Zero Egress Fees: The Cloud Pricing Practice That Needs to Die

A startup builds a product. It works. Users arrive. Traffic grows. And then the cloud bill arrives — with a line item nobody budgeted for.

Egress fees.

AWS charges $0.09 per gigabyte of outbound data. GCP charges $0.12. Azure charges $0.087. A moderately popular API serving 10 TB of outbound data per month faces an egress bill of $900–$1,200 — on top of compute, on top of storage, on top of everything else.

Egress fees are a tax on success. The more users you get, the more you pay to serve them. We think that's backwards.

Hanzo Network: Zero Egress

Every Hanzo Network plan includes generous bandwidth with no overage charges:

No per-GB overage charges. No surprise line items.

The Hidden Cost of Egress

Let's make this concrete. A SaaS company running on AWS with:

• 20 TB outbound data/month
• Standard egress pricing ($0.09/GB for first 10 TB, $0.085 for next 40 TB)

Monthly egress bill: ~$1,620

That's $19,440/year just for the privilege of sending data to your users. Not compute. Not storage. Just bandwidth.

On Hanzo Network's Enterprise plan ($429/mo), that same 20 TB is included. The Enterprise plan costs $5,148/year total — for compute, storage, bandwidth, DDoS protection, and backups combined.

"But DigitalOcean Doesn't Charge Egress Either"

Partially true. DigitalOcean includes bandwidth allowances with droplets and charges $0.01/GB for overages — much better than AWS. But:

1. DigitalOcean charges $0.10/GB for block storage (Hanzo: $0.08/GB)
2. DigitalOcean charges $4/mo for reserved IPv4 addresses (Hanzo: included)
3. DigitalOcean charges 20% of droplet price for automated backups (Hanzo: included)
4. DigitalOcean's General Purpose 32 vCPU / 128 GB costs $960/mo (Hanzo: $849)

When you add up the hidden costs, Hanzo is meaningfully cheaper even against the "developer-friendly" clouds.

Consistent Global Pricing

AWS charges different egress rates by region. Data transfer from Asia Pacific costs more than US East. Cross-region transfer within AWS costs $0.01–0.02/GB even between your own services.

Hanzo Network charges the same price in all four regions: US East, US West, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Your Singapore deployment costs exactly the same as your Virginia deployment.

Why We Can Do This

We route traffic through cost-optimized backend infrastructure across multiple providers, selecting the best-margin option per region while maintaining consistent customer-facing pricing. The details of our provider routing are internal — what matters to you is the price on the invoice.

The Bet

We're betting that developers will choose the cloud that doesn't punish growth. Build your product, find your users, scale your traffic — your bandwidth is included.

Start at hanzo.network with $5 free credit.