Backblaze vs Cloudflare

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Backblaze

A fraction of the cost of AWS S3
Easy migration, S3-compatible API
Several data centers in North America and Europe

Cloudflare

Consolidates many edge services under one platform: DNS, Load Balancing, caching, image optimization, serverless functions
Massive edge network that can handle large DDoS attacks
Very generous free tier, affordable paid plans

Price comparison

How do Backblaze's prices compare against Cloudflare?

Example configuration	Backblaze	Cloudflare
Object Storage	$6.00 / mo 1 TB	$19.86 / mo 1 TB
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$82.50 / mo 25M invocations, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	3x the amount of data stored	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$10.00 $0.01 / GB	Free for most services

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer?

Here are some managed services that Backblaze and Cloudflare offer:

Service	Backblaze	Cloudflare
Content Delivery Network (CDN)	--
Load Balancer	--
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs	--
Serverless Functions	--
Static Sites	--

Company details

	Backblaze	Cloudflare
Website	www.backblaze.com	cloudflare.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2007	2009
Data Center Locations	4	285
Example Customers	Kanopy, Steamlabs, Canal+, Fortune	Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify

	Backblaze
Website	www.backblaze.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2007
Data Center Locations	4
Example Customers	Kanopy, Steamlabs, Canal+, Fortune

	Cloudflare
Website	cloudflare.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009
Data Center Locations	285
Example Customers	Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify