3/17/2026 at 4:09:14 PM
by precommunicator
3/17/2026 at 4:22:46 PM
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.by spzb
3/17/2026 at 4:12:41 PM
>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.
by S0y
3/17/2026 at 4:18:27 PM
That’s a 15% price increase. Last increase from $5 to $6 was in October 3, 2023.by kassner
3/17/2026 at 6:24:06 PM
This follows HDD and SSD price increases.by LunaSea
3/18/2026 at 12:59:41 AM
When you consider the rise in energy prices as well…by edmundsauto
3/17/2026 at 4:26:31 PM
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.
by SunshineTheCat
3/17/2026 at 8:23:35 PM
B2 has serious performance problems on the US West Coast (and possibly other regions too) in the evenings. Between the hours of around 5 pm to 2am, somewhere between 1% and 5% of requests transfer at <= 1% speed. This is bad because it’s very noticeable to my customers. It’s so predictable that I have a script running in a West Coast VM that pings me whenever the problem occurs - it pings me around 50 times a day.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.
by dabinat
3/17/2026 at 9:31:36 PM
Yev from Backblaze here -> Do you have a ticket number I can reference and ask about?by atYevP
3/17/2026 at 4:12:04 PM
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.by gingerlime
3/18/2026 at 4:24:31 PM
Actually this price increase puts Backblaze B2 behind DigitalOcean's Cold storage which is $0.007/GiB, which equals to $6.5192/TB.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.
by icza
3/18/2026 at 4:52:23 PM
>designed to store and scale to tens of petabytes of infrequently accessed data...>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.
by S0y
3/17/2026 at 4:33:55 PM
Arq + b2 has been my least-hassle mac backup storage solution by far. Even with this, it's still reasonably priced.by x0x0
3/17/2026 at 7:44:22 PM
I do wish egress were free, it’s one of the reasons I stick with Cloudflare R2 at the moment.by marcosscriven
3/17/2026 at 8:25:56 PM
From the article - egress up to 3x the average stored data per month is free, and egress to some CDNs and compute partners is free (from another page: Fastly, Cloudflare, bunny.net, CacheFly, CoreWeave, Equinix Metal, Vultr, and phoenixNAP).Not sure it would make a difference with your R2 usage, but it might help you cut down costs some.
by arsoon
3/17/2026 at 4:12:37 PM
API call will be free starting May 1, Storage will increase from $6 / TB to $6.95 / TBby tom1337
3/18/2026 at 5:43:14 PM
What about a Linux backup client?by mrlonglong
3/18/2026 at 7:06:32 PM
rclone?by S0y