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Alternatives to Paragon Backup & Recovery
23 backup tools sit alongside Paragon Backup & Recovery in this directory. Below is what separates each from Paragon Backup & Recovery on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 23
- With a free tier
- 12
- Cheaper to start
- 7
- Paragon Backup & Recovery starts at
- $50/year
Why people look past Paragon Backup & Recovery
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Paragon Backup & Recovery entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
It costs more than the category median
Paragon Backup & Recovery starts at $50/year. Across the 9 backup tools listed beside it that publish a price, the median entry point is $19/month.
There is no free tier
The record for Paragon Backup & Recovery carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 12 of the 23 alternatives below can be used without paying.
There is only one tier
Paragon Backup & Recovery publishes a single plan, Community Edition at $50/year. There is no smaller tier to drop to if the fit is wrong or the budget moves.
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.
Automated cloud-to-cloud backup
- Starts $21 a month cheaper, at $29/month.
- 2 tiers to Paragon Backup & Recovery's 1.
Integrated backup and cybersecurity protection
- Starts $18 a year dearer, at $68/year.
- 3 tiers to Paragon Backup & Recovery's 1.
SaaS backup for Google Workspace and Microsoft 365
- Starts $46 a month cheaper, at $4/month.
Enterprise SaaS backup made simple
- Can be used without paying; Paragon Backup & Recovery cannot.
- Starts $47 a month cheaper, at $3/month.
Kubernetes application backup with a free tier up to one terabyte
- Can be used without paying; Paragon Backup & Recovery cannot.
- Starts $49.8 a node hour cheaper, at $0.2/node hour.
- Sold on a Per node hour model rather than subscription.
- 2 tiers to Paragon Backup & Recovery's 1.
Open source backup and migration for Kubernetes cluster resources
- Can be used without paying; Paragon Backup & Recovery cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than subscription.
Every Paragon Backup & Recovery 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 Paragon Backup & Recovery badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (12)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- CloudAlly , Free, then $3/month
- Portworx Backup , Free, then $0.2/node hour
- Velero , Free
- Trilio , Free
- Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes , Free
- CloudCasa , Free, then $69/month
- rustic , Free
- UrBackup , Free
Cheaper than Paragon Backup & Recovery (7)
Entry price under Paragon Backup & Recovery's $50/year. The record does not say what unit that price is charged in, so confirm per-seat versus flat rate before comparing budgets.
- Backupify , $29/month
- Spanning Backup , $4/month
- CloudAlly , Free, then $3/month
- Portworx Backup , Free, then $0.2/node hour
- AOMEI Backupper , Free, then $39.95/one-time
- Clumio , $0.01/month
- Comet Backup , $19/month
What you would be giving up
Paragon Backup & Recovery is most often brought in for full disk and partition backup on windows, bare metal recovery from an image, scheduled incremental backups for a home machine, migrating an installation to a new drive on the paid editions. 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 Paragon Backup & Recovery is broadly right and the question is cost, the Paragon Backup & Recovery pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Backup category lists everything the directory holds, and best backup tools ranks them.
Paragon Backup & Recovery runs on windows. 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 Paragon Backup & Recovery alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Paragon Backup & Recovery?
- 23 other backup tools are listed in this directory, led by Backupify, Acronis Cyber Protect, Spanning Backup, CloudAlly. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Paragon Backup & Recovery?
- 12 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: CloudAlly, Portworx Backup, Velero, Trilio, Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to Paragon Backup & Recovery?
- Yes. 7 of the alternatives below start under Paragon Backup & Recovery's $50/year: Backupify at $29/month, Spanning Backup at $4/month, CloudAlly at Free, then $3/month, Portworx Backup at Free, then $0.2/node hour.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Paragon Backup & Recovery?
- On the figures on record, 3 things stand out: it costs more than the category median; there is no free tier; there is only one tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Paragon Backup & Recovery?
- Paragon Backup & Recovery is most often brought in for full disk and partition backup on windows, bare metal recovery from an image, scheduled incremental backups for a home machine, migrating an installation to a new drive on the paid editions. 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 Paragon Backup & Recovery?
- Bacula is recorded with an open-source licence model.
- How were these Paragon Backup & Recovery alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Backup, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Paragon Backup & Recovery against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Paragon Backup & Recovery 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 tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Backup category, 23 tools beside Paragon Backup & Recovery. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.