# Wasabi object storage

10 Hacker News commenters recommended Wasabi object storage and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend Wasabi as a cheaper, S3-compatible alternative to AWS S3 with no egress fees for reasonable use. One critic reports silent data corruption and distrusts it with storage.

## Why people recommend it

- Cheaper than AWS S3 (3 comments): "it would cost so so much more than wasabi and backblaze" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46256771)) "Wasabi is much cheaper than AWS as well." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252845)) "moving storage from S3 to Wasabi" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46293871))
- S3-compatible, works with rclone (2 comments): "Wasabi offering byte-compatible S3 storage with no egress fees for reasonable use" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880194)) "Wasabi + rclone works well for me." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763874))
- No egress or operation fees (2 comments): "Wasabi offering byte-compatible S3 storage with no egress fees for reasonable use" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880194)) "which doesn't charge for operations" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536272))
- Good value for storage (2 comments): "it makes more sense to use object storage instead. Like Wasabi, Backblaze or iDrive." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158580)) "wasabi and backblaze get more done for less cost" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255509))

## What people warn about

- Reported silent data corruption (1 comments): "they actively and silently corrupted a lot of my data and still billed me for it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47047617))
- Distrust for critical storage (1 comments): "I'm not going to trust my storage to Wasabi." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46253046))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Amazon S3](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amazon-s3.md): 170 recommend
- [Cloudflare R2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-r2.md): 85 recommend
- [Backblaze B2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/backblaze-b2.md): 50 recommend
- [AWS S3](https://hackerapproved.com/p/aws-s3.md): 17 recommend
- [Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amazon-s3-glacier-deep-archive.md): 16 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://wasabi.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Wasabi object storage", https://hackerapproved.com/p/wasabi/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).