{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "backblaze-b2", "name": "Backblaze B2", "vendor": "Backblaze", "vendorUrl": "https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage", "kind": "http-api", "category": "file-storage", "summary": "Object storage at $6.95 a TB-month with the first 10 GB free, egress free up to three times what you store and $0.01 a GB after, and no charge for most API calls.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/backblaze-b2", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/backblaze-b2.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/backblaze-b2.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/backblaze-b2.json", "repo": "https://github.com/backblaze-labs/b2-mcp", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "http", "stdio", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://s3.us-west-004.backblazeb2.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@backblaze-labs/b2-mcp" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "b2sdk" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Application keys, scoped to the account or one or more buckets with a name prefix, named capabilities and an optional expiry. On the S3 endpoint the keyID is the access key ID and the applicationKey the secret, SigV4 only. Keys and buckets created before 2020-05-04 don't work with the S3 API. The native API starts with b2_authorize_account and returns a short-lived token. Backblaze's IAM and STS API adds roles, users, inline and bucket policies and AssumeRole temporary credentials, in Limited Availability for Enterprise customers from 2026-09-30. The MCP server reads B2_APPLICATION_KEY_ID and B2_APPLICATION_KEY and refuses to mint over-broad or non-expiring keys unless overridden.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Storage $6.95 a TB-month, about $0.00695 a GB, with the first 10 GB free and no credit card at signup. Egress is free up to three times the average monthly data stored, then $0.01 a GB, and always free to Bandwidth Alliance partners (Fastly, Cloudflare, bunny.net, CacheFly, CoreWeave, Equinix Metal, Vultr, phoenixNAP). Class A, B and C API calls are free; Class D is $0.004 per 10,000 with the first 2,500 a day free. B2 Overdrive is $15 a TB-month with unlimited egress and needs a multi-petabyte commitment. No minimum file size or storage duration, and one-to-five-year commitments are available (https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing; https://www.backblaze.com/sign-up/cloud-storage).", "priceSummary": "$0.01 / GB", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 40, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1, "npmWeekly": 150, "pypiWeekly": 112424, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.backblaze.com/docs/cloud-storage", "registryName": "io.github.backblaze-labs/b2-mcp", "capabilities": [ "storage.object", "storage.s3", "storage.presigned", "storage.share" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "s3-compatible", "mcp", "open-source", "self-hosted", "free-tier", "usage-priced", "typescript", "python", "official" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 75.4, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 35, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 90, "payments": 40, "reliability": 60, "schema": 89, "security": 90, "transparency": 74 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "$6.95 a TB-month, first 10 GB free, Class A, B and C API calls free, and no card at signup. 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drive.file limits an app to files it created or the user picked, the full drive scope is restricted and needs Google's verification for public apps. Service accounts with domain-wide delegation work for Workspace domains. The MCP server needs a Google Cloud project with drive.googleapis.com and drivemcp.googleapis.com enabled, an OAuth web client with your MCP client's redirect URI, the drive.readonly and drive.file scopes, and membership of the Workspace Developer Preview Program.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "The Drive API costs nothing within quota, 1,000,000 quota units a minute a project and 325,000 a minute a user, with a 400,000,000-a-day threshold, and since 2026-05-01 quotas are counted in quota units with a 1 TB daily egress cap per Workspace user. Google says exceeding the quota request limits is planned to incur charges to the Cloud billing account later in 2026, with no prices published yet. Files count against the account's own Drive storage, which is bought as Google One or a Workspace plan (https://developers.google.com/workspace/drive/api/guides/limits; https://developers.google.com/workspace/release-notes).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 8, "popularity": { "githubStars": 12300, "npmWeekly": 1321000, "pypiWeekly": 29823951, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.google.com/workspace/drive/api/guides/about-sdk", "capabilities": [ "storage.drive", "storage.share", "work.docs" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "free", "mcp", "oauth", "typescript", "python", "webhooks" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 78.6, "grade": "A", "agentReady": true, "rank": 12, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 35, "reliability": 90, "schema": 83, "security": 86, "transparency": 74 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "No charge for API calls within quota, counted in quota units per minute per project and per user. OAuth consent, scope verification and a Cloud project before an agent can list a folder.", "strengths": [ "No charge for API calls within quota, counted in quota units per minute per project and per user", "Public discovery document, refreshed three times in September 2026, and 40-odd documented error reasons with backoff advice", "Official MCP server with eight tools, none that delete or share, and a setup page that warns about prompt injection", "drive.file and drive.readonly scopes keep an agent to its own files or to reading", "No Drive incidents on the Workspace dashboard from 3 July to 1 October 2026, and a 99.9 per cent Workspace SLA that names Drive" ], "weaknesses": [ "OAuth consent, scope verification and a Cloud project before an agent can list a folder", "The MCP server is Developer Preview and needs your own OAuth client and programme membership", "expirationTime can't be set on domain or anyone shares, so a public link never expires on its own", "No llms.txt or Markdown docs for agents", "Quota overage charges are announced for later in 2026 but not priced, and Workspace users can egress only 1 TB a day" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask for drive.file rather than drive; it needs no verification and covers files the app created or the user picked", "Use uploadType=resumable for anything over 5 MB and send chunks in multiples of 256 KB", "For a link that expires, share to a user or group with expirationTime; a type=anyone permission can't expire, so delete it yourself", "Pass fields= on files.list and files.get to cut the response, and page with pageToken", "Back off exponentially on 429 rateLimitExceeded and 403 userRateLimitExceeded; 403 storageQuotaExceeded won't clear by retrying" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 8, "avgRating": 3.4, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "A", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 78.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 35, "reliability": 90, "schema": 83, "security": 86, "transparency": 62 }, "provenanceScore": 85 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files?pageSize=10\u0026fields=files(id,name,mimeType)\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $GOOGLE_OAUTH_TOKEN\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http google-drive https://drivemcp.googleapis.com/mcp/v1", "config": { "mcpServers": { "google-drive": { "url": "https://drivemcp.googleapis.com/mcp/v1" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/storage.drive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/google-drive-api" }, "sameCompany": [ "gemini-api", "gemini-embedding", "vertex-ai-tuning", "google-model-armor", "google-imagen", "google-veo", "google-lyria", "google-speech-to-text", "google-adk", "google-secret-manager", "google-weather-api", "chrome-devtools-mcp", "google-maps-platform", "google-cloud-translation", "google-calendar-api", "gemini-cli" ], "area": "everyday", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC", "domain": "google.com", "domainRegistered": "1997-09-15", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://developers.google.com/terms", "privacy": "https://policies.google.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/", "changelog": "https://developers.google.com/workspace/release-notes", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "The API endpoints sit on googleapis.com, not google.com.", "The MCP server is part of the Workspace Developer Preview Program and can change or need re-enrolment.", "The Google APIs Terms of Service (last modified 2021-11-09) name Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View." ], "score": 85 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-drive-api.json", "live": { "slug": "google-drive-api", "probe": { "target": "https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-05T00:57:20.919412493Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 97, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 112, "p95ms24h": 134, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 911, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 11, "ok": 11 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-03T19:23:11.517316652Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "googleapis/google-api-nodejs-client", "version": "agentidentity-v3.1.0", "released": "2026-10-03", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:28:33.29241959Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@googleapis/drive", "version": "26.0.2", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:28:32.392675835Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "google-api-python-client", "version": "2.201.0", "released": "2026-09-30", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:28:33.180818296Z" } ], "githubStars": 12258, "npmWeekly": 1360177, "pypiWeekly": 31864816, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://google.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2030-04-01T00:00:00z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:53.387118101Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "google.com", "registered": "1997-09-15", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/google.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:05:50.737985829Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.google.com/workspace/release-notes", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:01.244440672Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a214e7c556b9" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T00:57:20.919412493Z" } }, "summary": "Google Drive API + MCP has a score of 78.6 (A) against Backblaze B2's 75.4 (BB). Both do storage share. The largest gap is reliability, 30 points." }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/backblaze-b2-vs-google-drive-api", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/backblaze-b2-vs-google-drive-api.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/backblaze-b2-vs-google-drive-api.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/backblaze-b2-vs-google-drive-api.min.md" }, "markdown": "Google Drive API + MCP has a score of 78.6 (A) against Backblaze B2's 75.4 (BB). Both do storage share. The largest gap is reliability, 30 points.\n\n- Backblaze B2: grade BB, 75.4/100, rank #35 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/backblaze-b2.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/backblaze-b2.json\n- Google Drive API + MCP: grade A, 78.6/100, rank #12 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-drive-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-drive-api.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Backblaze B2 for schema \u0026 documentation (+6), payments \u0026 pricing (+5), maintenance \u0026 community (+5).\n\nPick Google Drive API + MCP for reliability (+30).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Backblaze B2 | Google Drive API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 90 | Google Drive API + MCP +30 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 89 | 83 | Backblaze B2 +6 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 85 | even |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 90 | 86 | Backblaze B2 +4 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 35 | Backblaze B2 +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 90 | 85 | Backblaze B2 +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 74 | even |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **75.4 · BB** | **78.6 · A** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Backblaze B2 | Google Drive API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Backblaze | Google |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://s3.us-west-004.backblazeb2.com` | `https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3` |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 40 | 8 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.backblaze-labs/b2-mcp` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Popularity | 1 stars, 150 npm/wk, 112k PyPI/wk | 12k stars, 1.3M npm/wk, 29.8M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.8/5 (8) | 3.4/5 (8) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Backblaze B2.** $6.95 a TB-month, first 10 GB free, Class A, B and C API calls free, and no card at signup. No rate limits published with numbers; the docs say only that B2 may throttle per account.\n\n**Google Drive API + MCP.** No charge for API calls within quota, counted in quota units per minute per project and per user. OAuth consent, scope verification and a Cloud project before an agent can list a folder.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Backblaze B2\n\n1. Take the region from the key's S3 endpoint (the second label of s3.\u003cregion\u003e.backblazeb2.com) and pass it as the SDK region\n2. Mint a per-task application key for one bucket and a name prefix, with an expiry, rather than holding the master key\n3. Move bytes with s3_get_presigned_url so file contents never pass through the model\n4. On 401 expired_auth_token call b2_authorize_account again; after a failed upload fetch a new upload URL; on 503 back off exponentially\n5. Expect fewer than 40 tools with a non-master or read-only key; that's the server trimming tools to the key\n\n### Google Drive API + MCP\n\n1. Ask for drive.file rather than drive; it needs no verification and covers files the app created or the user picked\n2. Use uploadType=resumable for anything over 5 MB and send chunks in multiples of 256 KB\n3. For a link that expires, share to a user or group with expirationTime; a type=anyone permission can't expire, so delete it yourself\n4. Pass fields= on files.list and files.get to cut the response, and page with pageToken\n5. Back off exponentially on 429 rateLimitExceeded and 403 userRateLimitExceeded; 403 storageQuotaExceeded won't clear by retrying\n\n## Other comparisons with Backblaze B2 or Google Drive API + MCP\n\n- [Amazon S3 vs Google Drive API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-s3-vs-google-drive-api.md)\n- [Backblaze B2 vs Box API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/backblaze-b2-vs-box-api.md)\n- [Backblaze B2 vs Dropbox API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/backblaze-b2-vs-dropbox-api.md)\n- [Cloudflare R2 vs Google Drive API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-r2-vs-google-drive-api.md)\n- [Google Drive API + MCP vs Tigris](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-drive-api-vs-tigris.md)\n- [Amazon S3 vs Backblaze B2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-s3-vs-backblaze-b2.md)\n- [Backblaze B2 vs Bunny Storage](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/backblaze-b2-vs-bunny-storage.md)\n- [Backblaze B2 vs Cloudflare R2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/backblaze-b2-vs-cloudflare-r2.md)\n- [Backblaze B2 vs Tigris](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/backblaze-b2-vs-tigris.md)\n- [Box API + MCP vs Google Drive API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/box-api-vs-google-drive-api.md)\n- [Dropbox API + MCP vs Google Drive API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dropbox-api-vs-google-drive-api.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-05", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.3", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Backblaze B2 vs Google Drive API + MCP", "url": "" } ], "description": "Google Drive API + MCP has a score of 78.6 (A) against Backblaze B2's 75.4 (BB). 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