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Borg Backup pricing
Borg Backup publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the backup tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, Borg Backup pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Free
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Borg Backup plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Borg Backup stops being free
Free, Free
- Deduplication
- Compression
- Encryption
No paid tier on record
Borg Backup lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Borg Backup feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Content-defined chunking
- Deduplication
- Compression
- Authenticated encryption
- Pruning
- Mount archives
Integrations
- SSH
- BorgBase
- rsync.net
- Hetzner Storage Box
Platform
- Linux support
- Mac support
People bring Borg Backup in for deduplicated backups where daily full snapshots would otherwise be expensive, encrypted backup to a server you do not fully trust, since the server never sees plaintext, browsing previous versions by mounting an archive over fuse, scripted server backups with no agent or daemon to run. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Borg Backup are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Backup
Too few backup tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borg Backup (this page) | Free | free | - | |
| Velero | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Borg Backup |
| Clumio | $0.01/month | Per GiB-month protected | - | vs Borg Backup |
| Portworx Backup | Free, then $0.2/node hour | Per node hour | - | vs Borg Backup |
| Trilio | Free | Per node per year | - | vs Borg Backup |
| AvePoint Cloud Backup | On request | quote | - | vs Borg Backup |
| HYCU | On request | quote | - | vs Borg Backup |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Borg Backup badges page.
Before you pay for Borg Backup
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Borg Backup runs on linux, mac, and is published by Borg Collective of Open Source Community. The full record is on the Borg Backup review, and the rest of the category is under best backup tools.
Borg Backup pricing questions
- How much does Borg Backup cost?
- Borg Backup publishes a single tier, Free, at Free.
- Does Borg Backup have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers deduplication, compression, encryption.
- Which backup tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 backup tools listed alongside Borg Backup have a free tier: Velero, Portworx Backup, Trilio, Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes.
- What am I actually paying for with Borg Backup?
- The record lists 12 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for deduplicated backups where daily full snapshots would otherwise be expensive, encrypted backup to a server you do not fully trust, since the server never sees plaintext, browsing previous versions by mounting an archive over fuse.
- Does Borg Backup charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Borg Backup prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Borg Backup against before paying?
- The closest backup tools in this directory are Velero, Clumio, Portworx Backup, Trilio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Borg Backup covering price, platforms and features.