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Both cover media storage & review. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
| Backblaze | Sync.com | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $6.95 | From $6 |
| Pricing model | Paid subscription | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | No | Yes |
| Billing | Usage-based | Annual only |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | Not stated | Not stated |
| Runs on | Web | Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android |
| Covers | Media Storage & Review | Media Storage & Review |
| Works with | Nothing in particular | Nothing in particular |
| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
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.
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
The encryption is the product, and it cuts both ways: nobody at Sync can read your files, and nobody at Sync can recover them if you lose the password. Write it down somewhere that is not the encrypted drive.
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