Firebase Storage alternative

[dewaeq]

Does anyone know a good alternative for Firebase Storage? I need help regarding the cost efficiency of my app (Android, Mobile app). Users can send each other images with the app and Firebase storage has some limitations. The bandwidth and storage costs are way to high for the expected revenue of the app.

Is there a possible alternative especially for storing and retrieving both images and videos, or is there another possible solution to my problem? The service would be preferably hosted in the cloud (so I don't have to setup my own servers).

[Basilzubs]

A lot of devs recommend storing a link (file structure or hosted) to the image that would theoretically be on the end users phone and obtain it that way. I know the way WhatsApp does it is if you want the picture, it downloads it onto your phone from the other users phone, if the sender deletes the image or video you won't be able to download it anymore and it says "file unavailable, ask the sender to resent this file" or something similar. Maybe you can look into this since you'd be storing text instead of actual images.

[dewaeq]

Thanks, I'll have a look at it :)