# BorgBase

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/backup/borgbase/

Hosted repositories for Borg and Restic, billed on stored data after compression and deduplication.

## Who it suits

Paying for what survives compression and deduplication rather than for what you sent. Borg deduplicates client-side under a key BorgBase never holds, so the bill and the blast radius of a breach are both smaller than the data being protected.

Consider something else if You are not running Borg or Restic. The product is hosting for those two tools, so anything that speaks neither — a managed database, a SaaS export, an S3 bucket — needs a service that connects to it directly rather than a repository to push into.

## iScore

89 / 100 (80% interval 83–94), rank 3 of 5 in backup — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every backup peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/backup/borgbase/alternatives/

- Price: 82 (75–88), weight 36%, 2 of 2 criteria scored
- Capabilities: 100 (94–100), weight 29%, 1 of 1 criteria scored
- Trust and compliance: 81 (56–100), weight 21%, 1 of 6 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: encryption_at_rest, gdpr_data_residency, hipaa_eligible, pci_dss, soc2
- Evidence: 96 (96–96), weight 14%, 4 of 4 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://www.borgbase.com/), read 2026-09-15)
- What the free plan includes: 10 GB across 2 repositories, free forever rather than a trial, with no API or data transfer charges on top. ([source](https://www.borgbase.com/), read 2026-09-15)
- Entry paid plan: $2 a month, sold as $24 a year billed annually for the Small plan, which includes 250 GB and 10 repositories. ([source](https://www.borgbase.com/), read 2026-09-15)
- Pricing model: Per gigabyte stored AFTER compression and deduplication, which is the distinction from every other per-GB vendor here: Borg deduplicates client-side, so the billed quantity is smaller than the data protected and there is no separate charge for the transfer that produced it. ([source](https://www.borgbase.com/), read 2026-09-15)
- Egress over allowance: None. Neither API calls nor data transfer are charged for, so a restore costs only the time. ([source](https://www.borgbase.com/), read 2026-09-15)

### Infrastructure

- Regions: EU and US, and a single account can hold repositories in both at once rather than choosing one at signup. ([source](https://www.borgbase.com/), read 2026-09-15)

### Storage

- Storage price: $0.01 per GB per month beyond the 250 GB included on Small, falling to $7 per TB per month on Medium — the same unit quoted two ways, which works out cheaper per gigabyte on the larger plan. ([source](https://www.borgbase.com/), read 2026-09-15)

### Auth

- Multi-factor authentication: Supported ([source](https://www.borgbase.com/), read 2026-09-15)

### Compliance

- Customer-managed keys: Yes, and not optionally: Borg encrypts client-side with a key BorgBase never holds, so the provider cannot read a repository it stores. ([source](https://www.borgbase.com/), read 2026-09-15)

## Compared with

- [BorgBase vs rsync.net](https://inetgeek.com/compare/rsync-net-vs-borgbase/)
- [BorgBase vs AWS Backup](https://inetgeek.com/compare/aws-backup-vs-borgbase/)
- [BorgBase vs SimpleBackups](https://inetgeek.com/compare/borgbase-vs-simplebackups/)
- [BorgBase vs SnapShooter](https://inetgeek.com/compare/borgbase-vs-snapshooter/)