Backup & Disaster Recovery · head to head
Rewind vs Cohesity
Rewind
Backup & Disaster Recovery
SaaS backup for cloud business applications
- From
- $29/month
- Rated
- -
Cohesity
Backup & Disaster Recovery
Protect, secure, and gain insights into your enterprise data
- From
- On request
- Rated
- -
The short version
- Each has a real cost: Rewind cannot back up all QuickBooks Online data due to API limitations, excluding company info, exchange rates, and payroll data; 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
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Rewind and Cohesity actually diverge.
Identical on both: free tier (No), platforms (Web), 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 Rewind
- Automated backup
- One-click restore
- Version comparison
- Continuous protection
- Bulk restore
- Activity monitoring
- Shopify
- BigCommerce
Only in Cohesity
Nothing recorded that Rewind does not also cover.
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Rewind
- Data protectionnot Cohesity
- Disaster recoverynot Cohesity
- Business continuitynot Cohesity
- Ransomware protectionnot Cohesity
- Compliancenot Cohesity
Cohesity
No use cases recorded yet. See the Cohesity review.
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Rewind
- Cannot back up all QuickBooks Online data due to API limitations, excluding company info, exchange rates, and payroll data
- Backup restore speed is slow for large datasets, causing significant delays during critical recovery situations
- Cannot back up Shopify inventory tracking quantities, weight, measurement, or cost per item
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
Pricing, plan by plan
Rewind
$29/monthNo published plan breakdown. See the Rewind review.
Cohesity
On requestNo published plan breakdown. See the Cohesity review.
Which should you pick?
Choose Cohesity if
Nothing in the data separates Cohesity from Rewind on the points above - pick on price and on how each one feels to use.
Questions people ask
- Is Rewind or Cohesity better?
- Neither clearly leads. Rewind starts at $29/month and Cohesity at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Rewind or Cohesity?
- Rewind starts at $29/month and Cohesity at On request.
- Does Rewind or Cohesity run on more platforms?
- Both run on Web, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
- What is Rewind best used for?
- Rewind is most often used for data protection, disaster recovery, business continuity, ransomware protection. Of those, data protection and disaster recovery are not what Cohesity is typically brought in for.
- What can Rewind do that Cohesity cannot?
- Rewind covers Automated backup, One-click restore, Version comparison, Continuous protection.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
Rewind: How long does Rewind keep backup snapshots?
Rewind keeps backup snapshots for 365 days, making them easily accessible for on-demand restores. This provides over a year of recovery options.
SourceRewind: What SaaS applications does Rewind back up?
Rewind backs up Shopify, BigCommerce, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, QuickBooks Online, Trello, monday.com, Klaviyo, Mailchimp, and Zendesk Suite, among others.
SourceRewind: Is Rewind compliant with data protection regulations?
Rewind is SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, DORA, HIPAA, and CCPA compliant with AES-256 encryption and role-based access control.
SourceRewind: Can you restore individual items or only full backups?
Rewind supports granular, item-level recovery understanding parent-child dependencies, allowing you to restore specific files, orders, or customer information without full dataset rollback.
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