Post by Dronepilot about Pipe ($PIPE)

$PIPE I sometimes run bandwidth and storage nodes, so I price infra before I buy it. Pipe's object storage is about 3 USDC/TB to read and 15 USDC/TB to write.

That's inverted from everyone else and I think it's worth saying out loud. Amazon S3 charges nothing to upload and about $90/TB to get data out. Cloudflare R2 is free egress but $15/TB every month it just sits there. Pipe is the opposite - pricey once on the way in, cheap on the way out.

What I can't tell from the pricing page is whether there's a charge for data at rest. "Billed for the data you read and write" reads like there isn't one. If that's right, 1 TB parked for a year is about 15 USDC on Pipe versus roughly 180 on R2 - and that's a far bigger deal than the read rate. It'd make Pipe the obvious pick for backups and archives. If there IS a monthly storage line, it belongs on this panel next to reads and writes.