Object storage

Backblaze B2 vs Cloudflare R2

Choose Backblaze B2 when you want a simple $6.95 per TB each month and free egress up to three times what you store. Choose Cloudflare R2 when egress to the internet should stay free and you can start inside the 10 GB free tier at $0.015 per GB-month.

Backblaze B2

Pay-as-you-go object storage billed per terabyte

$6.95/TB/month

Strengths

  • Egress is free up to 3 times the data you store
  • There is no minimum file size or storage duration

Limits

  • Egress past that 3x allowance is billed
  • A high-throughput tier, B2 Overdrive, starts at $15/TB/month

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Cloudflare R2

S3-compatible storage with free egress to the internet

$0.015/GB-month

Strengths

  • Egress to the internet is free
  • A free tier covers 10 GB-months of storage

Limits

  • Class A and Class B operations are billed per million requests
  • Infrequent Access adds a retrieval fee

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