[toredash]

Sorry I don't get it. With B2 I have to pay if I want to say download 100GB of data in B2. From what I read, you say this isn't so. But the pricing page state otherwise

[DisposableMike]

B2 has 2 charges: $/GB to store the data, and $/GB to download it (uploading to both is free)

Glacier has 3 charges: $/GB to store the data, $/GB to retrieve the data from "cold" storage, and $/GB to download it.

Retrieval !== downloading ("transfer"). Retrieval is an additional cost to downloading ("transfer").