Storj vs BlackBlaze vs SIA

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February 15, 2018

Storage

BackBlaze: $0.005 USD/GB/month

Storj: $0.015 USD/GB/month

SIA: $0.00321 USD/GB/month

Download

BackBlaze: $0.02 USD/GB download

Storj: $0.05 USD/GB download

SIA: $0.00087 USD/GB download

Other fees

SIA: $0.00066 USD/GB upload

SIA: $2.08 USD Contract formation fees (one-time fee)

Links

Sia stats: https://siastats.info/storage_pricing.html

Backblaze: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html

Storj: https://storj.io/

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