OVHcloud Cold Archive
- Free allowance
- Virtually unlimited; billed per GB-month, Paris (eu-west-par) only
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- free tierpaid plans from USD 5.6/TB-month
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Virtually unlimited; billed per GB-month, Paris (eu-west-par) only unit unlimited; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | $1.44/TB at 20 TB (EUR 25.60 = $28.76). Same rate at 5 TB ($1.44/TB). Lowest storage rate in the entire survey — but archive-class, with a EUR 5/TB restore fee. |
| Identity | card card |
| Egress | Free. OVH product page verbatim: "No more egress fees on OVHcloud Object Storage as of 1/1/26". Retrieval is charged separately at EUR 0.005/GB (= EUR 5/TB) at restore time. price per tb: EUR 5/TB |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | retention-clamped: 180-day minimum storage billed per object, verified on OVH's own page (180 days) |
| Interface | s3-compatible, rclone, cli S3 API |
| Tooling | AWS CLI, rclone, any S3 SDK; lifecycle rules supported |
| Reliability | Tape robot restores are minutes-to-hours for TB-scale and up to 48 h at hundreds of TB — unusable as a serving origin, correct as cold archive. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/object-storage/ | "No more egress fees on OVHcloud Object Storage as of 1/1/26"; storage classes incl. One-Zone, Local Zone |
| 2026-10-21 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/cold-archive/ | "Minimum storage billed: 180 days; Retrieval fee: Yes; Magnetic tapes; Durability: 11 nines; SLA 99.9%" and restore-time FAQ (max 48 h at hundreds of TB) |
| 2026-10-20 | s3providers.com/providers/ovhcloud-object-storage | Cold Archive EUR 0.00128/GB/month (derived from api.ovh.com catalog addon coldarchive.archive.hour.consumption x 730 h), retrieval EUR 0.005/GB, Paris only, verified 2026-10-20 |
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