The Best Storage for GoPro and Action-Cam Footage in 2026
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GoPro Cloud works well while you shoot, but its unlimited tier only holds GoPro footage, and only while you keep paying. Once you have a real archive, several terabytes of HERO and action-cam video you want to keep for years, it needs a cheaper permanent home that you own.
For most people that home is Backblaze B2, at $6.95/TB/month with free egress up to 3x what you store. If you download often, Wasabi charges no egress at all under its fair-use rules. Cloudflare R2's zero egress suits footage you serve publicly, and a local NAS costs the least over many years if you are willing to maintain it.
| Option | Price | Egress | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backblaze B2 | $6.95/TB/mo (about $83/yr per TB) | Free up to 3x stored, then $0.01/GB | The best default for most archives |
| Wasabi | $7.99/TB/mo (since July 1, 2026) | Free under fair-use rules (no egress or API fees) | Frequent downloads, predictable bills |
| Cloudflare R2 | $15/TB/mo (about $180/yr per TB) | Free (zero egress) | Serving or streaming footage publicly |
| Local drive or NAS | One-time hardware cost | Free | Largest archives, lowest long-run cost |
| GoPro Cloud (baseline) | $59.99/yr, unlimited GoPro footage | Bulk download is hard | Capturing and editing, not archiving |
These are 2026 prices and they change, so confirm them before you move a large library.
At $6.95 per TB per month, B2 costs roughly a quarter of Amazon S3 for storage, and egress is free up to three times the amount you store each month. A footage archive is uploaded once and read now and then, which is the pattern B2 prices for, so the free allowance usually covers normal retrieval and the bill is mostly storage. For 5 TB that comes to about $35/month, or roughly $417/year. B2 is S3-compatible, so standard tools work with it.
Wasabi charges one flat rate for capacity, with no egress or API request fees under its fair-use rules. The rate is $7.99/TB/month, up from $6.99 on July 1, 2026. Wasabi has a 1 TB minimum and a 90-day minimum storage duration per object: delete footage early and you still pay for the rest of the 90 days. It fits archives you keep, especially if you pull footage back often and don't want to track an egress allowance.
R2 costs more to store ($15/TB/month) and charges nothing for egress, the opposite balance from B2. That pays off when you publish or stream footage to viewers, where egress on other providers would dominate the bill. For a private cold archive you rarely read, B2 or Wasabi costs less.
A hard drive or a NAS (Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS) is a one-time purchase. An 8 TB drive costs well under a single year of cloud storage at that size, and a NAS adds redundancy across multiple drives. Measured over five or ten years, it is the cheapest home for the largest archives.
A single local copy is still not a backup. Drives fail, and a fire or theft takes everything, so use the NAS as one of the copies in the setup below. There is a full walkthrough in back up cloud storage directly to your NAS.
Action-cam footage can't be shot again. The standard rule for irreplaceable data is 3-2-1: three copies, on two kinds of media, with one offsite. For GoPro footage it can look like this:
- A working copy in GoPro Cloud or on your editing machine while a project is active.
- A local archive on a NAS or external drive you own.
- An offsite copy in Backblaze B2 or Wasabi.
That gives you cheap bulk storage, a fast local copy and an offsite copy that survives a disaster, for far less than paying for a 2 TB consumer plan forever.
Whichever destination you pick, Blober moves the footage into it. It is a desktop app, and the only app that connects to GoPro Cloud, so you can:
- Pull your entire GoPro Cloud library out, without the 25-file zip limit, and copy it to B2, Wasabi, R2 or a NAS.
- Copy footage to two destinations to build the 3-2-1 setup.
- Sort files on the way in with a path template such as
/{file_created_date}/{filename}, so a flat cloud dump lands as one folder per capture day.
Connect GoPro Cloud as the source, pick your storage as the destination and run. If the connection drops, the transfer resumes.
What is the cheapest cloud storage for GoPro videos? For a private archive, Backblaze B2 ($6.95/TB/month) and Wasabi ($7.99/TB/month) are the cheapest credible options, both far below Amazon S3 or consumer plans. A local NAS costs less again over several years if you maintain it.
Is GoPro Cloud good for long-term storage? It suits capturing and editing better than archiving. It only stores GoPro footage cheaply, you lose access if you cancel, and there is no bulk export, so keep the long-term copy somewhere else.
How do I move footage from GoPro Cloud to Backblaze B2 or Wasabi? Use Blober. It connects to GoPro Cloud and copies your library to B2, Wasabi or any other supported destination without manual batches.
Backblaze B2 or Wasabi, which is better for GoPro footage? B2 if you mostly store and rarely download, because of its free 3x egress allowance. Wasabi if you download often and want no egress fees, as long as its 1 TB minimum and 90-day retention suit you.