What Backblaze Computer Backup costs for a team of 1–25
At five people, Backblaze Computer Backup on the Business plan costs $41.25 a month — $495 a year.
The cost at your headcount
Figures are the annual-billing rate. “Billed seats” is what appears on the invoice, which is not always the number of people you have.
| People | Billed seats | Per month | Per year | Per person/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | $8.25 | $99 | $8.25 |
| 3 | 3 | $24.75 | $297 | $8.25 |
| 5 | 5 | $41.25 | $495 | $8.25 |
| 10 | 10 | $82.50 | $990 | $8.25 |
| 25 | 25 | $206.25 | $2,475 | $8.25 |
What the table above does not capture
Unlimited storage per computer ($99/yr). Priced per MACHINE — a laptop plus a desktop is two licences.
How Backblaze Computer Backup is priced, and what that does as you grow
Priced per machine, not per person — $8.25 per device per month. This is the single most commonly mis-modelled line in a small-business budget: anyone with a laptop and a desktop is two licences, so the table above understates your bill if your team runs more than one machine each. Count devices, then read the row.
Monthly billing costs 9% more
$8.25 per device on annual billing, $9 month-to-month. At five people that is $41.25 a month against $45 — $45 a year for the privilege of being able to stop.
Monthly billing buys the option to leave. On a tool you have already decided to keep, that option is one you are paying 9% for and will not exercise. On a tool you are still evaluating, it is worth every cent — which is why the decision belongs after a subscription audit, not before one.
Where it sits against the backup alternatives
At five people, Backblaze Computer Backup is number 3 of 3 of the backup plans we track, behind IDrive Team at $9.99.
| Product | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Backblaze Computer Backup | $8.25 | $24.75 | $41.25 | $82.50 | $206.25 |
| IDrive Team | $9.99 | $9.99 | $9.99 | $19.98 | $49.95 |
| Acronis True Image | $6.08 | $18.25 | $30.41 | $60.82 | $152.06 |
The headcounts where the answer changes
Because these products are priced on different models, “cheaper” is a function of team size rather than a property of the product. These are the points where the cheaper of the two swaps over:
- vs IDrive Team — Backblaze Computer Backup is cheaper below 2 people. From 2 up, IDrive Team is ($9.99 against $16.50).
If you expect to cross one of those numbers inside the next year, price the headcount you will have rather than the one you have now. Migrating a tool you have already filled with data is the expensive way to save the difference.
The free tier
Trial only
What this page does not tell you
Price is the easiest thing to verify and the least likely to decide whether a tool was a good idea. This page says nothing about whether your team will actually adopt it, how quickly you can remove someone's access when they leave, whether your data comes out in a usable shape, or what support is like when something breaks at month end. Those cost more than the gaps above when they go wrong, and none of them are visible on a pricing page — ours or the vendor's.
We have not run a hands-on lab test of Backblaze Computer Backup. When we do, it will be dated and logged in the test log, and this page will link to it. Until then, treat everything here as what it is: verified arithmetic on a published price.
Sources and corrections
Rate read from https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/pricing on , re-checked weekly. Changes we find are published in the price-change log. If a figure here is wrong, tell us — corrections are logged publicly on the corrections page.
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