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Wasabi vs Zadara comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 1, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
8.3
Wasabi offers cost-effective, easy setup storage with significant savings and frequent backup capabilities, proving highly valuable for users.
Sentiment score
7.2
Zadara offers flexible, cost-effective storage expansion, with up to 50% savings and no major hardware investments, despite AWS comparisons.
We can tell them that we are backing it up as frequently as they might need it.
Owner at Earthclick.net
The project had a calculated cost that was fifteen thousand dollars, and came to an amount of six to seven thousand dollars with Zadara.
Arquiteto De Cloud at Claro Brasil
The cost is not cheaper compared to AWS, and we have not seen the expected return on investment.
Cloud System Engineer at cloud251
I can see the return on investment because we are saving around 15 to 18% of the operational cost when compared to AWS.
AI product lead at Sortis
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.9
Wasabi offers responsive, effective support, with users praising fast responses and efficient problem resolution, especially for special inquiries.
Sentiment score
8.2
Zadara's customer service is praised for efficient, 24/7 support, proactive issue monitoring, and knowledgeable technical assistance worldwide.
I evaluate Wasabi's tech support as pretty effective; they set up live support instantly and did quite a lot quickly.
Chief Executive Officer at Quickening Group
I rate the technical support from Zadara as nine out of ten.
IT Technical Architect at AVALIS
We lack adequate response times and a 24/7 service level agreement.
Cloud System Engineer at cloud251
The customer support from Zadara has met my expectations.
Analyst Level 3 at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Wasabi offers scalable, pay-as-you-go storage with easy integration, appealing to users despite being less scalable than Azure.
Sentiment score
7.9
Zadara provides seamless, scalable storage solutions with cost-effective resource expansion, ideal for dynamic business needs and budget adaptability.
Anytime we have a new website, it is just easy to add it.
Owner at Earthclick.net
There is no need to worry about scalability because the virtual machine automatically detects the load and then takes the load balance.
AI product lead at Sortis
The Zadara team handled changes to hard drive RAID and the storage that made up all the logical part, and it was very transparent to the end user.
Arquiteto De Cloud at Claro Brasil
Zadara is a fully-fledged platform, and our customers are happy with its use.
Cloud System Engineer at cloud251
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
9.1
Users highly rate Wasabi's reliability and performance, supported by vendor recommendations and no reported issues.
Sentiment score
7.7
Users praise Zadara's stability and consistency, noting strong failover, smooth updates, and proactive support despite rare glitches.
Wasabi is very reliable and very stable.
Owner at Earthclick.net
The security and control side, for what it offered, gave total stability.
Arquiteto De Cloud at Claro Brasil
 

Room For Improvement

Wasabi requires improved user management, file access, scalability, retention, data centers, app integration, and enhanced user reporting features.
Zadara users recommend proactive updates, enhanced features, improved interfaces, better security, platform compatibility, and AI integration with pricing adjustments.
The most important improvement we would like to see in Wasabi is the ability to find files and folders easily on the platform, as it is not very easy at all right now.
Chief Executive Officer at Quickening Group
Maintenance can also be complicated, especially when deeper troubleshooting requires navigating the CLI and searching for logs.
IT Technical Architect at AVALIS
Adding AI capabilities could enhance the offering as well.
Cloud System Engineer at cloud251
They currently look like simple PHP interfaces, but they need to customize and work on their interfaces and user interfaces significantly.
AI product lead at Sortis
 

Setup Cost

Wasabi offers cost-effective, clear pricing for storage, significantly cheaper than AWS and Azure, with flexible payment options.
Zadara offers simple, competitive pricing aligned with IaaS, with flexible billing but has regional cost concerns in South Africa and Ethiopia.
The pricing is considered expensive.
Cloud System Engineer at cloud251
 

Valuable Features

Wasabi offers affordable, user-friendly storage with no fees, 99.9% uptime, easy Veeam integration, and superior video streaming.
Zadara excels in cloud integration, offering flexible deployments, advanced management, multicloud support, and predictable costs for diverse customer needs.
We have never had an outage, and it is very reliable and stable.
Owner at Earthclick.net
Wasabi's features of eliminating egress and API requests fees have ensured that we can run our social media sites without charging users for data, which increases the adoption of our platform.
Chief Executive Officer at Quickening Group
Zadara's impact on scalability and its competitive pricing compared to other market players positively affect my organization.
Analyst Level 3 at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Zadara brought a cost-benefit advantage for the client thanks to a more direct partnership with Zadara, and this made it much cheaper than doing a digital transformation where the data has to be transferred via very high data transfer on AWS.
Arquiteto De Cloud at Claro Brasil
The best features Zadara offers include 99% compute availability, and the redundancy mechanism that supports this is significant.
AI product lead at Sortis
 

Categories and Ranking

Wasabi
Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services
12th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Zadara
Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services
13th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
All-Flash Storage (23rd), Software Defined Storage (SDS) (11th), Compute Service (9th), File and Object Storage (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Public Cloud Storage Services category, the mindshare of Wasabi is 4.0%, down from 6.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zadara is 2.7%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Public Cloud Storage Services Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Wasabi4.0%
Zadara2.7%
Other93.3%
Public Cloud Storage Services
 

Featured Reviews

GI
Chief Executive Officer at Quickening Group
Cost-effectiveness and seamless integration boost long-term data management while file retrieval needs improvement
Wasabi is cost-effective, has no ingress and egress fees, and is reliable. Wasabi helps us in maintaining our enterprise-grade safety requirements because it's highly functional, allowing us to maintain redundancies required for some of our solutions. Wasabi is highly integratable because many systems successfully use it. It is extremely useful in facilitating seamless adoption into our current operational procedures. Many of the solutions that are on Kubernetes use Wasabi integration for their S3, and increasingly, virtually all of them now use Wasabi for their integrations. Wasabi's features of eliminating egress and API requests fees have ensured that we can run our social media sites without charging users for data, which increases the adoption of our platform. Wasabi's simplified pricing model is phenomenal in helping our organization predict and manage cloud costs.
AA
Arquiteto De Cloud at Claro Brasil
Hybrid data migration has reduced costs and now needs stronger security and database integration
I would like to share something that I believe could improve Zadara's process, which is the issue of communication with databases. Today we have MongoDB as a cloud service, so integration with databases in Zadara would bring better performance in connection in SaaS models and in dynamic models that could bring a platform and a solution that could increase Zadara's usage in the market and in its business scope. Zadara can improve in the database integration area as I mentioned. Zadara can have better dynamism such as MongoDB in SaaS and bring this better dynamism by connecting and offering it within the clouds as a possibility of block storage within that partner cloud, such as AWS EBS, Google's cloud storage, or something within Azure. Creating a stronger partnership where this block storage can become an API connectable across various clouds but native to those clouds would be beneficial. I noticed simplicity in the security part during the time I used Zadara, so I believe Zadara's security needs to improve to provide more and deliver more security visibility to the end customer so that they feel more secure with data encryption and attack protection. A WAF on the API connection that goes through greater protection, something along those lines, could help guarantee that the data is protected by Zadara.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Aerospace/Defense Firm
14%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Insurance Company
7%
Construction Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Construction Company
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Large Enterprise1
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Wasabi?
The most important improvement we would like to see in Wasabi is the ability to find files and folders easily on the platform, as it is not very easy at all right now.
What is your primary use case for Wasabi?
It's been used as a storage system for our social media site. When you run a social media site, the limitless scalability of Wasabi is critical for our mission-critical systems since it ensures tha...
What advice do you have for others considering Wasabi?
If any features are enhanced, that will be a very big deal. Wasabi is very easy to implement and didn't take any time at all to implement. We decided to switch to Wasabi primarily due to cost, foll...
What needs improvement with Zadara?
Zadara can be improved by making their interfaces more attractive. They currently look like simple PHP interfaces, but they need to customize and work on their interfaces and user interfaces signif...
What is your primary use case for Zadara?
My main use case for Zadara is to build and validate the GPU as a Service and the AI sovereignty that they're working on. I have developed a tool that works based on GPU as a Service, and it also c...
What advice do you have for others considering Zadara?
Regarding Zadara's AI capabilities, I think it depends on the MSPs that they are performing collaborations with, and based on that, the MSPs are responsible for configuring the data governance or a...
 

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Sample Customers

FileShadow, Ivy League Schools, Russell Sage Colleges, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, MayStreet
Time, Inc. A&E Network, The Washington Post, News UK, McGraw Hill, Gilt, Toshiba, Deloitte, VMware
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