Selectel Object

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paidSelectel
Computeidentity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: egressSelectel Object Storage (Russia) — coldest tier is cheap, the traffic is notUSD 11.04/TB-month
Storageidentity cardevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05

Selectel

Compute

selectel.ru/services/cloud/servers/Cloud VMcompute/selectelJSON compare report an error

Free allowance: No free test. The provider's own FAQ states outright that there is no free testing for cloud servers and that the minimum way to evaluate one is to top up RUB 100 and run it hourly; a separate grant of up to RUB 30,000 exists but only for legal entities and sole proprietors.
Verdict: paidno free allowance; listed for its price
Cost: no price stated
Identity: cardcard required, no phone
Binding limit: volume-quotaThere is no free lane for an individual at all: the RUB 30,000 grant is restricted to legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, and everything else starts at a RUB 100 balance.
Evidence: documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22

Free tier	No free test. The provider's own FAQ states outright that there is no free testing for cloud servers and that the minimum way to evaluate one is to top up RUB 100 and run it hourly; a separate grant of up to RUB 30,000 exists but only for legal entities and sole proprietors. unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; none
Price	none stated
Limits	volume-quota (binding) There is no free lane for an individual at all: the RUB 30,000 grant is restricted to legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, and everything else starts at a RUB 100 balance. source
Identity	card not published
Egress	not stated
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	The 3 TB of pooled free egress across all projects is the durable item here, and it composes with any Russian-hosted workload; the compute itself has no free lane at all.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Selectel is one of the two largest Russian clouds and it publishes the opposite, in plain words, which is more useful than a page that hides it.
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 0

Evidence 3

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	selectel.ru/services/cloud/servers/	the FAQ on the cloud server page states, in Russian, that Selectel has no free testing, and that to evaluate a server it is enough to top the balance up by the minimum amount of RUB 100; the page then explains that a 2 vCPU and 4 GB server can be judged that way
2026-10-22	selectel.ru/services/cloud/grant/	the grant page states, in Russian, that registering in the control panel yields a grant of up to RUB 30,000 in bonuses for testing cloud services over one month, and that the offer is available to legal entities and individual entrepreneurs
2026-10-22	docs.selectel.ru/cloud-servers/about/payment/	the billing documentation states, in Russian, that pay-as-you-go billing deducts hourly for the previous hour of resources plus external traffic consumed above the free allowance of 3 TB across all projects of the account

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facets	`{"class": "regional-paid","free_tier_kind": "none","shape": null}`

Unknown values 7

egress metered: egress metering was not published
egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
interface: the access interface was not established
per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field

Selectel Object Storage (Russia) — coldest tier is cheap, the traffic is not

Storage

selectel.ru/services/cloud/storage/Object storagestorage/selectel-object-storage-coldest-tier-is-cheap-the-traffiJSON compare report an error

Free allowance: Ice (ледяное) ₽0.89/GB/mo; Cold ₽1.26/GB/mo; Standard ₽2.57/GB/mo.
Verdict: fails: egressdata cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
Cost: USD 11.04/TB-monthparsed from the record, in USD
Identity: cardcard required, no phone
Binding limit: noneno named constraint binds
Evidence: reported5 sources; a third party said so
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05

Free tier	Ice (ледяное) ₽0.89/GB/mo; Cold ₽1.26/GB/mo; Standard ₽2.57/GB/mo. Volume ladder: up to 10 TB ₽1.35, 10-50 TB ₽1.31, 50 TB+ lower (per Selectel's own price-change digest). unit GB; metered on unstated
Price	Ice: $11.04/TB/mo storage PLUS $24.31/TB for every full read-back (₽1.96/GB × 1024) — so one complete retrieval costs 2.2 months of storage. Realistic cold-archive usage (store 1 TB, read 250 GB per month): $11.04 + $6.08 = $17.12/TB/mo. At 50 % monthly read: $23.19/TB/mo. Identical at 5 TB and…
Identity	card card
Egress	METERED at ₽1.96/GB on every class, plus paid requests — Ice requests are the most expensive in the set at ₽361 per 1 M GET/HEAD and ₽3,009 per 1 M PUT (`serverdelo.ru` table, prices verified 2026-10-03). This is the trap: the cheapest storage line in Russia pairs with the most expensive retrieval. Selectel's OWN promotional tariff does waive it — «не платите за исходящий трафик и запросы весь год» — but only at ₽2/GB storage plus a ₽10,000/month platform fee, i.e. you prepay ₽120,000/yr to buy out the egress.
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Interface	s3-compatible, rclone, cli s3 + swift
Tooling	S3-compatible with IAM, S3 endpoint live (`https://s3.ru-7.storage.selcloud.ru/` -> 403 for anonymous list, expected). rclone `s3`, aws-cli, Terraform.
Composes with	Volume ladder is shallow (₽1.35 → ₽1.31 from 10 TB to 50 TB, a 3 % step) — no meaningful economy of scale.
Reliability	Tier-1 Russian provider, 152-FZ/PCI DSS/ISO 27001/27017/27018, three copies across racks. No reliability concern; the concern is purely the egress and per-request structure.
Parsed numbers	price-per-tb USD 11.04 TB / month

Evidence 5

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	serverdelo.ru/rejtingi/s3-hranilishche/	«Цены сверены с сайтами провайдеров 3 октября 2026 года»: «Selectel, ледяное \| 0,89 ₽ \| 1,96 ₽ \| 361 ₽ и 3 009 ₽»; «Selectel, холодное \| 1,26 ₽ \| 1,96 ₽ \| 224 ₽ и 2 040 ₽»; «Selectel, стандартное \| 2,57 ₽ \| 1,38 ₽ \| 54 ₽ и 714 ₽»
2026-10-21	selectel.ru/services/cloud/storage/	three-copy storage across racks, unlimited volume, S3 API, IAM, 152-FZ/PCI DSS/ISO 27001/27017/27018
2026-10-21	web.archive.org/web/202606/selectel.ru/services/cloud/storag	> replay of 20250615190112: «До 31 августа подключите стандартное объектное хранилище по специальному тарифу и не платите за исходящий трафик и запросы весь год … 2 ₽ за хранение 1 ГБ данных; 10 000 ₽ за подключение ежемесячно. Исходящий трафик и запросы к API — бесплатные»
2026-10-21	selectel.ru/blog/digest08_23/	volume ladder «До 10 ТБ 1,63 ₽ → 1,35 ₽; От 10 до 50 ТБ → 1,31 ₽»
2026-10-21	s3.ru-7.storage.selcloud.ru/	probe: curl -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' -> 403

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dead end {"failure_class": "quota","why": "Ice (ледяное) ₽0.89/GB/mo; Cold ₽1.26/GB/mo; Standard ₽2.57/GB/mo. Volume ladder: up to 10 TB ₽1.35, 10-50 TB ₽1.31, 50 TB+ lower (per Selectel's own price-change digest).","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"}

price verbatim Ice: $11.04/TB/mo storage PLUS $24.31/TB for every full read-back (₽1.96/GB × 1024) — so one complete retrieval costs 2.2 months of storage. Realistic cold-archive usage (store 1 TB, read 250 GB per month): $11.04 + $6.08 = $17.12/TB/mo. At 50 % monthly read: $23.19/TB/mo. Identical at 5 TB and 20 TB because storage is per-GB with only a 3 % volume step (₽1.35 → ₽1.31 above 10 TB). Standard class: $31.87/TB/mo storage + $17.11/TB per read-back. Ice request billing is the harsher trap for small objects: ₽361 per 1 M GET/HEAD = $4.37 per million, so a 20 TiB corpus of 1 MB shards (20 M GETs) incurs $87 in requests alone per full pass. Promo tariff (egress waived, archived capture): ₽2/GB + ₽10,000/mo flat = $36.91/TB/mo at 10 TB, $30.86/TB/mo at 20 TB, i.e. 4.0×/3.3× OVH One-Zone — the…

dead end	`{"failure_class": "quota","why": "Ice (ледяное) ₽0.89/GB/mo; Cold ₽1.26/GB/mo; Standard ₽2.57/GB/mo. Volume ladder: up to 10 TB ₽1.35, 10-50 TB ₽1.31, 50 TB+ lower (per Selectel's own price-change digest).","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"}`
price verbatim	Ice: $11.04/TB/mo storage PLUS $24.31/TB for every full read-back (₽1.96/GB × 1024) — so one complete retrieval costs 2.2 months of storage. Realistic cold-archive usage (store 1 TB, read 250 GB per month): $11.04 + $6.08 = $17.12/TB/mo. At 50 % monthly read: $23.19/TB/mo. Identical at 5 TB and 20 TB because storage is per-GB with only a 3 % volume step (₽1.35 → ₽1.31 above 10 TB). Standard class: $31.87/TB/mo storage + $17.11/TB per read-back. Ice request billing is the harsher trap for small objects: ₽361 per 1 M GET/HEAD = $4.37 per million, so a 20 TiB corpus of 1 MB shards (20 M GETs) incurs $87 in requests alone per full pass. Promo tariff (egress waived, archived capture): ₽2/GB + ₽10,000/mo flat = $36.91/TB/mo at 10 TB, $30.86/TB/mo at 20 TB, i.e. 4.0×/3.3× OVH One-Zone — the…

Unknown values 4

per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read