Backup · ranked shortlist
Best Backup software for Enterprise in 2026
20 approved backup listings, ordered by published rating with the method stated below rather than assumed. Enterprise buyers rarely pay a published price. The listings here with an unpriced tier are the ones with a sales motion, and those are the ones that will quote.
- Tools ranked
- 20
- Entry price range
- $0.01-$69
- Publish a $0 plan
- 11 of 20
How this ranking is derived
The sort key
Published rating, highest first. Ties break on the number of ratings behind the score, then on product name so the order never depends on what the API happened to return first. That is the whole rule, there is no weighting, no score of our own, and nothing paid: no sponsored slot runs on these pages.
Where the ratings come from
No listing in this set carries a rating, so the order falls back to name. Those scores are aggregated from public sources rather than collected here, Softwr hosts no reviews of its own, which is also why no rating on this page is marked up as ours in structured data.
What the pool is
Approved backup listings, capped at 20 per page; 20 came back for this one. It is not the whole market, and a tool being absent means we hold no record of it rather than that it failed a test. The unranked full set is on the backup category page.
The ranking
Each entry lists why it sits where it sits, drawn from its own published rating and pricing.
- #1
AOMEI Backupper
Highest rated hereComplete backup and restore solution for Windows
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $39.95 a month.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $49.95.
- Billing
- one-time
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- windows-backup, sync, clone, bootable-media
- #2
AvePoint Cloud Backup
Microsoft 365, Dynamics and Salesforce backup from a long-standing Microsoft partner
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- quote
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- microsoft-365, saas-backup, salesforce-backup, Entra Id
- #3
Backupify
Automated cloud-to-cloud backup
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $29 a month, with no free plan.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- Model not published
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- saas-backup, cloud-to-cloud, automated, compliance
- #4
Bacula
The best open source backup software for Linux
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Billing
- open-source
- #5
BDRShield
Low-cost backup for virtual machines, servers, endpoints and SaaS from Vembu
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- quote
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- backup, Virtual Machine Backup, msp, Proxmox
- #6
CloudCasa
SaaS Kubernetes backup and migration with published per-node pricing
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $69 a month.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- Per node per month
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- Kubernetes Backup, SaaS, disaster-recovery, Velero
- #7
Clumio
Serverless AWS backup with published per-gigabyte rates and explicit restore charges
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $0.01 a month, with no free plan.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $0.03 plus a tier sold by quote.
- Billing
- Per GiB-month protected
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- Aws Backup, cloud-backup, Immutable Backup, S3
- #8
Comet Backup
White-label backup software for service providers
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $19 a month, with no free plan.
- 4 published tiers, topping out at $99.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 4 tiers
- Tags
- white-label, msp, byos, fast
- #9
Commvault Complete Data Protection
Enterprise-grade intelligent data management
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $1.70 a month, with no free plan.
- 4 published tiers, topping out at $90.
- Billing
- Model not published
- Published tiers
- 4 tiers
- Tags
- Enterprise, data-management, cloud-backup, compliance
- #10
Datto Backup
Business continuity without compromise
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Billing
- subscription
- #11
HYCU
Backup as a service spanning SaaS applications as well as infrastructure
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- quote
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- backup, saas-backup, Nutanix, disaster-recovery
- #12
Kopia
Open source deduplicating backup with client side encryption and a repository on almost any storage
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Billing
- Open source, no licence fee
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- backup, deduplication, encryption, Object Storage
- #13
Portworx Backup
Kubernetes application backup with a free tier up to one terabyte
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $0.20 a month.
- Billing
- Per node hour
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- kubernetes, backup, disaster-recovery, containers
- #14
Proxmox Backup Server
Deduplicating backup server for virtual machines, containers and Linux hosts, with verification built in
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- Open source, no licence fee
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- backup, deduplication, Virtualisation, Self-Hosted
- #15
Redstor
Cloud backup for managed service providers with instant streamed recovery
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- quote
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- cloud-backup, msp, Microsoft 365 Backup, disaster-recovery
- #16
rustic
Rust reimplementation of restic that reads and writes the same repository format
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Billing
- Open source, no licence fee
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- backup, deduplication, Restic Compatible, rust
- #17
Trilio
Backup and recovery for OpenStack, Kubernetes and Red Hat Virtualization
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- Per node per year
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- Openstack, kubernetes, backup, disaster-recovery
- #18
UrBackup
Open source client server backup doing both file and whole disk image backups of Windows machines
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Billing
- Open source, no licence fee
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- backup, Image Backup, Client Server, Open Source
- #19
Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes
Kubernetes-native backup, disaster recovery and application mobility
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- Per worker node
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- Kubernetes Backup, disaster-recovery, Application Mobility, Container Backup
- #20
Velero
Open source backup and migration for Kubernetes cluster resources
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Billing
- Open source, no licence fee
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- kubernetes, backup, Open Source, disaster-recovery
What backup software costs
Counted from the published pricing of the 20 listings on this page. A tool counts as free only where it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence or a starting price of zero.
- Cheapest paid plan
- $0.01Clumio
- Median entry price
- $19across 7 priced
- Dearest entry price
- $69CloudCasa
- Publish a $0 plan
- 11of 20
Paid backup plans in this set start anywhere from $0.01 a month for Clumio to $69 for CloudCasa. The median entry price across the 7 tools that publish one is $19, half of them start below that figure and half above it.
Entry price is not the ceiling. The dearest published tier anywhere in this category is Comet Backup's at $99 a month. Read the top of each ladder as well as the bottom, because that is where you land after two years of growth.
11 of 20 publish a $0 plan, and 8 of those charge nothing at all. 4 tools have no free tier of any kind.
10 of 20 keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote, which in practice means the number you end up paying at the top end is not on this page or on theirs.
How these vendors bill
The billing model each of the 20 backup listings publishes, counted. Two tools at the same headline price are not the same purchase if one of them charges per seat.
- Open source, no licence fee
- 5
- quote
- 4
- subscription
- 2
- one-time
- 1
- open-source
- 1
- Per GiB-month protected
- 1
- Per node hour
- 1
- Per node per month
- 1
- Per node per year
- 1
- Per worker node
- 1
Separately, 10 of 20 publish at least one tier with no price attached. Those are sold by quote, so the top of the ladder is negotiable, and unknowable, until you talk to sales.
What comes as standard, and what you pay extra for
Every capability named in a published pricing tier by any of the 17 backup tools here that break their plans down, counted once per vendor. This measures what vendors choose to advertise as a selling point, not everything the software does, an absence below is silence, not a missing feature.
Named most often
- Community support , 2 of 17
- Community support only , 2 of 17
- Free trial available , 2 of 17
- Full functionality, no data limit , 2 of 17
- No published rate card , 2 of 17
Named by fewer
Nothing else is named by more than one vendor, beyond the list on the left, no two of these tools describe their tiers the same way.
Named by exactly one vendor: Advanced backup policies, Community forum support, Desktop application included, Granular restore capabilities, No feature restrictions, Storage backup. Those are differentiators rather than table stakes.
What “Backup” covers in practice
The subject tags that recur across these 20 listings, with the number of tools carrying each. A category label is a filing decision; this is the closer read of what is actually filed under it.
- backup9
- disaster-recovery8
- cloud-backup3
- deduplication3
- kubernetes3
- msp3
- saas-backup3
- compliance2
- Data Protection2
- Kubernetes Backup2
- Open Source2
Carried by a single tool: Application Mobility, Client Server, Container Backup, Enterprise, Microsoft 365 Backup, Openstack, rust, sync. If one of those is the reason you are here, the category page is the wrong lens, go straight to that product.
How to choose between them
Four things the numbers above should change about your shortlist.
Start with the free tiers if there are enough of them
11 of 20 backup tools here publish a $0 plan, which is enough to run a real trial without a purchase order. A free tier is worth more than a free trial when you are evaluating: a trial expires on the vendor's schedule, a free plan expires when you outgrow it. The thing to check before you commit is which of the capabilities below sit above the free line, starting with community support, the single most frequently named capability in this category's published tiers.
Read the spread before you read the features
$0.01 to $69 is a $68.99 spread on entry price alone, and a spread that wide is never about polish, it is about who the vendor built for. Tools at the bottom of this ladder are priced for one person or a small team; tools near $69 are priced for a department with a procurement process. Decide which of those you are before you compare capability, or you will shortlist four tools that were never competing for the same buyer.
Check which tier you actually land on
5 of 20 tools here publish three or more tiers, and the median vendor in this category ships 2 of them. The advertised price is the first rung, and the things teams tend to need, community support, community support only, free trial available, are named in higher plans far more often than in entry ones. Price your shortlist at the tier that contains what you need, not at the tier on the pricing page's left edge.
The billing model matters more than the headline number
This category splits across 10 billing models: Open source, no licence fee on 5 listings, quote on 4, and 8 other arrangements across the rest. A per-user price and a flat subscription at the same headline figure are not the same purchase, the first one grows with headcount and the second does not. Multiply by your real team size before you compare two numbers side by side.
Compare backup tools directly
Every pairing below is a full comparison: the same checklist applied to both, so a gap in one is a gap in the other.
- AOMEI Backupper vs AvePoint Cloud Backup
- AvePoint Cloud Backup vs Backupify
- Backupify vs Bacula
- Bacula vs BDRShield
- BDRShield vs CloudCasa
- CloudCasa vs Clumio
- Clumio vs Comet Backup
- Comet Backup vs Commvault Complete Data Protection
Go straight to the numbers
- AOMEI Backupperpricingalternatives
- AvePoint Cloud Backuppricingalternatives
- Backupifypricingalternatives
- Baculapricingalternatives
- BDRShieldpricingalternatives
- CloudCasapricingalternatives
Questions people ask about backup software
Answered from the listings on this page, and nowhere else.
- How is this backup ranking decided?
- Mechanically. The 20 approved backup listings on this page are sorted by their published rating, highest first, with the number of ratings behind each score as the tie-break and the product name as a final tie-break so the order is stable. Those ratings are aggregated from public sources, not collected from Softwr readers, this site hosts no reviews, so the order is a summary of what is already published elsewhere, not a verdict of our own. Nothing on this page is paid placement.
- Is this list re-ordered for enterprise?
- No, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. The catalogue records no data about which team sizes or roles each tool suits, so the ranking is the same published-rating order as the unsegmented list. What the enterprise framing changes is which of the figures below matter most. Enterprise buyers rarely pay a published price. The listings here with an unpriced tier are the ones with a sales motion, and those are the ones that will quote.
- How much does backup software cost?
- Across the 20 backup tools listed here, paid plans start between $0.01 and $69 a month, with a median entry price of $19. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $99 a month (Comet Backup). 11 of 20 also publish a $0 plan.
- What is the cheapest backup software?
- 8 of the 20 tools listed here cost nothing at all. Among the ones that charge, Clumio has the lowest published entry price at $0.01 a month. Cheapest and best value are different questions: check which tier the capability you need actually appears in before you compare starting prices.
- Is there free backup software?
- Yes, 11 of 20 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. 8 of them are free outright, with no paid tier above. A tool is only counted as free here when it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence, or a starting price of zero, a free trial does not count.
- What features should backup software have?
- Judging by what vendors put in their own published pricing tiers, the most frequently named capabilities in this category are community support (2 of 17 tools that publish plan detail), community support only (2) and free trial available (2). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as advanced backup policies or community forum support, is a differentiator rather than a standard, so it is worth deciding whether you need it before it narrows your shortlist to one.
- How is backup software usually billed?
- Open source, no licence fee (5), quote (4), subscription (2), one-time (1), plus 6 less common arrangements, counted across the 20 listings on this page. The distinction that costs money is per-seat versus flat: a per-user plan at the same headline price scales with your headcount and a flat subscription does not. 10 of 20 tools also keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote.
- What does backup software actually cover?
- The 20 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are backup (9), disaster-recovery (8), cloud-backup (3), deduplication (3), kubernetes (3). That spread is the honest answer to what the category means in practice: it is not one product shape, and two tools filed under backup may overlap on very little.
- How many pricing tiers do backup tools offer?
- 18 of 20 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 2 tiers. 5 of 20 publish three or more. More tiers is not generosity, it usually means the capability you are buying for sits two rungs above the advertised price, so price your shortlist at the tier that contains it.
- How many backup tools are listed on Softwr?
- 20 approved backup listings appear on this page, including AOMEI Backupper, AvePoint Cloud Backup, Backupify, Bacula. Each links to a full breakdown with its pricing tiers and plan detail, and the category can be filtered by price and sorted by rating above. You can also read the shortlist view at /best/backup, which ranks the same set by published rating.
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Neighbouring categories
Adjacent in the same taxonomy, not a ranking.