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Cohesity vs Restic

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Cohesity

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Protect, secure, and gain insights into your enterprise data

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
Restic logo

Restic

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Fast, secure, and efficient backup program

From
Free
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Only Restic 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; Restic cold storage is not natively supported; restoring from S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive is only available as an experimental feature behind a feature flag

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Cohesity and Restic actually diverge.

Attributes where Cohesity and Restic differ
AttributeCohesityRestic
Starting priceOn requestFree
Pricing modelquotefree
Free tierNoYes
PlatformsWebWindows, Mac, Linux
CategoryUnknownBackup & Disaster Recovery
FoundedUnknown2014

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

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 Restic does not also cover.

Only in Restic

  • Content-defined chunking
  • Cryptographic verification
  • Deduplication
  • Encryption
  • Multiple backends
  • Snapshot management
  • 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.

Restic

  • Encrypted deduplicated backups to S3, B2, SFTP and local disk from the command linenot Cohesity
  • Scripted server backups with snapshot retention policiesnot 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

Restic

  • Cold storage is not natively supported; restoring from S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive is only available as an experimental feature behind a feature flag
  • A Windows file whose name contains a character Windows treats as invalid cannot be read by restic and has to be renamed
  • Antivirus real-time protection degrades performance on Windows unless the restic binary is added to an exclusions list
  • On large repositories the built-in five minute stuck-request timeout fires during file listing and has to be raised manually with --stuck-request-timeout

Pricing, plan by plan

Cohesity

On request

No published plan breakdown. See the Cohesity review.

Restic

Free
  • FreeFree
    • Content-defined chunking
    • Encryption
    • Multiple backends

Which should you pick?

Choose Cohesity if

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

Cohesity review

Choose Restic if

  • You need content-defined chunking.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You work on Windows, Mac, Linux.
  • You also want cryptographic verification.
Restic review

Questions people ask

Is Cohesity or Restic better?
Neither clearly leads. Cohesity starts at On request and Restic at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Cohesity or Restic?
Restic has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at On request for Cohesity and Free for Restic.
Does Cohesity or Restic run on more platforms?
Cohesity runs on Web. Restic runs on Windows, Mac, Linux.
Can I use Restic for free?
Yes. Restic has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Cohesity starts at On request.
What can Cohesity do that Restic cannot?
Restic covers Content-defined chunking, Cryptographic verification, Deduplication, Encryption.
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