Backblaze vs RunPod

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
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

RunPod

Affordable GPUs in various configurations
Packed with features: hot-reloading, managed containers, logging & monitoring
Available in 30+ regions across the world

Price comparison

How do Backblaze's prices compare against RunPod?

Example configuration	Backblaze	RunPod
VM Small	--	$43.20 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
VM Medium	--	$86.40 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
VM Large	--	$172.80 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
Block Storage	--	$10.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$6.00 / mo 1 TB	--
Free egress allowance	3x the amount of data stored	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$10.00 $0.01 / GB	Free and unlimited

RunPod offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
A30	1x A30	24GB	8	31GB	$0.22	Source
RTX A4000	1x A4000	16GB	4	20GB	$0.32	Source
A4500	1x A4500	20GB	4	29GB	$0.34	Source
A5000	1x A5000	24GB	4	24GB	$0.36	Source
A40	1x A40	48GB	9	50GB	$0.39	Source
RTX4090	1x RTX 4090	24GB	5	30GB	$0.69	Source
A6000	1x A6000	48GB	8	62GB	$0.76	Source
L40S	1x L40S	48GB	12	62GB	$0.86	Source
A6000 Ada	1x A6000	48GB	14	58GB	$0.88	Source
L40	1x L40S	48GB	8	94GB	$0.99	Source
A100 PCIe	1x A100	80GB	8	117GB	$1.64	Source
A100 SXM	1x A100	80GB	16	125GB	$1.89	Source
MI250	1x MI250	128GB	--	--	$2.10	Source
H100 PCIe	1x H100	80GB	16	188GB	$2.39	Source
H100 SXM	1x H100	80GB	16	125GB	$2.99	Source
MI300X	1x MI300X	192GB	24	283GB	$2.99	Source
H200 SXM	1x H200	141GB	--	--	$3.99	Source

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 RunPod offer:

Service	Backblaze	RunPod
Block Storage	--
GPU-powered Servers	--
Managed Containers	--
Object Storage		--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)	--

Company details

	Backblaze	RunPod
Website	www.backblaze.com	www.runpod.io
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2007	2022
Data Center Locations	4	24
Example Customers	Kanopy, Steamlabs, Canal+, Fortune	AfterShoot, Replika, Otovo, Data Science Dojo, Abzu

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

	RunPod
Website	www.runpod.io
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2022
Data Center Locations	24
Example Customers	AfterShoot, Replika, Otovo, Data Science Dojo, Abzu