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Alternatives to Acronis Cyber Protect
21 backup & disaster recovery tools sit alongside Acronis Cyber Protect in this directory. Below is what separates each from Acronis Cyber Protect on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 21
- With a free tier
- 8
- Cheaper to start
- 10
- Acronis Cyber Protect starts at
- $68/year
Why people look past Acronis Cyber Protect
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Acronis Cyber Protect entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
It costs more than the category median
Acronis Cyber Protect starts at $68/year. Across the 13 backup & disaster recovery tools listed beside it that publish a price, the median entry point is $49/month.
There is no free tier
The record for Acronis Cyber Protect carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 8 of the 21 alternatives below can be used without paying.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Modern data protection for enterprise workloads
- Can be used without paying; Acronis Cyber Protect cannot.
- Starts $182 a year dearer, at $250/year.
Continuous data protection with near-zero RPO
- Starts $63 a month cheaper, at $5/month.
- 1 tier to Acronis Cyber Protect's 3.
Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption
- Can be used without paying; Acronis Cyber Protect cannot.
- Starts $68 a month cheaper, at Free.
- 1 tier to Acronis Cyber Protect's 3.
Built-in backup for every Mac
- Can be used without paying; Acronis Cyber Protect cannot.
- Starts $68 a month cheaper, at Free.
- 1 tier to Acronis Cyber Protect's 3.
Enterprise SaaS backup made simple
- Can be used without paying; Acronis Cyber Protect cannot.
- Starts $65 a month cheaper, at $3/month.
- 1 tier to Acronis Cyber Protect's 3.
The best open source backup software for Linux
- Can be used without paying; Acronis Cyber Protect cannot.
Every Acronis Cyber Protect alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Acronis Cyber Protect badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (8)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- Veeam Backup & Replication , Free, then $250/year
- Borg Backup , Free
- Apple Time Machine , Free
- CloudAlly , Free, then $3/month
- Bacula , Free
- Clonezilla , Free
- AOMEI Backupper , Free, then $40/year
- Amanda Enterprise , Free, then $30/month
Cheaper than Acronis Cyber Protect (10)
Entry price under Acronis Cyber Protect's $68/year. The record does not say what unit that price is charged in, so confirm per-seat versus flat rate before comparing budgets.
- Zerto , $5/month
- Borg Backup , Free
- Apple Time Machine , Free
- CloudAlly , Free, then $3/month
- Clonezilla , Free
- AOMEI Backupper , Free, then $40/year
- Amanda Enterprise , Free, then $30/month
- Arcserve UDP , $25/month
What you would be giving up
Acronis Cyber Protect is most often brought in for data protection, disaster recovery, business continuity, ransomware protection, compliance. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Acronis Cyber Protect is broadly right and the question is cost, the Acronis Cyber Protect pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Backup & Disaster Recovery category lists everything the directory holds, and best backup & disaster recovery tools ranks them.
Acronis Cyber Protect runs on windows, mac, linux, cloud, on-premises. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Acronis Cyber Protect alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Acronis Cyber Protect?
- 21 other backup & disaster recovery tools are listed in this directory, led by Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Borg Backup, Apple Time Machine. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Acronis Cyber Protect?
- 8 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Veeam Backup & Replication, Borg Backup, Apple Time Machine, CloudAlly, Bacula.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to Acronis Cyber Protect?
- Yes. 10 of the alternatives below start under Acronis Cyber Protect's $68/year: Zerto at $5/month, Borg Backup at Free, Apple Time Machine at Free, CloudAlly at Free, then $3/month.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Acronis Cyber Protect?
- On the figures on record, 2 things stand out: it costs more than the category median; there is no free tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Acronis Cyber Protect?
- Acronis Cyber Protect is most often brought in for data protection, disaster recovery, business continuity, ransomware protection, compliance. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Acronis Cyber Protect?
- Bacula is recorded with an open-source licence model.
- How were these Acronis Cyber Protect alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Backup & Disaster Recovery, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored slot runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Acronis Cyber Protect against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Acronis Cyber Protect covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every backup & disaster recovery tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Backup & Disaster Recovery category, 21 tools beside Acronis Cyber Protect. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.