Backup per TB in 2026: what Veeam and its alternatives really cost

Anyone who invoices a client at the end of the month knows this: the backup software licence is only half the bill. The other half is where that data physically ends up, and that line item is charged per TB, every month, regardless of whether the client ever sees it on their invoice. We've compared the public 2026 price lists of the providers who actually publish a price per TB.

Veeam: confirmed list price increases, but storage has a public price

The vendor has announced annual, predetermined increases to the Rental pricing structure for VCSPs, with the 2026 increase applied to consumption from 1 January 2026 for no-commit contracts, and at renewal for VRA contracts. For generic subscriptions, several industry sources report price rises in the order of 4–8% from 1 January 2026, continuing the increases already applied in 2025.

On the managed storage side, however, Veeam publishes a clear price list. MSRP pricing per TB/month: Archive $4.50, Foundation $14.00, Advanced $24.00. The service is billed annually in advance on a per-TB basis and includes the storage capacity requested at purchase, along with the API calls needed to write backups in immutable format, reads, and egress within fair use. The difference between Foundation and Advanced lies in storage redundancy: Foundation offers 11 "nines" of durability with locally redundant storage and fair-use restores, while Advanced reaches 12 "nines" with zone-redundant storage and unlimited restores.

Acronis: no per-TB price list published by the vendor

This needs to be stated clearly: on the official Acronis website we could not find a price list page with a public price per TB of backup storage comparable to Veeam's. The figures circulating online for Cyber Protect Cloud (pooled storage per workstation or server, "quote on request" pricing) come from third-party aggregators and vary from source to source: we are not reporting them here because they cannot be verified against the primary source. Anyone evaluating Acronis needs to request a direct quote from the vendor or a reseller.

Two alternatives with published pricing: Wasabi and Backblaze B2

For those looking purely for storage to point their backup software at (Veeam, restic, Duplicati or otherwise), two S3-compatible providers publish a flat price per TB, with no licence attached.

Provider	Price per TB/month	Egress	Notes
Veeam Data Cloud Vault Archive	$4.50	included in fair use	cold storage, infrequently accessed data
Backblaze B2	$6.95	free up to 3x average monthly storage	monthly or annual capacity-based billing
Wasabi (pay as you go)	$7.99	no egress or API fees	monthly billing
Veeam Data Cloud Vault Foundation	$14.00	included in fair use	natively integrated with Veeam Data Platform
Veeam Data Cloud Vault Advanced	$24.00	included, unlimited restores	maximum redundancy

Backblaze states that storage is always available at $6.95 per TB per month, billed based on actual consumption per byte-hour. Wasabi starts at $7.99 per TB per month on a pay-as-you-go basis, with no egress or API call fees, or with reserved capacity on multi-year contracts for bigger discounts.

What this means if you need to do the maths

The key figure to take away is simple: backup storage alone now costs between $4.50 and $24 per TB per month, depending on the level of redundancy and included services, before you've even added the licence for the software orchestrating the jobs. Across a fleet of tens of TB, the difference between one provider and another adds up to hundreds of euros a year, not loose change. It's worth recalculating the TCO every time a price-increase notice lands, not just at renewal.

Veeam Data Cloud Vault is a product of Veeam Software, not of Prime Software.