Why People Are Looking for a Storj Alternative
If you're evaluating a Storj alternative right now, you're probably not doing it idly. In late July 2026, Storj Labs filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as part of a voluntary financial restructuring aimed at resolving legacy debt from an earlier stage of the business. Storj has said its network, team, and customer services continue as normal throughout the court-supervised process, and this is a restructuring rather than a shutdown.
Still, a Chapter 11 filing is the kind of event that makes anyone storing meaningful amounts of data stop and think about redundancy. It's a reasonable moment to ask what your options are, and whether the S3-compatible workflow you already know can just as easily point somewhere else. That's exactly what a Storj alternative like Hippius is built for.
What You Get with Hippius
Hippius is distributed cloud storage that speaks the standard S3 API, so your buckets, keys, and existing tooling carry over without a rewrite. A few things worth knowing if you're comparing it to Storj:
- Per-bucket encryption. Objects are encrypted per bucket and spread across the Hippius network, rather than sitting in a single provider's data center.
- Zero egress fees. Retrieving your own data never costs extra, no matter how much you download.
- Usage-based pricing from the first hour. No tiers, no minimums, no guessing what your bill will look like.
- On-chain verifiability. Every storage operation is recorded on Hippius's own blockchain, so file integrity and usage are auditable rather than something you have to take on trust.
- A full cloud stack, not just storage. Object storage, confidential compute, and a container/model registry all sit on the same distributed foundation, so you're not limited to one service as your needs grow.
How to Migrate from Storj to Hippius
Moving off Storj takes three steps:
- Get your Storj S3 credentials. In your Storj console, create S3 access credentials. Read-only access is enough for a migration.
- Paste them into Hippius. Open the Migrations tab in your Hippius console, select Storj as your source, and choose the buckets you want to move.
- Watch it migrate. Hippius copies every object into distributed S3 storage with live progress. Close the tab if you like, the migration keeps running.
Migrating off Storj? Select it as your source, add your read-only access keys, and Hippius Console handles the rest.
Your Storj data isn't touched or deleted during the process, since the migration is read-only against your source. Your Storj credentials are used only for the copy and then discarded, and every migrated bucket arrives private, so nothing is shared until you decide to share it.
Hippius vs. Storj on Price
Storj charges for both storage and every gigabyte you retrieve, $7 per TB for storage and $7 per TB for egress. On Hippius, egress is always free, which matters more than it sounds like it should once you look at a real bill. On a workload of 5TB stored with 2TB of monthly downloads, Storj runs about $49.00/month, compared to about $14.87/month on Hippius, a saving of roughly $34.13/month, or about $409.56/year. You can run your own numbers against your actual usage at hippius.com/pricing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to change my code to switch from Storj to Hippius?
No. Hippius uses the standard S3 API, so your existing SDKs and tooling keep working after the move.
Will my Storj data be deleted during migration?
No. The migration is read-only against Storj. Your original data stays exactly where it is until you choose to remove it yourself.
What if I have data in multiple providers, not just Storj?
Hippius's migration tool works with any S3-compatible provider, including AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, Google Cloud Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces, and Storj, so you can consolidate everything in one place.
Get Started
If you're weighing a Storj alternative, moving your buckets to Hippius takes a few clicks, not a migration project, and you keep the same S3 workflow you already use. Head to the Storj migration page to start, or check hippius.com/pricing to see what you'd save.
About Hippius
Hippius is a distributed cloud platform built to give users a verifiable alternative to providers like AWS and Google Cloud. Files are encrypted and distributed across an independent network rather than held in a single provider's data center. Every storage claim, payment, and miner action is recorded on Hippius's own blockchain, so instead of asking users to trust the platform, Hippius lets them check it for themselves. On top of that foundation sits a full product suite: personal cloud storage, S3-compatible object storage with no egress fees, confidential computing on secure hardware, and a container and model registry for AI. Hippius runs as Subnet 75 on Bittensor and was built by The Nerve Lab.
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