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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.
Storage is $7.99 per terabyte a month with no egress and no request charges, which is the entire pricing model. The page sets that against a calculator quoting the large clouds at figures running to tens of thousands a year for equivalent volume. Reserved capacity tiers exist further down for enterprise commitments and are not the entry price. There is a minimum retention period on stored objects, which is the detail that catches people using it as scratch space rather than as an archive, and it is worth reading before migrating anything.
Anybody sitting on an archive of finished footage or raw files that has outgrown consumer cloud storage and would rather not learn a hyperscaler's billing model. It suits a videographer with years of projects, or a small studio backing up a NAS. Somebody storing a few hundred gigabytes is better served by a consumer plan, because this is priced and shaped for terabytes.
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.
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