The honest cost of backing up your Mac.
Put in your numbers. Get back monthly cost across every reasonable option — managed, BYOS, or the storage tier your Apple ID came with. The URL encodes your inputs, so you can share the result.
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What are you backing up?
Ballpark is fine. The sliders default to a small creative team — adjust until your setup is represented, and the math updates live.
- macup Cloud$25.85/moManaged. End-to-end encrypted. Object Lock. Flat per-device + included storage.
- Backblaze Personal$27.00/moUnlimited cloud backup for one Mac. No user-held key; one-Mac licence. Backblaze Personal is one licence per Mac; you'd need 3 licences.
- iCloud+$29.99/moStorage tier, not a backup product. Shown for comparison only. iCloud+ is a storage tier, not a backup product — shown for comparison only.
- macup BYOS — Wasabi$36.20/moYour bucket. End-to-end encrypted. Object Lock. No egress fees.
Cost is only part of the math.
Before you commit to the cheapest row, read what's actually in it. Some options here aren't backup products at all — they're storage lockers we include only because people ask.
| Feature | macup Cloud | BYOS Wasabi | BYOS B2 | Backblaze Personal | iCloud+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| End-to-end encryption (user-held key) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | Partial · End-to-end for some categories only |
| Object Lock (immutable snapshots) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | — |
| Content-defined deduplication | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | — |
| Multiple destinations per Mac | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | — |
| Egress included | ✓ | ✓ | $0.01/GB | ✓ | ✓ |
| Meant as a backup product (not a storage locker) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Multiple Macs on one licence | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 licence per Mac | Partial · One Apple ID, shared storage |
The URL is the document.
Your inputs are encoded in the query string. Copy the URL, send it to a colleague, they'll see exactly what you saw — and they can adjust and re-send. No account. No database. No link rot.
The calculator tells you the price. macup does the rest.
14-day trial. No card. No data leaves your Mac unencrypted.