What it costs to keep your backups in the cloud per month and year.
With an example price of €6 per TB per month and 100 GB downloaded at €0.01 per GB, storing 2 TB costs €13 a month and €156 a year, or €78 per TB per year. Use the current prices of your provider.
Estimates what you will pay to store data in the cloud and download it. The example prices are only a guide: use your provider prices, before tax, and check for minimums, request fees or early deletion charges.
month = TB × price per TB + download GB × price per GB; total = month × monthsEstimates what you will pay to store data in the cloud and download it. The example prices are only a guide: use your provider prices, before tax, and check for minimums, request fees or early deletion charges.
All amounts use the same currency of your choice. These are estimates, not measurements or offers.
Compare cloud storage services for backups or files with your own prices. Many providers charge per TB stored per month and separately for the data you download; some also charge for requests or for deleting files before a minimum number of days.
For backups, downloads are usually close to zero until you need to restore, and then they can be large: also work out the cost of recovering everything at once. Compare with a NAS or an external drive: a 4 TB drive costs about the same as a few months of cloud storage but does not protect you from fire or theft, so the best option is to combine both, as the 3-2-1 rule says.
Data leaving their network has a cost for the provider. Some include it free up to a certain volume; check the small print.
Some services charge as if each file were kept for a minimum number of days, even if you delete it earlier. It affects backups that rotate daily.
Most providers bill in decimal GB or TB, but some use GiB or TiB. The unit converter helps you compare.