Time to first byte lower is better

Provider	Ashburnon Railway	FloridaHome server	San FranciscoFreestyle	SeattleTenki	Amsterdamon Railway	Lilleboat
Railway Buckets	8 ms	40 ms	123 ms	152 ms	213 ms	176 ms
Backblaze B2	11 ms	45 ms	221 ms	207 ms	289 ms	280 ms
Neon	41 ms	67 ms	146 ms	144 ms	287 ms	370 ms
Amazon S3	42 ms	62 ms	110 ms	160 ms	310 ms	303 ms
Cloudflare R2	76 ms	129 ms	193 ms	190 ms	200 ms	194 ms

Upload 1 MB lower is better

Provider	Ashburnon Railway	FloridaHome server	San FranciscoFreestyle	SeattleTenki	Amsterdamon Railway	Lilleboat
Backblaze B2	52 ms	345 ms	618 ms	611 ms	844 ms	840 ms
Railway Buckets	113 ms	284 ms	509 ms	483 ms	500 ms	513 ms
Neon	115 ms	324 ms	637 ms	564 ms	678 ms	867 ms
Amazon S3	170 ms	322 ms	531 ms	462 ms	719 ms	740 ms
Cloudflare R2	257 ms	386 ms	444 ms	414 ms	461 ms	555 ms

Download 1 MB lower is better

Provider	Ashburnon Railway	FloridaHome server	San FranciscoFreestyle	SeattleTenki	Amsterdamon Railway	Lilleboat
Backblaze B2	29 ms	319 ms	609 ms	599 ms	856 ms	811 ms
Amazon S3	48 ms	337 ms	553 ms	525 ms	825 ms	920 ms
Neon	49 ms	336 ms	796 ms	744 ms	882 ms	980 ms
Railway Buckets	52 ms	341 ms	309 ms	431 ms	403 ms	437 ms
Cloudflare R2	137 ms	258 ms	265 ms	251 ms	264 ms	337 ms

Upload 100 MB higher is better

Provider	Ashburnon Railway	FloridaHome server	San FranciscoFreestyle	SeattleTenki	Amsterdamon Railway	Lilleboat
Railway Buckets	76 MB/s	30 MB/s	16 MB/s	18 MB/s	14 MB/s	13 MB/s
Amazon S3	53 MB/s	25 MB/s	11 MB/s	20 MB/s	13 MB/s	13 MB/s
Backblaze B2	45 MB/s	14 MB/s	14 MB/s	15 MB/s	12 MB/s	12 MB/s
Neon	38 MB/s	22 MB/s	8.7 MB/s	15 MB/s	13 MB/s	13 MB/s
Cloudflare R2	33 MB/s	30 MB/s	22 MB/s	25 MB/s	23 MB/s	21 MB/s

Download 100 MB higher is better

Provider	Ashburnon Railway	FloridaHome server	San FranciscoFreestyle	SeattleTenki	Amsterdamon Railway	Lilleboat
Railway Buckets	104 MB/s	67 MB/s	48 MB/s	59 MB/s	53 MB/s	20 MB/s
Backblaze B2	100 MB/s	48 MB/s	30 MB/s	36 MB/s	26 MB/s	19 MB/s
Neon	90 MB/s	59 MB/s	15 MB/s	52 MB/s	46 MB/s	3.7 MB/s
Amazon S3	88 MB/s	43 MB/s	20 MB/s	42 MB/s	29 MB/s	3.0 MB/s
Cloudflare R2	57 MB/s	20 MB/s	21 MB/s	26 MB/s	39 MB/s	25 MB/s

First request after a deploy lower is better

Provider	Ashburnon Railway	FloridaHome server	San FranciscoFreestyle	SeattleTenki	Amsterdamon Railway	Lilleboat
Backblaze B2	13 ms	112 ms	217 ms	202 ms	272 ms	283 ms
Railway Buckets	20 ms	116 ms	108 ms	153 ms	212 ms	142 ms
Neon	21 ms	132 ms	321 ms	298 ms	349 ms	348 ms
Cloudflare R2	77 ms	109 ms	167 ms	133 ms	146 ms	170 ms
Amazon S3	79 ms	144 ms	228 ms	211 ms	309 ms	309 ms

16 uploads at once lower is better

Provider	Ashburnon Railway	FloridaHome server	San FranciscoFreestyle	SeattleTenki	Amsterdamon Railway	Lilleboat
Amazon S3	114 ms	210 ms	348 ms	353 ms	448 ms	442 ms
Neon	133 ms	228 ms	444 ms	402 ms	446 ms	442 ms
Railway Buckets	174 ms	221 ms	445 ms	508 ms	378 ms	391 ms
Cloudflare R2	352 ms	518 ms	590 ms	558 ms	619 ms	789 ms
Backblaze B2	888 ms	866 ms	1.14 s	1.05 s	1.20 s	1.12 s

List 1,000 files lower is better

Provider	Ashburnon Railway	FloridaHome server	San FranciscoFreestyle	SeattleTenki	Amsterdamon Railway	Lilleboat
Neon	43 ms	62 ms	121 ms	124 ms	119 ms	275 ms
Railway Buckets	48 ms	77 ms	133 ms	143 ms	136 ms	211 ms
Amazon S3	83 ms	117 ms	144 ms	145 ms	172 ms	174 ms
Backblaze B2	289 ms	662 ms	502 ms	245 ms	299 ms	732 ms
Cloudflare R2	352 ms	519 ms	731 ms	617 ms	749 ms	844 ms

Failed upload attempts no retries; a parallel batch counts once

Provider	Ashburnon Railway	FloridaHome server	San FranciscoFreestyle	SeattleTenki	Amsterdamon Railway	Lilleboat
Amazon S3	0%	0.2%	0%	0.2%	0%	0%
Cloudflare R2	0.2%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
Railway Buckets	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
Backblaze B2	0.8%	0.6%	1.9%	1.8%	1.5%	1.5%
Neon	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0.2%

Monthly cost 500 GB stored, 2 TB served, 5M uploads, 50M reads

Side projectSaaS with user uploadsMedia-heavy app

Railway Buckets$7.50

Backblaze B2$8.41

Cloudflare R2$39.75

Neon$162

Amazon S3$228