--- title: Pricing description: R2 Data Catalog pricing for catalog operations, compaction, and free tier details. image: https://developers.cloudflare.com/dev-products-preview.png --- > Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. [Skip to content](#%5Ftop) # Pricing R2 Data Catalog charges based on two dimensions in addition to standard [R2 storage and operations](https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/pricing/): 1. **Catalog operations**: Metadata operations such as creating tables, reading table metadata, and updating table properties. 2. **Compaction data processed**: The volume of data processed and objects compacted when [automatic table compaction](https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/data-catalog/table-maintenance/) is turned on. All included usage is on a monthly basis. ## R2 Data Catalog pricing | | Free | Paid | | ---------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------- | ---------------------------- | | **Catalog operations** | | | | Included | 1 million operations / month | 1 million operations / month | | Additional | N/A | $9.00 / million operations | | **Data processed (Compaction)** [1](#user-content-fn-1) | | | | Included | 10 GB / month | 10 GB / month | | Additional (data processed) | N/A | $0.005 / GB processed | | **Objects processed (Compaction)** [1](#user-content-fn-1) | | | | Included | 1 million objects / month | 1 million objects / month | | Additional | N/A | $2.00 / million objects | ### Catalog operations Catalog operations are metadata requests made to the Iceberg REST catalog, such as creating a table, retrieving table metadata, updating table properties, and listing tables in a namespace. These operations do not scan or move data. ### Compaction When you turn on [automatic compaction](https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/data-catalog/table-maintenance/), R2 Data Catalog periodically rewrites small data files into larger, optimized files. This improves query performance and reduces the number of files in your table. Compaction is billed on two sub-dimensions: * **Data processed**: The total bytes read and rewritten during compaction. * **Objects processed**: The number of data files compacted. Compaction charges only apply when compaction is turned on for a table. If you have not turned on compaction, you will not incur any compaction charges. Note Current compaction pricing is based on binpacking, the simplest form of compaction. More compute-intensive compaction algorithms (such as sort or z-order) may be priced differently in the future. ### Snapshot Expiration When you turn on [automatic snapshot expiration](https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/data-catalog/table-maintenance/#why-do-i-need-snapshot-expiration), R2 Data Catalog automatically deletes old snapshots and their associated data files after a specified retention period. Snapshot expiration is free of charge and does not incur any additional costs outside of the standard R2 storage and data catalog operations charges. ## Billing examples ### Example 1: Low-volume analytics table A user maintains a single Iceberg table with 50 GB of data. They make 500,000 catalog operations per month and have compaction turned on, which processes 20 GB across 200,000 files. | Dimension | Usage | Included | Billable | Cost | | --------------------------- | ------- | --------- | -------- | --------- | | Catalog operations | 500,000 | 1,000,000 | 0 | $0.00 | | Compaction (data processed) | 20 GB | 10 GB | 10 GB | $0.05 | | Compaction (objects) | 200,000 | 1,000,000 | 0 | $0.00 | | **Total (Data Catalog)** | | | | **$0.05** | Standard R2 storage charges ($0.015 / GB-month) apply separately for the 50 GB of data stored. ### Example 2: Streaming ingest at 20 MB/s A user streams data into an Iceberg table at 20 MB/s using [Pipelines](https://developers.cloudflare.com/pipelines/). Over a month (\~30 days) this produces approximately 50,625 GB (\~49 TB) of data, 347,000 catalog operations, and compaction processes roughly 50,625 GB across 43,200 files. | Dimension | Usage | Included | Billable | Cost | | --------------------------- | --------------- | ----------- | --------------- | ------------- | | R2 storage | 50,625 GB-month | 10 GB-month | 50,615 GB-month | $759.23 | | Catalog operations | 347,000 | 1,000,000 | 0 | $0.00 | | Compaction (data processed) | 50,625 GB | 10 GB | 50,615 GB | $253.08 | | Compaction (objects) | 43,200 | 1,000,000 | 0 | $0.00 | | **Total** | | | | **$1,012.31** | For large-scale use cases, storage costs are typically the largest component of the bill. ## Cloudflare billing policy To learn more about how usage is billed, refer to [Cloudflare Billing Policy](https://developers.cloudflare.com/billing/understand/billing-policy/). ## Footnotes 1. Only applies when compaction is enabled for a table. 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