Seedbox Price Per TB (2026): What 12 Providers Actually Charge for Storage

Why the sticker price tells you almost nothing

Seedbox providers price in three different currencies and across disk sizes that range from 200 GB to 28 TB. That makes the advertised figure meaningless on its own. Three plans priced within a couple of dollars of each other illustrate the problem:

• GigaRapid Eco AF30 — €2.99/month. The cheapest plan we track, and by far the worst value for storage: 200 GB works out at roughly $17 per TB.
• Ultra.cc Lancer v2 — €4.95/month. Costs 65% more, but gives you 1 TB — about $5.70 per TB, a third of the price of the 'cheaper' plan.
• Ultra.cc Spirit v2 — €8.75/month. Nearly triple the entry price, yet the cheapest storage of the three at roughly $5 per TB.
• The pattern holds across the whole market: the lowest monthly bill and the lowest cost of storage are almost never the same plan.

How we calculated it

The method is deliberately simple, so you can reproduce it against any provider's pricing page.

• We take the monthly price, not the discounted annual rate — annual commitments distort comparisons and lock you in before you know whether the service suits you.
• We use the price in the currency the provider actually bills in, then normalise to US dollars at the reference rate on the day of the check (EUR 1 = USD 1.1485, GBP 1 = USD 1.3435, 1 August 2026).
• We divide by advertised storage, in terabytes.
• Every figure below was read from the provider's own live pricing page on 1 August 2026, not copied from an older review.

The cheapest storage on the market right now

Sorted by cost per terabyte per month, the picture is dominated by high-capacity HDD plans. Two providers we added to the index in August 2026 — Hosting By Design and SeedHost.eu — took the top of this ranking outright, pushing the previous leaders down several places. These are the standout tiers, recalculated on 28 August 2026:

The trap nobody advertises: upload quotas

Cost per terabyte only tells you what storage costs. It says nothing about how much data you are allowed to push out — and on several providers, that is the real limit. This is where the ranking changes shape depending on what you actually do.

• Metered upload: Ultra.cc, Whatbox and Seedboxes.cc all cap monthly upload while leaving downloads unlimited. Allowances scale with the plan (Ultra.cc runs 2–55 TB, Whatbox 10–40 TB on HDD tiers).
• Unlimited traffic: Feral Hosting and RapidSeedbox place no monthly cap on either direction, though both apply fair-use policies and Feral throttles during weekend peak hours.
• What this means in practice: if you seed heavily on private trackers, a plan with a generous upload allowance beats a plan with cheaper storage. If you are archiving a media library you mostly stream to yourself, the cheapest terabytes win outright.
• Check the upload column before the price column — it is the single most common reason people outgrow a seedbox within two months.

NVMe: five to ten times the price per terabyte

NVMe plans occupy a completely different price band, and the gap is much wider than most guides suggest. Ultra.cc's Blackbird is the cheapest large NVMe tier we track at roughly $16.53/TB, and Whatbox's NVMe range sits around $34/TB — more than ten times the cost of the best HDD storage above.

That premium buys disk throughput, not capacity. It is worth paying when your bottleneck is genuinely I/O: heavy simultaneous seeding on many torrents, large numbers of concurrent Plex streams, or *arr stacks doing constant scanning and repacking. For storing and occasionally streaming a media library, it is money spent on a bottleneck you do not have.

• Pulsed Media M1000 SSD 230G — €1.99 for 230 GB (~$10.08/TB): the cheapest SSD storage per terabyte in the index, and the cheapest plan of any kind. The catch is the size and a 1 Gbps link.
• Ultra.cc Blackbird — €53.95 for 3.8 TB NVMe (~$16.53/TB): the best large-capacity NVMe value we track.
• Ultra.cc Tomcat — €17.95 for 950 GB NVMe (~$22/TB): the cheapest way into Ultra.cc's NVMe range, currently listed out of stock.
• Whatbox NVMe tiers — €28 to €448 (~$34/TB at every size): priced consistently, on a 100 Gbps connection with upload allowances from 50 TB up to 1 PB.
• Feral Hosting SSD slots — around $136/TB: the most expensive storage in the index by a wide margin, bought for uncapped traffic and a 20 Gbit/s link rather than for capacity.

What we would actually buy

Translating the numbers into recommendations, by what you are trying to do:

Three things to check before you pay

The per-terabyte ranking narrows the field, but these decide whether a plan works for you:

• Billing currency. Providers bill in EUR, GBP or USD. If your card is in a different currency, your bank's conversion spread quietly adds 1–3% to every invoice.
• Stock. The best-value tiers sell out routinely — Ultra.cc's cheapest plans in particular show zero availability for long stretches. A plan you cannot buy is not a deal.
• Monthly versus annual. Every price here is the monthly rate. Annual commitments cut 15–20% at most providers, but only take one after you have run the service for a month.

The bottom line

Cost per terabyte reorders the seedbox market in a way headline pricing hides. The cheapest monthly bill in our index (€1.99) buys 230 GB; €9 more per month buys twenty times the disk. For most people the answer sits in the €10–€20 band, where storage costs roughly $2.50–$4 per terabyte and upload allowances are large enough to stop mattering.

One caveat this update made obvious: a ranking like this moves. Adding two providers in August 2026 displaced the entire top three, and four of the plans we recommended a month ago are now either out of stock or no longer allow Plex. Check the comparison tool rather than trusting a table you read once — it is rebuilt from the same figures, filtered by the constraint that actually binds you.