OVHcloud Cold Archive
- Free allowance
- No free tier: the Cold Archive class is billed from the first GiB at USD 0.0000027 per GiB-hour (about USD 0.001971 per GiB-month), with no capacity cap stated; a 180-day minimum storage duration is billed and data retrieval costs USD 0.01062 per GiB
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- USD 1.84/TB-monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented33 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-02checked 2026-11-01 (live); stale on 2026-12-02
| Free tier | No free tier: the Cold Archive class is billed from the first GiB at USD 0.0000027 per GiB-hour (about USD 0.001971 per GiB-month), with no capacity cap stated; a 180-day minimum storage duration is billed and data retrieval costs USD 0.01062 per GiB unit none; metered on none; billed per GiB-hour; the monthly figure is the hourly price x 730 hours |
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| Price | USD 1.84 per TB per month (USD 0.001971 per GiB-month x 931.32 GiB per TB, billed per GiB-hour) at every volume from the first byte; a restore adds a retrieval fee of USD 9.89 per TB retrieved (USD 0.01062 per GiB) and bills the restored copy at the Standard rate while it is readable |
| Limits |
Restore time: from a few minutes to several hours for a few megabytes up to a terabyte, and at most 48 hours for hundreds of terabytes; data sits on magnetic tape; a 180-day minimum storage duration is billed per object |
| Binding | none none: no limit row binds before the restore step, which takes up to 48 hours for hundreds of terabytes and carries a retrieval fee |
| Identity | card an email address validated by a one-time code, the country of tax residence, and a valid payment method on the account before the first Public Cloud project; Visa, Mastercard and Maestro cards are accepted, and PayPal and a prepaid account are offered as payment methods |
| Egress | External ingoing and outgoing traffic free and API requests free; an object is read back only after a restore request, which carries the per-GiB retrieval fee and bills the restored copy upfront at the Standard Multi Zone rate of USD 0.00002152 per GiB-hour for the number of days set in the request price per tb: USD 9.89 per TB retrieved, the retrieval fee; outgoing traffic itself is free |
| Per-object cap | 48 TiB per object through multipart upload (up to 10,000 parts of 5 MiB to 5 GiB); 5 GiB through a single PUT (52776558133248 bytes) |
| Retention | no expiry stated; a minimum storage duration of 4,380 hours (180 days) is billed per object, and an object deleted or moved to another class earlier is charged for the remaining hours |
| Interface | s3-compatible, rclone, cli S3-compatible API, reachable only from the Paris 3-AZ region (EU-WEST-PAR) |
| Tooling | AWS CLI, rclone, any S3 SDK; lifecycle rules supported |
| Composes with | archive tier behind a hot S3 bucket: lifecycle rules move objects from Standard or Infrequent Access into Cold Archive, and a restore brings an object back into the Standard class for reading |
| Reliability | Tape-backed class with a 99.9% availability SLA and eleven nines of durability; a restore takes from a few minutes to several hours up to a terabyte and at most 48 hours for hundreds of terabytes |
| Notes | EUR price list: EUR 0.00000228 per GiB-hour (about EUR 0.0016644 per GiB-month) and EUR 0.009 per GiB retrieved, 180 days minimum |
| Evidence note | documented documented: the international and EUR price lists, the Cold Archive page, the storage classes page, the Object Storage limits page, the restore guides, the rclone guide, the account-creation guide and the free-trial page were read and quoted on 2026-11-01, and the public price catalogue answered a direct query; a timed read and restore from a bucket would make it measured |
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Evidence 33
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/object-storage/ | "No more egress fees on OVHcloud Object Storage as of 1/1/26"; storage classes incl. One-Zone, Local Zone |
| 2026-10-21 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/cold-archive/ | "Minimum storage billed: 180 days; Retrieval fee: Yes; Magnetic tapes; Durability: 11 nines; SLA 99.9%" and restore-time FAQ (max 48 h at hundreds of TB) |
| 2026-10-30 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/ | Cold Archive costs USD 0.0000027 per GiB-hour, about USD 0.001971 per GiB-month, with free external traffic and API requests, a USD 0.01062 per GiB retrieval fee and 180 days of minimum storage billed |
| 2026-10-30 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/ | Object Storage is invoiced per GiB-hour and the monthly figure assumes 730 hours |
| 2026-10-30 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/free-trial/ | a valid payment method is required on the account before the first Public Cloud project |
| 2026-10-30 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/terms-and-conditions/payment/ | OVHcloud accepts Visa, Mastercard and Maestro cards; the same page offers PayPal and a prepaid account |
| 2026-10-30 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/account-and-service-management/a | account creation validates the email address with a one-time code |
| 2026-10-30 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/ | Cold Archive bills a minimum storage duration of 4,380 hours (180 days) per object |
| 2026-10-30 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | the largest object is 48 TiB by multipart upload and 5 GiB by a single PUT |
| 2026-10-30 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/cold-archive/ | a Cold Archive restore of hundreds of terabytes may take up to 48 hours |
| 2026-10-30 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/object-storage/classes/ | Cold Archive is reachable only from the Paris region EU-WEST-PAR |
| 2026-10-30 | www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/prices/ | the EUR price list gives Cold Archive EUR 0.00000228 per GiB-hour, about EUR 0.0016644 per GiB-month, and EUR 0.009 per GiB retrieved |
| 2026-10-30 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/cold-archive/ | Cold Archive carries a 99.9% availability SLA and eleven nines of durability |
| 2026-10-30 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/cold-archive/ | part of the text of Composes with, above |
| 2026-10-30 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/old-prices/ | the legacy bucket-archive model on the legacy price page bills USD 0.005 per GB restored, the source of the old 0.005 retrieval figure; the current class bills USD 0.01062 per GiB |
| 2026-11-01 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/ | the USD price list bills Cold Archive storage at USD 0.0000027 per GiB-hour, about USD 0.001971 per GiB-month, with a USD 0.01062 per GiB data-retrieval column, free external traffic and API requests, and 180 days of minimum storage billed |
| 2026-11-01 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/ | Cold Archive is billed USD 0.0000027 per GiB-hour (about USD 0.001971 per GiB-month) with a USD 0.01062 per GiB retrieval fee and 180 days of minimum storage |
| 2026-11-01 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/ | a restored Cold Archive object is moved into the Object Storage Standard class and billed there for the period named in the restore request |
| 2026-11-01 | www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/prices/ | the EUR price list bills Cold Archive at EUR 0.00000228 per GiB-hour (about EUR 0.0016644 per GiB-month) with a EUR 0.009 per GiB data-retrieval fee, free external traffic and API requests, and 180 days of minimum storage |
| 2026-11-01 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/cold-archive/ | Cold Archive carries 11 nines of durability, a 99.9% SLA and 180 days of minimum storage billed, and the restore-time FAQ on the same page gives a maximum of 48 hours for hundreds of terabytes |
| 2026-11-01 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/ | Object Storage bills in GiB, not GB, with a granularity of 1 GiB |
| 2026-11-01 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/ | the monthly figure on the page is the hourly rate x 730 hours, so the published per-GiB-month rate is the one to compare |
| 2026-11-01 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/cold-archive/ | the Cold Archive product page states eleven nines of durability, a 99.9% SLA and 180 days of minimum storage billed |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | a restore bills the per-GiB restoration fee and the Standard-class storage of the restored object, so the retrieval fee is not the only restore charge |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | a restore takes up to 48 hours, and the same guide states the restored copy is billed upfront at the Standard class rate for the days set in the request |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | OVHcloud documents an rclone remote configuration for its S3-compatible Object Storage endpoint |
| 2026-11-01 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/object-storage/classes/ | the Cold Archive class is reachable only from the Paris region EU-WEST-PAR |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | the largest object is 48 TiB by multipart upload and 5 GiB by a single PUT, unchanged on 2026-11-01 |
| 2026-11-01 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/free-trial/ | a valid payment method is required on the account before the first Public Cloud project, unchanged on 2026-11-01 |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/account-and-service-management/a | account creation validates the email address with a one-time code, unchanged on 2026-11-01 |
| 2026-11-01 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/terms-and-conditions/payment/ | OVHcloud accepts Visa, Mastercard and Maestro cards, unchanged on 2026-11-01 |
| 2026-11-01 | probe: https://api.ovh.com/1.0/order/catalog/public/cloud?ovhSubsidiary=IE | OVHcloud's public price catalogue for the IE subsidiary answered HTTP 200 with 8,322,930 bytes of JSON, so the Cold Archive rates are also published in machine-readable form; the record's saved body in this workspace carries the coldarchive addons |
| 2026-11-01 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/ | the Cold Archive row of the international price list is unchanged as of 2026-11-01: storage USD 0.0000027 per GiB-hour with a monthly equivalent of USD 0.001971, retrieval USD 0.01062 per GiB, free external traffic and API requests, 180 days of minimum storage, and no free tier |
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| price verbatim | USD 1.84/TB/month (USD 0.001971 per GiB-month x 931.32 GiB per TB) at every volume, billed per GiB-hour from the first byte; archive-class, so a restore adds a retrieval fee of USD 0.01062/GiB (USD 9.89/TB) and bills the restored copy at the Standard rate. The EUR price list gives EUR 0.00000228 per GiB-hour (about EUR 0.0016644 per GiB-month) and EUR 0.009 per GiB retrieved. |
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