Yes, Tigris has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes 5 GB of standard storage per month, 10,000 PUT, COPY, POST, and LIST requests per month, and 100,000 GET, SELECT, and other requests per month. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about <$1/mo.
About
Tigris is a globally distributed object storage service with an S3-compatible API. It provides standard object storage features such as buckets, object events, IAM policies, custom domains, presigned URLs, and storage tiers including Standard, Infrequent Access, Archive, and Archive Instant Retrieval.
The service is aimed at developers and AI workloads that need zero egress fees, geo-redundant placement, and support for tools such as boto3, aws-cli, rclone, PyTorch, and S3-compatible SDKs. The free offering includes 5 GB of standard storage per month, 10,000 PUT/COPY/POST/LIST requests per month, and 100,000 GET/SELECT and other requests per month.
- 5 GB standard storage per month
- 10,000 PUT, COPY, POST, LIST requests
- 100,000 GET, SELECT, and other requests
- S3-compatible object storage API
- Zero egress fees
- Geo-redundant bucket placement
- Standard, infrequent, and archive tiers
- Object notifications and webhooks
Free Tier Value
This free tier is a capped monthly allowance, not an uncapped forever plan, and the page does not say a credit card is unnecessary. Using the published Standard rates, 5 GB of storage is about $0.10/month, plus roughly $0.05 for the included request quota, so the bundle is worth about $0.12/month.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- 5 GB of standard storage per month.
- 10,000 PUT, COPY, POST, and LIST requests per month.
- 100,000 GET, SELECT, and other requests per month.
- Zero egress fees for data transfer out, regional transfer, and region-to-region transfer.
See Tigris pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Enterprise pricing
- Custom pricing and service contract
- Designed for larger workloads
- Zero egress fees
- Global, multi-region, and single-region placement
- S3-compatible object storage
- Enterprise support via direct contact
Standard
- storage
- $0.02/GB/month
- class_a_requests
- $0.005/1000 requests
- class_b_requests
- $0.0005/1000 requests
- egress
- Free
- Standard storage tier
- Free egress
- Free DELETE/CANCEL requests
- Free data retrieval
- Object notifications available
- S3-compatible API
Infrequent Access
- storage
- $0.01/GB/month
- class_a_requests
- $0.005/1000 requests
- class_b_requests
- $0.0005/1000 requests
- data_retrieval
- $0.01/GB
- egress
- Free
- Infrequent access storage tier
- Free egress
- Free DELETE/CANCEL requests
- Object notifications available
- Lower storage price than Standard
- S3-compatible API
Archive
- storage
- $0.004/GB/month
- class_a_requests
- $0.005/1000 requests
- class_b_requests
- $0.0005/1000 requests
- egress
- Free
- Archive storage tier
- Free data retrieval
- Free egress
- Free DELETE/CANCEL requests
- Lowest storage price among listed tiers
- S3-compatible API
Archive Instant Retrieval
- storage
- $0.004/GB/month
- class_a_requests
- $0.005/1000 requests
- class_b_requests
- $0.0005/1000 requests
- data_retrieval
- $0.03/GB
- egress
- Free
- Archive Instant Retrieval storage tier
- Free egress
- Free DELETE/CANCEL requests
- Instant retrieval available
- Lower storage price than Standard
- S3-compatible API
Pricing extracted from Tigris's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Tigris free forever?
Yes. Tigris has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
What is Tigris's free tier worth?
Tigris's free tier is worth about <$1 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 36/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
