Best Google Cloud Storage Alternatives (2026): 10+ options compared

Supabase

Supabase is an open-source backend platform built on managed Postgres. It bundles auth, file storage, edge functions, and realtime for developers building web and mobile apps.

• Better at: Higher Cost score (7/10 vs 5/10)
• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (8/10 vs 6/10)
• Gives up: Higher Analytics score (8/10 vs 5/10)

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon's public cloud platform, with over 200 pay-as-you-go services for compute, storage, databases, networking and AI, used by startups through large enterprises and governments.

• Better at: Higher Customization score (10/10 vs 8/10)
• Better at: Higher Integration score (10/10 vs 9/10)
• Gives up: Higher Ease of Use score (6/10 vs 4/10)

Amazon S3 is AWS's pay-as-you-go object storage service. Businesses use it to store files, backups, data lakes and static website assets at almost any scale.

• Better at: Higher Integration score (10/10 vs 9/10)
• Better at: Higher Scalability score (10/10 vs 9/10)
• Gives up: Has a free plan (Amazon S3 does not)

AWS Amplify is a pay-as-you-go platform from Amazon Web Services for hosting web apps from Git and building full-stack backends on AWS.

• Better at: Higher Cost score (7/10 vs 5/10)
• Gives up: Higher Analytics score (8/10 vs 6/10)

Neon

Neon is a managed serverless PostgreSQL service with autoscaling, scale-to-zero and instant database branching, aimed at developers, startups and SaaS teams.

• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (9/10 vs 6/10)
• Better at: Higher Cost score (7/10 vs 5/10)
• Gives up: Higher Customization score (8/10 vs 6/10)

Cloudinary

Cloudinary is a cloud media platform that stores, transforms, optimizes and delivers images and video through a CDN for developers and marketing teams.

• Better at: Higher Customization score (9/10 vs 8/10)
• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (7/10 vs 6/10)
• Gives up: Higher Analytics score (8/10 vs 6/10)

ImageKit

ImageKit is a media CDN and digital asset management service that optimizes, transforms, and delivers images and videos through URL parameters for web and app teams.

• Better at: Higher Cost score (8/10 vs 5/10)
• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (8/10 vs 6/10)
• Gives up: Lower estimated cost for 10 users: Free vs $89/mo

Amazon CloudFront is the AWS content delivery network. It caches and serves websites, APIs and media from more than 750 edge locations, and includes DDoS protection, WAF and edge compute.

• Better at: Higher Cost score (6/10 vs 5/10)
• Better at: Higher Customization score (9/10 vs 8/10)
• Gives up: Higher Ease of Use score (6/10 vs 5/10)

Google Cloud

Google's public cloud platform providing pay-as-you-go virtual machines, Kubernetes, serverless, databases, storage, networking, data analytics and AI services for businesses of every size.

• Better at: Higher Customization score (9/10 vs 8/10)
• Better at: Higher Analytics score (9/10 vs 8/10)
• Gives up: Higher Integration score (9/10 vs 8/10)

Northflank

Northflank is a Kubernetes-based developer platform for deploying services, jobs, databases and GPU workloads on its managed cloud or on customers' own cloud accounts.

• Better at: Higher Cost score (7/10 vs 5/10)
• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (8/10 vs 6/10)
• Gives up: Higher Integration score (9/10 vs 7/10)

ClickHouse

ClickHouse Cloud is a managed, usage-billed service for the open-source ClickHouse columnar database, used for real-time analytics on large datasets on AWS, GCP and Azure.

• Better at: Higher Support score (7/10 vs 6/10)
• Better at: Higher Analytics score (9/10 vs 8/10)
• Gives up: Has a free plan (ClickHouse does not)

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft's public cloud platform offering virtual machines, containers, serverless, databases, storage and AI services on pay-as-you-go pricing for businesses of all sizes.

• Better at: Higher Customization score (9/10 vs 8/10)
• Better at: Includes Shared Hosting, which Google Cloud Storage lacks
• Gives up: Higher Ease of Use score (6/10 vs 4/10)

Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform

Open-core platform from Kubermatic that lets IT teams automate and centrally manage many Kubernetes clusters across public clouds, on-premises data centers, and edge sites.

• Better at: Higher Cost score (7/10 vs 5/10)
• Gives up: Higher Security score (9/10 vs 7/10)

Amazon EC2 is AWS's on-demand virtual server service, offering resizable compute instances billed per second for businesses of any size.

• Better at: Higher Customization score (10/10 vs 8/10)
• Better at: Higher Integration score (10/10 vs 9/10)
• Gives up: Higher Ease of Use score (6/10 vs 4/10)

Cloudflare

Cloudflare is a global edge network. It offers CDN, DNS, DDoS protection and a WAF, plus serverless compute and storage (Workers, R2, D1) for developers and businesses.

• Better at: Higher Cost score (9/10 vs 5/10)
• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (7/10 vs 6/10)
• Gives up: Higher Support score (6/10 vs 4/10)