Backblaze Pricing and Product Updates

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Post by precommunicator » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 4:09 PM UTC

Backblaze Pricing and Product Updates
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Post by gingerlime » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 4:12 PM UTC

    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.

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Post by tom1337 » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 4:12 PM UTC

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

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Post by S0y » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 4:12 PM UTC

>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.

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Post by kassner » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 4:18 PM UTC

S0y wrote: post #4

>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.

That’s a 15% price increase. Last increase from $5 to $6 was in October 3, 2023.

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Post by spzb » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 4:22 PM UTC

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.

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Post by SunshineTheCat » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 4:26 PM UTC

S0y wrote: post #4

>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.

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.

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Post by x0x0 » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 4:33 PM UTC

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

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Post by LunaSea » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 6:24 PM UTC

kassner wrote: post #5

S0y wrote: post #4

>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.

That’s a 15% price increase. Last increase from $5 to $6 was in October 3, 2023.

This follows HDD and SSD price increases.

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Post by marcosscriven » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 7:44 PM UTC

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