{"rid":"storage/utho-archive-storage-0-38-gb-mo-cold-tier-denominated-no","card":{"rid":"storage/utho-archive-storage-0-38-gb-mo-cold-tier-denominated-no","eid":"utho","topic":"storage","slug":"utho-archive-storage-0-38-gb-mo-cold-tier-denominated-no","provider":"Utho Archive Storage (India) — ₹0.38/GB/mo cold tier, ₹-denominated, no egress fee","url":"https://utho.com/archive-storage","domain":"utho.com","category":"object-storage-cold","tier":null,"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"reported","binding":"none","identity_kind":"card","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":1,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"s3-compatible,rest,rclone","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"inherited","checked_on":"2026-10-21","stale_on":"2026-11-04","n_evidence":5,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":0.010527,"summary":"₹0.38/GB/month, no minimum commitment, 11-nines designed durability, 1-4 hour standard retrieval (instant available). The general object tier is quoted separ...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":5},"record":{"topic":"storage","slug":"utho-archive-storage-0-38-gb-mo-cold-tier-denominated-no","provider":"Utho Archive Storage (India) — ₹0.38/GB/mo cold tier, ₹-denominated, no egress fee","url":"https://utho.com/archive-storage","category":"object-storage-cold","free_tier":{"stated":"₹0.38/GB/month, no minimum commitment, 11-nines designed durability, 1-4 hour standard retrieval (instant available). The general object tier is quoted separately at ₹4/GB/month above a 100 GB base.","unit":"GB","metered_on":"unstated","source_url":"https://utho.com/archive-storage","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://utho.com/archive-storage","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://utho.com/archive-storage","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"«No egress fees in India» on the object-storage page and «Zero egress fees» / «No bandwidth overage charges» on the pricing page. The archive page itself says «No hidden retrieval fees». Utho's own pricing API, however, gives no bandwidth allowance per object plan (every plan's `bandwidth` field is 0), so the free-egress claim rests on marketing copy rather than a metered allowance — record it as a claim, not a contract.","metered":false},"interface":["s3-compatible","rest","rclone"],"interface_detail":"s3 + rest","tooling":"S3-compatible API with documented REST v2 endpoints (verified live: `GET https://api.utho.com/v2/pricing/objectstorage` -> 200, full plan ladder returned). boto3, rclone `s3`, Datashim. CDN-ready.","chaining":"Per-GB with no cap, so 5 TB and 20 TB are the same rate. India-only regions (Noida/Mumbai).","limits":[],"limits_note":"1-4 hour retrieval on the standard path — this is archive, not the hot 10 TiB. The archive product page carries no S3 endpoint of its own and no explicit statement that it is S3-addressable, so it may be a bucket lifecycle class rather than a separate API. Volume pricing is not published: the ladder from the API stops at 10 TB, and 20 TB requires sales contact.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"card","country":null},"reliability_note":"The most important reliability finding here is a PRICE DISCREPANCY INSIDE ONE VENDOR. Utho's marketing pages advertise object storage at «₹4/GB/month above 100 GB» and the pricing-comparison page claims «60-70 % More Affordable Than AWS», while Utho's own plan API returns ₹5.00/GB at 25 GB falling to ₹1.95/GB only at 10 TB — i.e. the advertised headline rate is roughly 2× the actual entry price and only reachable at the top of the ladder. Treat every Utho number as requiring an API cross-check. Node/uptime history not independently verified.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://utho.com/archive-storage","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"read broker, upstream_status 200: «Archive Storage ₹0.38/GB/month», «1-4hr Retrieval», «11 Nines Durability», «₹0.34/GB/month. No minimum commitment» (a second, lower figure appears in the FAQ block), «No hidden retrieval fees»"},{"url":"https://api.utho.com/v2/pricing/objectstorage","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"probe: GET -> 200, full ladder returned: 25 GB ₹125 (₹5.00/GB), 100 GB ₹350 (₹3.50/GB), 500 GB ₹1350 (₹2.70/GB), 1000 GB ₹2800 (₹2.80/GB), 2000 GB ₹5100 (₹2.55/GB), 5000 GB ₹12500 (₹2.50/GB), 10000 GB ₹19500 (₹1.95/GB)"},{"url":"https://utho.com/pricing?tab=object","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"«Starts at ₹500/month, Includes 100 GB of storage, + ₹4/GB/month above 100 GB» — contradicting the API's ₹350 for 100 GB"},{"url":"https://utho.com/object-storage","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"«S3-compatible object storage with 11 nines durability. CDN-ready. Pay-as-you-go. No egress fees in India.»"},{"url":"https://utho.com/simple-pricing","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"«Zero egress fees, zero early termination penalties», «No bandwidth overage charges»"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"Archive: $4.10/TB/mo at both 5 TB and 20 TB ($49.16/TB/yr), egress claimed $0. Standard object tier: $20.53/TB/mo at 10 TB ($205.28/mo), $26.32/TB/mo at 5 TB, $37.73/TB/mo at 250 GB — so the standard tier is 5× the archive tier at the same vendor. INR at 0.010527 USD/INR.","notes":"₹0.38/GB/month, no minimum commitment, 11-nines designed durability, 1-4 hour standard retrieval (instant available). The general object tier is quoted separately at ₹4/GB/month above a 100 GB base.","extras":{"price_verbatim":"Archive: $4.10/TB/mo at both 5 TB and 20 TB ($49.16/TB/yr), egress claimed $0. Standard object tier: $20.53/TB/mo at 10 TB ($205.28/mo), $26.32/TB/mo at 5 TB, $37.73/TB/mo at 250 GB — so the standard tier is 5× the archive tier at the same vendor. INR at 0.010527 USD/INR."},"binding":"none","binding_note":"no constraint in the record binds at this scale; the record carries no limit of a kind the vocabulary names"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":4,"unit":"hour","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":0.010527,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":0.010527,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.free_tier.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","not-extracted"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-extracted"],["$.retention.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.stated","not-extracted"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}