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Kopia pricing
Kopia 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 31 August 2026, Kopia 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
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Kopia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kopia | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where Kopia stops being free
Kopia, Free
- Full functionality, no data limit
- Desktop application included
- Any supported storage back end
- Community support
No paid tier on record
Kopia lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Kopia 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
- Global deduplication
- Pack blobs
- Client side encryption
- Desktop and command line
- Repository verification
People bring Kopia in for backing up laptops and workstations to cheap object storage with a desktop interface rather than a cron job, deduplicating backups of several similar machines into one repository so common content is stored once, replacing a chunk based tool whose per object charges made a cheap bucket expensive, keeping an encrypted offsite copy where the storage provider must never be able to read the contents. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Kopia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kopia (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Velero | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Kopia |
| Clumio | $0.01/month | Per GiB-month protected | - | vs Kopia |
| Portworx Backup | Free, then $0.2/node hour | Per node hour | - | vs Kopia |
| Trilio | Free | Per node per year | - | vs Kopia |
| AvePoint Cloud Backup | On request | quote | - | vs Kopia |
| HYCU | On request | quote | - | vs Kopia |
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 Kopia badges page.
Before you pay for Kopia
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.
Kopia runs on linux, macos, windows, docker, and is published by Kopia contributors of Distributed. The full record is on the Kopia review, and the rest of the category is under best backup tools.
Kopia pricing questions
- How much does Kopia cost?
- Kopia publishes a single tier, Kopia, at Free.
- Does Kopia have a free plan?
- Yes. The Kopia tier costs nothing and covers full functionality, no data limit, desktop application included, any supported storage back end.
- Which backup tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 backup tools listed alongside Kopia have a free tier: Velero, Portworx Backup, Trilio, Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes.
- What am I actually paying for with Kopia?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for backing up laptops and workstations to cheap object storage with a desktop interface rather than a cron job, deduplicating backups of several similar machines into one repository so common content is stored once, replacing a chunk based tool whose per object charges made a cheap bucket expensive.
- Does Kopia 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 Kopia 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 Kopia against before paying?
- The closest backup tools in this directory are Velero, Clumio, Portworx Backup, Trilio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Kopia covering price, platforms and features.