{"id":76285,"date":"2020-05-01T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T21:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=76285"},"modified":"2023-10-03T09:58:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T16:58:46","slug":"transparency-in-cloud-storage-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/transparency-in-cloud-storage-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Transparency in Cloud Storage Costs: Still Elusive"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Transparency<\/p>\n

Editor’s note:<\/strong>\u00a0 This post reflects pricing at the time it was published. Backblaze B2 is now priced at $6\/TB\/month with free egress up to 3x monthly storage.<\/div>\n

Choosing a cloud storage solution that fits your use case is challenging in the best business climate. Throw in the unpredictable economy we\u2019re all trying to navigate during the COVID-19 pandemic, and making the right next step can feel next to impossible.<\/p>\n

The simple fact is: The majority of cloud storage providers make it hard to plan for the future by making it difficult to understand how much you\u2019re storing and the details of what it\u2019s costing you.<\/p>\n

Our approach to pricing is to be transparent, straightforward, and predictable. For Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, this means that no matter how much data you have, the cost for Backblaze B2 is $0.005\/GB per month for data storage and $0.01\/GB for download. There are no costs to upload. We also throw in your first 10GB of storage for free when you open your account.<\/p>\n

The complexity of other cloud storage providers is so epic that there are now whole businesses devoted to interpreting their billing. Just ask NASA<\/a>\u2014literal rocket scientists\u2014who signed on to a cloud storage service without accurately projecting the cost to access their data when they need it. While they might need a panel of experts to understand their next invoice, we don\u2019t think you should be in the same boat.<\/p>\n

Cloud Storage Price Comparison<\/h2>\n

To help you plan for the future of your data storage\u2014and to show you how you can save on your next cloud storage<\/a> bill\u2014we\u2019ve built the Cloud Storage Pricing<\/a> Calculator, where anyone can enter in their specific use case and get pricing back for B2, AWS S3, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Storage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

B2 Cost Calculator<\/h2>\n

Backblaze provides this calculator as an estimate.<\/p>\n

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Sample Storage Scenarios<\/h3>\n
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Scenario 1<\/h3>\n

You have data you wish to archive, and will be adding more each month, but you don\u2019t expect that you will be downloading<\/a> or deleting any data<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Initial upload:<\/td>\n10,000GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monthly upload:<\/td>\n1,000GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

For twelve months, your costs would be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Backblaze B2<\/td>\n$990.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amazon S3<\/td>\n$4,158.00<\/td>\n+320%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Microsoft Azure<\/td>\n$3,564.00<\/td>\n+260%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google Cloud<\/td>\n$3,960.00<\/td>\n+300%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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Scenario 2<\/h3>\n

You wish to store data, and will be actively changing that data with uploads, downloads, and deletions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Initial upload:<\/td>\n10,000GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monthly upload:<\/td>\n2,000GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monthly deletion:<\/td>\n1,000GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monthly download:<\/td>\n500GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Your costs for 12 months would be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Backblaze B2<\/td>\n$1,050.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amazon S3<\/td>\n$4,458.00<\/td>\n+325%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Microsoft Azure<\/td>\n$3,864.00<\/td>\n+268%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google Cloud<\/td>\n$4,440.00<\/td>\n+323%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

A Real World Example<\/h3>\n

Hypotheticals are nice, but how about a real world example? We\u2019re glad you asked.<\/p>\n

Last year, Nodecraft, a gaming company providing a server management platform for multiplayer games, decided to move to B2 Cloud Storage<\/a> in an effort to reduce prices and improve their service. They migrated 23TBs of data from S3 to Backblaze B2<\/a> in only seven hours with zero service interruption. The result? The switch from AWS S3 to Backblaze B2 reduced Nodecraft\u2019s monthly storage and egress costs by 85%.<\/p>\n

Looking Forward to Working Together<\/h2>\n

We hope our Cost Calculator helps you cut through the fog (heh) of cloud storage pricing. If not, we have an incredible team of solution engineers who will help talk you through whatever sort of challenge you\u2019re facing (go ahead, drop them a line<\/a>). They\u2019re one of the only Silicon Valley sales teams that doesn\u2019t<\/em> work on commission<\/a>, so you can count on them to shoot straight.<\/p>\n

This is a post about pricing, so that\u2019s what we\u2019ve focussed on here. But we don\u2019t like to dwell on having the most affordable cloud storage on the planet\u2014it\u2019s simply the price we can charge based on the technology we developed, and it just so happens it\u2019s a great deal.<\/p>\n

We prefer to focus on having the best cloud storage for your use case, and with architecture that calculated at 11 nines of durability<\/a>, a whole host of customer success stories<\/a>, and more than an exabyte<\/a> of data under management, we\u2019d like to think we\u2019re doing well on this front. But don\u2019t take our word for it: Sign up today (you\u2019ll get a free 10GB of storage) and try it out.<\/p>\n

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B2 Cloud Storage Pricing Summary<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Provider<\/span><\/th>\n
\nStorage<\/span>
\n($\/GB\/Month)<\/span><\/span><\/th>\n
\nDownload<\/span>
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\"Backblaze<\/td>\n$0.005<\/td>\n$0.01<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Amazon<\/td>\n$0.021
\n+420%<\/span><\/td>\n		$0.05+
\n+250%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Microsoft<\/td>\n$0.022+
\n+440%<\/span><\/td>\n		$0.05+
\n+250%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Google<\/td>\n$0.020
\n+520%<\/span><\/td>\n		$0.08+
\n+400%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Backblaze\u2019s mission is to make cloud storage that\u2019s affordable and astonishingly easy to use. Backblaze B2 embodies that mission for those looking for an object storage solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":95318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[291,468],"class_list":["post-76285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-storage","tag-b2","tag-b2cloud","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCloud Storage Providers: How Much Do They Really Charge?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When you sign up for a cloud storage service do you know your actual monthly costs? 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