Is Bacula or Clumio better?

Neither clearly leads. Bacula starts at Free and Clumio at $0.01/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Bacula or Clumio?

Bacula has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Bacula and $0.01/month for Clumio.

Does Bacula or Clumio run on more platforms?

Bacula runs on Web. Clumio runs on Web, API.

Can I use Bacula for free?

Yes. Bacula has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Clumio starts at $0.01/month.

What is Bacula best used for?

Bacula is most often used for linux, windows, and macos network backup at scale, vmware, kvm, hyper-v virtual machine backup, mysql, oracle, postgresql database backup, microsoft exchange server backup. Of those, linux, windows, and macos network backup at scale and vmware, kvm, hyper-v virtual machine backup are not what Clumio is typically brought in for.

What can Bacula do that Clumio cannot?

Clumio covers Air-gapped backups, Fifteen-minute recovery points, S3 SecureVault, Backtrack.

Backup · head to head

Bacula vs Clumio

Bacula

Backup

The best open source backup software for Linux

From: Free
Rated: -

Full review Website

Clumio

Backup

Serverless AWS backup with published per-gigabyte rates and explicit restore charges

From: $0.01/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Only Bacula has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
Each has a real cost: Bacula the community edition has no vendor support contract; bacula.org directs support and paid deployments toward the separate commercial Bacula Enterprise product instead.; Clumio restore is charged at $0.040 per GiB plus data transfer out, so recovering a hundred terabytes in an incident costs thousands of dollars on top of the storage fee, a bill nobody budgets for.
Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Bacula and Clumio actually diverge.

Attributes where Bacula and Clumio differ
Attribute	Bacula	Clumio
Starting price	Free	$0.01/month
Pricing model	open-source	Per GiB-month protected
Free tier	Yes	No
Platforms	Web	Web, API

Identical on both: user rating (Not yet rated), category (Backup).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Bacula

Nothing recorded that Clumio does not also cover.

Only in Clumio

Air-gapped backups
Fifteen-minute recovery points
S3 SecureVault
Backtrack
Terraform provider
Compliance attestations

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Bacula

Linux, Windows, and macOS network backup at scalenot Clumio
VMware, KVM, Hyper-V virtual machine backupnot Clumio
MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL database backupnot Clumio
Microsoft Exchange Server backupnot Clumio
Tape backup and enterprise data retentionnot Clumio

Clumio

An AWS-native company needing backups outside its own account so a compromised root credential cannot delete themnot Bacula
A team that has to model recovery cost before an incident rather than discover it during onenot Bacula
An organisation protecting billions of S3 objects where per-object charges dominate per-gigabyte chargesnot Bacula
A regulated business needing SOC 2, HIPAA and PCI-DSS attested backup without running backup serversnot Bacula

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Bacula

The community edition has no vendor support contract; bacula.org directs support and paid deployments toward the separate commercial Bacula Enterprise product instead.

Clumio

Restore is charged at $0.040 per GiB plus data transfer out, so recovering a hundred terabytes in an incident costs thousands of dollars on top of the storage fee, a bill nobody budgets for.
Per-object charges of $1.50 per million managed objects per month mean estates with billions of small objects pay far more than a per-gigabyte estimate suggests.
The archive tier is cheaper to store but restores begin only after 24 to 48 hours, which is incompatible with most recovery time objectives, and early deletion inside six months incurs a fee.
It is an AWS product; Azure workloads are on the roadmap rather than shipping, so multi-cloud organisations still need a second backup platform.
The Commvault acquisition means Clumio now overlaps with Commvault own cloud protection, and buyers should ask directly how the two portfolios converge before signing multi-year terms.

Pricing, plan by plan

Bacula

Free

No published plan breakdown. See the Bacula review.

Clumio

$0.01/month

S3 SecureVault Standard$0.025/month
- $0.025 per GiB-month plus $1.50 per million managed objects per month
- Restores $0.040 per GiB instant access and $0.09 per GiB retrieved
- $0.025 per 1,000 API requests, data transfer out charged separately
S3 SecureVault Archive$0.01/month
- $0.010 per GiB-month plus $1.50 per million managed objects per month
- Restores begin after 24 to 48 hours
- $0.040 per GiB restored plus data transfer out
Backtrack$undefined/month
- $1.50 per million managed objects-month, included free with SecureVault
- $0.50 per million objects processed on restore
- Metadata change tracking rather than full backup

Which should you pick?

Choose Bacula if

You want to start without paying.

Bacula review

Choose Clumio if

You need air-gapped backups.
You work on Web, API.
You also want fifteen-minute recovery points.

Clumio review

Questions people ask

Is Bacula or Clumio better?: Neither clearly leads. Bacula starts at Free and Clumio at $0.01/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Bacula or Clumio?: Bacula has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Bacula and $0.01/month for Clumio.
Does Bacula or Clumio run on more platforms?: Bacula runs on Web. Clumio runs on Web, API.
Can I use Bacula for free?: Yes. Bacula has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Clumio starts at $0.01/month.
What is Bacula best used for?: Bacula is most often used for linux, windows, and macos network backup at scale, vmware, kvm, hyper-v virtual machine backup, mysql, oracle, postgresql database backup, microsoft exchange server backup. Of those, linux, windows, and macos network backup at scale and vmware, kvm, hyper-v virtual machine backup are not what Clumio is typically brought in for.
What can Bacula do that Clumio cannot?: Clumio covers Air-gapped backups, Fifteen-minute recovery points, S3 SecureVault, Backtrack.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Bacula: How much does Bacula cost?

Bacula Community Edition is free and open source. Bacula Enterprise is a commercial offering with a free trial available, but specific pricing is not listed on the main website.

Source

Clumio: What does a restore cost?

$0.040 per GiB for instant access, $0.09 per GiB retrieved from archive, $0.025 per 1,000 API requests, plus AWS data transfer out. Model this before an incident.

Bacula: Is Bacula free?

Bacula Community Edition is fully free and open source. Enterprise Edition is commercial but offers a free trial to evaluate features before purchasing.

Source

Clumio: Does it support Azure?

Not yet. Azure workloads are listed as on the roadmap. Today it is AWS, with some Google Cloud Storage coverage.

Clumio: Is it still Clumio after the Commvault acquisition?

Yes, sold as Clumio by Commvault with its own pricing page and product line, but ask about portfolio convergence on a multi-year deal.

Bacula vs Clumio

Bacula

Clumio

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Bacula

Only in Clumio

What people use each for

Bacula

Clumio

Where each one falls short

Bacula

Clumio

Pricing, plan by plan

Bacula

Clumio

Which should you pick?

Choose Bacula if

Choose Clumio if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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