Cloud providers with no egress fees

In October 2026, American Cloud and OVHcloud's US VPS don't meter outbound traffic, Oracle gives 10 TB a month free, and Cloudflare R2 charges no egress fee on stored data. Most others include an allowance, then bill per GB. At 5 TB a month out of one server, AWS charges $441, Azure $426 and Google Cloud $522 in transfer fees.

"No egress fees" means four different things: no meter at all, an allowance that runs out, a per-GB rate after a token free tier, or free only for storage reads or only when you leave. At 1 TB a month most of them look the same. At 20 TB out of a server, only the first kind still costs nothing, and that's the kind we sell. If you want the background on what egress is and why clouds charge for it, we wrote that up separately. This page is the price list.

Which cloud providers have no egress fees?

Here's what the traffic costs when one server sends 1, 5 and 20 TB a month to the internet, at ten clouds. Prices come from each provider's own price page on October 19, 2026.

How we priced it: one server, traffic to the internet only, list prices for US locations. A terabyte is 1,000 GB; DigitalOcean and Google bill per GiB, so we converted. Each developer cloud is priced on its dedicated-CPU plan closest to ours, not counting a public IPv4 address. Traffic between zones or regions, NAT gateways, CDNs and taxes aren't included.

American Cloud bandwidth pricing

We don't have an egress rate. Traffic out of our servers, Kubernetes clusters, load balancers and object storage isn't metered, so a server's bill is the same at 1 TB as at 20 TB. Bandwidth is a fixed cost for us, so we made it a fixed cost for you, and nobody gets a usage spike on the bill at the end of the month.

What you do pay for is the hardware: $10 per vCPU, $5 per GB of RAM and $1 per 16 GB of disk a month, so the 2 vCPU, 4 GB, 50 GB server in the table is $43.13. A public IP is $1 a month and a load balancer is $12. Object storage is $0.02 per GB a month with a $5 minimum. The one product with a bandwidth allowance is managed WordPress: 20 GB a month on the $10 plan and 100 GB on the $25 plan.

Everything runs in three US regions on infrastructure we own and operate. It's built for teams that push real traffic out of their servers and want a bill that doesn't move with it. Managed Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Redis sit on the same account, and when something breaks, a person answers on chat (median reply under 2 minutes).

Free unlimited outbound data transfer on virtual machines

Two other clouds sell server traffic as free. Each puts the limit somewhere else.

OVHcloud's US VPS lists "unlimited traffic" on every plan. The limit is the port: 500 Mbps on the $4.54 VPS-1, up to 3 Gbps on the $23.37 VPS-4.

UpCloud says all plans include "zero-cost egress", with a Fair Transfer Policy. Its docs give transfer quotas by plan line, from 1 TB on Developer plans up to 100 TB on Cloud Native, and its Fair Transfer Policy says a server past its share may be cut to 100 Mbps for the rest of the month, unless you opt in to $0.01 per GB. It isn't in the table.

Akamai Linode, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Hetzner and Oracle bandwidth pricing

These five bill per GB past an allowance, or from the first GB in Akamai's case, at a small fraction of what AWS, Azure and Google Cloud charge.

Oracle Cloud gives the first 10 TB a month of outbound transfer free, then charges $0.0085 per GB. That's the biggest allowance of these five.

Akamai (Linode) includes no transfer with its current G8 Dedicated plans, so the server in the table pays $0.005 per GB from the first GB. Older plans add their allowance to one account-wide pool, and a G8 server can draw on it. Some newer regions keep a separate pool.

DigitalOcean includes 4,000 GiB with the $42 CPU-Optimized Droplet, pooled across your team's Droplets, and charges $0.01 per GiB over. Our DigitalOcean alternative page compares the rest of the bill.

Vultr includes 5 TB with the $40 CPU Optimized 2 vCPU, 4 GB plan and charges $0.01 per GB over.

Hetzner prices its US servers differently from its European ones. The dedicated CCX13 in Ashburn or Hillsboro costs $50.99 a month and includes 1 TB of traffic, where the same server in Germany and Finland includes 20 TB. Each extra TB in the US is $1.20. More on that on our Hetzner alternative page.

AWS, Azure and Google Cloud data transfer out pricing in 2026

All three charge for every gigabyte sent to the internet past a small free tier, and the charge lands on top of whatever the server costs.

AWS gives 100 GB a month free across its services and Regions outside China and GovCloud, then charges $0.09 per GB for the first 10 TB and $0.085 for the next 40 TB.

Azure gives the first 100 GB free, then charges $0.087 per GB for the next 10 TB and $0.083 for the next 40 TB from North America.

Google Cloud sends traffic over its Premium tier by default, which includes 1 GiB free, then $0.12 per GiB up to 1 TiB, $0.11 up to 10 TiB and $0.08 after that. The 200 GiB free that shows up on other lists is for the Standard tier.

All three waive the fee when you leave, with conditions. AWS needs Support's approval and you have to move all your data off AWS, or off one service. Azure gives a credit you claim when you move your data to another cloud or an on-premises data center. Google waives it only when you move everything off a service and end your use of it. None of that helps with the traffic you serve to users while you're there. If AWS is the bill you're looking at, our AWS alternative page prices a full stack on both.

Egress pricing on object storage: Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2 and Wasabi

All three storage-only providers waive egress in their own way, and each still charges somewhere else.

Cloudflare R2 charges nothing for egress on any storage class. You pay $0.015 per GB a month to store data, plus $4.50 per million Class A operations (mostly writes) and $0.36 per million Class B operations (reads).

Backblaze B2 stores data at $6.95 per TB a month and gives free egress up to three times what you store. Past that it's $0.01 per GB, so 5 TB out of 1 TB stored costs $20 in egress.

Wasabi charges $7.99 per TB a month and no egress fee, as long as you send out no more than you store. Its policy calls egress above that "not a good fit" and reserves the right to limit or suspend service when it happens regularly. There's a 1 TB monthly minimum and a 90-day minimum storage time.

Our object storage is S3-compatible and charges nothing for requests or egress, with no ratio to watch, and it sits on the same account as the servers that read from it.

IaaS providers with no egress fees for video and large files

If your app serves video, downloads, backups or an API that returns big files, traffic is the workload, and the transfer line decides the bill. Twenty terabytes a month sounds like a lot. Spread over the month it's about 62 Mbps, around the clock, from one server. Under 1 TB a month per server, every cloud in the table except Akamai and the three hyperscalers charges nothing for it. Past each allowance there's a meter, and it runs fastest in the month your video takes off.

Check whether an allowance is pooled or counted per server, because a video origin usually does the heavy lifting alone. DigitalOcean pools every Droplet's allowance across your team, so three CPU-Optimized Droplets give one busy server 12,000 GiB to draw on. Akamai pools the allowances its older plans bring. Hetzner counts traffic per server, so the quiet web servers in front of your origin don't help it. Only outbound traffic counts on DigitalOcean and Hetzner, and we charge for neither direction. With no meter there's nothing to plan around: the traffic goes out of whichever server serves it, and the bill stays the same.

Among the clouds with no meter, the choice is between a bare VPS and a full cloud. We're the full cloud: the servers, Kubernetes, managed databases, load balancers and object storage behind your app on one account in the US, and a person on chat when a stream drops. Price your own setup in our pricing calculator.