Backblaze Pricing and Product Updates(backblaze.com) |
Backblaze Pricing and Product Updates(backblaze.com) |
>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.
Even with the storage increase, still way more affordable than S3 or many of the other alternatives out there.
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.
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.Not sure it would make a difference with your R2 usage, but it might help you cut down costs some.
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.
>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.