Backblaze vs Filemail Comparison 2026
Both cover media storage & review. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
At a glance
- Filemail starts cheaper, at $6.
- Only Filemail has a free tier.
Side by side
Backblaze | Filemail | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $6.95 | From $6 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Paid subscription | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier (they differ) | No | Yes |
| Billing (they differ) | Usage-based | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | 7 days |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | None | None |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Backblaze
Cloud storage at $6.95 a terabyte
Backblaze B2 is object storage priced at a fraction of what the big three charge, with an S3-compatible API so most tools already speak to it. For a video archive that has to exist somewhere and rarely gets read, the arithmetic is hard to argue with. Egress is free up to three times what you store, and above that it is billed by the gigabyte.
Our note
Egress decides this one, not the $6.95. Free retrieval up to three times average storage covers an archive that is written often and read rarely. A working library pulled back every week meets the penny a gigabyte, and that is a different bill.
Filemail
Send a file of any size, from six dollars
Filemail moves large files without asking either end to install anything, which is the entire job when the person receiving your footage is a client rather than a colleague. Transfers can be tracked, password protected and set to expire, and the free tier handles up to five gigabytes without an account. The paid plans are about how long files live and how large they get. There is no collaboration layer here, and that is deliberate.
Our note
Six dollars is the right price for this problem and most of the alternatives charge more for the same thing wrapped in collaboration features. Check the retention period against your client's habits, because the cheapest plan expiring a link before somebody opens it costs you a re-send and a conversation.
Ratings are the average of reviews readers left. The facts are stated by each tool’s own listing and are not verified by CloutStack. How we make money.