About Storage by Price
Storage by Price is an independently operated price comparison directory for self-storage. It is not owned by, affiliated with, or paid by any of the operators it lists. The point of the site is narrow: show what a storage unit actually costs, from the operator's own website, without a phone call or a quote form in the way.
What this site tracks
We track storage facilities in 20 U.S. cities and 6 standard unit sizes, from a 5x5 up to a 10x30 — 10686 facility/size combinations in total. Priced inventory comes from four large national operators: Public Storage, Extra Space (which now includes Life Storage locations), CubeSmart, and U-Haul. Independent, locally owned facilities are listed alongside them where we can confirm they exist, but most don't publish rates online, so they appear as "Call for price" rather than with a number we'd have to invent.
Where the prices come from
Every price here is an online rate: what an operator charges when you reserve through its own website. That is usually lower than the walk-in price and is the number most renters actually pay. We collect those rates once a week, directly from operator websites, and every city page prints the date its prices were last checked. We are not quoted these prices by operators and we do not negotiate them — we read what they publish.
How we handle old and missing data
A price we can't confirm is recent gets labeled as approximate instead of being shown as current, and a facility that disappears from an operator's site across repeated collection runs is dropped from the directory rather than left sitting here with a stale number. National medians are aggregates across every facility we track, so they carry no single collection date and we don't claim one for them; the per-city tables do carry a date, and it is printed above them. We would rather show you an old price marked old than a guess that looks fresh.
How this site makes money
Right now, it doesn't. Storage by Price takes no affiliate commissions, no lead fees, and no payment from operators for placement or ranking — no operator can pay to appear here or to appear higher. If that ever changes, this page will say so, and the change will be disclosed on the pages it affects.
What this site doesn't do
There is no account to create and no form standing between you and a price. We don't collect your email or phone number, we don't sell your details to operators, and we don't handle bookings — when you find a unit you want, you reserve it on the operator's own site. We also don't host user reviews: a rating shown next to a facility comes from the operator's own listing, or for independent facilities from their Google Maps listing, and is passed through as-is.