Solution

Object storage that does not charge you to read your own data.

An S3-compatible object store on drives we own outright. Hot buckets on all-flash Molten, bulk and archive on petabyte-scale Vault, and free egress on both — so the bill stops growing the moment your data lands.

The problem

The problem with cloud object storage

Cloud object storage rents capacity per gigabyte in perpetuity and then charges again every time you read the data back. Egress is the line item that quietly dominates the invoice and locks you in — moving data out costs more than storing it. For data lakes, media, backups, and analytics that read frequently, the economics are upside down.

How Smelt solves it

Free egress, by design

We own the network and transit, so reads cost nothing. The single largest hidden cost of cloud object storage does not exist here.

Hot and cold on one platform

All-flash Molten serves latency-sensitive hot buckets; HDD Vault holds bulk and archive to the petabyte. Tier your data without leaving the platform.

S3-compatible API

Existing tools, SDKs, and lifecycle policies work unchanged. Point your endpoint at us and keep your code.

Erasure-coded durability

Reed-Solomon coding spreads objects across nodes rather than relying on local RAID, so capacity and durability scale together.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Is it really S3-compatible?

Yes — object storage is exposed over an S3-compatible API, so existing SDKs, CLIs, and lifecycle tooling work without rewrites.

What does egress cost?

Nothing. We operate our own network and transit, so reading your data back is free.

How does pricing compare to hyperscale object storage?

Effective cost per terabyte is a fraction of per-gigabyte cloud rates, and with free egress the gap widens the more you read. See the storage comparisons for the numbers.

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