Backblaze vs Kinsta Comparison 2026
Both cover media storage & review. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Cloud storage at $6.95 a terabyte
Managed WordPress hosting that holds up in a spike
At a glance
- Backblaze starts cheaper, at $6.95.
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
Backblaze | Kinsta | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $6.95 | From $35 |
| Pricing model | Paid subscription | Paid subscription |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing (they differ) | Usage-based | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | None | None |
| Runs on | Web |
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.
Kinsta
Managed WordPress hosting that holds up in a spike
Kinsta is managed WordPress hosting on Google Cloud, aimed at sites where an hour of downtime costs something. Backups, staging, a content delivery network and edge caching come with every plan rather than as add-ons, and the support is the part customers actually cite. For a creator it is the choice once a blog or a course site is earning and the cheap shared host has started to wobble under traffic. Plans are set by monthly visits and storage, and going over is billed rather than blocked.
Only on this side
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