OVHcloud Swift Standard Object Storage
- Free allowance
- No free tier: Standard Object Storage SWIFT is billed from the first GB at USD 0.000017 per GB-hour (about USD 0.01241 per GB-month), with incoming and outgoing public traffic free
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- USD 12.41/TB-monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented10 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | No free tier: Standard Object Storage SWIFT is billed from the first GB at USD 0.000017 per GB-hour (about USD 0.01241 per GB-month), with incoming and outgoing public traffic free unit none; metered on none; billed per GiB-hour; the monthly figure is the hourly price x 730 hours |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 12.41 per TB per month (USD 0.01241 per GB-month x 1000 GB per TB); one rate at every volume |
| Limits |
Legacy class: the Swift storage classes no longer benefit from further developments; the S3-compatible classes are recommended for new applications; billing granularity is 1 GB |
| Binding | none none: storage has no stated cap, and a normal object is limited to 5 GB, with larger objects stored as segments |
| 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 |
| Egress | Internal traffic, incoming public traffic and outgoing public traffic are all free |
| Per-object cap | 5368709122 bytes (5 GB) for a normal object; a larger object is uploaded in segments of up to that size (5368709122 bytes) |
| Retention | unlimited volume and time: objects are kept until deleted, and no minimum storage duration is stated |
| Interface | rest, s3-compatible, rclone, cli OpenStack Swift API; a partial S3-compatible API on the Standard class |
| Tooling | python-swiftclient, rclone (Swift backend), Cyberduck, any Swift or S3 client |
| Composes with | a Swift container can serve static content over HTTP; the S3-compatible classes are the recommended path for new data |
| Reliability | triple replication of the data within one datacentre; no availability SLA figure is stated on the pages read |
| Notes | billed per GB-hour with a 1 GB granularity; Swift containers are offered in Strasbourg, Gravelines, Roubaix, London, Frankfurt and Warsaw |
| Evidence note | documented documented: the international price list, the storage classes pages, the endpoints page and the technical limits page were read and quoted on 2026-11-03; a read timed from a bucket would make it measured |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 10
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-03 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/?currency=USD | Standard Object Storage SWIFT costs USD 0.000017 per GB-hour, about USD 0.01241 per GB-month, with internal, incoming and outgoing traffic free |
| 2026-11-03 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/?currency=USD | Swift Object Storage is invoiced per GB-hour and the monthly figure assumes 730 hours |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | Swift Standard keeps three replicas of the data in one datacentre |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | Swift Standard is reached through the Swift API and a partial S3-compatible API |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | the Swift classes are legacy and receive no further development |
| 2026-11-03 | www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/regions-availability/ | Swift Object Storage is offered in Strasbourg, Gravelines, Roubaix, London, Frankfurt and Warsaw and not in the 3-AZ regions |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | the Swift cluster limits a normal object to 5 GB and uses segments for larger ones |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | the Swift maximum normal object is 5368709122 bytes |
| 2026-11-03 | www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/free-trial/ | a valid payment method is required on the account before the first Public Cloud project |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/account-and-service-management/a | account creation validates the email address with a one-time code |