Backblaze Review 2026: Business Backup Pricing and Fit

Backblaze sells the simplest backup contract in the category: one price per computer, no storage cap, no tiers to size. For a company with 10 to 100 laptops and no IT department, that removes the two mistakes small businesses make with backup, buying too little storage and never finishing the setup.

The question is whether a computer-only product covers enough of what a small business actually runs, and the answer depends on whether you have servers.

This review prices Computer Backup and B2 from Backblaze's own pages, works the bill for a 25-computer company, lists what the flat price leaves out, and sets the result against CrashPlan, IDrive, Carbonite and Veeam using each vendor's published prices.

The audience is the security lead or office manager who has to prove, after a ransomware incident, that the laptops come back.

Backblaze is two products that share a name. Computer Backup, sold as Personal Backup and Business Backup, is an agent for Mac and Windows that continuously backs up all user-generated data on the computer and its connected external drives to Backblaze's cloud, for a flat price per machine.

B2 Cloud Storage is S3-compatible object storage billed per terabyte, used as a target by other backup tools, by NAS devices and by developers. A small business buying backup for laptops wants Computer Backup; a business with a backup server or NAS that needs an off-site copy wants B2.

Business Backup adds what an admin needs on top of the Personal product: a console to manage multiple users, groups for teams, departments or locations, delegated access and consistent backup policies.

Enterprise Control, sold on a quote, layers on OpenID Connect single sign-on with Okta and Azure AD, backup lock-down to stop a user or an attacker from deleting a backup, restricted restore permissions and legal hold. The product profile is on Toolradar.

Setup is a 15-day trial with no credit card, then an installer per computer. The agent inventories the machine and backs up everything that is not an operating system or application file. It keeps running in the background, and the vendor stresses native Mac and Windows clients with no Java or middleware.

An admin on Business Backup invites users by email, puts them in groups and sees each machine's last backup date from one console, which is the view an auditor asks for.

Restores are the part to read before you buy. The web restore produces zip files of up to 500 GB per request, which is fine for a folder and slow for a full disk. For a whole machine, Backblaze ships an encrypted USB drive anywhere in the world, free if you return it within 30 days.

That drive is the practical path after a laptop theft. Business Backup includes one year of version history, and the pricing page says Forever retention is available for an added fee without printing it. What the agent does not do is back up servers, network shares, NAS volumes or SaaS data; those need B2 plus another tool, or a different vendor.

Backblaze prices were checked on October 17, 2026 on the Computer Backup pricing page and the B2 pricing page. Personal Backup and Business Backup carry the same per-computer rate: $8.25 a month on the yearly plan, $9 a month on monthly billing, or $7.88 a month on a two-year term. Enterprise Control is a customized quote. B2 is $6.95 per TB a month, and B2 Overdrive, for multi-petabyte commitments, costs $15 per TB.

A 25-computer company pays $2,475 a year on the yearly plan, which is the yearly rate multiplied by 25 computers. On monthly billing the same fleet costs $2,700 a year, and on the two-year term $4,725 for two years, or $2,362.50 a year. Ten computers cost $990 a year, 50 cost $4,950, and a single extra laptop adds one more yearly fee, which makes the budget a headcount multiplied by one number.

Alternatives, from each vendor's own pricing page the same day: CrashPlan Endpoints is $88 per user a year with unlimited storage and unlimited versioning, or $158 for two years, and its Servers plan is $15.75 a month per server billed yearly with 250 GB of pooled storage and $90 a year per extra 250 GB; IDrive Business is $19.99 a month billed yearly for 500 GB with unlimited users, computers, servers and NAS devices, and $149.99 a month for 5 TB; new signups pay 30% less in the first year ($13.99 and $104.99 a month), then the standard rate; Carbonite Core lists at $287.99 a year for up to 25 computers, external drives and NAS with 250 GB of storage, Power at $799.99 a year for one server plus 25 computers and 500 GB, both shown 20% off ($230.39 and $639.99) during an October promotion, with extra storage sold in 100 GB blocks; Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition is free for up to 10 workloads, and the paid Essentials pack, for up to 50 workloads, is sold online without a list price on that page. Toolradar data: Toolradar, the software directory we run, evaluated 35 cloud storage tools for its October 2026 cloud storage ranking; IDrive and Carbonite sit in its top 10 and Backblaze in the ranks 11 to 30 that follow.

Backblaze Business Backup fits a company whose data lives on employee laptops: agencies, consultancies, law and accounting practices, startups on Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 with no on-premises server.

It suits an office manager or a one-person IT function who needs every machine covered without sizing storage, and a security lead who wants a year of file versions behind a ransomware event. If a lost laptop is your worst realistic data loss, the flat per-machine fee is the easiest contract to defend.

Who should skip it: a business with Windows or Linux servers, a NAS full of shared files or a Microsoft 365 tenant it must back up, because the Computer Backup agent covers none of those.

CrashPlan backs up Linux endpoints and servers, IDrive pools one plan across computers, servers, Exchange, SQL and NAS, and Carbonite Power adds a server to its 25-computer bundle.

A company with both laptops and a server often ends up on Backblaze for the laptops and B2 as the off-site target for the server tool, which is two bills, not one. For the wider recovery plan see our ransomware response playbook.