# r2
- h
http.james
05/05/2022, 7:53 PMdoes this remain true? or is all egress now free? - z
zegevlier
05/05/2022, 7:54 PMFrom my understanding, the original plan was not not charge infrequent reads and writes (as in the Class A and B operations), but it seems like they've stepped away from that now. I don't think they ever planned on charging for bandwidth - z
zegevlier
05/05/2022, 7:55 PMAt least, because the first 10m read requests are free it's basically free unless you're doing a lot of requests anyway, just like originally envisioned. - h
http.james
05/05/2022, 7:55 PMwell let’s say i wanted to host user files on r2, like a CDN. does every GET request count as a “class A” operation? - e
Epailes
05/05/2022, 7:56 PMgets are class B - z
zegevlier
05/05/2022, 7:56 PMyea - h
http.james
05/05/2022, 7:56 PMah right - h
http.james
05/05/2022, 7:56 PMi thought egress meant any GET request - h
http.james
05/05/2022, 7:56 PMdo other providers charge for bandwidth? - z
zegevlier
05/05/2022, 7:57 PMMost other do, yes. The only one that I know of that doesn't (wasabi) severely limits you in the amount of data you are allowed to download each moth. - e
Epailes
05/05/2022, 7:57 PMPretty much all of them do, except the ones that are in the bandwidth alliance with cloudflare like B2 - z
zegevlier
05/05/2022, 7:57 PMOh yea that's also important to mention, B2 effectively doesn't charge for bandwidth if you use them through cloudflare. - h
http.james
05/05/2022, 7:58 PMb2 doesn’t charge per request as far as i can tell - z
zegevlier
05/05/2022, 7:58 PMThey do - h
http.james
05/05/2022, 7:58 PMoh nevermind, i see it now - h
http.james
05/05/2022, 7:58 PMall class A are free interestingly - h
http.james
05/05/2022, 7:58 PMB and C are not - z
zegevlier
05/05/2022, 7:59 PMGetObject falls under class B for them - h
http.james
05/05/2022, 8:00 PMdamn cloudflare pricing is significantly cheaper than b2 - h
http.james
05/05/2022, 8:00 PMi’m definitely looking forward to trying this out when it releases - e
Epailes
05/05/2022, 8:01 PMDepends on the size of the file and how often it's accessed, sometimes B2 is better, sometimes R2 is better - z
zegevlier
05/05/2022, 8:01 PMAlso keep in mind that B2 is only stored in one location, while R2 is stored all over the world. So if speed matters to your application, that's also something to consider. - h
http.james
05/05/2022, 8:01 PMoh i do see that, storage is priced higher on cloudflare - h
http.james
05/05/2022, 8:02 PMtrue - h
http.james
05/05/2022, 8:02 PMso value is a lot higher on cloudflare - h
http.james
05/05/2022, 8:02 PMi imagine pairing r2 with workers is insanely fast - h
http.james
05/05/2022, 8:03 PMthey’re both deployed “to the edge” - z
zegevlier
05/05/2022, 8:03 PMIf all you want is pretty cold storage (for things like logs that you might need to access but will probably not need to, so it's too hot for AWS glacier), B2 will probably be better. If you want something for files that are access readily R2 will probably be your best bet. - e
Epailes
05/05/2022, 8:04 PMDepends if you cache the result in the cloudflare CDN, then you could get similar speeds from R2 & B2, but then you're getting into public vs private files and how often you'll get hot vs cold reads - h
http.james
05/05/2022, 8:04 PMwell as zegevlier mentioned, r2 is globally distributed