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## R2 Data Catalog pricing announced

May 28, 2026 

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[R2 Data Catalog](https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/data-catalog/) is a managed [Apache Iceberg ↗](https://iceberg.apache.org/) data catalog built directly into R2 buckets, queryable by any Iceberg-compatible engine such as Spark, Snowflake, and DuckDB. R2 Data Catalog now has published pricing for catalog operations and table compaction, in addition to standard [R2 storage and operations](https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/pricing/).

Billing is not yet enabled. We will provide at least 30 days notice before we start charging for R2 Data Catalog usage.

Pricing is based on two dimensions:

* **Catalog operations**: $9.00 / million operations for metadata requests such as creating tables, reading table metadata, and updating table properties.
* **Compaction**: $0.005 / GB processed and $2.00 / million objects processed. These charges only apply when automatic compaction is turned on for a table.

Both dimensions include a monthly free tier: 1 million catalog operations, 10 GB of compaction data processed, and 1 million compaction objects processed.

For full pricing details and billing examples, refer to [R2 Data Catalog pricing](https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/data-catalog/platform/pricing/).