Guide · 2026
Best Decentralized Storage (2026)
The 10 most complete decentralized storage listings on Decentral Now, ranked by how much verified public information each publishes: description, services, pricing, and a live website. 30 are listed in this category. Order is not a quality rating, and no listing pays for its rank.
- 1
IPFS
Content-addressed peer-to-peer protocol and software stack for storing and retrieving files by hash rather than by server location, used as the base layer for many decentralized apps.
- 3 services listed, including content addressing, peer-to-peer file transfer, gateways
- Serves the whole US
- 2
Storj
Distributed cloud object storage that splits and spreads encrypted file pieces across independent nodes, offered as an S3-compatible service at lower cost than mainstream clouds.
- 3 services listed, including s3-compatible object storage, distributed nodes, backups
- Serves the whole US
- 3
Filecoin
Decentralized storage network where independent providers take paid deals to store data and prove they still hold it, with global redundancy and no single operator.
- 3 services listed, including storage deals, storage provider network, data retrieval
- Serves the whole US
- 4
Tahoe-LAFS
Free and open decentralized cloud storage system that encrypts and distributes data across multiple servers so the system survives server failure or compromise.
- 3 services listed, including distributed storage, erasure coding, least authority design
- Serves the whole US
- 5
Peergos
Post-quantum end-to-end encrypted storage, sharing and sync where file contents, metadata and sharing relationships stay private from the server operator.
- 3 services listed, including encrypted storage, secure sharing, sync
- Serves the whole US
- 6
Nextcloud
Open-source content collaboration platform for self-hosted file sync, sharing, calendars and office documents, with federation between Nextcloud servers.
- 3 services listed, including file sync and share, groupware, federation
- Serves the whole US
- 7
Aleph Cloud
Decentralized cloud platform offering virtual machines, website hosting, GPU workloads, confidential VMs and storage across a distributed node network.
- 3 services listed, including virtual machines, decentralized storage, confidential compute
- Serves the whole US
- 8
Arweave
Permanent storage network that charges once for data and pays nodes from an endowment to keep serving it, using a proof-of-access consensus design.
- 3 services listed, including permanent storage, one-time payment, node incentives
- Serves the whole US
- 9
Pinata
Developer-focused file storage service built around IPFS, providing upload and retrieval APIs so teams do not run their own pinning infrastructure.
- 3 services listed, including ipfs pinning, upload apis, gateways
- Serves the whole US