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The best Backup software
Backup & Disaster Recovery software and applications
- Tools listed
- 50
All 50 backup tools
Every listing shows its published starting price on the same footing, so a shortlist does not take ten tabs.
What backup software costs
Counted from the published pricing of the 50 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
- $39.98across 30 priced
- Dearest entry price
- $5,000HPE StoreOnce
- Publish a $0 plan
- 16of 50
Paid backup plans in this set start anywhere from $0.01 a month for Clumio to $5,000 for HPE StoreOnce. The median entry price across the 30 tools that publish one is $39.98, half of them start below that figure and half above it.
16 of 50 publish a $0 plan, and 13 of those charge nothing at all. 27 tools have no free tier of any kind.
10 of 50 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 50 backup listings publishes, counted. Two tools at the same headline price are not the same purchase if one of them charges per seat.
- subscription
- 14
- free
- 5
- Open source, no licence fee
- 5
- quote
- 5
- freemium
- 3
- one-time
- 2
- 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 50 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 38 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
- Daily backup , 3 of 38
- Instant recovery , 3 of 38
- Cloud backup , 2 of 38
- Community support , 2 of 38
- Community support only , 2 of 38
Named by fewer
- Deduplication , 2 of 38
- Encryption , 2 of 38
- Free trial available , 2 of 38
- Full functionality, no data limit , 2 of 38
- No published rate card , 2 of 38
Named by exactly one vendor: Advanced backup policies, Community forum support, Disk cloning, Instant access, Per node per month, System backup. Those are differentiators rather than table stakes.
What “Backup” covers in practice
The subject tags that recur across these 50 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
- Enterprise9
- saas-backup9
- disaster-recovery8
- deduplication6
- Open Source6
- Free5
- cloud-backup4
- compliance4
- msp4
- cloud-native3
- kubernetes3
Carried by a single tool: accounting, bootable-media, command-line, encryption, immutable, Openshift, Restic Compatible, uefi. 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
16 of 50 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 daily backup, the single most frequently named capability in this category's published tiers.
Read the spread before you read the features
$0.01 to $5,000 is a $4,999.99 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 $5,000 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 50 tools here publish three or more tiers, and the median vendor in this category ships 1 of them. The advertised price is the first rung, and the things teams tend to need, daily backup, instant recovery, cloud backup, 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 12 billing models: subscription on 14 listings, free on 5, and 10 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.
- Redstor vs Clumio
- Clumio vs Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes
- Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes vs BDRShield
- BDRShield vs Velero
- Velero vs Trilio
- Trilio vs AvePoint Cloud Backup
- AvePoint Cloud Backup vs HYCU
- HYCU vs Portworx Backup
Go straight to the numbers
- Redstorpricingalternatives
- Clumiopricingalternatives
- Veeam Kasten for Kubernetespricingalternatives
- BDRShieldpricingalternatives
- Veleropricingalternatives
- Triliopricingalternatives
Questions people ask about backup software
Answered from the listings on this page, and nowhere else.
- How much does backup software cost?
- Across the 50 backup tools listed here, paid plans start between $0.01 and $5,000 a month, with a median entry price of $39.98. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $5,000 a month (HPE StoreOnce). 16 of 50 also publish a $0 plan.
- What is the cheapest backup software?
- 13 of the 50 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, 16 of 50 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. 13 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 daily backup (3 of 38 tools that publish plan detail), instant recovery (3) and cloud backup (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?
- subscription (14), free (5), Open source, no licence fee (5), quote (5), plus 8 less common arrangements, counted across the 50 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 50 tools also keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote.
- What does backup software actually cover?
- The 50 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are backup (9), enterprise (9), saas-backup (9), disaster-recovery (8), deduplication (6). 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?
- 39 of 50 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 1 tiers. 5 of 50 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?
- 50 approved backup listings appear on this page, including Redstor, Clumio, Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes, BDRShield. 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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