[mdasen]

Isn't B2 cheaper than Wasabi? B2 is $6/TB while Wasabi is $6.99/TB. Why would you have to manage hot and cold storage with B2?

Wasabi also treats every object as having a minimum 90-day storage period. So if you upload something and delete it, it's still considered "stored" for billing purposes for that 90-day minimum.

B2 also gives you 3x storage as free transfer compared to 1x for Wasabi.

I'm not saying you shouldn't go with Wasabi, but the reasoning you've articulated doesn't seem to track.

[masfuerte]

Additionally, Wasabi bills you for a minimum of 1TB of active storage, which is $6.99/month. For my modest backup needs it is way cheaper to use any service that bills per GB.

https://wasabi.com/pricing/faq

[smileybarry]

Wasabi used to be the cheaper option when B2 didn't offer variable free egress. B2 was basically "cheaper S3" as it still charged $0.005/GB for egress, while Wasabi was free egress (I think their upper limit used to be >1x your storage, so maybe that changed, or I'm misremembering?).

If your storage was fairly consistent, not tiny, and you intended to pull it regularly, Wasabi would come out on top. B2's egress change probably shifted the scales to favor B2 for those cases.

[Manouchehri]

Wasabi also charges objects at a minimum 4KB of storage, which isn’t great if you have millions of files at 1-2KB.