AIOZ Pin Pricing: The Complete Cost Breakdown

AIOZ Pin has exactly three line items on a bill: storage, bandwidth, and pinned files past a free threshold. No plan names to choose between, no annual-vs-monthly decision, no feature gate locked behind a higher tier. This article covers the real numbers, how billing actually runs against a wallet, and how the whole structure holds up against Pinata and Filebase.

TL;DR:

• Storage costs $20 per TB per month, bandwidth costs $20 per TB, both prorated daily against a wallet balance
• The first 40,000 pinned files are free; after that it's $0.10 per additional 1,000, independent of file size
• There are no subscription tiers. You fund a wallet with AIOZ tokens and pay for exactly what you use
• If a balance runs out, AIOZ's docs say the premium gateway turns off automatically and pinned files stay reachable through the public gateway; what happens to the pins themselves isn't documented, so don't assume a grace period exists
• Against Pinata's bundled tiers, AIOZ Pin wins clearly at low usage and loses the "unlimited files" framing at very high pin counts, where a flat per-1,000 fee eventually costs more than a bundled plan's included allowance

How Much Does AIOZ Pin Actually Cost?

Three numbers, per AIOZ's own payment documentation: $20 per TB per month for storage, $20 per TB for bandwidth, and the first 40,000 pinned files free, then $0.10 per additional 1,000. That's the entire rate card. No per-request fees, no separate charge for API calls, no volume discount tiers published anywhere. What you store, what you serve, and how many distinct files you pin are the only three things AIOZ Pin bills for.

How Billing Actually Works

Both storage and bandwidth are billed daily, not monthly, per AIOZ's own documentation: the $20/TB monthly rate gets divided across the days in that month and deducted incrementally as usage accrues, rather than charged as one lump sum on a billing date. Pinned-file count works differently, it's a running total against the 40,000-file free threshold, billed once you cross it, independent of storage or bandwidth.

Funding works through a wallet, not a credit card. AIOZ Pin auto-generates a wallet address for every account, and depositing AIOZ tokens to it converts to usable credit at the AIOZ/USDT market rate at the moment of deposit, not a fixed rate and not the rate whenever the credit eventually gets spent. The documented minimum deposit is just over 0.01 AIOZ; smaller amounts aren't discarded, they accumulate until the combined total crosses that threshold.

A Real Cost Example

Say a project stores 2TB and serves 1TB of bandwidth in a month, with 60,000 pinned files. Storage runs 2TB × $20 = $40. Bandwidth runs 1TB × $20 = $20. Pinned files: 20,000 over the 40,000-file free threshold, so 20 × $0.10 = $2. Total for the month: $62, deducted from the wallet in roughly $2/day increments rather than billed as one invoice. Double the storage to 4TB with the same bandwidth and pin count, and the bill becomes $80 + $20 + $2 = $102. Because storage and bandwidth are both flat and linear, cost scales directly with usage, no step-function jump at a plan boundary.

What Happens If Your Balance Runs Out

AIOZ's premium gateways documentation answers part of this: if the premium gateway is on and the account runs out of money, the premium gateway option turns off automatically, and the pinned files can still be accessed through the public gateway. What the docs still don't specify is what happens to the pins themselves: no minimum-balance requirement, no stated grace period, no documented deletion policy. That remaining gap is worth knowing about directly rather than assuming a specific outcome. The practical move is monitoring spend proactively through the Billing API rather than finding out empirically what happens at zero.

How AIOZ Pin's Pricing Compares to Pinata and Filebase

At low, pay-as-you-go usage, AIOZ Pin's lack of a monthly minimum is the clearest win, a project storing a few hundred GB pays for exactly that, with no $7.50-$20 floor before the first byte. Against Pinata specifically, AIOZ Pin's $20/TB storage rate beats Picnic's effective overage rate outright and is competitive with Fiesta's. Against Filebase, the picture flips: Filebase's $15/TB overage rate on both storage and bandwidth, plus a genuinely unlimited pin count with no per-file fee at any volume, undercuts AIOZ Pin for a project pinning millions of small files, exactly the scenario AIOZ Pin's 40,000-free-then-per-1,000 model starts costing real money for reasons unrelated to actual storage or bandwidth used.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does AIOZ Pin cost per TB? $20 per TB per month for storage and $20 per TB for bandwidth, both prorated daily, per AIOZ's official payment documentation.

Does AIOZ Pin have a free tier? Not for storage or bandwidth, both are billed from the first byte. The only free allowance is the first 40,000 pinned files.

Are there subscription plans to choose between? No. AIOZ Pin runs entirely pay-as-you-go, funded by a wallet, there are no named Basic/Pro/Enterprise tiers.

What happens if my AIOZ Pin wallet balance hits zero? AIOZ's premium gateways documentation says a premium gateway turns off automatically when the account runs out of money, and pinned files can still be accessed through the public gateway. What happens to the pins themselves isn't publicly documented, so rather than assume a grace period exists, monitor usage through the Billing API and top up proactively.

Is AIOZ Pin cheaper than Pinata? On storage and bandwidth rates, generally yes, especially against Pinata's Picnic tier overage pricing. Pinata's paid plans include a file allowance with no per-file fee (5 million files on Picnic and 10 million on Fiesta, per Pinata's pricing page on Oct 19, 2026), unlike AIOZ Pin's threshold.

Is AIOZ Pin the cheapest IPFS pinning option available? No. Filebase's Pro tier currently publishes lower per-GB overage rates and unlimited pinned files at any volume, undercutting AIOZ Pin specifically for projects pinning very large numbers of files.

Related Reading

• How AIOZ Pin Billing Works: Storage, Bandwidth, Pins - the full mechanics of daily proration and the Billing API, in depth
• How AIOZ Pin's Wallet Billing Actually Works - exactly how the wallet, deposits, and AIOZ/USDT conversion work
• Why AIOZ Pin's "Unlimited Pinned Files" Isn't Really Free - the 40,000-file threshold in full detail
• AIOZ Pin vs Pinata: IPFS Pinning Service Compared 2026 - a fuller feature-by-feature comparison beyond pricing alone
• AIOZ Pin vs Filebase: S3-Compatible vs Web3-Native IPFS Storage - where Filebase's pricing and feature set actually differ beyond the table above

References

• AIOZ Pin Documentation: Payment
• Pinata Pricing
• Filebase Pricing