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Cohesity vs Duplicacy

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Cohesity

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Protect, secure, and gain insights into your enterprise data

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
Duplicacy logo

Duplicacy

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Lock-free deduplication cloud backup

From
Free
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Only Duplicacy has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
  • Each has a real cost: Cohesity no prices are shown for the Core, Enterprise or Advanced editions; buyers get a 30 day trial or must contact sales for a quote, per cohesity.com, August 2026; Duplicacy web GUI pricing tier not specified on product page

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Cohesity and Duplicacy actually diverge.

Attributes where Cohesity and Duplicacy differ
AttributeCohesityDuplicacy
Starting priceOn requestFree
Pricing modelquotefreemium
Free tierNoYes
PlatformsWebmacOS, Linux, Windows
FoundedUnknown2016

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

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 Cohesity

Nothing recorded that Duplicacy does not also cover.

Only in Duplicacy

  • Lock-free deduplication
  • Client-side encryption
  • Multiple computers
  • Erasure coding
  • Variable-size chunking
  • RSA encryption
  • AWS S3
  • Azure

What people use each for

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

Cohesity

No use cases recorded yet. See the Cohesity review.

Duplicacy

  • Client-side encrypted cloud backupsnot Cohesity
  • Lock-free deduplication for efficient backup storagenot Cohesity
  • Multi-destination backup supportnot Cohesity

Where each one falls short

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

Cohesity

  • No prices are shown for the Core, Enterprise or Advanced editions; buyers get a 30 day trial or must contact sales for a quote, per cohesity.com, August 2026

Duplicacy

  • Web GUI pricing tier not specified on product page

Pricing, plan by plan

Cohesity

On request

No published plan breakdown. See the Cohesity review.

Duplicacy

Free

No published plan breakdown. See the Duplicacy review.

Which should you pick?

Choose Cohesity if

Nothing in the data separates Cohesity from Duplicacy on the points above - pick on price and on how each one feels to use.

Cohesity review

Choose Duplicacy if

  • You need lock-free deduplication.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You work on macOS, Linux, Windows.
  • You also want client-side encryption.
Duplicacy review

Questions people ask

Is Cohesity or Duplicacy better?
Neither clearly leads. Cohesity starts at On request and Duplicacy at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Cohesity or Duplicacy?
Duplicacy has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at On request for Cohesity and Free for Duplicacy.
Does Cohesity or Duplicacy run on more platforms?
Cohesity runs on Web. Duplicacy runs on macOS, Linux, Windows.
Can I use Duplicacy for free?
Yes. Duplicacy has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Cohesity starts at On request.
What can Cohesity do that Duplicacy cannot?
Duplicacy covers Lock-free deduplication, Client-side encryption, Multiple computers, Erasure coding.
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