Backblaze Pricing and Product Updates

gingerlime

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

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

S0y

>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.

spzb

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.

x0x0

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

marcosscriven

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

dabinat

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.