The best offsite backup for a small business keeps an encrypted copy of your data where your own computers cannot delete it, at a price you can predict before you need a restore. We compared seven services a small business would realistically shortlist and ranked them by the job each does best, not by a score.
ServerCrate publishes this page and is one of the seven options. Every competitor price links to that provider’s own pricing page in the sources at the bottom.
For a small business, the best offsite backup depends on what you are protecting. If you run servers, or want backups that ransomware on your network cannot delete, choose a service that encrypts on your machines, keeps backups append-only or immutable, and charges nothing to restore: that is the job ServerCrate is built for. If you already run backup software such as restic or Veeam and only need the cheapest place to store its output, Backblaze B2 at $6.95 per TB per month is hard to beat, with Wasabi close behind above 1 TB. If you just need staff laptops backed up with no setup, Backblaze Business Backup at $99 per computer per year is the simplest. Whichever you pick, it should be the offsite copy in a 3-2-1 plan, not your only copy.
Who wrote this. ServerCrate publishes this page, and our own service is one of the seven options. We say plainly where each competitor fits better than we do.
| Provider | Starting price | Storage model | Append-only / immutability | Egress and restore fees | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ServerCrate | Free 10 GB; $2/mo for 100 GB | Restic vault over HTTPS, flat plans | Append-only by default, plus 14-day ZFS snapshots | None | Encrypted, ransomware-resistant backup at a flat price |
| Backblaze B2 | $6.95/TB/mo; first 10 GB free | S3-compatible object storage | Object Lock, if you configure it | Free up to 3x stored, then $0.01/GB | Cheapest raw storage for software you already run |
| Wasabi | $7.99/TB/mo, 1 TB minimum | S3-compatible object storage | Object Lock | Free while egress stays under stored; 90-day minimum storage | Predictable S3 bills at 1 TB and up |
| Backblaze Business Backup | $99 per computer per year | Backup app, unlimited per computer | Version history, 30 days by default | None for restores; USB drive free if returned | Hands-off backup of Windows and Mac laptops |
| IDrive | $9.99/mo for 5 TB, 5 computers ($6.99 first year) | Backup app, pooled storage | Up to 30 file versions | None listed; overage $0.50/GB/mo | Computers and servers under one account |
| rsync.net | 1.5¢/GB/mo, 800 GB minimum | ZFS filesystem over SSH | Daily ZFS snapshots, can be made immutable | None | ZFS and SSH power users |
| BorgBase | Free 10 GB; $30/yr for 250 GB | Hosted Borg repositories | Append-only mode, secured with 2FA | None | Teams already on Borg |
Prices checked October 2026 on each provider’s own site, in USD before tax. First-year promotional prices are noted where they differ. Prices change, so confirm with the provider before you buy.
ServerCrate is the pick when you want an offsite copy that is encrypted before it leaves your machines and that a compromised machine cannot delete. We host restic repositories over HTTPS using restic’s REST server protocol, not SFTP. restic encrypts on your device with AES-256, and we never receive the password. Every vault is append-only by default: the backup key on your machines can add snapshots but cannot delete them, and a separate cleanup key trims old ones. Below that, daily storage-level ZFS snapshots are kept for 14 days, and no customer key can remove them. Bandwidth is unlimited, with no egress or restore fees. Paid plans include a signed monthly Backup Evidence Report covering offsite storage, append-only status, the 14-day lock, encryption, an integrity check, backup recency, MFA and restore tests, for cyber-insurance renewals and audits. We also host Borg repositories over SSH and Proxmox Backup Server datastores.
Price: Free 10 GB forever. Lite $2/mo (100 GB, 3 devices, 14-day restore points), Starter $3/mo (250 GB, 10 devices, 30 days), Standard $9/mo (1 TB, 25 devices, 60 days), Pro $17/mo (2 TB, 50 devices, 90 days). Business is $35/mo and waitlisted. Annual billing gives two months free. Pay by card, PayPal or Bitcoin.
Watch for: one storage location, Los Angeles; plans top out at 2 TB until Business opens; you run restic or the free Backrest desktop app on your side; we do not sign HIPAA Business Associate Agreements.
Backblaze B2 is the cheapest mainstream place to send backups if you already run backup software and only need somewhere to keep its output. It is S3-compatible object storage at $6.95 per TB per month, with the first 10 GB free and no minimum storage duration. Downloads are free up to three times your average stored data each month and cost $0.01 per GB after that, so one full restore is normally covered. Object Lock can make backups immutable for a period you choose, and restic, Veeam and many other tools write to B2 directly. B2 is not a backup product: retention, locks and alerts are your job. Our Backblaze B2 comparison covers when a flat-priced vault is the better fit.
Price: $6.95/TB/month, pay as you go; first 10 GB free.
Watch for: downloads beyond 3x your stored data are billed; immutability exists only if you configure Object Lock; you supply and maintain the backup software.
Wasabi suits a business that stores at least a terabyte in S3-compatible storage and wants one per-terabyte line on the bill. Its pay-as-you-go price rose to $7.99 per TB per month on July 1, 2026, for new and existing pay-as-you-go accounts. There are no charges for API requests or uploads, and egress is free as long as your monthly downloads do not exceed the amount you store. Object Lock is available for immutable backups. The catches: a 1 TB monthly minimum, so 200 GB costs the same as 1 TB, and a 90-day minimum storage duration, which matters if your retention deletes data sooner. Our Wasabi comparison looks at smaller sets.
Price: $7.99/TB/month, pay as you go, 1 TB minimum.
Watch for: the 90-day minimum storage duration; free egress only while downloads stay at or under stored data; as with B2, you bring the backup software.
Backblaze Business Backup is the simplest choice when the goal is that every staff laptop is backed up and nobody wants to configure anything. It is an install-and-forget app for Windows and Mac computers with unlimited storage per computer, managed from one business account. Version history is 30 days by default; a one-year option is free to turn on, and Forever retention costs $0.006 per GB per month for files older than a year. Restores run from the web as zip files of up to 500 GB per request, or Backblaze ships an encrypted USB drive that is free if you return it within 30 days. You can set a private encryption key so the backups cannot be read without it. It is not built for Linux servers or databases.
Price: $99 per computer per year.
Watch for: cost scales with headcount; 30-day default history; built for computers, not servers.
IDrive fits a small office that wants one account covering staff computers and, on its Business plan, servers, NAS devices and databases. IDrive Team includes 5 TB for 5 computers and 5 users at $9.99 a month on annual billing, discounted to $6.99 a month in the first year. IDrive Business starts at 500 GB for unlimited users, with server, Exchange, SQL and NAS backup, at $19.99 a month ($13.99 in the first year). It keeps up to 30 previous versions of each file, and you can set your own encryption key that IDrive does not store. IDrive Express ships a physical drive for large backups or restores. No per-GB restore fees are listed, but storage beyond your plan is billed at $0.50 per GB per month on Team and Business.
Price: Team 5 TB, 5 computers: $119.88/year ($83.88 first year). Business 500 GB: $239.88/year ($167.88 first year).
Watch for: the second-year price rise; the overage rate; the features page describes versioning and snapshots rather than an immutable lock, so ask before relying on it for ransomware recovery.
rsync.net is the choice for a technical team that wants a plain ZFS filesystem it can reach over SSH with whatever tools it already uses. Standard accounts cost 1.5 cents per GB per month with an 800 GB minimum, about $12 a month, dropping to 1.25 cents from 10 TB. They include seven daily ZFS snapshots, which you can reschedule and configure to be immutable. There are no egress charges and no contracts. rsync, SFTP and SSH-based tools such as restic and Borg all work, because the account is a Unix filesystem behind SSH; zfs send needs a separate account with a 10 TB minimum. Discounted restic accounts are 1 cent per GB with a 200 GB minimum, billed annually, but they leave out the free ZFS snapshots. It is a toolkit, not a service that runs jobs for you. Our rsync.net comparison goes deeper.
Price: 1.5¢/GB/month, 800 GB minimum; restic accounts 1¢/GB, 200 GB minimum, billed annually.
Watch for: the minimum order; no snapshots on discounted restic accounts; you build and monitor the backup jobs yourself.
BorgBase is the natural home for a business whose servers already back up with BorgBackup. It hosts Borg repositories with an append-only mode secured by two-factor authentication, so a compromised server cannot erase its own backup history. Plans are simple: a free tier with 10 GB and 2 repositories, Small at $30 a year for 250 GB and 10 repositories, Medium at $110 a year for 1 TB, and Large at $210 a year (or $20 a month) for 2 TB. There are no charges for uploads, downloads or API calls. Because it is built around Borg, it suits Linux servers better than a fleet of Windows laptops. If you want Borg and restic under one account, we offer Borg repositories too, and our BorgBase comparison lays out the differences.
Price: Free 10 GB; Small $30/year (250 GB); Medium $110/year (1 TB); Large $210/year (2 TB).
Watch for: Small and Medium are billed yearly; flexible storage above the plan is billed on top.
Offsite backup is priced three ways: per terabyte stored (B2, Wasabi, rsync.net), per computer (Backblaze Business Backup), or as flat plans (ServerCrate, IDrive, BorgBase). For the same job, about 1 TB of backups from five office computers, the regular monthly bill runs from about $7 to about $41.
| Provider | Plan that fits | Per month | What else to know |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backblaze B2 | Pay as you go, 1 TB | $6.95 | Plus backup software you run; downloads above 3x stored cost $0.01/GB |
| Wasabi | Pay as you go, 1 TB | $7.99 | 1 TB minimum; 90-day minimum storage duration |
| ServerCrate | Standard: 1 TB, 25 devices | $9.00 | $90/year billed annually; no egress or restore fees; evidence report included |
| BorgBase | Medium: 1 TB | $9.17 | $110 billed yearly; Borg only |
| IDrive | Team: 5 TB, 5 computers | $9.99 | $6.99/month in the first year; $0.50/GB/month over plan |
| rsync.net | Standard: 1,000 GB | $15.00 | Seven daily ZFS snapshots included; no egress charges |
| Backblaze Business Backup | 5 computer licenses | $41.25 | $495/year; unlimited storage per computer; no servers |
The costs that surprise small businesses arrive at restore time: download fees, minimum-duration charges, or an overage rate after a backup set quietly doubles. Price the restore, not just the storage, with our backup cost calculator.
We started from the services a small business is most likely to compare for offsite backup, then kept the ones still sold today with public prices. Every price was checked on the provider’s own site in October 2026. We ranked by the job each service does best instead of giving scores, because a cheap storage bucket and a managed laptop backup are not competing for the same buyer. We left out Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive, which sync files rather than keep independent backup history, and services that hide prices behind a sales call.
The 3-2-1 backup rule says to keep three copies of your data, on two different types of storage, with one copy offsite. For most small businesses that means the working data, a local NAS or USB backup for fast restores, and an offsite copy for fire, theft and ransomware. Our 3-2-1 backup strategy guide walks through a full setup, and offsite backup for small business covers getting started with ServerCrate.
It depends on the job. ServerCrate for encrypted, append-only backup at a flat price with no restore fees; Backblaze B2 ($6.95 per TB per month) for the cheapest raw storage behind software you already run; Backblaze Business Backup ($99 per computer per year) for hands-off laptops; IDrive for computers and servers on one account.
For about 1 TB, storage-based services cost roughly $7 to $15 a month: Backblaze B2 $6.95, Wasabi $7.99, ServerCrate Standard $9, BorgBase about $9.17 and rsync.net about $15. Backblaze Business Backup is $99 per computer per year, about $41 a month for five computers. Check restore and egress fees before comparing headline prices.
Keep three copies of your data, on two different kinds of storage, with one copy offsite. A common small-business setup is the live data, a local backup on a NAS or USB drive for fast restores, and an encrypted offsite backup. Making the offsite copy append-only or immutable protects it from ransomware that reaches your network.
Not on its own. Sync services copy changes to every device, including deletions and files that ransomware has encrypted. Some keep limited version history, but they are not an independent backup with its own retention and deletion protection.
Many cyber-insurance applications ask whether backups are offsite, encrypted and immutable, and whether MFA protects them. Requirements differ by insurer. ServerCrate paid plans include a signed monthly Backup Evidence Report that answers those questions with facts we measure.
Yes. restic runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, and desktop users can use the free Backrest app instead of a terminal. Device limits run from 3 on Lite to 50 on Pro.
Open a free 10 GB vault, back up one machine, restore a file, and see whether it fits. Paid plans start at $2 a month, with unlimited bandwidth and no egress or restore fees.