Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	Backblaze, headquartered in San Mateo, provides cloud storage and online backup, boasting trust with over an exabyte of data from customers in 175 countries. A backup service specialist, Backblaze describes their B2 cloud object storage service as S3 compatible and purpose built to provide simplicity, reliability, and affordability. B2 Cloud Storage is available at $0.005/GB/Month, with single-tier pricing.	N/A

Pricing

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Pricing Offerings
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Two pricing models are available: consumption-based pay-as-you-go, and capacity-based storage bundles. Pay-as-you-go consumption-based cloud storage costs $6/TB per month, with your first 10GB free. Egress is free up to 3x of average monthly data stored, and unlimited to many leading content delivery network (CDN) and compute partners. Capacity-based storage, called B2 Reserve, is designed for companies looking for all-inclusive pricing on a single invoice. Storage bundles start at 20TB and can be purchased for one, two, or three years. Egress is always free.

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Community Pulse
	Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Considered Both Products	Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Verified User Anonymous Chose Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage provides the flexibility to have a pay-as-you-go model and a fixed-price model. Depending upon our needs, we can choose one. There is no minimum storage duration, so the data can be deleted at any time. As we have low egress needs, and we require the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Backblaze B2 offers more affordable storage per byte, supports the de-facto standard Amazon S3 protocol, and has free egress. Incentivized Helpful? Paulette Ensign Owner Chose Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Because they continuously had times they required updating the account and there were hiccups when that happened, over time, I became skeptical of their ability to keep my files secure. They were the first cloud backup storage company I had ever used and I stayed with them for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage is the best of the bunch. It's priced better than the more expensive cloud based solutions and more robust than the file storage sites like DropBox or Google Drive. Incentivized Helpful? Matt Hoffman Chief Executive Officer Chose Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Backblaze is definitely the cheapest and most cost effective out of the 6 other services I've used in the past. For personal use, they are by and away the best service available. For business use, I believe they are a very strong contender to be the #3 guys behind AWS and Linode. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

File Sharing & Management

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
	Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage 7.8 Ratings 7% below category average
Versioning	7.80 Ratings
Video files	8.40 Ratings
Audio files	8.40 Ratings
Document collaboration	7.00 Ratings
Access control	7.80 Ratings
File search	5.00 Ratings
Device sync	10.00 Ratings

Cloud Storage Security & Administration

Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
	Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage 7.9 Ratings 9% below category average
User and role management	7.80 Ratings
File organization	6.00 Ratings
Device management	10.00 Ratings

Cloud Storage Platform

Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
	Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage 9.3 Ratings 7% above category average
Performance	8.70 Ratings
Reliability	9.10 Ratings
Storage Reports	10.00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Likelihood to Recommend	8.7 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.7 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Likelihood to Recommend	Though it offers fewer features than competitors, Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage provides an affordable solution for backup and archiving. Its low cost storage acts as a backbone to many small-scale enterprises. However, where low latency in data transfer and more granular permissions over the data are required, in my experience, Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage doesn't fit well. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Tight integration with OEM backup application Among the lowest price per TB cloud backup provider AWS S3 service integration Optional services for initial seeding of large backup data sets Optional services for physical backup retrieval to speed up recovery Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	My chief complaint about the former lack of S3 compatibility was resolved so I have no complaints now. Please keep egress free! Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage offers affordable pricing compared to its competitors. It's a no brainer storage solution for small scale enterprises. It is widely used for storage media and large object files that can be accessed across the globe. With all these, there is still some room for improvement over the features and the latency Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Because they continuously had times they required updating the account and there were hiccups when that happened, over time, I became skeptical of their ability to keep my files secure. They were the first cloud backup storage company I had ever used and I stayed with them for almost two decades. Then it happened that we did have to do a recovery two different times because of hardware failures. It was anything but a smooth or complete recovery, and their price kept rising as their service declined. Hundreds of files were totally lost in the process. I guessed that among their strategies, it might well have been a re-focus on their part to build up their enterprise accounts and didn't seem to care about small business. I finally had enough and left them as a client. Incentivized Paulette Ensign Owner Read full review
Return on Investment	We haven't had any data loss situations yet, however I'm sure our ROI will be fairly high if we have to recover any data. Backblaze is in the insurance industry, not storage. Incentivized Matt Hoffman Chief Executive Officer Read full review
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