{"id":81376,"date":"2018-03-09T07:52:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T15:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=81376"},"modified":"2025-12-14T16:11:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:11:25","slug":"backblaze-b2-drops-download-price-in-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-b2-drops-download-price-in-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Backblaze Cuts B2 Download Price in Half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-81430 size-full\" title=\"The Cheapest Cloud Storage Gets Even Cheaper\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/b2-downloads.jpg\" alt=\"Backblaze B2 downloads now cost 50% less\" width=\"1440\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/b2-downloads.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/b2-downloads-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/b2-downloads-1024x583.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/b2-downloads-768x437.jpg 768w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/b2-downloads-560x319.jpg 560w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/b2-downloads-220x124.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><br \/>\nBackblaze is pleased to announce that, effective immediately, we are reducing the price of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/cloud-storage\">Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage<\/a> downloads by 50%. This means that B2 download pricing drops from $0.02 to $0.01 per GB. As always, the first gigabyte of data downloaded each day remains free.<\/p>\n<p>If some of this sounds familiar, that\u2019s because a little under a year ago, <a href=\"\/blog\/b2-drops-download-pricing\/\">we dropped our download price from $0.05 to $0.02<\/a>. While that move solidified our position as the affordability leader in the high performance cloud storage space, we continue to innovate on our platform and are excited to provide this additional value to our customers.<\/p>\n<p>This price reduction applies immediately to all existing and new customers. In keeping with Backblaze\u2019s overall approach to providing services, there are no tiers or minimums. It\u2019s automatic and it starts today.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"b2\">Why Is Backblaze Lowering What Is Already The Industry\u2019s Lowest Price?<\/h2>\n<p>Because it makes cloud storage more useful for more people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pull-quote\" style=\"font-size: 105%;\"><i>When we decided to use Backblaze B2 as our cloud storage service, their download pricing at the time enabled us to offer our broadcasters unlimited audio uploads so they can upload past decades of preaching to our extensive library for streaming and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/b2\/docs\/downloading.html\">downloading<\/a>. With Backblaze cutting the bandwidth prices 50% to just one penny a gigabyte, we are excited about offering much higher quality video.<\/i> \u2014 Ian\u00a0Wagner, Senior\u00a0Developer, Sermon\u00a0Audio<\/p>\n<p>Since our founding in 2007, Backblaze\u2019s mission has been to make storing data astonishingly easy and affordable. We hav<\/p>\n<p>e a well documented, relentless pursuit of lowering storage costs \u2014 it starts with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/cloud-storage\/resources\/storage-pod\">storage pods<\/a> and <a href=\"\/blog\/how-to-compete-with-giants\/\">runs through everything we do<\/a>. Today, we have over 500 <a href=\"\/blog\/150-petabytes-of-cloud-storage\/\">petabytes<\/a> of customer data stored. B2\u2019s storage pricing already being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/cloud-storage\/pricing\"><sup>1<\/sup>\u2044<sub>4<\/sub> that of Amazon\u2019s S3<\/a> has certainly helped us get there. Today\u2019s pricing reduction puts our download pricing <sup>1<\/sup>\u2044<sub>5<\/sub> that of S3. The \u201caffordable\u201d part of our story is well established.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to take a moment to discuss the \u201ceasy\u201d part. Our industry has historically done a poor job of putting ourselves in our customers\u2019 shoes. When customers are faced with the decision of where to put their data, price is certainly a factor. But it\u2019s not just the price of storage that customers must consider. There\u2019s a cost to download your data. The business need for providers to charge for this is reasonable \u2014 downloading data requires bandwidth, and bandwidth costs money. We discussed that in a prior post on the <a href=\"\/blog\/cost-of-cloud-storage\/\">Cost of Cloud Storage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s a difference between the costs of bandwidth and what the industry is charging today. There\u2019s a joke that some of the storage clouds are competing to become \u201c<a href=\"\/blog\/what-is-cloud-computing\/?highlight=hotel-california\">Hotel\u00a0California<\/a>\u201d \u2014 you can check out anytime you want, but your data can never leave.<a style=\"text-decoration: none; border: none;\" title=\"See footnote\" href=\"#hotelcal\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a> Services that make it expensive to restore data or place time lag impediments to data access are reducing the usefulness of your data. Customers should not have to wonder if they can afford to access their own data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pull-quote\" style=\"font-size: 105%;\"><i>When replacing LTO with StarWind VTL and cloud storage, our customers had only one concern left: the possible cost of data retrieval. Backblaze just wiped this concern out of the way by lowering that cost to just one penny per gig.<\/i> \u2014 Max\u00a0Kolomyeytsev, Director of Product\u00a0Management, StarWind<\/p>\n<p>Many businesses have not yet been able to back up their data to the cloud because of the costs. Many of those companies are forced to continue backing up to tape. That tape is an inefficient means for data storage is clear. Solution providers like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwindsoftware.com\/starwind-virtual-tape-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">StarWind VTL<\/a> specialize in helping businesses move off of antiquated tape libraries. However, as Max Kolomyeytsev, Director of Product Management at StarWind points out, \u201cWhen replacing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/cloud-storage\/solutions\/lto-replacement\">LTO<\/a> with StarWind VTL and cloud storage our customers had only one concern left: the possible cost of data retrieval. Backblaze just wiped this concern out of the way by lowering that cost to just one penny per gig.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Customers that have already adopted the cloud often are forced to make difficult tradeoffs between data they want to access and the cost associated with that access. Surrendering the use of your own data defeats many of the benefits that \u201cthe cloud\u201d brings in the first place. Because of B2\u2019s download price, Ian Wagner, a Senior Developer at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sermonaudio.com\/main.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sermon Audio<\/a>, is able to lower his costs and expand his product offering. &#8220;When we decided to use Backblaze B2 as our cloud storage service, their download pricing at the time enabled us to offer our broadcasters unlimited audio uploads so they can upload past decades of preaching to our extensive library for streaming and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/b2\/docs\/downloading.html\">downloading<\/a>. With Backblaze cutting the bandwidth prices 50% to just one penny a gigabyte, we are excited about offering much higher quality video.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"b3\" style=\"font-style: normal;\">Better Download Pricing Also Helps Third Party Applications Deliver Customer Solutions<\/h3>\n<p>Many organizations use third party applications or devices to help manage their workflows. Those applications are the hub for customers getting their data to where it needs to go. Leaders in verticals like Media Asset Management, Server &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/cloud-storage\/solutions\/nas-backup\">NAS Backup<\/a>, and Enterprise Storage have already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/cloud-storage\/integrations\">chosen to integrate with B2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pull-quote\" style=\"font-size: 105%;\"><i>With Backblaze lowering their download price to an amazing one penny a gigabyte, our CloudNAS is even a better fit for photographers, videographers and business owners who need to have their files at their fingertips, with an easy, reliable, low cost way to use Backblaze for unlimited primary storage and active archive.<\/i> \u2014 Paul\u00a0Tien, CEO, <a href=\"\/blog\/cloudnas-backup\/\">Morro\u00a0Data<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Paul Tien, founder of Ready NAS and CEO of Morro Data, reasonable download pricing also helps his company better serve its customers. \u201cWith Backblaze lowering their download price to an amazing one penny a gigabyte, our CloudNAS is even a better fit for photographers, videographers and business owners who need to have their files at their fingertips, with an easy, reliable, low cost way to use Backblaze for unlimited primary storage and active archive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you use an application that hasn\u2019t yet integrated with B2, please ask your provider to add B2 Cloud Storage and mention the application in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"b2\">How Do the Major Cloud Storage Providers Compare on Pricing?<\/h2>\n<p>Not only is Backblaze <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/b2\/c2c-migration.html\">B2 storage<\/a> <sup>1<\/sup>\u2044<sub>4<\/sub> the price of Amazon S3, Google Cloud, or Azure, but our download pricing is now <sup>1<\/sup>\u2044<sub>5<\/sub> their price as well.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Pricing Tier<\/th>\n<th style=\"border-right: 1px solid #b0b0b0;\" width=\"10px\"><\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">Backblaze B2<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">Amazon S3<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">Microsoft Azure<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">Google Cloud<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border-top: 3px solid #b0b0b0;\">\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>First 1 TB<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"border-right: 1px solid #b0b0b0;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$0.01<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$0.09<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$0.09<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$0.12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border-top: 1px solid #b0b0b0;\">\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Next 9 TB<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"border-right: 1px solid #b0b0b0;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$0.01<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$0.09<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$0.09<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$0.11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border-top: 1px solid #b0b0b0;\">\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Next 40 TB<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"border-right: 1px solid #b0b0b0;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$0.01<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$0.085<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$0.09<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$0.08<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border-top: 1px solid #b0b0b0;\">\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Next 100 TB<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"border-right: 1px solid #b0b0b0;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$0.01<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$0.07<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$0.07<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$0.08<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border-top: 1px solid #b0b0b0;\">\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Next 350 TB+<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"border-right: 1px solid #b0b0b0;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$0.01<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$0.05<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$0.05<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$0.08<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Using the chart above, let\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/b2\/solutions\/compute.html\">compute<\/a> a few examples of download costs\u2026<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Data<\/th>\n<th style=\"border-right: 1px solid #b0b0b0;\" width=\"10px\"><\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">Backblaze B2<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">Amazon S3<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">Microsoft Azure<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">Google Cloud<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border-top: 3px solid #b0b0b0;\">\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>1 terabyte<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"border-right: 1px solid #b0b0b0;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$10<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$90<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$90<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border-top: 1px solid #b0b0b0;\">\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>10 terabytes<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"border-right: 1px solid #b0b0b0;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$100<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$900<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$900<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$1,200<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border-top: 1px solid #b0b0b0;\">\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>50 terabytes<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"border-right: 1px solid #b0b0b0;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$500<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$4,300<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$4,500<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$4,310<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border-top: 1px solid #b0b0b0;\">\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>500 terabytes<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"border-right: 1px solid #b0b0b0;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$5,000<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$28,800<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$29,000<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px;\">$40,310<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"line-height: 2.2; padding-top: 12px;\"><em>Not only is Backblaze <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/b2\/b2-transactions-price.html\">B2 pricing<\/a> dramatically lower cost, it\u2019s also simple \u2014 one price for any amount of data downloaded to anywhere. In comparison, to compute the cost of downloading 500 TB of data with S3 you start with the following formula:<br \/>\n<span class=\"pre-text\">(($0.09 * 10) + ($0.085 * 40) + ($0.07 * 100) + ($0.05 * 350)) * 1,000<\/span><br \/>\nWant to see this comparison for the amount of data you manage?<br \/>\nUse our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/cloud-storage\/pricing#calculator\">cloud\u00a0storage\u00a0calculator<\/a>.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"b3\" style=\"font-style: normal; margin-top: 28px;\">Customers Want to Avoid Vendor Lock In<\/h3>\n<p class=\"pull-quote\" style=\"font-size: 105%;\"><i>Halving the price of downloads is a crazy move \u2014 the kind of crazy our customers will be excited about. When using our Transmit 5 app on the Mac to upload their data to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/b2\/docs\/\">B2 Cloud Storage<\/a>, our users can sleep soundly knowing they\u2019ll be getting a truly affordable price when they need to restore that data. Cool beans, Backblaze.<\/i> \u2014 Cabel\u00a0Sasser, Co-Founder, Panic<\/p>\n<p>As the cloud storage industry grows, customers are increasingly concerned with getting locked in to one vendor. No business wants to be fully dependent on one vendor for anything. In addition, customers want multiple copies of their data to mitigate against a vendor outage or other issues.<\/p>\n<p>Many vendors offer the ability for customers to replicate data across \u201cregions.\u201d This enables customers to store data in two physical locations of the customer\u2019s choosing. Of course, customers pay for storing both copies of the data and for the data transfer between regions.<\/p>\n<p>At 1\u00a2 per GB, transferring data out of Backblaze is more affordable than transferring data between most other vendor regions. For example, if a customer is storing data in Amazon S3\u2019s Northern California region (US West) and wants to replicate data to S3 in Northern Virginia (US East), she will pay 2\u00a2 per GB to simply move the data.<\/p>\n<p>However, if that same customer wanted to replicate data from Backblaze B2 to S3 in Northern Virginia, she would pay 1\u00a2 per GB to move the data. She can achieve her replication strategy while also mitigating against vendor risk \u2014 all while cutting the bandwidth bill by 50%. Of course, this is also before factoring the savings on her storage bill as B2 storage is <sup>1<\/sup>\u2044<sub>4<\/sub> of the price of S3.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"b3\" style=\"font-style: normal;\">How Is Backblaze Doing This?<\/h3>\n<p>Simple. We just changed our pricing table and updated our website.<\/p>\n<p>The longer answer is that the cost of bandwidth is a function of a few factors, including how it\u2019s being used and the volume of usage. With another year of data for B2, over a decade of experience in the cloud storage industry, and data growth exceeding <a href=\"\/blog\/100-petabytes-of-cloud-data\/\">100 PB<\/a> per quarter, we know we can sustainably offer this pricing to our customers; we also know how better download pricing can make our customers and partners more effective in their work. So it is an easy call to make.<\/p>\n<p>Our pricing is simple. Storage is $0.005\/GB\/Month, Download costs are $0.01\/GB. There are no tiers or minimums and you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/cloud-storage\">get started any time you wish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our desire is to provide a great service at a fair price. We\u2019re proud to be the affordability leader in the Cloud Storage space and hope you\u2019ll give us the opportunity to show you what B2 Cloud Storage can enable for you.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the service and I\u2019d love to hear what this price reduction does for you in the comments below\u2026or, if you are attending <a href=\"http:\/\/hub.backblaze.com\/see-backblaze-at-nab-2018?utm_campaign=B2%20Customer%20Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8f_aVY0MFJK_TuBP8zP9-SXDVoizT2kBffTNby2biP3Un3Al1F6VJkVTWuomTNrsKgz4Rt2zGtxggaMr9Uc8aiwP3O5Q&amp;_hsmi=2&amp;utm_content=2&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;hsCtaTracking=eb5a56a8-e450-4690-92d4-828b160c19c6%7Ca4d3264f-4b51-47b5-8ef6-60a6a30a72f3\">NAB this year, come by to visit<\/a> and tell us in person!<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin: 32px 0 0 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; width: 24%; height: 1px; color: #bbb; background-color: #bbb;\" \/>\n<p><a name=\"hotelcal\"><\/a><sup>1<\/sup> For those readers who don\u2019t get the Eagles reference there, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yYkL5igsG4k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>\u2026I promise you won\u2019t regret the next 7 minutes of your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backblaze is pleased to announce that, effective immediately, we are reducing the price of Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage downloads by 50%. 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