 per GB |
| Vercel Blob | 10 GB on Hobby, part of Flat Rate CDN on Pro | $0.05 per GB on demand |
For example, let's say your app serves 1,000 GB of files in a month. On Upstash Blob, that bandwidth costs $0. On S3, you pay for the 900 GB past the free tier: 900 × $0.09 = $81.
With Upstash Blob, you get browser uploads and a CDN through one typed SDK, and bandwidth is free up to a terabyte. It also uses the same account and bill as Upstash Redis, QStash and Workflow. For example, a common setup stores the file in Blob, then starts a Workflow job from the upload callback to make thumbnails or index the document.
Try it
Once you create a bucket in the console, the quickstart shows how to upload your first file from the server or straight from the browser. Buckets are S3-compatible, so your existing AWS SDK code works too.
We have more cost examples in our object storage comparison for SaaS apps and the file uploads pricing breakdown.