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There are countless storage providers and services these days. Backblaze was mentioned. There are other examples too, cheaper than the ones used in the chart for comparison. For instance, Dropbox offers 2TB for $10/month. It’s not exactly for backups, but works for that too.

What’s the advantage of C2 relative to existing options (not the expensive ones used in the chart)?

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Indeed, there are lots of cloud storage providers. The pricing concept of C2 Object Storage is to make it as much as simple, and to let users retrieve as much data as they have stored for free every month. In general backup and restore cases (,and also cases with moderate download traffic demands), you only need to pay for the storage fees (without additional hidden charges).

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