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Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage vs. Petabox

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting 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
Petabox
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Petabox is a decentralized global cloud storage platform designed to meet the constantly growing data storage needs of the modern enterprise. Harnessing web3 and conventional cloud infrastructure, Petabox aims to give developers a cost-effective solution for building large data lakes for MLOps pipelines and AI model training.N/A
Pricing
Backblaze B2 Cloud StoragePetabox
Editions & Modules
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Pay as you Go
$3.99 per TB
per month 1 TB Storage / 1 TB Transfer
Professional
$29.90 ($2.99 per TB)
per month 10 TB Storage / 10 TB Transfer
Corporate
$299.90 ($2.99 per TB)
per month 100 TB Storage / 100 TB Transfer
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Backblaze B2 Cloud StoragePetabox
Free Trial
NoYes
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.—
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Community Pulse
Backblaze B2 Cloud StoragePetabox
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Matt Hoffman | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
Petabox

No answer on this topic

Features
Backblaze B2 Cloud StoragePetabox
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
7.7
Ratings
8% below category average
Petabox
-
Ratings
Versioning7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Video files8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Audio files8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Document collaboration7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Access control7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
File search5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Device sync10.00 Ratings00 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
Petabox
-
Ratings
User and role management7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
File organization6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Device management10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Storage Platform
Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
9.2
Ratings
6% above category average
Petabox
-
Ratings
Performance8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Reliability9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Storage Reports10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Backblaze B2 Cloud StoragePetabox
Small Businesses
SugarSync
SugarSync
Score 3.8 out of 10
Amazon S3 Glacier
Amazon S3 Glacier
Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Druva Security Cloud
Druva Security Cloud
Score 9.3 out of 10
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage
Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises
Druva Security Cloud
Druva Security Cloud
Score 9.3 out of 10
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage
Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Backblaze B2 Cloud StoragePetabox
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Backblaze B2 Cloud StoragePetabox
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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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
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Anonymous
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Cons
  • My chief complaint about the former lack of S3 compatibility was resolved so I have no complaints now.
  • Please keep egress free!
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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
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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.
Paulette Ensign | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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.
Matt Hoffman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Matt Hoffman
Chief Executive Officer
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ScreenShots

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Screenshots

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