🆚 Backblaze B2 vs. Google Cloud Storage

📈 Google Cloud Storage is much more popular than Backblaze B2.
🌍 Google Cloud Storage is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Backblaze B2

Google Cloud Storage

Type

Cloud storage service

About

Backblaze B2 is a hot cloud object storage service with Amazon S3 compatibility and predictable, usage-based pricing.

It supports both S3-compatible and native APIs, object versioning, lifecycle rules, server-side encryption, and free data egress to selected partners, including Cloudflare, Fastly, and Bunny.net.

Google Cloud Storage is a managed object storage service for storing and accessing unstructured data on Google's infrastructure.

It provides multiple storage classes and lifecycle management, encryption and IAM controls, strong global consistency, Turbo Replication offering a 15-minute recovery point objective (RPO), and the Cloud Storage FUSE tool for mounting buckets as local filesystems.

Headquarters

San Mateo, California, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

backblaze.com #20,712

cloud.google.com/storage

Pricing

Pay-As-You-Go $6/TB/month

B2 Reserve $1,560/20TB/year

Free tier ✔️ 5 GB of Standard storage + 5,000 write and 50,000 read operations + 100 GB transfer from North America/month

Standard storage $0.020-$0.026/GB/month

Nearline storage $0.010-$0.015/GB/month

Cold storage $0.004-$0.007/GB/month

Archive storage $0.0012-$0.0024/GB/month

Operations on Standard storage (per 1,000) Read $0.0050
Write $0.0004

Data transfer (per month) First 1 TB $0.12+/GB
1–10 TB $0.11+/GB
10+ TB $0.08+/GB

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Google Cloud Storage service is 134 times more popular than Backblaze B2.

Total websites

Market share

Cloud Storages

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Google Cloud Storage is more popular than Backblaze B2 in all countries.

United States

Japan

United Kingdom

Germany

Brazil

Netherlands

India

France

Australia

Canada

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the Cloud Storages category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Google Cloud Storage is more popular than Backblaze B2 in all market segments.

Online Shopping

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Fashion/Beauty

Internet Services

Health

Travel

Education/Reference

Sports

Blogs/Wiki

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

rule34.dev

#9,163

#13,814

#20,266

#22,797

#27,796

Name

Rank

#54

#57

#88

#98

#156