With the recent pricing changes, there's now a section called "Data Storage". For starter and indie bundles, it's 2GB free, and $1/GB after that. The mouseover says "Store and access metadata or large files from your app" which doesn't really say specifics.



What falls into the "data storage" bucket? Is it databases themselves? Because then Kinvey has become way closer to other BaaS providers, which would be unfortunate. What about non-large files, images, etc? Google Cloud Storage is less than 1/10 the price for the same amount of storage, and a 900% markup seems like a bit much. Could I know exactly what things/buckets will count towards that storage limit?

Hi Alex,

Our goal at Kinvey is to always deliver a full end-to-end service for our developers and customers, so that they don't have to worry about infrastructure, plumbing, security, scalability, or connectivity (APIs and libraries) to backend features -- i.e. -- we delivery the end-to-end aspects of moving, storing and accessing data and features to mobile and web platforms. As for your question on storage pricing, we don't look at it as just raw data sitting on a server, but the entire framework that goes around it, to make it fast and easy to retrieve data and files, down to your client. We then determine what the lowest cost is for us to deliver that entire service to you and price things accordingly, so that you don't have to do all the end-to-end work and ongoing operations yourself, or incur head count and maintenance costs.

Thanks for the response - I'm still a bit confused, and concerned about going into something where I don't know what the costs would be. Could you let me know what the pricing would be on a few of these scenarios (I'm not mentioning the active user counts, since those are quite clear):



Scenario 1:

Starter Tier

5GB worth of photos stored via Kinvey Files API

1GB of non-file content in the databases



Scenario 2:

Indie Tier

5GB worth of photos stored via Kinvey Files API

1GB of non-file content in the databases



Scenario 3:

Starter Tier

3GB worth of photos stored via Kinvey Files API

10GB of non-file content in the databases



Scenario 4:

Indie Tier

3GB worth of photos stored via Kinvey Files API

10GB of non-file content in the databases



Thanks Caroline!

2GB comes free, each additional 10 GB is $10. So for $10 you get 12GB, for $20 you get 22GB, etc.



Scenario 1 & 2:

12GB > Storage Used (6GB) > 2GB = $10



Scenario 3 & 4:

22GB > Storage Used (13GB) > 12GB > 2 GB = $20