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Amazon S3 vs Google Cloud Storage: Pricing Comparison (2026)

Updated Apr 6, 2026AWSGCP
Overall Winner
AWS
AWS Wins
2
GCP Wins
1
Ties
1

Pricing Analysis

AWS wins 2 of 4 price comparisons, averaging 29.4% lower prices in categories where it leads.

Prices range from $0.000030/hr to $0.0400/hr across comparable tiers.

Choose AWS
Best for Storage workloads
Choose GCP
Best for API Request workloads
Choose AWS
Best for Fee workloads

Side-by-Side Pricing

Comparing Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage across 4 equivalent tiers. On-demand hourly rates are shown in USD for the default region.

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CategoryAWS Amazon S3GCP Google Cloud StorageDiffCheapest
AmazonS3 - S3-API-Tier8
$0.0000/hr
Requests-Tier8 ($0.02/mo)
$0.0000/hr
4058-495A-6582 ($0.03/mo)
+25.0%Tie
Storage - Storage
$0.0010/hr
TimedStorage-INT-DAA-ByteHrs ($0.72/mo)
$0.0012/hr
03D9-C86E-54F8 ($0.88/mo)
+17.5%AWS
API Request - API Request
$0.0100/hr
Retrieval-ZIA ($7.30/mo)
$0.0050/hr
066B-4D44-7137 ($3.65/mo)
+50.0%GCP
Fee - Fee
$0.0300/hr
Expedited-Retrieval-Bytes ($21.90/mo)
$0.0400/hr
5391-66E2-9811 ($29.20/mo)
+25.0%AWS

When to Choose AWS Amazon S3

  • Storage - Storage - saves $0.15/mo (17.5% cheaper)
  • Fee - Fee - saves $7.30/mo (25% cheaper)

When to Choose GCP Google Cloud Storage

  • API Request - API Request - saves $3.65/mo (50% cheaper)

Monthly Cost Examples

AmazonS3 - S3-API-Tier8
AWS Requests-Tier8$0.02/mo
GCP 4058-495A-6582$0.03/mo
API Request - API Request
AWS Retrieval-ZIA$7.30/mo
GCP 066B-4D44-7137$3.65/mo
Fee - Fee
AWS Expedited-Retrieval-Bytes$21.90/mo
GCP 5391-66E2-9811$29.20/mo

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