Cloud Storage Pricing
Cost comparison
This is the costs of cloud storage as of the date of this posting
| Provider | Tier | Max, TB | Cost $TB/mon |
Minimum $/mon |
Cost $/mon |
Eggress $/GB |
Availability | 0.5TB | 1TB | 2TB | 4TB | 6TB | 8TB | 10TB | 12TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Backblaze B2 | 0-10GB | 0.01 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | Instant | $0.00 | ||||||||
| Backblaze B2 | 10GB+ | $5.00 | $0.00 | $0.01 | instant | $2.50 | $5.00 | $10.00 | $20.00 | $30.00 | $40.00 | $50.00 | $60.00 | ||
| Amazon S3 | STD | $23.00 | $0.00 | 1GB/mon free, then $0.09 | Instant | $11.50 | $23.00 | $46.00 | $92.00 | $138.00 | $184.00 | $230.00 | $276.00 | ||
| Amazon S3 | STD-IAF | $12.50 | $0.00 | 1GB/mon free, then $0.09 | Instant | $6.25 | $12.50 | $25.00 | $50.00 | $75.00 | $100.00 | $125.00 | $150.00 | ||
| Amazon S3 | Glacier | $4.00 | $0.00 | 1GB/mon free, then $0.09, +$0.0025 | 5-12 hours | $2.00 | $4.00 | $8.00 | $16.00 | $24.00 | $32.00 | $40.00 | $48.00 | ||
| Dropbox Plus | 1 TB | 1 | $8.25 | $0.00 | Instant | $8.25 | $8.25 | ||||||||
| Dropbox Standard | 2 TB | 2 | $12.50 | $0.00 | Instant | $12.50 | $12.50 | $12.50 | |||||||
| Dropbox Advanced | Unlimited | $20.00 | $0.00 | Instant | $20.00 | $20.00 | $20.00 | $20.00 | $20.00 | $20.00 | $20.00 | $20.00 | |||
| Office 365 Personal | 1 TB | 1 | $5.83 | $0.00 | Instant | $5.83 | $5.83 | ||||||||
| Office 365 Home | 5 x 1 TB | 5 | $8.33 | $0.00 | Instant | $8.33 | $8.33 | $8.33 | $8.33 | ||||||
| Google Drive | 1 TB | 1 | $9.99 | $0.00 | Instant | $9.99 | $9.99 | ||||||||
| Google Drive | 10 TB | 10 | $99.99 | $0.00 | Instant | $99.99 | $99.99 | $99.99 | $99.99 | $99.99 | $99.99 | $99.99 | |||
| Microsoft Azure | LRS, Cool | $10.00 | $0.00 | $0.01 | Instant | $5.00 | $10.00 | $20.00 | $40.00 | $60.00 | $80.00 | $100.00 | $120.00 | ||
| Microsoft Azure | LRS, Arch | $2.00 | $0.00 | $0.02 | <15 hours | $1.00 | $2.00 | $4.00 | $8.00 | $12.00 | $16.00 | $20.00 | $24.00 | ||
| Rackspace 1TB | Unlimited | $10.00 | $0.00 | $0.12 | Instant | $5.00 | $10.00 | $20.00 | $40.00 | $60.00 | $80.00 | $100.00 | $120.00 | ||
| Rackspace 1-49TB | Unlimited | $9.00 | $0.00 | $0.10 | Instant | $4.50 | $9.00 | $18.00 | $36.00 | $54.00 | $72.00 | $90.00 | $108.00 | ||
| Wasabi Legacy | Unlimited | $3.90 | $3.90 | $0.04 | Instant | $3.90 | $3.90 | $7.80 | $15.60 | $23.40 | $31.20 | $39.00 | $46.80 | ||
| Wasabi UE | Unlimited | $4.99 | $4.99 | $0.00 | Instant | $4.99 | $4.99 | $9.98 | $19.96 | $29.94 | $39.92 | $49.90 | $59.88 | ||
| HubiC(France) | 10 TB | 10 | $0.00 | $5.00 | $0.00 | Instant | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 | ||
| Synology C2 | Unlimited | $5.83 | $0.00 | $0.00 | Instant | $2.91 | $5.83 | $11.66 | $23.32 | $34.98 | $46.64 | $58.3 | $69.96 |
Notes
For the purposes of Backup, keep in mind the following intricacies:
- Amazon Glacier and Azure Archive require blob level management and due to thawing/rehydration requirements will likely never be supported in Hyper Backup or similar automatic backup software; that said, it is a perfect target for one-way sync of encrypted backup containers with immutable objects—such as Duplicacy.
- Backblaze B2 is not supported by Synology’s Hyper Backup. Synology promised B2 support in Hyper Backup in 2018
- When storage needs approach 2 Tb Crashplan Pro again becomes an option; however, performance is a concern.
Conclusions
It seems as of today, Wasabi offers the most compatible and cost-effective backup target. It can be supplemented with the Microsoft LRS Archive tier (some tinkering required) for immutable backup containers. Otherwise, Wasabi remains a viable choice for long-term storage as well, closely followed by BackBlaze B2.