Data Egress Costs by Cloud Provider, 2026
Data egress(outbound data transfer from a cloud provider’s network) is one of the most variable line items on a cloud bill. Egress fees range from $0 (free) to over $0.50/GB depending on the provider, with a 127× cost difference between the cheapest and most expensive options tracked on this page.
This reference compares data egress costs across 44 cloud providers: 12 GPU cloud platforms, 4 hyperscalers, and a range of budget clouds, object storage services, CDNs, and developer platforms. All prices are in USD, manually verified, and current as of April 2026. Green rows indicate providers with zero egress fees. 6 of 12 GPU cloud providers charge nothing for outbound data transfer.
GPU Cloud Data Egress Costs
AI and ML workloads generate disproportionate egress volumes. Model checkpoints, dataset transfers, and inference responses routinely move hundreds of gigabytes per training run. The table below compares egress pricing for 12 GPU cloud providers, sorted from lowest to highest cost.
| Provider | Free Allowance | 1 TB Overage |
|---|---|---|
| RunPod | Free and unlimited | Free |
| Lambda Labs | -- | Free |
| Vast.ai | Varies by host | Varies |
| Salad Cloud | -- | Free |
| Voltage Park | -- | Free |
| VERDA | -- | Free |
| Scaleway GPU | Varies by instance | Free |
| Hetzner Cloud | 1–20 TB/mo | $1.18/TB |
| Nebius | 1 TB/mo | $15.00/TB |
| CoreWeave | -- | $80.00/TB |
| Hyperstack | -- | $80.00/TB |
| Paperspace | Plan quota | $120.00/TB |
Provider names link to full GPU pricing pages. Green rows indicate zero egress fees. Rates verified April 2026.
All Cloud Provider Data Egress Costs
Egress pricing for general-purpose cloud infrastructure, object storage, CDN, and developer platforms. Sorted from lowest to highest cost per TB. Budget cloud providers and storage-focused services consistently offer the lowest rates; hyperscalers (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) charge the highest.
| Provider | Free Allowance | 1 TB Overage |
|---|---|---|
| Civo | -- | Free |
| Packet (Equinix Metal) | -- | Free |
| OVHcloud | -- | Free |
| UpCloud | -- | Free |
| Cloudflare | -- | Free |
| Gcore | -- | Free |
| Scaleway (General) | Varies by instance | Free |
| Wasabi | -- | Free |
| Hetzner Cloud | 1–60 TB/mo | $1.18/TB |
| Hexabyte | 20 TB/mo | $1.18/TB |
| Storj | -- | $7.00/TB |
| Akamai Cloud (Linode) | 1–20 TB/mo | $5.00/TB |
| Oracle Cloud | 10 TB/mo | $8.50/TB |
| Backblaze B2 | 3× stored data/mo | $10.00/TB |
| Bunny.net | -- | $10.00/TB |
| DigitalOcean | 100 GB – 10 TB/mo | $10.00/TB |
| Vultr | 2 TB/mo | $10.00/TB |
| Exoscale | 1 TB/mo | $20.00/TB |
| Atlantic.net | -- | $20.00/TB |
| Fly.io | 100 GB/mo | $20.00/TB |
| Heroku | 2 TB/mo | Soft cap |
| Cleura | -- | $34.00/TB |
| Railway | -- | $50.00/TB |
| Alibaba Cloud | 10 GB/mo | $74.00/TB |
| Microsoft Azure | 100 GB/mo | $87.00/TB |
| AWS | 100 GB/mo | $90.00/TB |
| Supabase | 5–250 GB (plan) | $90.00/TB |
| Google Cloud | Depends on service | $120.00/TB |
| Vercel | 100 GB – 1 TB (plan) | $150.00/TB |
| Firebase | 10 GB/mo | $200.00/TB |
| Render | 100 GB – 1 TB | $300.00/TB |
| Netlify | 100 GB – 1 TB | $550.00/TB |
All prices in USD. Some providers use tiered or regional pricing; costs shown reflect standard first-tier rates. Verified April 2026.
What Is Data Egress?
Definition
Data egress (also termed outbound data transfer or bandwidth egress) refers to any data that leaves a cloud provider’s network boundary. This includes file downloads to local machines, API responses delivered to end users, data replicated to a different cloud region or provider, and content served through a CDN edge node. The inverse, data ingress, is data entering the provider’s network, such as file uploads and inbound API requests.
Egress vs. Ingress
Ingress is free at virtually all cloud providers. Egress carries a per-GB cost at most providers, though a growing number offer free outbound transfer. This pricing asymmetry is structural: free ingress minimizes friction for onboarding data, while egress fees create a financial cost to leaving, a mechanism commonly referred to as bandwidth lock-in. The cost differential between ingress ($0) and egress ($0.01–$0.55/GB) represents the largest billing asymmetry in cloud infrastructure.
Why Providers Charge for Egress
Outbound data transfer incurs real infrastructure costs. Providers pay IP transit fees to backbone carriers and ISPs for every byte delivered to the public internet. Hyperscalers set egress prices well above their transit costs, using the margin both as revenue and as a retention mechanism. Smaller providers, particularly GPU clouds and object storage services, absorb or eliminate egress fees as a competitive differentiator, accepting lower bandwidth margins to compete on total cost of ownership.
Regional and Peering Variations
Egress costs often vary by destination region. AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure charge higher rates for transfers to Asia-Pacific, South America, and Africa compared to North America and Europe. Many providers also distinguish between internet egress (traffic to the public internet) and private transfer (traffic between zones or regions within the same provider), with private transfer priced lower or free. Providers with extensive peering arrangements (such as Cloudflare) offer lower egress costs by delivering traffic directly to destination networks without paying transit intermediaries.
How to Reduce Data Egress Costs
Select a zero-egress provider
RunPod, Lambda Labs, Voltage Park, and Salad Cloud charge nothing for outbound transfer. Vast.ai egress is typically free but varies by host. Migrating GPU workloads to a zero-egress provider eliminates this cost category entirely.
Use zero-egress object storage
Cloudflare R2 and Wasabi charge no egress fees and provide S3-compatible APIs. Replacing S3 or GCS with zero-egress storage removes one of the largest bandwidth line items in most cloud architectures.
Cache with a zero-egress CDN
Cloudflare and Gcore deliver cached content with no per-GB egress charges. Placing a CDN in front of origin servers reduces direct egress from compute infrastructure.
Co-locate within a single region
Intra-region and intra-zone transfers are free or heavily discounted at most providers. Co-locating services that exchange large volumes of data in the same availability zone avoids cross-region and internet egress charges.
Compress before transfer
Standard compression (gzip, zstd) reduces transfer volumes by 30 to 60% for model checkpoints, datasets, and log files. Egress is billed per byte transferred, so fewer bytes means proportionally lower cost.
Maximize free tier allowances
Hetzner includes 1–20 TB/mo free per server. Oracle Cloud provides 10 TB/mo free. DigitalOcean includes up to 10 TB/mo per droplet. Structuring workloads to stay within these allowances avoids overage charges.
Calculate All-In GPU Costs Including Egress
The GPUPerHour cost calculator computes effective hourly rates inclusive of egress, storage, and ingress, not just base GPU price. Input workload parameters (storage GB, monthly egress, monthly ingress, compute hours) to rank GPU offers by true all-in cost across all tracked providers.
Providers without complete cost data are excluded in workload mode. Calculator URLs are shareable.
Citation
GPUPerHour: Cloud Data Egress Costs Reference (April 2026)
Source: https://gpuperhour.com/reference/data-egress
44 providers. Manually verified. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Last updated: April 2026
Maintained by @hwspeed
All data is independently researched and verified monthly. Prices are subject to change. Confirm current rates with the provider before making procurement decisions.