Azure Blob Storage vs Tigris
SEPT 2026 auditA comparison of Azure Blob Storage and Tigris built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
The short answer
Choose Azure Blob Storage if…
Workloads already on Azure, where keeping storage in the same region as the compute avoids the bandwidth charge that dominates an object storage bill.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Choose Tigris if…
Globally distributed buckets with no egress fees and tiered storage, where cold data drops to $0.004 per GB-month without a separate archive product to manage.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Consider something else if…
- Azure Blob Storage: Egress is charged beyond the first 100 GB a month, where R2, Wasabi and Tigris charge nothing — and Azure's rates vary by region and redundancy, so a quoted figure only holds for the combination it was read for.
- Tigris: Retrieval is charged on the Infrequent Access and Glacier tiers, so the tiering that lowers the storage bill can raise the access one. The cheapest tier is not the cheapest for data you actually read.
5 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.
Pick the criteria you care about. The chart counts how many of them lean toward each provider — the same read as scanning the bars below, just totalled for the ones you chose.
Azure Blob Storage 0
Tigris 0
At a glance.
| Criterion | Azure Blob Storage | Tigris |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Egress over allowance | First 100 GB a month free, then $0.087 per GB over Microsoft's global network, falling to $0.083 above ~10 TB, $0.07 above ~50 TB and $0.05 above ~150 TB. Routing over the public internet instead is $0.08 at the first tier. This is Azure-wide bandwidth rather than a Blob-specific charge. | None. Tigris charges no egress fees; retrieval is free on Standard and Archive tiers and $0.01–$0.03 per GB on the Infrequent Access and Glacier tiers. |
| Limits | ||
| Storage (entry plan) | None. Azure Blob has no plans and no free storage band: the Hot LRS storage meter's cheapest tier begins at tierMinimumUnits 0 and charges $0.0208 per GB-month from the first gigabyte, with volume tiers only above 50 TB. Azure's free account offer sits outside the rate card and is time-limited, so it is not an allowance this criterion can record. | 5 GB free, shown against a modelled $1.90 Tigris cost versus $8.75 on AWS and $11.00 on GCS for the same scenario |
| Storage | ||
| Storage price | $0.0208 per GB-month for Hot LRS in East US, falling to $0.019968 above 50 TB and $0.019136 above 500 TB. Azure prices vary by region and redundancy; this and every Azure figure on the site is East US, locally redundant. | $0.02 per GB-month for Standard, $0.01 for Infrequent Access, $0.004 for Archive and Glacier tiers |
| Operations price | $0.05 per 10,000 write operations and $0.004 per 10,000 reads on Hot LRS — $5.00 and $0.40 per million. Listing and creating containers is $0.05 per 10,000; all other operations $0.004. | $0.005 per 1,000 Class A requests and $0.0005 per 1,000 Class B, on every tier. DELETE and CANCEL are free. Object notifications cost $0.01 per 1,000 events. |
| Minimum storage duration | None on Hot. Cool carries a 30-day minimum, Cold 90 days and Archive 180 days — the longest early-deletion window of any provider here, and three times S3's 90-day Glacier figure. | None on Standard. Infrequent Access carries a 30-day minimum; Tigris names Archive and Archive Instant Retrieval as also subject to a minimum, listed in its pricing table as 90 days. Deleting or updating an object sooner is still billed for the full window. |
Where they differ.
Egress over allowance
- Azure Blob Storage
- First 100 GB a month free, then $0.087 per GB over Microsoft's global network, falling to $0.083 above ~10 TB, $0.07 above ~50 TB and $0.05 above ~150 TB. Routing over the public internet instead is $0.08 at the first tier. This is Azure-wide bandwidth rather than a Blob-specific charge.
- Tigris
- None. Tigris charges no egress fees; retrieval is free on Standard and Archive tiers and $0.01–$0.03 per GB on the Infrequent Access and Glacier tiers.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Azure Retail Prices API — Bandwidth, eastus ↗
“"meterName": "Standard Data Transfer Out", "unitOfMeasure": "1 GB", "retailPrice": 0.0, "tierMinimumUnits": 0.0 [...] 0.087, "tierMinimumUnits": 100.0 [...] 0.083, 10335.0 [...] 0.07, 51295.0 [...] 0.05, 153695.0 [...] "Bandwidth - Routing Preference" [...] 0.08, "tierMinimumUnits": 100.0”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
- Pricing — Tigris ↗
“Globally distributed, S3-compatible object storage. Zero egress fees. [...] Data Retrieval Free $0.01/GB Free $0.03/GB”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Storage (entry plan)
None. Azure Blob has no plans and no free storage band: the Hot LRS storage meter's cheapest tier begins at tierMinimumUnits 0 and charges $0.0208 per GB-month from the first gigabyte, with volume tiers only above 50 TB. Azure's free account offer sits outside the rate card and is time-limited, so it is not an allowance this criterion can record.
5 GB free, shown against a modelled $1.90 Tigris cost versus $8.75 on AWS and $11.00 on GCS for the same scenario
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Azure Retail Prices API ↗
“Hot LRS Data Stored price=0.0208 tierMinimumUnits=0.0 unit=1 GB/Month type=Consumption [...] price=0.019968 tierMinimumUnits=51200.0 [...] price=0.019136 tierMinimumUnits=512000.0”
Read 2026-09-07 · official pricing
- Pricing — Tigris ↗
“$1.90 [...] AWS $8.75 [...] GCS $11.00 [...] FREE 5GB STORAGE COST EGRESS FEES”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Storage price
- Azure Blob Storage
- $0.0208 per GB-month for Hot LRS in East US, falling to $0.019968 above 50 TB and $0.019136 above 500 TB. Azure prices vary by region and redundancy; this and every Azure figure on the site is East US, locally redundant.
- Tigris
- $0.02 per GB-month for Standard, $0.01 for Infrequent Access, $0.004 for Archive and Glacier tiers
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Azure Retail Prices API — Storage, eastus ↗
“"meterName": "Hot LRS Data Stored", "unitOfMeasure": "1 GB/Month", "retailPrice": 0.0208, "tierMinimumUnits": 0.0 [...] 0.019968, "tierMinimumUnits": 51200.0 [...] 0.019136, "tierMinimumUnits": 512000.0”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
- Pricing — Tigris ↗
“Data Storage $0.02/GB/month $0.01/GB/month $0.004/GB/month $0.004/GB/month”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Operations price
- Azure Blob Storage
- $0.05 per 10,000 write operations and $0.004 per 10,000 reads on Hot LRS — $5.00 and $0.40 per million. Listing and creating containers is $0.05 per 10,000; all other operations $0.004.
- Tigris
- $0.005 per 1,000 Class A requests and $0.0005 per 1,000 Class B, on every tier. DELETE and CANCEL are free. Object notifications cost $0.01 per 1,000 events.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Azure Retail Prices API — Storage, eastus ↗
“"meterName": "Hot LRS Write Operations", "unitOfMeasure": "10K", "retailPrice": 0.05 [...] "Hot Read Operations", "10K", 0.004 [...] "LRS List and Create Container", "10K", 0.05 [...] "All Other Operations", "10K", 0.004”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
- Pricing — Tigris ↗
“Class A Requests $0.005/1000 requests [...] Class B Requests $0.0005/1000 requests [...] DELETE, CANCEL Free [...] Object Notifications $0.01/1000 events”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Minimum storage duration
- Azure Blob Storage
- None on Hot. Cool carries a 30-day minimum, Cold 90 days and Archive 180 days — the longest early-deletion window of any provider here, and three times S3's 90-day Glacier figure.
- Tigris
- None on Standard. Infrequent Access carries a 30-day minimum; Tigris names Archive and Archive Instant Retrieval as also subject to a minimum, listed in its pricing table as 90 days. Deleting or updating an object sooner is still billed for the full window.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Access tiers for blob data — Microsoft Learn ↗
“Data in the cool tier should be stored for a minimum of 30 days. [...] Data in the cold tier should be stored for a minimum of 90 days. [...] Data in the archive tier should be stored for a minimum of 180 days.”
Read 2026-09-07 · official docs
- Pricing — Tigris ↗
“A minimum storage retention charge applies to objects stored in the Infrequent Access, Archive, and Archive Instant Retrieval tiers. For example, objects in the Infrequent Access tier are subject to a minimum storage duration of 30 days. [...] 30 days 90 days 90 days”
Read 2026-09-07 · official docs
When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.
Documented by only one.
These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing.
Questions this comparison answers.
Egress over allowance: Azure Blob Storage or Tigris?
Azure Blob Storage: First 100 GB a month free, then $0.087 per GB over Microsoft's global network, falling to $0.083 above ~10 TB, $0.07 above ~50 TB and $0.05 above ~150 TB. Routing over the public internet instead is $0.08 at the first tier. This is Azure-wide bandwidth rather than a Blob-specific charge.
Tigris: None. Tigris charges no egress fees; retrieval is free on Standard and Archive tiers and $0.01–$0.03 per GB on the Infrequent Access and Glacier tiers.
Storage (entry plan): Azure Blob Storage or Tigris?
Azure Blob Storage: None. Azure Blob has no plans and no free storage band: the Hot LRS storage meter's cheapest tier begins at tierMinimumUnits 0 and charges $0.0208 per GB-month from the first gigabyte, with volume tiers only above 50 TB. Azure's free account offer sits outside the rate card and is time-limited, so it is not an allowance this criterion can record.
Tigris: 5 GB free, shown against a modelled $1.90 Tigris cost versus $8.75 on AWS and $11.00 on GCS for the same scenario
Should I choose Azure Blob Storage or Tigris?
Pick Azure Blob Storage if Workloads already on Azure, where keeping storage in the same region as the compute avoids the bandwidth charge that dominates an object storage bill.
Pick Tigris if Globally distributed buckets with no egress fees and tiered storage, where cold data drops to $0.004 per GB-month without a separate archive product to manage.