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IDrive e2 vs Wasabi

SEPT 2026 audit

A comparison of IDrive e2 and Wasabi built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 18 criteria comparedSources last checked

The short answer

Choose IDrive e2 if…

Bulk storage where the per-GB rate dominates — $6 per TB is roughly a quarter of S3's and well under Wasabi's, with no API fees and no minimum retention period.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose Wasabi if…

Anyone who wants one number. Capacity is the only charge — no egress fees, no API request fees — which makes the bill predictable in a way nothing else in this category manages.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • IDrive e2: The minimum charge is billed per whole terabyte, so a 100 GB workload pays for 1 TB, and egress is only free up to three times what you store.
  • Wasabi: The flat rate is $7.99 per terabyte whether you store a gigabyte or a terabyte of it, so small buckets pay for capacity they are not using. Check Wasabi's own terms for minimum storage duration before storing anything short-lived.

Neither quite fits? Every other option, ranked by iScore: IDrive e2 alternatives · Wasabi alternatives

6 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionIDrive e2Wasabi
Pricing
Egress over allowanceFree up to three times your active storage volume each month — the same shape as Backblaze B2's allowance rather than the unconditional free egress R2 and Wasabi advertise.None. Wasabi charges for capacity only, with no egress or API request fees.
Limits
Storage (entry plan)None on a paid account. IDrive e2 bills a minimum of $6 per TB charged per whole terabyte, so storing under 1 TB still costs a full terabyte — a floor on the bill rather than storage you are given. A 10 GB free trial is offered separately.None. Wasabi includes no free storage at any price. Pay-as-you-go carries a minimum monthly charge equal to 1 TB of active storage, so an account storing less than 1 TB is billed for 1 TB — a floor on the bill, not an allowance. Wasabi Cloud NAS has a 10 TB monthly minimum.
Infrastructure
Uptime SLA
Aims to maintain at least 99.9% monthly uptime across all covered services. The SLA says aims to maintain, not commits to.
Credits begin below 99.9% monthly uptime: 10% between 99.0% and 99.9%, 25% below 99.0%. Uptime is computed from five-minute error rates rather than downtime minutes.
Storage
Storage price$0.006 per GB per month, or $6 per TB, tierless — the cheapest published rate here. SSD storage is $0.01 per GB per month.$7.99 per TB per month, flat, with no separate charge for egress or API requests
Operations priceNone. IDrive e2 states no additional charges for API transactions across class A, B and C.None. API requests are not charged separately.
Minimum storage duration
None. IDrive e2 states no minimum data retention restriction, unlike Wasabi's 90 days and the S3 infrequent-access classes' 30 to 180.
90 days on pay-as-you-go. Deleting an object sooner incurs a Timed Deleted Storage charge equal to the storage charge for the remaining days. Objects under 4 KB are billed as 4 KB.
S3-compatible APISupportedSupported

Only criteria both providers publish appear here; a tinted cell marks a real difference. Criteria only one of them documents are listed below, and an absence there means we found no source — not that the feature is missing. How we source this.

The small bar above a value is inetGeek's own lean toward that side — computed from the same facts shown, never a number the provider published. See the picker below "The short answer" to weigh only the criteria you care about.

02.

Where they differ.

Egress over allowance

IDrive e2
Free up to three times your active storage volume each month — the same shape as Backblaze B2's allowance rather than the unconditional free egress R2 and Wasabi advertise.
Wasabi
None. Wasabi charges for capacity only, with no egress or API request fees.
Sources (2) →
  • Pricing — IDrive e2 ↗

    “Free egress policy Download less than or equal to 3X your active storage volume for free!”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • Pricing — Wasabi ↗

    “No charge for egress or API requests [...] With Wasabi, you pay just one low rate for capacity only. No hidden fees means you can plan your budget to the penny and never go over it, no matter how much you access your data.”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

Storage (entry plan)

IDrive e2
None on a paid account. IDrive e2 bills a minimum of $6 per TB charged per whole terabyte, so storing under 1 TB still costs a full terabyte — a floor on the bill rather than storage you are given. A 10 GB free trial is offered separately.
Wasabi
None. Wasabi includes no free storage at any price. Pay-as-you-go carries a minimum monthly charge equal to 1 TB of active storage, so an account storing less than 1 TB is billed for 1 TB — a floor on the bill, not an allowance. Wasabi Cloud NAS has a 10 TB monthly minimum.
Sources (2) →

Uptime SLA

IDrive e2

Aims to maintain at least 99.9% monthly uptime across all covered services. The SLA says aims to maintain, not commits to.

Wasabi

Credits begin below 99.9% monthly uptime: 10% between 99.0% and 99.9%, 25% below 99.0%. Uptime is computed from five-minute error rates rather than downtime minutes.

Sources (2) →

Storage price

IDrive e2
$0.006 per GB per month, or $6 per TB, tierless — the cheapest published rate here. SSD storage is $0.01 per GB per month.
Wasabi
$7.99 per TB per month, flat, with no separate charge for egress or API requests
Sources (2) →

Operations price

IDrive e2
None. IDrive e2 states no additional charges for API transactions across class A, B and C.
Wasabi
None. API requests are not charged separately.
Sources (2) →

Minimum storage duration

IDrive e2

None. IDrive e2 states no minimum data retention restriction, unlike Wasabi's 90 days and the S3 infrequent-access classes' 30 to 180.

Wasabi

90 days on pay-as-you-go. Deleting an object sooner incurs a Timed Deleted Storage charge equal to the storage charge for the remaining days. Objects under 4 KB are billed as 4 KB.

Sources (2) →
  • Pricing — IDrive e2 ↗

    “No restrictions of minimum data retention Free ingress and egress No additional charges”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • Pay-as-you-go FAQs — Wasabi ↗

    “Wasabi has a minimum storage duration policy that means if stored objects are deleted before they have been stored with Wasabi for a certain number of days (90 days when using the Wasabi Pay as You Go pricing model), a Timed Deleted Storage charge equal to the storage charge for the remaining days will apply.”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

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03.

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 — except where we say we read the other provider's own page on a given date and it does not state it. Those rows lean, and the provider can correct them with a link.

Free tierWasabi: No
Kind of free offerWasabi: Free trial
What the free plan includesIDrive e2: No free storage allowance is published. Egress is free up to three times stored volume and API calls carry no charge, but storage itself bills from the first gigabyte.
Credit card to startWasabi: No
When the free offer endsWasabi: 30 days.
RegionsWasabi: 16 storage regions: six in the Americas, six in EMEA and four in Asia-Pacific. Several also answer to an alias URL, which is a second name for a region rather than a second region.
Audit logsIDrive e2: IDrive provides controlled access, encryption, and audit logging for sensitive data.Wasabi: not stated on its own page when read on 2026-09-21 — corrections welcome · every such claim about Wasabi.
SOC 2IDrive e2: IDrive has proudly achieved SOC 2 Type 2 certification through a rigorous evaluation conducted by an independent third-party auditing firm.Wasabi: not stated on its own page when read on 2026-09-22 — corrections welcome · every such claim about Wasabi.
ISO 27001Wasabi: Wasabi's products and physical data center locations are ISO 27001 compliant.IDrive e2: not stated on its own page when read on 2026-09-21 — corrections welcome · every such claim about IDrive e2.
Encryption at restWasabi: Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest on the Wasabi cloud storage platform.IDrive e2: not stated on its own page when read on 2026-09-21 — corrections welcome · every such claim about IDrive e2.
Customer-managed keysWasabi: Customers can also supply their own encryption key during the API upload request.IDrive e2: not stated on its own page when read on 2026-09-21 — corrections welcome · every such claim about IDrive e2.
04.

Questions this comparison answers.

Egress over allowance: IDrive e2 or Wasabi?

IDrive e2: Free up to three times your active storage volume each month — the same shape as Backblaze B2's allowance rather than the unconditional free egress R2 and Wasabi advertise.

Wasabi: None. Wasabi charges for capacity only, with no egress or API request fees.

Storage (entry plan): IDrive e2 or Wasabi?

IDrive e2: None on a paid account. IDrive e2 bills a minimum of $6 per TB charged per whole terabyte, so storing under 1 TB still costs a full terabyte — a floor on the bill rather than storage you are given. A 10 GB free trial is offered separately.

Wasabi: None. Wasabi includes no free storage at any price. Pay-as-you-go carries a minimum monthly charge equal to 1 TB of active storage, so an account storing less than 1 TB is billed for 1 TB — a floor on the bill, not an allowance. Wasabi Cloud NAS has a 10 TB monthly minimum.

Should I choose IDrive e2 or Wasabi?

Pick IDrive e2 if Bulk storage where the per-GB rate dominates — $6 per TB is roughly a quarter of S3's and well under Wasabi's, with no API fees and no minimum retention period.

Pick Wasabi if Anyone who wants one number. Capacity is the only charge — no egress fees, no API request fees — which makes the bill predictable in a way nothing else in this category manages.

Provider pages

IDrive e2S3-compatible storage at the lowest published per-GB rate in this set, with a per-terabyte minimum charge and Backblaze-style 3x free egress.WasabiFlat-rate object storage sold per terabyte with no separate charges for egress or API requests.

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Comments

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