I intended to renew my cloud space in one of the popular services, and because I encrypt my data before uploading it, privacy was not a priority for me as much as reliability and price. I tried to search for cheaper methods until I found this article, which frankly surprised me with the prices:
Decentralized storage is cheaper than centralized storage by around 78.6% on average. This is given that the main decentralized storage options cost $2.11 for 1TB per month on average, compared to the average of $9.88 among top centralized storage providers across personal and enterprise plans.
The most expensive major decentralized storage option costs $0.16 less than the cheapest centralized storage option, for 1TB/month. Storj charges the highest among top decentralized storage providers at $4.00, whereas Google Drive offers the lowest price of $4.16 among top centralized storage providers. That said, Storj charges separately for the retrieval of stored files at $7/TB for download bandwidth.
source
https://www.coingecko.com/research/publications/centralized-decentralized-storage-cost#:~:text=How%20Much%20Does%201TB%20of,Filecoin%20to%20%244.00%20on%20Storj.
Filecoin asks for around $0.19 per 1TB/month is this real? If so, how were these services able to outperform Amazon S3, Google Cloud, and iCLOUD, as the average prices seem very different.
The topic is up for discussion, but if anyone knows who has personal experience, I would be grateful.