AIOZ Storage Pricing for Storage, Delivery, and Vectors
AIOZ Storage pricing has two lines for object storage: $17 per TB a month to store data and $5 per TB to deliver it, billed hourly from a pre-paid balance. The Vector Database and Super Intelligence Memory add their own fees to the same balance.
TL;DR:
- Object storage costs $17 per TB a month and delivery $5 per TB (0.017 and 0.005 USD per GB), billed hourly.
- Plain object storage has no per-request fee. Vector Database queries do: 0.000002 USD per query, plus fees for the data searched and returned.
- Billing runs against a pre-paid balance funded with AIOZ tokens. There is no free plan.
- If your balance falls below last cycle's storage charge, the account locks, and AIOZ deletes the data if you don't pay within 3 days.
Updated Oct 19, 2026: added the Vector Database and Super Intelligence Memory prices from the current billing page, qualified "no per-request fees" to object storage, and refreshed competitor prices.
How much does AIOZ Storage cost?
The billing docs list two prices for object storage. Storage costs 0.017 USD per GB per month, charged hourly, and bandwidth costs 0.005 USD per GB when data is downloaded. In TB terms, that is $17 a month to store and $5 to deliver.
The docs publish no per-request charge for object operations and no volume tiers. For plain buckets, what you store and what you serve make up the whole bill, so you can estimate it from two numbers you already track.
What does the AIOZ Storage Vector Database cost?
Vector usage is billed from the same pre-paid balance, on its own lines. Here are the prices from the billing page:
| Charge | Price |
|---|---|
| Upload | 0.04 USD per GB uploaded |
| Storage | 0.05 USD per GB per month, charged hourly |
| Query request | 0.000002 USD per query |
| Data searched | Depends on the size of your index (see below) |
| Data returned | 0.01 USD per GB returned; the first 512 KB of each query is free |
The price of data searched drops as your index grows. The first 100,000 vectors cost 0.0000028 USD per GB searched, vectors 100,001 to 10,000,000 cost 0.0000014 USD, and anything above 10,000,000 costs 0.0000002 USD. A query is charged at the average across the whole index. The docs' own example is an index of 1,000,000 vectors, which averages 0.00000154 USD per GB searched.
So "no per-request fees" holds for object storage only. Every vector search pays a flat request fee, and a million queries add $2 before the data-searched and data-returned charges. When your balance runs too low, the docs say vector upload and query requests are rejected.
Super Intelligence Memory runs on the Vector Database and is charged the same way. Each Record or Recall call adds a flat 0.00005 USD, which covers turning your text into embeddings.
How AIOZ Storage billing works
Billing is pre-paid: you deposit funds before you use the service, and there is no post-paid invoice. Usage is metered every hour. Each hour, AIOZ measures the bandwidth you used for downloads and the storage you occupy at that moment, then charges your balance.
You fund the balance from a wallet, not a credit card. Each account has a unique wallet address, and you send AIOZ tokens to it. The platform converts them into a balance at the current market rate.
If you run sub-users under one root account, their usage is billed together against the root balance. AIOZ also offers a deposit-estimation tool based on your expected usage, though the docs don't list the inputs it uses.
A typical monthly bill
Say you store 2 TB and serve 1 TB of downloads in a month. Storage runs 2 TB x $17 = $34, and delivery runs 1 TB x $5 = $5, so the month costs $39. Double the storage to 4 TB with the same delivery, and the bill becomes $68 + $5 = $73.
Delivery scales on its own, so a large, quiet archive and a small bucket with heavy downloads can end up with very different bills. Add a vector index holding 10 GB of vectors and the storage side grows by $0.50 a month, plus query fees as you search.
What happens if you don't pay?
AIOZ Storage sets a minimum balance equal to your storage charge from the previous billing cycle. The docs give the example directly: if you were billed $100 for storage last cycle, you need at least $100 in your balance to keep operating. Fall below that and the account locks. You can't upload or download, but your data stays in place.
You then have 3 days to settle what you owe. If you don't, AIOZ Storage deletes all data tied to the account. The docs describe no extension, so treat a locked account as a deadline.
AIOZ Storage's account limits
The usage-limit page sets three defaults per account: 100 buckets, 100 sub-users, and 100 requests per second. None of them depends on how much you spend, because there is only one pay-as-you-go rate card. If your application needs more than 100 requests per second sustained, test against that ceiling before you migrate.
How AIOZ Storage pricing compares to AWS, Cloudflare R2, and others
Against Amazon S3 Standard, at roughly $23 per TB stored and roughly $92 per TB for the first tier of internet egress, delivery is the big difference: $5 versus $92 per TB. Storage is closer, $17 versus $23 per TB. AWS also bills per request, which AIOZ Storage does not for object operations.
Newer providers built to undercut the hyperscalers make the picture mixed. Cloudflare R2 charges $15 per TB stored and lists egress to the internet as free, though it bills operations at $4.50 per million Class A and $0.36 per million Class B requests. Backblaze B2 charges $6.95 per TB, with free egress up to 3x your monthly average storage and free Class A, B, and C calls. Wasabi starts at $7.99 per TB a month with no egress or API request fees.
Where does that leave AIOZ Storage? Against AWS, the numbers make the case. Against R2, B2, or Wasabi, price alone won't win, so the case rests on other things, like the macaroon-based access grants and passphrase model, which none of those three ship in the same form.
How AIOZ Storage handles billing
In the dashboard, open the menu and pick Billing. The Overview tab shows your balance, total charges for the period, and bandwidth and storage costs with their usage. The Add Credits button shows the wallet address that receives your AIOZ tokens.
To plan a deposit, you can run the documented rates through a few lines of Python. This is our own estimate, using the prices from the billing page:
# Monthly estimate with the rates on the AIOZ Storage billing page (USD)
STORAGE_PER_GB_MONTH = 0.017
DELIVERY_PER_GB = 0.005
VECTOR_STORAGE_PER_GB_MONTH = 0.05
VECTOR_QUERY = 0.000002
stored_gb, delivered_gb = 2000, 1000 # 2 TB stored, 1 TB downloaded
vector_gb, queries = 10, 1_000_000 # 10 GB of vectors, 1M queries
total = (stored_gb * STORAGE_PER_GB_MONTH + delivered_gb * DELIVERY_PER_GB
+ vector_gb * VECTOR_STORAGE_PER_GB_MONTH + queries * VECTOR_QUERY)
print(f"${total:.2f} before data-searched and data-returned fees")Running it prints $41.50 before data-searched and data-returned fees. What the docs don't cover yet: the inputs behind the deposit-estimation tool, and any grace beyond the 3-day deletion window.
Next step: check the current rates on the AIOZ Storage billing page before you deposit.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does AIOZ Storage cost per TB?
$17 per TB per month for storage and $5 per TB for delivery, per the billing page (0.017 and 0.005 USD per GB).
Does AIOZ Storage charge per request?
Not for object storage. Vector Database queries carry a fee of 0.000002 USD each, plus charges for the data searched and returned.
How much does the AIOZ Storage Vector Database cost?
0.04 USD per GB uploaded, 0.05 USD per GB per month stored, 0.000002 USD per query, and 0.01 USD per GB returned after the first 512 KB of each query. Data searched is priced by index size.
Does AIOZ Storage have a free tier?
No. Billing is pre-paid from the start, and the docs state there is no free plan.
How is AIOZ Storage usage metered?
Hourly. Every hour, AIOZ measures the bandwidth you used for downloads and the storage you occupy, then charges your balance.
What happens if my AIOZ Storage balance runs out?
Your account locks once the balance falls below your previous cycle's storage charge. Your data is kept during the lock, but if you don't settle within 3 days, AIOZ Storage deletes it.
What are AIOZ Storage's account limits?
100 buckets, 100 sub-users, and 100 requests per second per account, regardless of spend.
Is AIOZ Storage cheaper than AWS S3?
Yes, most of all on delivery: about $5 per TB versus roughly $92 per TB for AWS's first egress tier. Storage is a smaller gap, $17 versus roughly $23 per TB.
Is AIOZ Storage the cheapest S3-compatible storage available?
No. Backblaze B2 and Wasabi publish lower storage prices, and Cloudflare R2 charges less for storage with free egress.
Related Reading
- What Is AIOZ Storage? S3-Compatible Decentralized Storage - what AIOZ Storage is overall, including its Vector Database, MCP server, and Super Intelligence Memory.
- AIOZ Storage Access Control: Macaroons and Access Grants - the security model behind AIOZ Storage's pricing pitch against cheaper competitors.
- Migrate from Amazon S3 to AIOZ Storage with rclone - the practical steps for moving a bucket over once the cost math works for you.
- AIOZ Storage vs AWS S3: The Full Pricing Comparison - the request fees, storage tiers, and cross-region costs AWS bills for that this hub doesn't cover.
- Hot vs Cold Storage: Storage Tiers and When They Matter - why AWS and Azure charge differently based on access frequency, and why AIOZ Storage's flat rate skips that decision entirely.
- What Is a CDN and How Does It Relate to Object Storage? - the job AIOZ Storage's $5/TB delivery fee does, and what its documentation does and doesn't confirm about the mechanism.
- Managing AIOZ Storage Buckets with Terraform, Step by Step - the account limits covered here (buckets, rate limit) apply the same way whether you manage buckets by hand or through Terraform.
- AIOZ Storage vs the Alternatives: A Full Comparison - how this rate card stacks up against five real competitors, not just AWS.
- Vector Database vs Agent Memory on AIOZ Storage: A Guide - which of the two vector features fits your workload before you start paying for either.
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