Breazzy vs Amazon Photos: Android Photo Backup Without Prime
If you already pay $14.99/month for Amazon Prime, Amazon Photos gives you unlimited photo storage at original quality for $0 incremental cost — hard to beat on pure price. Breazzy is the better choice if you do not have Prime, want to own your files, or do not want your photo library tied to your shopping account.
Side-by-side
| Breazzy | Amazon Photos (Prime) | Amazon Photos (standalone) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | ~$0.60 / 100 GB (B2) | $0 if already paying Prime ($14.99/mo) | $1.99 / 100 GB |
| Photo storage | Pay-as-you-go, unlimited tier-up | Unlimited at original quality | 100 GB capped |
| Video storage | Unlimited, same as photos | 5 GB cap; uses storage tier after | Counts against quota |
| Where photos live | Your bucket | Amazon's servers | Amazon's servers |
| Original quality | Always | Always | Always |
| Tied to account | None | Amazon shopping account | Amazon shopping account |
| If you cancel | Files stay in your bucket | Library converts to standalone tier; over 100 GB starts deleting after 180 days | Over 100 GB starts deleting after 180 days |
Prices verified May 2026.
Where Amazon Photos is better
- It is effectively free with Prime. If you already pay for Prime for shipping or Prime Video, the photo storage is incremental zero cost. Nothing in this space competes with that.
- Unlimited photos at original quality. No tier-watching. Take 50,000 photos a year, nothing changes.
- Family Vault. Up to five additional family members can store unlimited photos in your shared vault.
- Built-in viewer and search. Web, iOS, Android, Fire TV, Echo Show. Breazzy is backup-only.
Where Breazzy is better
- No Prime dependency. Your photo backup should not break because you cancelled a shopping subscription.
- No "over 100 GB starts deleting after 180 days" cliff. If you drop Prime, Amazon will start removing the photos that exceed the standalone tier. Breazzy + B2 has no such mechanism — you pay your provider, your files stay.
- Videos are first-class. Amazon Photos caps videos at 5 GB on Prime; Breazzy treats videos the same as photos.
- Your library is not part of an ad/recommendation profile. Amazon's privacy stance on Photos is reasonable, but the data lives next to a profile that powers product recommendations. Breazzy has no such adjacency because it has no servers.
- Portability. Photos in a B2/R2/S3 bucket move to any other provider with one rclone command. Photos in Amazon Photos require their export tool.
Who should pick which?
Pick Amazon Photos if you are a Prime subscriber for other reasons, the unlimited-photos tier covers you indefinitely, you do not mind your library being tied to your shopping account, and your videos fit in 5 GB or you do not care about videos.
Pick Breazzy if you do not have Prime, you have a lot of videos, you want to own your files in a standard S3 bucket, or you simply do not want your photo backup to depend on a shopping company's roadmap. At 1 TB of mixed photos+videos, Breazzy + B2 costs $6/month — less than half what Amazon Photos charges its non-Prime customers for far less storage.