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Editor’s note:<\/strong> This post reflects Backblaze Computer Backup pricing at the time it was published. We’ve since shared more recent price and product updates<\/a>.<\/div>\n

Thank you all for being Backblaze customers and fans. We\u2019re writing today\u2019s post to let you know that effective August 16th, 2021 at 5 p.m. Pacific, the prices for the Backblaze Computer Backup service are increasing. At that time, our prices per subscription will change to:<\/p>\n

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Backblaze Computer Backup Subscription Changes:
Monthly Plan: $7, Yearly Plan: $70, Two-Year Plan: $130.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Lock In Extension Pricing Before August 16th, 2021<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n

Extension Program FAQ<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Why the Change?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In short, because of a double digit growth in customer data storage, significant increases in supply chain costs, and our desire to continue investing in providing you with a great service.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a little more information:<\/p>\n

Data Growth and Component Price Increases<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Our Computer Backup service is unlimited (and we mean it<\/a>). Businesses and individuals can back up as much data from their Macs and PCs as they like, and we back up external drives by default as well. This means that as our customers generate more and more data, our costs can rise while our prices remain fixed.<\/p>\n

Over the last 14 years, we have worked diligently to keep our costs low and pass our savings on to customers. We\u2019ve invested in deduplication, compression, and other technologies to continually optimize our storage platform and drive our costs down\u2014savings which we pass on to our customers in the form of storing more data for the same price.<\/p>\n

However, the average backup size stored by Computer Backup customers has spiked 15% over just the last two years. Additionally, not only have component prices not fallen at traditional rates, but recently electronic components that we rely on to provide our services have actually increased in price.<\/p>\n

The combination of these two trends, along with our desire to continue investing in providing a great service, is driving the need to modestly increase our prices.<\/p>\n

The Service Keeps Improving<\/strong><\/h3>\n

While the cost of our Computer Backup service is increasing, you\u2019re going to continue getting great value for your money. For example, in just the last two years (most recently with version 8.0<\/a>), we have:<\/p>\n