Backblaze vs Sync.com Comparison 2026
Sync.com encrypts files before they leave your device, so the company itself cannot open what you store there, with a free tier and Teams plans from $6 a user a month for 1 TB, billed annually with a three-seat minimum. Backblaze skips that layer and skips the per-seat pricing too: $6.95 a terabyte a month, metered, reached through an S3-compatible API. One sells a guarantee about who can read your files. The other sells a low price per terabyte with no claim about encryption either way.
At a glance
- Sync.com starts cheaper, at $6.
- Only Sync.com has a free tier.
- Sync.com bills annually only, so there is no month to try it for.
Side by side
Backblaze | Sync.com | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Annual only |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Yes |
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.
Sync.com
Encrypted storage where only you hold the key
Sync encrypts everything before it leaves the machine, so the company cannot read what you store even if it wanted to. For a creator holding unreleased footage or a client's raw files, that is the difference between a policy and a guarantee. End-to-end encryption also means a forgotten password loses the data, with nobody able to reset it for you.
Our note
Why people weigh these two
- Sync.com instead of Backblaze
- Encrypted storage where only you hold the key, from $6 with a free tier; a privacy-first home for an archive rather than an S3-compatible API.
- Backblaze instead of Sync.com
- Backblaze charges a flat $6.95 a terabyte with no free tier, plain storage pricing for anybody who does not specifically need encryption the company itself cannot read.
Which one should you pick
Take Sync.com for unreleased footage or a client's raw files, where the point is that nobody but you can open them, not even Sync. The free tier is enough to try it, and Teams starts at $6 a user a month for 1 TB, though the three-seat minimum makes it an odd fit for a solo creator working alone. Losing the password loses the data. Nobody at Sync can reset it, so write it down somewhere that is not the encrypted drive itself.
Take Backblaze for an archive where encryption is not the deciding question and the price per terabyte is. It bills by usage rather than by seat, so a solo creator pays the same rate as a team, and there is no three-user minimum to clear first. Egress is free up to three times what you store, then a cent a gigabyte past that. Choose this over Sync when the files are not sensitive enough to need a guarantee that even the storage provider cannot read them.
Common questions
- Can Backblaze staff read files stored in B2?
- Sync.com is built so it cannot: files are encrypted on your device before upload, so nobody at Sync holds the key. That specific guarantee is the reason the product exists. Backblaze is priced and built as low-cost object storage, without that guarantee attached.
- Does Backblaze have a three-user minimum like Sync's Teams plan?
- No. Backblaze bills by usage, $6.95 a terabyte a month, with no seat count involved at all. Sync's Teams plan requires at least three users at $6, $9 or $15 a user a month, which matters if you are buying for one person.
- What happens if I forget my Sync.com password?
- The data is lost. Encryption happens on your device before anything uploads, so Sync never holds a copy of the key and cannot reset it for you. Backblaze carries no equivalent risk, since it is not sold as end-to-end encrypted.
- Which is cheaper for a solo creator?
- Backblaze, in most cases, since it has no per-seat minimum and bills $6.95 a terabyte regardless of team size. Sync's cheapest relevant tier is Teams at $6 a user a month, but it requires three users, so a solo creator pays for seats that go unused unless they choose an individual plan instead.
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