Backblaze Pricing in May 2026

Backblaze's pricing follows simple tiered structure: $7/TB/month for B2 Cloud Storage with no egress fees up to 3x stored data, Backblaze Personal Backup at $9/month for unlimited computer backup. Real-world Backblaze bills for cloud storage land at $7-200/month for typical workloads; high-volume products hit $500-5K/month at scale.

The Free 10GB offer is genuinely valuable — Backblaze offers 10GB free B2 Cloud Storage indefinitely. The strategic decision: Backblaze's value is affordable cloud storage and backup solutions with S3-compatible B2 Cloud Storage at dramatically lower prices than AWS S3. For specifically S3-compatible object storage at lower cost, Wasabi competes directly with similar predictable pricing and zero egress fees. Cloudflare R2 has emerged as a major alternative with zero egress fees and competitive per-GB pricing — strong when on Cloudflare. AWS S3 remains the dominant alternative and wins on ecosystem breadth. Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Storage target their respective clouds. iDrive e2 competes at very low pricing. Storj targets decentralized object storage with privacy positioning. For specifically AWS Glacier for archival, this targets long-term archival at very low storage cost but with slow retrieval. Backblaze and Wasabi don't separate archival from hot storage. For specifically backup software (different from cloud storage), Backblaze Personal Backup, Carbonite, and CrashPlan target individual/business backup. Acronis targets enterprise backup. Veeam targets enterprise data protection. The Backblaze vs Wasabi vs Cloudflare R2 decision in the cheap-S3-compatible space often comes down to: Backblaze for lowest cost and longest track record; Wasabi for similar pricing with different feature set; Cloudflare R2 when on Cloudflare with bundled CDN.