Shelby Economics Calculator
Estimate storage costs and SP rewards based on live on-chain parameters.
= 1.00 GB · 954 chunks
Left at 0, competitor costs below reflect storage only — most providers also charge for egress and operations.
Estimated total — 1.00 GB, 30 days, Shelbynet
Per month
1.2020
sUSD / mo
Per GB / mo
1.202040
sUSD
42 µShelbyUSD · chunk⁻¹ · epoch⁻¹ · 1 epoch = 1 day
Calculation Breakdown
Storage Size The total amount of data you're storing, converted to bytes for the calculation.
1.00 GB
Chunk Size Chunks are fixed-size (~1 MiB) portions of a Chunkset, formed by erasure-coding. 'On-chain' means this value was fetched live; 'assumed' means the live fetch failed or returned no value.
1.00 MiB
Chunks Storage size divided by chunk size, rounded up: how many chunks your data is split into.
954
Epochs Your selected duration divided by the payment epoch length — how many billing cycles you're paying for.
30
1d each
Rate Combined payment (storage-provider share + admin share) charged per chunk, per epoch. 'On-chain' means this was fetched live from PaymentTiers; 'assumed' means the live fetch failed and a last-known default is shown.
42 µsUSD
per chunk / epoch
Total µShelbyUSD Chunks × Epochs × Rate. 1 ShelbyUSD = 1,000,000 µShelbyUSD.
1,202,040
Cost Comparison — 30-day period · 1.00 GB
* ShelbyUSD ≠ USD — exchange rate not established on Shelbynet. Comparison is directional only. Competitor bars include storage only — add Usage above for full TCO.
Detailed Comparison
| Provider | Model | Est. Cost (TCO) | Storage/GB/mo | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shelby | Monthly | 1.2020 sUSD* | 1.202040 sUSD* | Decentralised, cryptographic guarantees |
| Filecoin | Monthly | $0.0002 | $0.0002 | Variable, deal-based |
| Backblaze B2 | Monthly | $0.0060 | $0.006 | Cheapest S3-compatible |
| Cloudflare R2 | Monthly | $0.0150 | $0.015 | No egress fees |
| AWS S3 | Monthly | $0.0230 | $0.023 | Standard, us-east-1 |
| IPFS (pinned) | Monthly | $0.1000 | $0.1 | Via Pinata / NFT.Storage |
| Arweave | One-time | Variable | — | ~$4.00/GB upfront (permanent) |
* ShelbyUSD ≠ USD. Chunk size 1.00 MiB assumed pending contract confirmation.