{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "digitalocean-spaces", "name": "DigitalOcean Spaces", "vendor": "DigitalOcean, LLC", "vendorUrl": "https://www.digitalocean.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "file-storage", "summary": "DigitalOcean Spaces is S3-compatible object storage with a built-in CDN, sold as a $5 monthly subscription. Agents use it through AWS S3 SDKs with a Spaces access key, and manage keys through the DigitalOcean API or MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/digitalocean-spaces", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/digitalocean-spaces.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/digitalocean-spaces.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/digitalocean-spaces.json", "license": "Proprietary service under the DigitalOcean Terms of Service Agreement. The MCP server is MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@digitalocean/mcp" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve Spaces access key and secret, signed as for AWS S3 (SigV4, or SigV2 for older clients). A person signs up in a browser and adds a payment method first. Keys are full access or limited to named buckets with Read or Read/Write/Delete, and are made in the control panel or through `/v2/spaces/keys` with a scoped DigitalOcean API token. The remote MCP server takes OAuth with a browser sign-in, or a bearer API token.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "$5 a month for 250 GiB of storage and 1,024 GiB of outbound transfer across all buckets, then $0.02 a GiB-month and $0.01 a GiB. No request charges are listed. The CDN is included. Cold Storage is $0.007 a GiB-month plus $0.01 a GiB retrieved. A $5 sign-up credit lasts 90 days and needs a payment method, so there is no start without a card (https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/details/pricing/; https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/billing/signup-credit/).", "priceSummary": "$5 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Spaces docs, the API reference index or the pricing pages. A Stablecoin Payment Addendum of 25 November 2025 covers account payments through Stripe, not per-request payment (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/reference/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "storage.object", "storage.s3", "storage.presigned", "storage.share" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "s3-compatible", "cdn", "mcp", "oauth", "llms-txt", "openapi", "usage-priced", "status-page", "sla", "soc-2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-04-08", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 63.2, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 402, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 37, "payments": 20, "reliability": 77, "schema": 63, "security": 77, "transparency": 74 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Per-bucket access keys with read or read-write-delete grants, an 800 operations a second limit per bucket and a 99.9 per cent SLA are all published. The MCP server manages keys and CDN endpoints only, not objects, and the S3 reference documents no error codes. A payment method is required before any bucket is created.", "bestFor": "Teams already on DigitalOcean that want object storage with a CDN and a flat $5 entry price for up to 250 GiB, with free transfer to Droplets in the same region.", "strengths": [ "Spaces access keys can be limited to named buckets with read or read-write-delete grants, and are created through `/v2/spaces/keys` or the control panel", "Limits are published with numbers, 800 operations a second per new bucket, with exponential backoff advised on `503 Slow Down`", "The Spaces SLA of 2 December 2025 gives 99.9 per cent monthly uptime per bucket, with credits of 10, 25 and 100 per cent", "Every docs page has a Markdown twin, indexed in `llms.txt`, and the S3 reference lists each supported operation with its minimum permission level", "All ten Spaces tools in the MCP server (MIT licence) carry read-only, idempotent or destructive hints and a risk class, checked by tests" ], "weaknesses": [ "The Spaces MCP server has ten tools for access keys and CDN endpoints. None reads, writes, lists or shares an object", "The access guide and the limits page say keys cannot be created through the API, while the API reference documents `POST /v2/spaces/keys`", "The limits page lists `list-objects-v2` pagination as unsupported, and the compatibility page says to use `ListObjectsV2` for new applications", "No error codes are documented in the S3 reference. Unsupported calls return `NotImplemented`, and no Object Lock was found", "The $5 sign-up credit needs a payment method first, and a subscription costs $5 a month once the first bucket exists", "The Acceptable Use Policy of 20 March 2026 bars scraping of service content and any probing or testing without written consent, which matters before any probe is run" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set the endpoint to `https://\u003cregion\u003e.digitaloceanspaces.com` and, in AWS SDKs other than Python's, set `region` to `us-east-1` when creating a bucket", "Ask for a limited access key with a Read or Read/Write/Delete grant on one bucket. A full access key can create, configure and delete every bucket", "Do the object work through the S3 API. The MCP server and `doctl` cannot upload, list, move or delete files", "Retry with exponential backoff on `503 Slow Down`, and keep below 800 operations a second per bucket", "Fetch presigned links from the origin host, not the CDN. The docs say presigned requests through the CDN are not cached and can double the bandwidth charge", "Avoid many tiny objects. Each bills as at least 4 KiB on Standard and 128 KiB on Cold Storage, which also has a 30-day minimum" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 63.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 37, "payments": 20, "reliability": 77, "schema": 63, "security": 77, "transparency": 63 }, "provenanceScore": 85 }, "connect": { "http": "import boto3\nsession = boto3.session.Session()\nclient = session.client('s3',\n region_name='nyc3',\n endpoint_url='https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com',\n aws_access_key_id='YOUR_SPACES_KEY',\n aws_secret_access_key='YOUR_SPACES_SECRET')\nclient.upload_file('localfile.txt', 'my-bucket', 'uploaded.txt')", "config": { "mcpServers": { "spaces": { "url": "https://spaces.mcp.digitalocean.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/storage.object", "tool": "https://letme.dev/digitalocean-spaces" }, "sameCompany": [ "digitalocean-mcp" ], "area": "everyday", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Spaces subscription", "unit": "month", "usd": 5, "note": "Includes 250 GiB of storage and 1,024 GiB of outbound transfer across all buckets" }, { "item": "Standard storage beyond 250 GiB", "unit": "gb-month", "usd": 0.02, "note": "Per GiB" }, { "item": "Cold Storage", "unit": "gb-month", "usd": 0.007, "note": "Per GiB, 30-day minimum, plus $0.01 a GiB retrieved" }, { "item": "Outbound transfer beyond 1,024 GiB", "unit": "gb", "usd": 0.01, "note": "Per GiB. Inbound transfer is free" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "DigitalOcean, LLC", "domain": "digitalocean.com", "domainRegistered": "2000-04-12", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://www.digitalocean.com/legal/terms-of-service-agreement", "privacy": "https://www.digitalocean.com/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.digitalocean.com", "changelog": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/release-notes/spaces/", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service Agreement, last updated 22 August 2026, names DigitalOcean, LLC, 105 Edgeview Drive, Ste. 425, Broomfield, CO 80021.", "The privacy policy, last updated 1 January 2025, says it does not apply to content customers process in the services. The Data Processing Agreement of 6 February 2026 at https://www.digitalocean.com/legal/data-processing-agreement covers that content.", "Storage endpoints are on digitaloceanspaces.com. The DigitalOcean API and the MCP server are on digitalocean.com.", "security.txt at https://www.digitalocean.com/.well-known/security.txt gives an Intigriti programme and security@digitalocean.com as contacts and Expires 2028-04-05.", "RDAP for digitalocean.com gives a registration date of 2000-04-12.", "status.digitalocean.com disallows /api/ and /embed/ in robots.txt. We read /history.rss, which holds 25 entries from 24 July to 5 October 2026.", "The Acceptable Use Policy of 20 March 2026 forbids harvesting or scraping content of the services and probing or testing DigitalOcean systems without written consent." ], "score": 85 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/digitalocean-spaces.json", "live": { "slug": "digitalocean-spaces", "probe": { "target": "https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T02:25:44.301119677Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 262, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 254, "p95ms24h": 318, "samples24h": 110, "samples30d": 110, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 25, "ok": 25 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.digitalocean.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T02:16:59.970779905Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@digitalocean/mcp", "version": "1.3.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:49:55.367691357Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 6361, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/release-notes/spaces/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:37:15.694494826Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "f985fd3f520e" }, { "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/details/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:37:13.39335158Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "4009725f24fb" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:25:44.301119677Z" } }, "answer": "DigitalOcean Spaces scores 63.2 (B) on agent readiness against Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage's 61.2 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "wasabi-hot-cloud-storage", "name": "Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage", "vendor": "Wasabi Technologies LLC", "vendorUrl": "https://wasabi.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "file-storage", "summary": "Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage is S3-compatible object storage from Wasabi Technologies, sold at one price per terabyte with no egress or request fees. Agents reach it through the S3, IAM and STS APIs with standard AWS SDKs.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wasabi-hot-cloud-storage", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wasabi-hot-cloud-storage.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wasabi-hot-cloud-storage.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/wasabi-hot-cloud-storage.json", "license": "Proprietary service under the Wasabi Customer Agreement", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://s3.wasabisys.com", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve access key and secret key, made in the console after a browser sign-up, signed as for AWS S3. A root key has full access including billing. Sub-user keys need IAM policies, and bucket policies, groups and roles are supported. STS gives AssumeRole sessions of up to 12 hours and GetSessionToken. Each user holds up to two keys for rotation. The beta MCP server takes OAuth with dynamic client registration and keeps the Wasabi keys on the server. WACM Connect and the Account Control API use separate keys.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Pay as You Go is $7.99 a TB-month in every region since 1 July 2026 (up from $6.99), with no egress or API request charges. Billing assumes at least 1 TB a month and 90 days per object. Egress is free while monthly downloads stay at or below stored volume. Reserved Capacity Storage is sold for 1, 3 or 5 years at discounts not published. The free trial needs no card and no contract (https://wasabi.com/pricing; https://wasabi.com/pricing/faq).", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API reference, the docs index or the pricing pages (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.wasabi.com/apidocs/wasabi-api", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.wasabi.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "storage.object", "storage.s3", "storage.presigned" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "s3-compatible", "iam", "sts", "mcp", "beta-mcp", "llms-txt", "usage-priced", "free-trial", "object-lock", "status-page", "iso-27001" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-28", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61.2, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 478, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 68, "maintenance": 46, "payments": 40, "reliability": 65, "schema": 59, "security": 83, "transparency": 69 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "9 October 2026. The sign-up guide, updated on 15 September 2026, advertises a trial of up to 1 TB for 30 days, while the trial page gives 100 GB for 30 days with a company email and 10 GB for 14 days with a free mail address. Two points for the conflicting claim (https://docs.wasabi.com/docs/signing-up-for-wasabi; https://wasabi.com/try-free)." ], "verdict": "IAM policies, STS sessions of up to 12 hours, Object Lock and audit logging give an agent tight, revocable access at $7.99 a TB-month with no egress or request fees. No request limits are published with numbers for the S3 API, there is no OpenAPI file, and billing assumes 1 TB and 90 days of storage as minimums.", "bestFor": "Backup, archive and media libraries of a terabyte or more that are written once and read moderately, where flat pricing and Object Lock matter.", "strengths": [ "$7.99 a TB-month in every region, with no egress or API request charges inside the fair use policy", "IAM users, groups, roles and policies, plus STS AssumeRole sessions of up to 12 hours and GetSessionToken", "Object Lock, compliance mode, MFA Delete and Multi-User Authorisation guard against deletion", "llms.txt with about 1,480 Markdown pages, the S3, WACA, WACM Connect and Stats API references among them", "Wasabi Technologies LLC holds its own ISO 27001:2022 certificate, audited by A-LIGN and valid to 9 June 2028" ], "weaknesses": [ "No numeric request limits for the S3 API. The fair use policy adjusts concurrent requests per account by stored volume", "Pay as You Go bills at least 1 TB a month and charges for objects deleted before 90 days", "The current Customer Agreement, privacy policy, SLA and DPA are drawn by script, so only earlier PDF versions could be read", "The Customer Agreement of 22 September 2025 bars benchmarks and public reviews of the service without written approval", "The hosted MCP server is a beta on a public test instance with no uptime commitment" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use the bucket's own regional endpoint, such as `s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com`. The docs say a wrong endpoint allows GET but not PUT or DELETE", "Ask for a sub-user key with a policy limited to one bucket, or an STS session. A root key has full access, billing included", "Avoid short-lived objects. Each object deleted before 90 days is billed for the remaining days, and objects under 4 KB bill as 4 KB", "Keep monthly downloads at or below the stored volume, the limit of the free egress policy", "Call `https://` endpoints explicitly. The S3 API also accepts plain HTTP", "For the MCP beta, type `https://mcp.wasabisys.dev/s3` from the page text. The links in the docs table point at a different host" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 61.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 68, "maintenance": 46, "payments": 40, "reliability": 65, "schema": 59, "security": 83, "transparency": 59 }, "provenanceScore": 79 }, "connect": { "http": "import boto3\ns3 = boto3.client(\n 's3',\n endpoint_url='https://s3.wasabisys.com',\n aws_access_key_id='YOUR_KEY',\n aws_secret_access_key='YOUR_SECRET'\n)\ns3.upload_file('localfile.jpg', 'my-bucket-name', 'uploaded.jpg')", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http wasabi-s3 https://mcp.wasabisys.dev/s3", "config": { "mcpServers": { "Wasabi S3": { "url": "https://mcp.wasabisys.dev/s3" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/storage.object", "tool": "https://letme.dev/wasabi-hot-cloud-storage" }, "area": "everyday", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Pay as You Go storage", "unit": "gb-month", "usd": 0.0078, "note": "$7.99 a TB-month, billed for at least 1 TB a month and 90 days per object" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Wasabi Technologies LLC", "domain": "wasabi.com", "domainRegistered": "1997-08-09", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://wasabi.com/legal", "privacy": "https://wasabi.com/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.wasabi.com", "changelog": "https://docs.wasabi.com/docs/whats-new", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Customer Agreement of 22 September 2025 names Wasabi Technologies LLC, and the DPA of 14 July 2025 gives 75 Arlington St., Suite 810, Boston, MA 02116.", "https://wasabi.com/legal is the Customer Agreement page. /legal/customer-agreement redirects to it.", "The Customer Agreement, privacy policy, SLA, DPA, sub-processor list and acceptable use policy pages draw their text by script from a OneTrust notice feed. Our reader received navigation only, and we did not pull the feed. Each page links earlier versions as PDFs on cdn.brandfolder.io, which we read and name by date.", "Storage endpoints are on wasabisys.com and the MCP beta on mcp.wasabisys.dev, not wasabi.com.", "security.txt is served at https://wasabi.com/security.txt with Contact security@wasabi.com and Expires 2030-08-01. The /.well-known/ path returns 404.", "RDAP for wasabi.com gives a registration date of 1997-08-09.", "status.wasabi.com disallows /api/ and /embed/ in robots.txt. We read /history.rss, which holds 25 entries from 29 June to 26 October 2026." ], "score": 79 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wasabi-hot-cloud-storage.json", "live": { "slug": "wasabi-hot-cloud-storage", "probe": { "target": "https://s3.wasabisys.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T02:26:07.000377936Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 516, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 498, "p95ms24h": 832, "samples24h": 110, "samples30d": 110, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 25, "ok": 25 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.wasabi.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T02:17:39.646255967Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.wasabi.com/docs/whats-new", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:44.685177361Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "828d702eaed7" }, { "url": "https://wasabi.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:47:23.771343499Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "65f3bcb61bd4" }, { "url": "https://wasabi.com/pricing/faq", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:47:25.66181787Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "fae56d223a9f" }, { "url": "https://wasabi.com/legal/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:47:21.73427395Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "1a448b6f7d39" }, { "url": "https://wasabi.com/legal", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:47:19.495465856Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "f6a696c7305d" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:26:07.000377936Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "DigitalOcean, LLC", "b": "Wasabi Technologies LLC", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com", "b": "https://s3.wasabisys.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under the DigitalOcean Terms of Service Agreement. The MCP server is MIT", "b": "Proprietary service under the Wasabi Customer Agreement", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-04-08", "b": "2026-08-28", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-08-22", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2025-01-01", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "DigitalOcean Spaces scores 63.2 (B) on agent readiness against Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage's 61.2 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, DigitalOcean Spaces or Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do DigitalOcean Spaces and Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. DigitalOcean Spaces has a hosted endpoint at https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com and Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage at https://s3.wasabisys.com.", "question": "Can an agent call DigitalOcean Spaces and Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 77 against 65", "Agent ergonomics, 73 against 68", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 74 against 69" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Teams already on DigitalOcean that want object storage with a CDN and a flat $5 entry price for up to 250 GiB, with free transfer to Droplets in the same region.", "slug": "digitalocean-spaces", "watchFor": "The Spaces MCP server has ten tools for access keys and CDN endpoints. None reads, writes, lists or shares an object" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 83 against 77", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 46 against 37" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Backup, archive and media libraries of a terabyte or more that are written once and read moderately, where flat pricing and Object Lock matter.", "slug": "wasabi-hot-cloud-storage", "watchFor": "No numeric request limits for the S3 API. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/digitalocean-spaces-vs-tigris" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tigris-vs-wasabi-hot-cloud-storage.json", "title": "Tigris vs Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tigris-vs-wasabi-hot-cloud-storage" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 12, "digitalocean-spaces": 77, "edge": "digitalocean-spaces", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "wasabi-hot-cloud-storage": 65, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 4, "digitalocean-spaces": 63, "edge": "digitalocean-spaces", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "wasabi-hot-cloud-storage": 59, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 5, "digitalocean-spaces": 73, "edge": "digitalocean-spaces", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "wasabi-hot-cloud-storage": 68, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 6, "digitalocean-spaces": 77, "edge": "wasabi-hot-cloud-storage", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "wasabi-hot-cloud-storage": 83, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "digitalocean-spaces": 20, "edge": "wasabi-hot-cloud-storage", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "wasabi-hot-cloud-storage": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 9, "digitalocean-spaces": 37, "edge": "wasabi-hot-cloud-storage", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "wasabi-hot-cloud-storage": 46, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 5, "digitalocean-spaces": 74, "edge": "digitalocean-spaces", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "wasabi-hot-cloud-storage": 69, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "DigitalOcean Spaces scores 63.2 (B) on agent readiness against Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage's 61.2 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do object storage.", "verdicts": { "digitalocean-spaces": "Per-bucket access keys with read or read-write-delete grants, an 800 operations a second limit per bucket and a 99.9 per cent SLA are all published. The MCP server manages keys and CDN endpoints only, not objects, and the S3 reference documents no error codes. A payment method is required before any bucket is created.", "wasabi-hot-cloud-storage": "IAM policies, STS sessions of up to 12 hours, Object Lock and audit logging give an agent tight, revocable access at $7.99 a TB-month with no egress or request fees. No request limits are published with numbers for the S3 API, there is no OpenAPI file, and billing assumes 1 TB and 90 days of storage as minimums." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/digitalocean-spaces-vs-wasabi-hot-cloud-storage", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/digitalocean-spaces-vs-wasabi-hot-cloud-storage.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/digitalocean-spaces-vs-wasabi-hot-cloud-storage.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/digitalocean-spaces-vs-wasabi-hot-cloud-storage.min.md" }, "markdown": "DigitalOcean Spaces scores 63.2 (B) on agent readiness against Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage's 61.2 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do object storage.\n\n- DigitalOcean Spaces: grade B, 63.2/100, rank #402 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/digitalocean-spaces.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/digitalocean-spaces.json\n- Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage: grade C, 61.2/100, rank #478 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wasabi-hot-cloud-storage.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/wasabi-hot-cloud-storage.json\n- Best file storage and sharing APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/file-storage/index.md\n- All 75 storage comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/file-storage/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### DigitalOcean Spaces (B)\n\nGood for: Teams already on DigitalOcean that want object storage with a CDN and a flat $5 entry price for up to 250 GiB, with free transfer to Droplets in the same region.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 77 against 65\n- Agent ergonomics, 73 against 68\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 74 against 69\n\nWatch for: The Spaces MCP server has ten tools for access keys and CDN endpoints. None reads, writes, lists or shares an object\n\n### Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage (C)\n\nGood for: Backup, archive and media libraries of a terabyte or more that are written once and read moderately, where flat pricing and Object Lock matter.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 83 against 77\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 46 against 37\n\nWatch for: No numeric request limits for the S3 API. The fair use policy adjusts concurrent requests per account by stored volume\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | DigitalOcean Spaces | Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 77 | 65 | DigitalOcean Spaces +12 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 59 | DigitalOcean Spaces +4 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 68 | DigitalOcean Spaces +5 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 77 | 83 | Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage +6 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 40 | Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 37 | 46 | Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 69 | DigitalOcean Spaces +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **63.2 · B** | **61.2 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | DigitalOcean Spaces | Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | DigitalOcean, LLC | Wasabi Technologies LLC |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com` | `https://s3.wasabisys.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the DigitalOcean Terms of Service Agreement. The MCP server is MIT | Proprietary service under the Wasabi Customer Agreement |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-04-08 | 2026-08-28 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-22 | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-01-01 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | couldn't be read |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**DigitalOcean Spaces.** Per-bucket access keys with read or read-write-delete grants, an 800 operations a second limit per bucket and a 99.9 per cent SLA are all published. The MCP server manages keys and CDN endpoints only, not objects, and the S3 reference documents no error codes. A payment method is required before any bucket is created.\n\n**Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage.** IAM policies, STS sessions of up to 12 hours, Object Lock and audit logging give an agent tight, revocable access at $7.99 a TB-month with no egress or request fees. No request limits are published with numbers for the S3 API, there is no OpenAPI file, and billing assumes 1 TB and 90 days of storage as minimums.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### DigitalOcean Spaces\n\n1. Set the endpoint to `https://\u003cregion\u003e.digitaloceanspaces.com` and, in AWS SDKs other than Python's, set `region` to `us-east-1` when creating a bucket\n2. Ask for a limited access key with a Read or Read/Write/Delete grant on one bucket. A full access key can create, configure and delete every bucket\n3. Do the object work through the S3 API. The MCP server and `doctl` cannot upload, list, move or delete files\n4. Retry with exponential backoff on `503 Slow Down`, and keep below 800 operations a second per bucket\n5. Fetch presigned links from the origin host, not the CDN. The docs say presigned requests through the CDN are not cached and can double the bandwidth charge\n6. Avoid many tiny objects. Each bills as at least 4 KiB on Standard and 128 KiB on Cold Storage, which also has a 30-day minimum\n\n### Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage\n\n1. Use the bucket's own regional endpoint, such as `s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com`. The docs say a wrong endpoint allows GET but not PUT or DELETE\n2. Ask for a sub-user key with a policy limited to one bucket, or an STS session. A root key has full access, billing included\n3. Avoid short-lived objects. Each object deleted before 90 days is billed for the remaining days, and objects under 4 KB bill as 4 KB\n4. Keep monthly downloads at or below the stored volume, the limit of the free egress policy\n5. Call `https://` endpoints explicitly. The S3 API also accepts plain HTTP\n6. For the MCP beta, type `https://mcp.wasabisys.dev/s3` from the page text. The links in the docs table point at a different host\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, DigitalOcean Spaces or Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage?\n\nDigitalOcean Spaces scores 63.2 (B) on agent readiness against Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage's 61.2 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do DigitalOcean Spaces and Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call DigitalOcean Spaces and Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage without installing anything?\n\nYes. DigitalOcean Spaces has a hosted endpoint at https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com and Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage at https://s3.wasabisys.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/digitalocean-spaces-vs-wasabi-hot-cloud-storage.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/digitalocean-spaces-vs-wasabi-hot-cloud-storage.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"digitalocean-spaces\", \"b\": \"wasabi-hot-cloud-storage\"}`. 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