Blackmagic Cloud is two products with two separate bills, and most confusion about the price comes from treating it as one. A Cloud Project Library is $5 per month. Cloud Media Storage is $15 per terabyte per month. You can pay for one without the other, and for a lot of teams the $5 line is the only one worth paying.
The two charges
Cloud Project Library — $5/month, per library. This is the Resolve project database in the cloud: bins, timelines, colour, the project itself. Only the person who hosts the library pays. Collaborators join for free. Five editors on one library costs $5 a month total, not $25.
Cloud Media Storage — $15/TB/month. This is the actual footage. It is usage-based, so 400 GB costs less than a terabyte, and it is where the bill grows.
The distinction matters because the collaboration feature everyone wants — multiple editors live on one Resolve project — is the $5 part. The $15/TB part is optional if your media already lives somewhere your team can reach.
What a real project costs
Take a two-camera documentary: 3 TB of ProRes 422 HQ, three editors, six months.
| Line | Monthly | Six months |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud Project Library ×1 | $5 | $30 |
| Cloud Media Storage, 3 TB | $45 | $270 |
| Total | $50 | $300 |
Now the same project with media on a NAS the team already owns, using Blackmagic Cloud only for the project database:
| Line | Monthly | Six months |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud Project Library ×1 | $5 | $30 |
| Total | $5 | $30 |
Same collaboration. One tenth the cost. Whether that works depends entirely on whether your editors can reach the media another way — which is the real question, not the price.
The price cut people still quote wrong
Blackmagic halved Cloud Media Storage in November 2024, from $30/TB/month to $15/TB/month. The company attributed it to data-centre backend improvements.
You will still find posts and forum threads quoting $30. If a comparison you are reading uses $30/TB, it predates the cut and every number downstream of it is double what you would actually pay.
Prices verified 2026-08-09. Blackmagic has changed them before and will again — check before you budget.
Where it sits against the alternatives
$15/TB/month is not cheap against raw object storage, and it is not meant to be. Backblaze B2 and Wasabi are a fraction of it. What you are paying for is that Resolve talks to it natively: no sync client, no mapped drive, no relinking ritual when someone else opens the project.
If you want the cheapest bytes, this is the wrong product. If you want three editors in one Resolve project without building the plumbing yourself, $5 a month for the library is one of the better deals in post.
The part nobody budgets for
Cloud media is billed on what you store, and what you store is almost always more than what you need. Every version of a graded export, every duplicate transcode, every dailies pass that nobody deleted — all of it bills at $15/TB/month, every month, forever.
A 3 TB project where 1 TB is genuinely unused costs $180 a year to keep footage nobody will open again. Cloud storage is the one place where cleaning up before you upload has a direct, recurring, measurable payback.
Before you migrate a project to Blackmagic Cloud, find out how much of it is actually referenced by a timeline. Clip Sweeper does that across every project on a drive, and the difference between "3 TB" and "the 2 TB you actually use" is $180 a year on this one line item.
Related: Blackmagic Cloud for Resolve: What $15/TB Actually Gets You goes deeper on the collaboration features themselves.