Tool profile
Globally distributed S3-compatible object storage platform built for modern applications and AI workloads, with simple usage pricing and zero egress fees.
Object storage
Tigris belongs in the catalog because storage economics and data movement costs matter more in AI stacks than many teams admit upfront. The official product story emphasizes globally distributed S3-compatible object storage, instant worldwide access, and zero egress fees. That makes it particularly relevant for AI and developer stacks where data is read in many places, pipelines span regions, and egress-heavy architectures can quietly become expensive.
It also deserves inclusion because the pricing is unusually clean and public. Tigris publishes exact storage, request, retrieval, and event pricing across tiers, along with a free tier and a blunt zero-egress stance. That transparency makes it one of the more straightforward infrastructure products to evaluate commercially, especially against the pricing complexity and transfer penalties of larger cloud storage providers.
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Editorial take
Tigris should be framed as strategically simpler storage infrastructure, not just cheaper S3. The strongest evaluation questions are whether zero egress changes the workload economics enough to matter, whether the global access model improves architecture, and whether S3 compatibility covers the team’s migration needs.
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Pricing snapshot
Tigris offers a free tier with 5 GB of standard storage and then usage-based pricing including $0.02 per GB-month for standard storage, $0.01 per GB-month for infrequent access, $0.004 per GB-month for archive tiers, and zero egress fees.
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