Traditional cloud storage vendors use complicated and costly pricing models that charge by the amount of storage needed (per-gigabytes/terabytes) and may also charge for bandwidth usage, data seeding and recovery, and the number of devices being protected. In contrast, Symform protects unlimited data for a low, flat fee.
Annual Costs of Cloud Storage by Amount of Data Stored*:
| Vendor | 1 TB | 3 TB | 5 TB | 10 TB |
| Symform | $38.50 | $38.50 | $38.50 | $38.50 |
| Carbonite Pro | $1,044 | $2,824 | $4,604 | $9,054 |
| DropBox | $2,095 | $6,095 | $10,095 | $20,095 |
| MozyPro | $6,047 | $18,047 | $30,047 | $60,047 |
| Nirvanix | $6,180 | $18,540 | $30,900 | $61,800 |
*Symform does not charge per-gigabyte usage fees; therefore, the Symform estimate is based on our lowest yearly pricing of $38.50 for 1 user license. Estimates are based on pricing published by the vendors or third parties as of August 17, 2011. For the most accurate and current pricing, you should contact the vendors directly.
The Symform Pricing Guarantee**:
The Symform Cloud Storage Network allows us to offer the world’s safest storage at a price most cloud storage vendors can’t match. They all use a centralized datacenter platform, charging you more as your data grows. You know that their approach is broken when you can buy a two-terabyte disk drive today for less than $100, but backing up that same amount of data to MozyPro, for example, would cost a business over $12,000 per year. When these vendors cut costs, they commonly skimp on security, speed (reducing bandwidth for upload or recovery), redundancy, etc. Not Symform. We guarantee it.
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**The Symform Pricing Guarantee is offered to businesses only. Interested businesses must have at least two servers to back up, with a minimum total of one terabyte of data. The Guarantee is based on published and/or verifiable annual pricing. Guaranteed pricing will be honored for at least one year. To qualify for this pricing, customers must exchange cheap local storage equivalent to the more valuable storage space they use in the cloud. Customers who do not contribute may purchase cloud storage at $90 per TB per month, in addition to the standard Symform monthly licensing fees.
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