The Basics

Backblaze
Website www.backblaze.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2007
Data Center Locations 4
Example Customers Kanopy, Steamlabs, Canal+, Fortune
Linode
Website www.linode.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2003
Data Center Locations 24
Example Customers Panasonic, Best Buy, WayFair and Giphy

Cost Comparison

How do Backblaze's prices compare against Linode?

Example configuration Backblaze Linode
VM Small -- $5.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Medium -- $48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Large -- $114.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Dedicated)
Block Storage -- $16.00 / mo 160 GB
Object Storage $6.00 / mo 1 TB $20.00 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer -- $10.00 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL -- $65.00 / mo 2 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage
Free egress allowance 3x the amount of data stored 1-20 TB / mo per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $10.00 $0.01 / GB $5.00

Note: These 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 of the managed services that Backblaze and Linode offer:

Service Backblaze Linode
Block Storage --
GPU-powered Servers --
Load Balancer --
Managed Kubernetes --
Managed MySQL --
Managed PostgreSQL --
Object Storage
Virtual Private Server (VPS) --

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Our data for Backblaze was last updated on Feb. 9, 2024, and for Linode on Feb. 8, 2024.