Is Cloudflare R2 free for file storage?

No — there's no free plan, but no monthly fee either: you pay for what you use (R2 Standard: stored $0.015 per GB).

How much does Cloudflare R2 cost for file storage?

$0.015 per GB-month of storage after 10 GB free, with no egress fees; operations are billed per million. At list prices: stored 10 GB: $0/month (R2 Standard); stored 100 GB: $1.35/month (R2 Standard); stored 5k GB: $75/month (R2 Standard).

Cloudflare R2 pricing

How Cloudflare R2 charges, what to know before you commit, and what you'd pay at your usage — next to what the alternatives would cost for the same thing.

How it charges

Checked 2026-10-03 on developers.cloudflare.com ↗ · USD, list prices

In short

$0.015 per GB-month of storage after 10 GB free, with no egress fees; operations are billed per million.

Free plan: Yes
Side project: $0/mo R2 Standard
Growing: $1.35/mo R2 Standard
Scaling: $75/mo R2 Standard

What the model leaves out

Egress is free. First 10 GB-month of storage, 1M Class A and 10M Class B operations per month are free; beyond that Class A operations are $4.50/million and Class B $0.36/million (not modelled). Infrequent Access storage class not modelled.

Before you commit

Class A operations (writes, lists) cost $4.50 per million after 1M free a month, and Class B (reads) $0.36 per million after 10M free.
Usage is rounded up to the next billing unit: 1.1 GB-month is billed as 2 GB-month, and 1,000,001 operations as 2 million.
The free tier covers Standard storage only; Infrequent Access has a 30-day minimum storage duration and a $0.01/GB retrieval fee.