Cloudflare R2

S3-compatible object storage — no egress fees, 10 GB free

Cloudflare R2

Role

Object storage when something is too big for git (photos, video exports, larger PDFs, image-tools intermediates).

Free tier

• 10 GB stored
• 1,000,000 Class-A (write) ops / month
• 10,000,000 Class-B (read) ops / month
• 0 egress fees (the headline feature)

Card / subscription required?

NO for the Free plan, but with a footnote: Cloudflare offers R2 under the same account as Pages/Workers and the Free plan does not require a billing method on file. (If you cross into the paid R2 add-on you’d add a card; we never do.) Audit confirms: free tier sign-up does not require card.

Alternatives

• Filebase
• 4EVERLAND
• Backblaze B2 — rejected by user policy (backblaze-b2.md)

Swap cost

Low — S3-compatible API, swap endpoint URL + credentials.

Why this is our pick

Zero egress is uniquely valuable for image / asset hosting. Same dashboard as Pages and Workers.

Cross-refs

• Cloudflare Pages
• ImageKit — used for transforms in front of R2

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