comparison

Backblaze vs. Wasabi

Backblaze B2 is always-hot, S3 compatible object storage with no gotchas. Wasabi offers you minimum storage duration and “reasonable rate” download policies

How Backblaze B2 compares to Wasabi

Backblaze B2

Storage Type

Hot

Enterprise-grade security available (including SSE, Object Lock, replication)

Compliance compatible (including HIPAA, PCI-DSS friendly)

Supports ranging use cases (i.e., application storage, backup & recovery, active media archive)

Pay-as-you-go storage pricing

$6/TB/mo.

Annual capacity-based bundles available

Starts at $1,560 per 20TB/yr.

Includes:

  1. Premium support
  1. Universal Data Migration
  2. Volume & term discounts available

Upload (PUT) fees

Lifecycle rule fees

Retrieval fees

Egress fees

Free up to 3x total monthly storage, additional at $0.01/GB
(Also free unlimited to many CDN and Compute partners)

Minimum storage duration fees

No minimum storage fees

No API transaction fees

No minimum file size requirement

Max object size

10TB

S3 API compatibility

S3 lifecycle rule support

Premium support available

Published architecture documentation

Open sourced Vault architecture plus Performance, Networking, and Drive Stats.

Small object fees

Small file fees

Data migration

Covered with qualifying commitments

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