Block storage pricing in India
Storage pricing is quoted per GB per month, which makes it look like the whole cost. It rarely is. The three lines that decide a storage bill are the capacity rate, what a snapshot costs, and what it costs to read the data back out.
The rate
| Item | Rate |
|---|---|
| NVMe block storage | ₹20 per GB per month |
| Snapshots | Included — ₹0 per GB per month |
So 100 GB of NVMe is ₹2000 per month, and 500 GB is ₹10000 per month. There is one storage class, and it is NVMe — no slower tier priced to look cheap on a comparison page.
Snapshots
Snapshots are included at no per-GB charge. This is worth stating plainly because it is where storage bills usually grow quietly: a nightly snapshot retained for thirty days is thirty copies, and on a provider that bills snapshots per GB that line can exceed the volume itself.
The line that usually decides the bill
Egress. Reading your own data back out is where hyperscaler storage gets expensive, and it is charged per GB transferred, every time. It is also the cost that does not appear in a per-GB comparison, which is why those comparisons tend to favour whoever charges most for egress.
Our VM plans include bundled transfer — the gaming plans above carry 2 TB to 2 TB depending on size — so a backup restore or a large export is not a billing event.
Sizing, briefly
Three rules that hold up:
- Provision for the working set, not the archive. Cold data belongs in object storage, not on a block volume you pay NVMe rates for.
- Separate the data volume from the boot volume. It lets you resize, snapshot and move the data without rebuilding the instance.
- Watch the snapshot retention, not the snapshot count. Retention is the multiplier.
Data residency
The volume sits in our Noida region (ap-south-3), inside Indian jurisdiction, which is what makes a workload holding personal data DPDP-compliant by default. For storage specifically this matters more than for compute: data at rest is the thing a regulator asks about.
See the VM catalogue for instances and bundled transfer, or pricing for the full rate card.
