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Alternatives to Trilio
20 backup tools sit alongside Trilio in this directory. Below is what separates each from Trilio on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 20
- With a free tier
- 11
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Trilio starts at
- Free
Why people look past Trilio
Nothing on the record flags a reason to move. Trilio has a free tier. People still switch over fit and workflow, and those are not things a catalogue entry can measure, which is what the comparisons below are for.
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
- Publishes an entry price of $250/year, where Trilio does not.
Open source backup and migration for Kubernetes cluster resources
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than Per node per year.
- 1 tier to Trilio's 2.
Enterprise-grade intelligent data management
- No free tier, where Trilio has one.
- 4 tiers to Trilio's 2.
Kubernetes application backup with a free tier up to one terabyte
- Publishes an entry price of $0.2/node hour, where Trilio does not.
- Sold on a Per node hour model rather than Per node per year.
Kubernetes-native backup, disaster recovery and application mobility
- Sold on a Per worker node model rather than Per node per year.
SaaS Kubernetes backup and migration with published per-node pricing
- Publishes an entry price of $69/month, where Trilio does not.
- Sold on a Per node per month model rather than Per node per year.
- 3 tiers to Trilio's 2.
Every Trilio alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trilio (this page) | Free | Per node per year | 2 | |
| Veeam Backup & ReplicationVeeam Backup & Replication for a mixed estate where VMware and physical servers dominate | Free, then $250/year | - | - | vs Trilio |
| VeleroVelero if the requirement is Kubernetes only and community support is acceptable | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Trilio |
| Commvault Complete Data ProtectionCommvault where one vendor across every platform matters more than depth on OpenStack | On request | - | 4 | vs Trilio |
| Portworx Backup | Free, then $0.2/node hour | Per node hour | 2 | vs Trilio |
| Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes | Free | Per worker node | 2 | vs Trilio |
| CloudCasa | Free, then $69/month | Per node per month | 3 | vs Trilio |
| rustic | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Trilio |
| UrBackup | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Trilio |
| Proxmox Backup Server | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | vs Trilio |
| Kopia | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Trilio |
| AOMEI Backupper | Free, then $39.95/one-time | One-time | 3 | vs Trilio |
| Bacula | Free | Open-source | - | vs Trilio |
| Redstor | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Trilio |
| Clumio | $0.01/month | Per GiB-month protected | 3 | vs Trilio |
| AvePoint Cloud Backup | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Trilio |
| HYCU | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Trilio |
| BDRShield | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Trilio |
| Comet Backup | $19/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Trilio |
| Backupify | $29/month | - | 2 | vs Trilio |
| Datto Backup | On request | Subscription | - | vs Trilio |
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 Trilio badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (11)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- Veeam Backup & Replication , Free, then $250/year
- Velero , Free
- Portworx Backup , Free, then $0.2/node hour
- Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes , Free
- CloudCasa , Free, then $69/month
- rustic , Free
- UrBackup , Free
- Proxmox Backup Server , Free
What you would be giving up
Trilio is most often brought in for a telco running an openstack cloud whose incumbent backup vendor supports it only through generic agents, an organisation migrating virtual machines from vmware to openshift virtualization and needing protection on the new platform from day one, a research institution protecting tenant workloads where each tenant should restore its own data without a ticket, a platform team wanting to evaluate kubernetes backup properly on ten nodes before committing budget. 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 Trilio is broadly right and the question is cost, the Trilio 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.
Trilio runs on linux, web. 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 Trilio alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Trilio?
- 20 other backup tools are listed in this directory, led by Veeam Backup & Replication, Velero, Commvault Complete Data Protection, Portworx Backup. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Trilio?
- 11 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Veeam Backup & Replication, Velero, Portworx Backup, Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes, CloudCasa.
- Is there a reason to switch away from Trilio?
- Nothing in the data flags one. Trilio has a free tier. Fit and workflow are the usual reasons to move, and those are not things this record can measure.
- What would I give up by switching from Trilio?
- Trilio is most often brought in for a telco running an openstack cloud whose incumbent backup vendor supports it only through generic agents, an organisation migrating virtual machines from vmware to openshift virtualization and needing protection on the new platform from day one, a research institution protecting tenant workloads where each tenant should restore its own data without a ticket, a platform team wanting to evaluate kubernetes backup properly on ten nodes before committing budget. 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 Trilio?
- Bacula is recorded with an open-source licence model.
- How were these Trilio 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 Trilio against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Trilio 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, 20 tools beside Trilio. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.