Yes, Cloudflare R2 has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes 10 GB-month of Standard storage per month, 1 million Class A operations per month, and 10 million Class B operations per month. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about <$1/mo.
About
Cloudflare R2 is an object storage service designed for storing large amounts of unstructured data without egress bandwidth fees. It supports standard and infrequent access storage classes, S3-compatible access, and Workers integration for building storage-backed applications.
The service is built for developers and teams that need durable, scalable storage for cloud-native applications, web content, media assets, data lakes, and batch-generated artifacts. It also includes features such as location hints, CORS configuration, public buckets, and bucket-scoped tokens for access control.
- Object storage for unstructured data at scale
- Standard and Infrequent Access storage classes
- S3 API compatibility and Workers API support
- Bucket controls including CORS, public access, and scoped tokens
- Suitable for web content, analytics, media, and application data
Free Tier Value
This free tier is a capped monthly allowance on the Standard storage class, with no egress charges and no credit-card-free signup signal on the page. Valuing the included storage and operations at the published rates gives about $0.15 for storage, $0.45 for Class A requests, and $3.60 for Class B requests, but the practical monthly value is held down by the small quotas and the fact that it only applies to Standard storage, so about $0.51/month is a fair buyer-facing estimate.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- 10 GB-month of Standard storage per month.
- 1 million Class A operations per month.
- 10 million Class B operations per month.
- Free egress data transfer to the Internet.
See Cloudflare R2 pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Standard storage
- storage
- per GB-month
- Class A operations
- per million requests
- Class B operations
- per million requests
- Standard object storage
- No egress bandwidth charges
- Monthly included usage applies to Standard storage only
- Supports Class A and Class B operations
Infrequent Access storage
- storage
- per GB-month
- Class A operations
- per million requests
- Class B operations
- per million requests
- data retrieval
- per GB
- minimum storage duration
- 30 days
- Lower storage rate than Standard storage
- Data retrieval processing fees apply
- No egress bandwidth charges
- Minimum storage duration applies
Pricing extracted from Cloudflare R2's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Cloudflare R2 free forever?
Yes. Cloudflare R2 has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
What happens when you exceed Cloudflare R2's free tier?
You move to a paid plan. Cloudflare R2's cheapest paid plan is Infrequent Access storage at $0.01 / month.
What is Cloudflare R2's free tier worth?
Cloudflare R2's free tier is worth about <$1 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 38/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
