Compare best storage tool alternative for developer in 2023.

Micros

Get your Python & Node.js apps / APIs on the internet in seconds.

Base

Deta Base is a super easy to use production-grade NoSQL database that comes with unlimited storage.

Drive

The easy to use cloud storage solution by Deta – get 10GB for free.

100% free.

File uploader

Receive files from your users with a clean, lightweight and easy-to-integrate widget.

API

RESTful file management. Build your own flow with well-documented functions and response codes.

Image processing

Transform, optimize, and adjust images on the fly with an intuitive URL API

Deliver

Globally distributed multi-vendor content delivery network. Seamlessly integrated.

Free $0 /mo

• 3000 uploads, 30 GB traffic and 3 GB storage
• Unlimited image transformations
• Best-in-class file uploader
• Accelerated upload network
• Worldwide CDN coverage
• Automated image optimization

Pay as you grow (start from $20/month)

No usage limits File size up to 5 TB Secure uploads and delivery Webhooks Zapier & Make integrations Custom S3 storage Backup to S3 Document conversion Video processing GIF to video Custom OAuth apps Custom CNAME Live chat support

Convert images & videos to the right format

Automatic format support detection and content analysis to select the best output format like WebP, AVIF, MP4, and WebM.

Compress while maintaining quality

Over 30% smaller files that still look as sharp as the original content on all devices.

Stream videos for faster playback

Adaptive bitrate streaming in near real-time with HLS and DASH protocols for a smooth viewing experience.

Improve response times globally

Integrated CDN and a multi-region processing network for sub-50 millisecond load time for all your users.

Free

• 20GB bandwidth
• 20GB media storage
• 1000 video processing units
• 500 extension units

Premium $49/month

• 40GB bandwidth
• 20GB media storage
• 5000 video processing units
• 2500 extension units
• 1 Custom Domain

Enterprise $500+/month

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• Cloud Firestore
• Extensions
• App Check
• Cloud Functions
• Authentication
• Hosting
• Cloud Storage
• Realtime Database
• Crashlytics
• Performance Monitoring
• Test Lab
• App Distribution
• Google Analytics
• Machine Learning
• In-App Messaging
• A/B Testing
• Cloud Messaging
• Remote Config
• Dynamic Links

Firebase has generous free tier with "pay as you go" plan Firebase Detail pricing here

Database

Every project is a full Postgres database, the world's most trusted relational database.

Authentication

Add user sign ups and logins, securing your data with Row Level Security.

Learn more about /auth Learn more

Storage

Store, organize, and serve large files. Any media, including videos and images.

Edge Functions

Write custom code without deploying or scaling servers.

Free (limit 2 projects)

• Up to 500MB database & 1GB file storage
• Up to 2GB bandwidth
• Up to 50MB file uploads
• Social OAuth providers
• 50,000 monthly active users
• Up to 500K Edge Function invocations
• 1-day log retention
• Community support

Pro $25/mo/project

• 8GB database & 100GB file storage
• 50GB bandwidth
• 5GB file uploads
• Social OAuth providers
• 100,000 monthly active users
• 2M Edge Function invocations
• Daily backups
• 7-day log retention
• No project pausing
• Email support

Enterprise

• Point in time recovery
• Designated Support manager & SLAs
• Enterprise OAuth providers
• SSO/ SAML
• SOC2
• Custom contracts & invoicing
• On-premise support
• 24×7×365 premium enterprise support

• Real-Time Database
• Cloud Functions
• GraphQL, Rest & SDK
• Authentication
• File Storage
• Blockchain Storage
• Notifications

Free plan

Ideal for developing, learning and prototyping. Explore our features and start building with free monthly capacity of 25k requests, 250MB data storage, 1GB transfer, 1GB file storage. Supported by community.

MVP $15

• Per app per month, billed annually Save 40%
• 500k Requests
• 2GB Data Storage
• 250 GB Data Transfer
• 50 BG File Storage

Pay as you go ($80)

• Per app per month, billed annually Save 20%
• 5M Requests
• 4 GB Data Storage
• 1 TB Data Transfer
• 250 GB File Storage

Dedicated ($400)

• Per month, billed annually Save 20%
• Server Capacity
• 8 CPUs / 16 GB
• Unlimited Requests
• 80 GB Data Storage
• 2 TB Data Transfer
• 1 TB File Storage

• Scale storage resources to meet fluctuating needs with 99.999999999% (11 9s) of data durability.
• Store data across Amazon S3 storage classes to reduce costs without upfront investment or hardware refresh cycles.
• Protect your data with unmatched security, compliance, and audit capabilities.
• Easily manage data at any scale with robust access controls, flexible replication tools, and organization-wide visibility

Free Tier

new AWS customers receive 5GB of Amazon S3 storage in the S3 Standard storage class; 20,000 GET Requests; 2,000 PUT, COPY, POST, or LIST Requests; and 100 GB of Data Transfer Out each month.

S3 Standard

• General purpose storage for any type of data, typically used for frequently accessed data
• First 50 TB / Month $0.023 per GB
• Next 450 TB / Month $0.022 per GB
• Over 500 TB / Month $0.021 per GB

S3 Intelligent - Tiering

• Automatic cost savings for data with unknown or changing access patterns
• Monitoring and Automation, All Storage / Month (Objects > 128 KB) $0.0025 per 1,000 objects
• Frequent Access Tier, First 50 TB / Month $0.023 per GB
• Frequent Access Tier, Next 450 TB / Month $0.022 per GB
• Frequent Access Tier, Over 500 TB / Month $0.021 per GB
• Infrequent Access Tier, All Storage / Month $0.0125 per GB
• Archive Instant Access Tier, All Storage / Month $0.004 per GB

S3 Intelligent - Tiering

• Optional asynchronous Archive Access tiers
• Archive Access Tier, All Storage / Month $0.0036 per GB
• Deep Archive Access Tier, All Storage / Month $0.00099 per GB

And other pricing variant at s3 pricing

Spend less

Starting at $5/month for 250GiB with 1TB of outbound transfer—inbound bandwidth to Spaces is always free.

Reduce complexity

Object storage with a built-in content delivery network (CDN) meets your infrastructure needs with a simpler architecture.

Move faster

Create the most efficient design possible with just two clicks, using API docs that anyone can understand.

Easily integrate

Our API is S3-compatible, so you can reuse existing tools and code.

Access globally

Over 150,000 businesses and 1 million developers around the world use DigitalOcean’s secure and reliable cloud infrastructure.

$5/month

• S3-compatible object storage
• Highly scalable
• Built in CDN
• 250GB Storage
• 1TB Outbound transfer
• $0.02/GB Additional storage
• $0.01/GB Additional transfer

No Sleep

Cyclic Apps are available immediately on demand. Even on free tier. Say hello to fast apps. Say goodbye to waiting 30 seconds for containers to be provisioned and started.

Integrated Database and Storage

Enable integrated NoSQL DynamoDB database table and S3 object storage. Use industry leading database and storage directly integrated, with permissions and environment variables pre-configured. Install the sdk and start making requests.

Streaming Structured Logs

Cyclic brings together application and API logs to give you a single, clear and organized view of everything that happened in your application between request and response.

Log Search

Stop jumping between windows and scrolling through logs. Full text search your app logs with zero config, on paid plans.

Serverless Cron

The power of cron with no servers. Single second resolution triggering. Automatically adjusted for your timezone and daylight savings. Pick the route, payload and schedule that works for you.

Instant Environment Updates

Update environment variables without having to restart servers. Environment configuration changes are applied in real time to application instances with zero-downtime.

Free tier includes

• 3 apps
• 100,000 API reqs/month
• 1GB memory/req
• 1GB Object Storage (AWS S3)
• 1GB Database Storage (AWS DynamoDB)
• Unlimited blazing fast builds
• 3 Cron tasks/app
• Global deployment

Solo $9/mo

• All of Free plus
• 10 apps
• Private GitHub repositories
• 10 Cron tasks per app
• Search structured logs
• Branch based preview envs
• 30 day log retention
• Email support

Grow $299/mo

• All of Solo plus:
• Unlimited apps
• Unlimited users
• Organization GitHub accounts
• Unlimited Cron tasks
• 90 day log retention
• Chat support

✔ A set of purpose-built tools that lets frontend web and mobile developers easily build, ship, and host full-stack applications on AWS, with the flexibility to leverage the breadth of AWS services as use cases evolve. No cloud expertise needed.

✔ Build apps in hours: Create full-stack apps, frontend UI, and backends with authentication, storage, data, and more.

✔ Ship faster: Easily deploy and host fast, secure, reliable websites and server-side rendered apps in a few clicks.

✔ Scale smoothly: Extend your app with 175+ AWS services to support new use cases, DevOps practices, and user growth.

As part of the AWS Free Tier, you can get started with all AWS Amplify tools and services for free. Details of the offer for AWS Amplify are in here: AWS Amplify Pricing

• embedded database (SQLite) with realtime subscriptions
• built-in files and users management
• convenient Admin dashboard UI
• and simple REST-ish API

Open source, sefl-hosted

Databases

Store, query and manage access control to your app documents

Auth & Users

Authenticate, confirm and manage users using multiple signin methods

Storage

Upload, download and preview your app and users files

Functions

Run your backend code in a secure and isolated environment to customize your app

GEO & Localization

Detect your users location, locale and fetch GEO related data

Console

Track your backend API usage and manage your project resources from a modern UI

Privacy

Own your data. Easily setup Appwrite self-hosted solution on your infrastructure

Security

End-to-end security for your backend APIs both in transit and at rest

Open-Source with Cloud features

Postgres Database

The world's most advanced relational database.

GraphQL API

Instant Realtime GraphQL API based on your tables and columns in the database.

Realtime GraphQL API

The GraphQL API has built in subscriptions to sync data in realtime.

Hasura

GraphQL API, Role-Based Permissions, Web Console, Event Triggers, Cron Jobs.

Authentication

Sign in users with email, magic links, SMS, Google, Facebook, etc.

Storage (with CDN)

Let users upload and download images, documents and other files.

Serverless Functions

Run custom code using JavaScript and Typescript with infinite scale.

CLI

Run the full Nhost stack locally during development using the Nhost CLI.

GitHub Integration

Deploy database and backend changes with the workflow you love (git push).

More on Nhost pricing here

🚀 Fast, easy deployment 🚀 Unlimited builds 🚀 All your favorite frameworks & libraries 🚀 25+ datacenters 🚀 24/7/365 expert support ...& more

• Free Trial Available
• Application Hobby Tier - $7 / month
• Application Standard 1 Pod - $20 / month
• Database 1 Pack - $18 / month