Which is cheaper, Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage?

AWS is cheaper in 3 of 4 comparable categories, with an average price difference of 31.1%.

How do Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage compare for general purpose workloads?

Both providers offer competitive pricing for general purpose workloads.

Updated Apr 20, 2026AWSGCP

Overall Winner

AWS

AWS Wins

GCP Wins

Ties

AWS wins 3 of 4 price comparisons, averaging 31.1% lower prices in categories where it leads.

Prices range from $0.000990/hr to $0.0400/hr across comparable tiers.

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Best for Storage workloads

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Best for AmazonS3 workloads

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Best for API Request workloads

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Best for Fee workloads

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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Category	AWS Amazon S3	GCP Google Cloud Storage	Diff	Cheapest
Storage - Storage	$0.0010/hr TimedStorage-INT-DAA-ByteHrs ($0.72/mo)	$0.0012/hr 03D9-C86E-54F8 ($0.88/mo)	+17.5%	AWS
AmazonS3 - S3-API-Dual-Decyrption	$0.0030/hr S3DSSE-Out-Bytes ($2.19/mo)	$0.0044/hr 4A00-E70A-790B ($3.21/mo)	+31.8%	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