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Backblaze Pricing and Product Updates

gingerlime 6mo ago
Price updates Free API calls: Effective May 1, we’re making API calls free for all B2 Cloud Storage customers.* This removes transaction costs and makes it easier to build, scale, and run high-volume workloads subject to our standard platform usage rules and Terms of Service. Storage price: Also effective May 1, we are updating pricing from $6/TB to $6.95/TB.
tom1337 6mo ago
API call will be free starting May 1, Storage will increase from $6 / TB to $6.95 / TB
S0y 6mo ago
>Free API calls: Effective May 1, we’re making API calls free for all B2 Cloud Storage customers. >Storage price: Also effective May 1, we are updating pricing from $6/TB to $6.95/TB Honestly amazing change. The free API changes are going to cut our bills in half. the 95cent increase per TB is totally reasonable.
- kassner 6mo ago
  That’s a 15% price increase. Last increase from $5 to $6 was in October 3, 2023.
  - LunaSea 6mo ago
    This follows HDD and SSD price increases.
    - edmundsauto 6mo ago
      When you consider the rise in energy prices as well…
- SunshineTheCat 6mo ago
  Same here, the API calls have always been heavier for me than the storage costs. It of course depends upon each use case, but this is overall a win for how I've been using it. Even with the storage increase, still way more affordable than S3 or many of the other alternatives out there.
spzb 6mo ago
In a normal world, price per terabyte would fall as a consequence of greater storage density and better power efficiency. A world with AI and a brewing oil crisis is not like that.
- ksec 6mo ago
  That is not true. HDD Drive price or cost per TB hasn't dropped for a very long time long before the AI craze.
x0x0 6mo ago
Arq + b2 has been my least-hassle mac backup storage solution by far. Even with this, it's still reasonably priced.
marcosscriven 6mo ago
I do wish egress were free, it’s one of the reasons I stick with Cloudflare R2 at the moment.
- arsoon 6mo ago
  From the article - egress up to 3x the average stored data per month is free, and egress to some CDNs and compute partners is free (from another page: Fastly, Cloudflare, bunny.net, CacheFly, CoreWeave, Equinix Metal, Vultr, and phoenixNAP). Not sure it would make a difference with your R2 usage, but it might help you cut down costs some.
dabinat 6mo ago
B2 has serious performance problems on the US West Coast (and possibly other regions too) in the evenings. Between the hours of around 5 pm to 2am, somewhere between 1% and 5% of requests transfer at <= 1% speed. This is bad because it’s very noticeable to my customers. It’s so predictable that I have a script running in a West Coast VM that pings me whenever the problem occurs - it pings me around 50 times a day. Despite how predictable and reproducible it is, I’ve had a support ticket open for months with no progress. Having said that, even with this issue, B2 is still better than its (non-hyperscaler) competitors.
- atYevP 6mo ago
  Yev from Backblaze here -> Do you have a ticket number I can reference and ask about?
icza 6mo ago
Actually this price increase puts Backblaze B2 behind DigitalOcean's Cold storage which is $0.007/GiB, which equals to $6.5192/TB. Of course there are other considerations too (e.g. min size is 128KiB and 30-day minimum storage duration), but in some use cases DO Cold storage is now cheaper.
- S0y 6mo ago
  >designed to store and scale to tens of petabytes of infrequently accessed data... >During each billing cycle the Spaces Cold Storage service will have a 99.5% Uptime (as defined below) per month. It's not really the same product.
mrlonglong 6mo ago
What about a Linux backup client?
- S0y 6mo ago
  rclone?

Price updates Free API calls: Effective May 1, we’re making API calls free for all B2 Cloud Storage customers.* This removes transaction costs and makes it easier to build, scale, and run high-volume workloads subject to our standard platform usage rules and Terms of Service. Storage price: Also effective May 1, we are updating pricing from $6/TB to $6.95/TB.

tom1337 6mo ago

API call will be free starting May 1, Storage will increase from $6 / TB to $6.95 / TB

S0y 6mo ago

>Free API calls: Effective May 1, we’re making API calls free for all B2 Cloud Storage customers. >Storage price: Also effective May 1, we are updating pricing from $6/TB to $6.95/TB Honestly amazing change. The free API changes are going to cut our bills in half. the 95cent increase per TB is totally reasonable.

kassner 6mo ago
That’s a 15% price increase. Last increase from $5 to $6 was in October 3, 2023.
- LunaSea 6mo ago
  This follows HDD and SSD price increases.
  - edmundsauto 6mo ago
    When you consider the rise in energy prices as well…
SunshineTheCat 6mo ago
Same here, the API calls have always been heavier for me than the storage costs. It of course depends upon each use case, but this is overall a win for how I've been using it. Even with the storage increase, still way more affordable than S3 or many of the other alternatives out there.

spzb 6mo ago

In a normal world, price per terabyte would fall as a consequence of greater storage density and better power efficiency. A world with AI and a brewing oil crisis is not like that.

ksec 6mo ago
That is not true. HDD Drive price or cost per TB hasn't dropped for a very long time long before the AI craze.

x0x0 6mo ago

Arq + b2 has been my least-hassle mac backup storage solution by far. Even with this, it's still reasonably priced.

marcosscriven 6mo ago

I do wish egress were free, it’s one of the reasons I stick with Cloudflare R2 at the moment.

arsoon 6mo ago
From the article - egress up to 3x the average stored data per month is free, and egress to some CDNs and compute partners is free (from another page: Fastly, Cloudflare, bunny.net, CacheFly, CoreWeave, Equinix Metal, Vultr, and phoenixNAP). Not sure it would make a difference with your R2 usage, but it might help you cut down costs some.

dabinat 6mo ago

B2 has serious performance problems on the US West Coast (and possibly other regions too) in the evenings. Between the hours of around 5 pm to 2am, somewhere between 1% and 5% of requests transfer at <= 1% speed. This is bad because it’s very noticeable to my customers. It’s so predictable that I have a script running in a West Coast VM that pings me whenever the problem occurs - it pings me around 50 times a day. Despite how predictable and reproducible it is, I’ve had a support ticket open for months with no progress. Having said that, even with this issue, B2 is still better than its (non-hyperscaler) competitors.

atYevP 6mo ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Do you have a ticket number I can reference and ask about?

icza 6mo ago

Actually this price increase puts Backblaze B2 behind DigitalOcean's Cold storage which is $0.007/GiB, which equals to $6.5192/TB. Of course there are other considerations too (e.g. min size is 128KiB and 30-day minimum storage duration), but in some use cases DO Cold storage is now cheaper.

S0y 6mo ago
>designed to store and scale to tens of petabytes of infrequently accessed data... >During each billing cycle the Spaces Cold Storage service will have a 99.5% Uptime (as defined below) per month. It's not really the same product.

mrlonglong 6mo ago

What about a Linux backup client?

S0y 6mo ago
rclone?