Is Backblaze B2 or Oracle Object Storage cheaper in 2026?

Backblaze B2 is cheaper in all 3 modelled workloads.

What is the difference in egress cost between Backblaze B2 and Oracle Object Storage?

Oracle Object Storage charges $0.0085 per GB against Backblaze B2's $0.010, roughly 1.2× cheaper. Egress usually dominates the bill once traffic is measured in terabytes.

What do these estimates not include?

Committed-use and reserved discounts, regional price variation, per-request API charges, support plans, and minimum retention periods. All of those move real invoices, sometimes by a lot. These figures compare published list prices for the same workload, which is the comparison the rate cards alone cannot give you.

Backblaze B2 vs Oracle Object Storage

Backblaze B2 is cheaper across every workload modelled here.

List prices checked May 2026

Rate cards side by side

Only the axes at least one of them bills on. A dash means that provider does not charge for it.

Billing axis	Backblaze B2	Oracle Object Storage	Difference
Storage	$0.0069/GB-mo	$0.025/GB-mo	3.7× Backblaze B2
Data transfer out	$0.010/GB	$0.0085/GB	1.2× Oracle Object Storage
Free tier	Yes	Yes	—

Source: Backblaze pricing (August 2026) · Oracle pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

Monthly cost for three real workloads

The rate cards applied to identical usage. This is where the winner changes.

Workload	Backblaze B2	Oracle Object Storage	Cheaper
Side projectA personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.	$1.14	$1.36	Backblaze B2saves $0.22/mo (16%)
Growing SaaSA funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.	$13	$21	Backblaze B2saves $7.78/mo (37%)
Media-heavy siteA publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.	$114	$136	Backblaze B2saves $22/mo (16%)

Workload definitions are identical on every comparison page, so figures here can be read against any other pair in the same category.

What each one is for

Backblaze B2

by Backblaze

An S3-compatible object store at $6.95/TB, well under the hyperscalers, with egress free up to three times the volume stored and $0.01/GB beyond it.

Free tier: 10 GB of storage, with free egress up to 3x data stored

Oracle Object Storage

by Oracle

Priced above S3 on storage and roughly a tenth of it on egress, which inverts the usual trade-off and suits data that is written rarely and read constantly.

Free tier: 20 GB of storage, always free

Common questions

Is Backblaze B2 or Oracle Object Storage cheaper in 2026?: Backblaze B2 is cheaper in all 3 modelled workloads.
What is the difference in egress cost between Backblaze B2 and Oracle Object Storage?: Oracle Object Storage charges $0.0085 per GB against Backblaze B2's $0.010, roughly 1.2× cheaper. Egress usually dominates the bill once traffic is measured in terabytes.
Which has the better free tier, Backblaze B2 or Oracle Object Storage?: Both publish one. Backblaze B2: 10 GB of storage, with free egress up to 3x data stored. Oracle Object Storage: 20 GB of storage, always free.
What do these estimates not include?: Committed-use and reserved discounts, regional price variation, per-request API charges, support plans, and minimum retention periods. All of those move real invoices, sometimes by a lot. These figures compare published list prices for the same workload, which is the comparison the rate cards alone cannot give you.