OVHcloud Public Cloud Swift Cloud Archive containers
- Free allowance
- No free tier: Cloud Archive is billed from the first GB at USD 0.0000033 per GB-hour (about USD 0.002409 per GB-month), plus USD 0.011 per GB of incoming public traffic
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- USD 2.41/TB-monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented10 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | No free tier: Cloud Archive is billed from the first GB at USD 0.0000033 per GB-hour (about USD 0.002409 per GB-month), plus USD 0.011 per GB of incoming public traffic unit none; metered on none; billed per GiB-hour; the monthly figure is the hourly price x 730 hours |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 2.41 per TB per month (USD 0.002409 per GB-month x 1000 GB per TB), plus USD 11 per TB of incoming public traffic |
| Limits |
Legacy cold class: a retrieval request is required and delays reading; the US price list shows USD 0.0121 per GB for incoming public traffic against USD 0.011 on the international list |
| Binding | none none: storage has no stated cap; a normal object is limited to 5 GB with larger objects stored as segments, and reads wait on an unfreeze request |
| Identity | card an email address validated by a one-time code, the country of tax residence, and a valid payment method on the account before the first Public Cloud project |
| Egress | Incoming public traffic costs USD 0.011 per GB; internal traffic and outgoing public traffic are free; an object must be unfrozen before it is read price per tb: USD 11 per TB of incoming public traffic (USD 0.011 per GB x 1000 GB per TB) |
| Per-object cap | 5368709122 bytes (5 GB) for a normal object; a larger object is uploaded in segments of up to that size (5368709122 bytes) |
| Retention | unlimited volume and time: data is kept until deleted; a retrieval request, the unfreeze, is required before an archived object can be read, and it takes a delay |
| Interface | rest, sftp, scp, cli OpenStack Swift API, with SFTP and SCP clients for the download |
| Tooling | python-swiftclient, Cyberduck, a Swift, SFTP or SCP client |
| Composes with | an archive tier for cold data; an object is unfrozen, then downloaded through a Swift, SFTP or SCP client |
| Reliability | no availability SLA figure is stated on the pages read: unverified; the class holds cold data behind a retrieval request |
| Notes | billed per GB-hour with a 1 GB granularity; offered in Strasbourg, Gravelines, London, Frankfurt and Warsaw; the US price list charges USD 0.0121 per GB incoming |
| Evidence note | documented documented: the international price list, the storage classes pages, the endpoints page and the technical limits page were read and quoted on 2026-11-03; a read timed from a bucket would make it measured |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 10
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-03 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/?currency=USD | Cloud Archive costs USD 0.0000033 per GB-hour, about USD 0.002409 per GB-month, with USD 0.011 per GB of incoming public traffic and free internal and outgoing traffic |
| 2026-11-03 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/?currency=USD | Cloud Archive is invoiced per GB-hour and the monthly figure assumes 730 hours |
| 2026-11-03 | us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/prices/ | the US price list charges USD 0.0121 per GB of incoming public traffic for Cloud Archive, against USD 0.011 on the international list |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | Cloud Archive is a Swift-API cold class with several minutes of latency to recover data |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | reading an archived object needs a retrieval request and a delay |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | the Swift classes are legacy and receive no further development |
| 2026-11-03 | www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/regions-availability/ | Cloud Archive is offered in Strasbourg, Gravelines, London, Frankfurt and Warsaw |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | the Cloud Archive Swift maximum normal object is 5368709122 bytes |
| 2026-11-03 | www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/free-trial/ | a valid payment method is required on the account before the first Public Cloud project |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/account-and-service-management/a | account creation validates the email address with a one-time code |