What cloud storage costs per terabyte per year
Every mainstream cloud storage plan, normalised to the one number none of them print — dollars per terabyte per year. Prices read from the vendors on 23 August 2026.
Backblaze Computer Backup
Backblaze Computer Backup pricing page, Monthly / Yearly / Two-year toggles — read on 22 August 2026.
$99.00 a year · list price
Also sold at $9.00/mo — $108.00 a year if you keep it for twelve months.
Not published renewal price
- Billed
- $99.00/yr
- Renews at
- Not published
- Free tier
- None. There is a free trial, but no permanent free tier.
- Price read from
- Backblaze Computer Backup pricing page, Monthly / Yearly / Two-year toggles
- Checked
- Vendor
- backblaze.com
“Not published” means we did not find a renewal price stated by the vendor on the date we checked. It is not a claim that the price changes on renewal, and it is not a claim that it doesn’t.
Backblaze Computer Backup Personal is $99 a year for unlimited data from one computer, plus the external drives attached to it. The same page offers $9 a month, which is $108 across a year, and $189 for two years, which works out at $94.50 a year.
Because the plan is unlimited, its price per terabyte is set by you rather than by Backblaze. Back up 2 TB and it is $49.50 per terabyte per year; back up 5 TB and it is $19.80; back up 10 TB and it is $9.90. Nothing else on this ledger gets cheaper the more you put in it.
The catch is structural, not financial. This is backup, not storage: it mirrors a computer you own rather than giving you a drive in the cloud to put things in, and the licence covers one machine. Two computers is two licences, so $198 a year.
No free tier and no published renewal price.
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