About us
We were paying more to read our data than to keep it
Basalt started as an internal storage layer for a genomics group whose egress bill exceeded its storage bill four months running.
Origin
Egress was always a margin, not a cost
We priced out transit, peering, optics and the people to run it. At any serious scale, moving a gigabyte costs a fraction of a cent. Charging seven to nine cents for it is a choice — one that quietly makes your data expensive to leave with. We decided not to make it.
- Free egress since the first bucket, with a published fair-use rule
- Erasure coded across three named facilities per region
- Monthly restore drills on real customer objects, reported to customers
An internal store for one lab
40 TB and a very tired NAS.
Erasure coding across three buildings
Site loss stops being an event.
Public beta with free egress
The pricing model that got attention.
Object lock and compliance mode
First regulated customers.
1.5 exabytes stored
Eight regions, still free egress.
How we work
Boring on purpose
We would rather run software that is three years old and understood than something new that pages us at 04:00.
Own the path
We buy transit from multiple carriers and peer directly wherever it is possible, so a single bad hop is never a single point of failure.
Write it down
Every incident gets a public write-up. Every design decision gets an RFC. Institutional memory beats heroics.
Some of the people behind it
A quarter of the company has been here since the first rack.
We are hiring
Remote-first across EU time zones, with a small office network for people who prefer one.