# Bluzelle Versus Filecoin

|                              | Filecoin                                                                                                                                                                         | Bluzelle                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| ---------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Replication & redundancy** | You pay to store on a host. If you want more reliability or backups, you have to pay to store on multiple hosts. You must pay for each and every host. No guarantee is provided. | On Bluzelle you pay once and get backups across all nodes for the same price. Simple and straightforward. Bluzelle provides the guarantee your file will always be there for you.                                       |
| **Decentralization**         | You select which miners to store on. This leads to centralization.                                                                                                               | On Bluzelle your data and files are randomly stored across multiple nodes ensuring decentralization.                                                                                                                    |
| **Retrieval speed**          | You pay to retrieve your data. Faster you want data, the more you pay. Pay very little and it comes to you very slowly.                                                          | On Bluzelle all data retrieval is blazing fast. This is because all your data and files are available across all nodes and the info gets to you from the fastest one. Bluzelle doubles as a high speed edge data cache. |
| **High volume downloads**    | High volume downloads are impractical due to limited replication and slow retrieval.                                                                                             | On Bluzelle high volume downloads are not only possible but extremely fast. This is because of auto replication across all nodes.                                                                                       |


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