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
- Deploy affordable GPUs in under a minute
- Scale across 30+ regions worldwide
- SOC 2 Type II certified, 99.9% uptime SLA
- Flexible billing: pay by the second, no commitments
- Multi-node Clusters scale to thousands of GPUs
- Built-in deployments, autoscaling & monitoring
Price comparison
How do Backblaze's prices compare against Runpod?
VM Small
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VM Medium
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VM Large
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Block Storage
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Object Storage
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Free egress allowance
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance
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GPU Fleet Overview
Billing Options
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On-DemandReservation
Available Models
Runpod offers 35 GPU models.
Backblaze
H100Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
Which services do they offer
Here are some managed services that Backblaze and Runpod offer:
Company details
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Backblaze
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Runpod
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|---|---|---|
| Website | www.backblaze.com | www.runpod.io |
| Headquarters |
United States of America 
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United States of America
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| Founded | 2007 | 2022 |
| Data Center Locations | 4 | 32 |
| Example Customers | Kanopy, Steamlabs, Canal+, Fortune | Zillow, CivitAI, Wix, OpenAI, Perplexity, Cursor |
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Headquarters
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Founded
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Data Center Locations
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Example Customers
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Our data for Backblaze was last updated on Feb. 12, 2026, and for Runpod on Sept. 11, 2026.