There is very little difference in storage pricing between Wasabi and Backblaze B2 object storage. The differences are profound when large quantities of data need to be downloaded because these incur egress charges.

Backblaze are up-front with their pricing, i.e. $0.01 per GB. Wasabi are very keen to say they don’t charge for egress, however their charging policy far from unlimited egress. Wasabi will allow you to transfer out for free all the data you are paying to store. If you have 10TB stored, you can download 10TB in one month for free, but not 11TB.

How does this affect bills in a production environment?

If storage is your main business, and your data arrives into the service (ingress), then either service will be comparable on price.

We had this very dilemma when we moved our FileSync collaboration suite from our data centre to the cloud. We naturally wanted to use Microsoft’s Azure as we do with our cloud backup service, but doing so would have increased our cost tenfold. AWS wasn’t much better, so we looked at other object storage providers, and narrowed our decision down to either Wasabi or Backblaze B2.