Wasabi vs Zight Comparison 2026
Both cover media storage & review. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Object storage at one rate, with no egress fee
Screenshots and screen recordings with links
At a glance
- Wasabi starts cheaper, at $7.99.
- Only Zight has a free tier.
Side by side
Wasabi | Zight | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $7.99 | From $9.95 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Paid subscription | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier (they differ) | No | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Not stated |
| Data export | Everything, in an open format | Not stated |
| Their cut | None | None |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Wasabi
Object storage at one rate, with no egress fee
Wasabi sells cloud storage as a flat rate per terabyte and charges nothing to get the data back out, which is the line item that makes a bill from the big clouds unpredictable. For an archive of finished footage that gets pulled occasionally, that is the whole calculation. It speaks the same API as S3, so most backup software already knows how to talk to it. There is a minimum retention period, and it is worth reading before moving anything.
Our note
The no-egress promise is the whole reason to be here, and it only pays off if you actually pull data back occasionally. For a write-once archive nobody ever reads, cold storage elsewhere is cheaper, and the minimum retention period means short-lived files cost more than the headline rate suggests.
Zight
Screenshots and screen recordings with links
Zight, which spent years as CloudApp, captures a screenshot or a short recording and hands back a link before the file has finished uploading. Annotation, GIF capture and a searchable library are the reasons people keep it in the menu bar. The free plan caps recording length and storage, and the cap arrives sooner than expected.
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