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Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage vs. DigitalOcean Spaces

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Score 8.7 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.
$6
per month per TB
DigitalOcean Spaces
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
DigitalOcean's Spaces service is S3-compatible object storage with a built-in CDN that makes scaling easy, reliable, and affordable.
$5
per month 250 GiB & 1 TiB Transfer
Pricing
Backblaze B2 Cloud StorageDigitalOcean Spaces
Editions & Modules
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Spaces Object Storage
$50
per month 250 GiB & 1 TiB
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Backblaze B2 Cloud StorageDigitalOcean Spaces
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsTwo 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.The Spaces subscription includes 250 GiB of data storage (cumulative across all of your buckets). Additional storage beyond this allotment is $0.02 per GiB per month. If you cancel your subscription by destroying all your buckets, your bill is prorated hourly.
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Community Pulse
Backblaze B2 Cloud StorageDigitalOcean Spaces
Considered Both Products
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Verified User
Professional
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 …
DigitalOcean Spaces

No answer on this topic

Features
Backblaze B2 Cloud StorageDigitalOcean Spaces
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
8.1
5 Ratings
3% below category average
DigitalOcean Spaces
-
Ratings
Versioning8.35 Ratings00 Ratings
Video files8.94 Ratings00 Ratings
Audio files8.94 Ratings00 Ratings
Document collaboration7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Access control8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
File search5.13 Ratings00 Ratings
Device sync10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
8.1
5 Ratings
6% below category average
DigitalOcean Spaces
-
Ratings
User and role management8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
File organization6.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Device management10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Storage Platform
Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
9.4
5 Ratings
9% above category average
DigitalOcean Spaces
-
Ratings
Performance8.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Reliability9.35 Ratings00 Ratings
Storage Reports10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Backblaze B2 Cloud StorageDigitalOcean Spaces
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.9
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Backblaze B2 Cloud StorageDigitalOcean Spaces
Likelihood to Recommend
Backblaze
Providing the option of purchasing a much longer archive if desired or limiting the length of time in maintaining what's been saved is brilliant. It makes all the sense in the world. At the very least, unless the retention period is clearly mandated somehow, it causes a decision maker (especially a small business owner) to think strategically about what the storage needs truly are.
Paulette Ensign | TrustRadius Reviewer
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DigitalOcean
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Pros
Backblaze
  • 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
Verified User
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DigitalOcean
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Cons
Backblaze
  • Deleting the data is not simpler and requires manual intervention
  • Integration with third party tools needs much improvement as there are very less tools that can be integrated.
  • Fewer data centres presently that restrict options to meet specific geographic redundancy or data sovereignty requirements.
Verified User
Anonymous
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DigitalOcean
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Usability
Backblaze
Since Backblaze added S3 compatibility a few years ago, it's become the most perfect online backup solution.
I also like their transparency in describing their platform and the reports of hard drive reliability are very interesting.
The free egress is priceless, too.
Verified User
Anonymous
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DigitalOcean
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Alternatives Considered
Backblaze
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.
Matt Hoffman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Matt Hoffman
Chief Executive Officer
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DigitalOcean
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Return on Investment
Backblaze
  • Difficult to quantify the peace of mind Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage services provides.
  • Based on the reported experiences of other Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage clients, recovery has been smooth. We have not yet had the need to use that function.
  • Because Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage's service has been seamless, I feel much more confident in their ability to deliver what they promise when we have the need to expand or enhance what we are purchasing from them.
Paulette Ensign | TrustRadius Reviewer
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DigitalOcean
No answers on this topic
ScreenShots

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Screenshots

Screenshot of Files are stored in BucketsScreenshot of B2 Cloud Storage Dashboard