Pricing behavior — Object Storage
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Pricing
Pricing for Backblaze B2
How pricing changes as you scale: upgrade triggers, cost cliffs, and plan structure (not a live price list).
Sources linked — see verification below.
Freshness & verification
Pricing behavior (not a price list)
These points describe when users typically pay more and what usage patterns trigger upgrades.
Actions that trigger upgrades
- Need enterprise governance/compliance integrations at scale
- Need hyperscaler-native adjacency for analytics and data pipelines
- Need broader region footprint for latency-sensitive delivery patterns
What gets expensive first
- Your workload’s request profile can matter as much as egress for total spend
- Restore frequency shifts economics compared to cold storage assumptions
- S3-compatibility is helpful, but integration edge cases can still surface
Plans and variants (structural only)
Grouped by type to show structure, not to rank or recommend SKUs.
Plans
- Pricing - Usage-based - Validate request and egress pricing on official pricing page
- Use cases - Backups/media - Best when access pattern is understood
- Compatibility - S3 option - Verify tooling assumptions for your integration
Next step: constraints + what breaks first
Pricing tells you the cost cliffs; constraints tell you what forces a redesign.
Open the full decision brief →Sources & verification
Pricing and behavioral information comes from public documentation and structured research. When information is incomplete or volatile, we prefer to say so rather than guess.