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Paragon Backup & Recovery pricing
Paragon Backup & Recovery 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, Paragon Backup & Recovery pricing is $50/year. 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
- $50/year
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Not on record
Paragon Backup & Recovery 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Edition | $50/year | 3 | Entry tier |
What the product covers
The full Paragon Backup & Recovery 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
- Full disk backup
- File-level backup
- Incremental/differential
- Recovery media
- Virtual disk mount
- UEFI support
Integrations
- Windows
- Network shares
- FTP
- Cloud storage
Platform
- Windows support
People bring Paragon Backup & Recovery in for full disk and partition backup on windows, bare metal recovery from an image, scheduled incremental backups for a home machine, migrating an installation to a new drive on the paid editions. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Paragon Backup & Recovery 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paragon Backup & Recovery (this page) | $50/year | subscription | - | |
| Velero | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Paragon Backup & Recovery |
| Clumio | $0.01/month | Per GiB-month protected | - | vs Paragon Backup & Recovery |
| Portworx Backup | Free, then $0.2/node hour | Per node hour | - | vs Paragon Backup & Recovery |
| Trilio | Free | Per node per year | - | vs Paragon Backup & Recovery |
| AvePoint Cloud Backup | On request | quote | - | vs Paragon Backup & Recovery |
| HYCU | On request | quote | - | vs Paragon Backup & Recovery |
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 Paragon Backup & Recovery badges page.
Before you pay for Paragon Backup & Recovery
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 $50/year. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Paragon Backup & Recovery against the tools that do have one before committing.
Paragon Backup & Recovery runs on windows, and is published by Paragon Software of Freiburg, Germany. The full record is on the Paragon Backup & Recovery review, and the rest of the category is under best backup tools.
Paragon Backup & Recovery pricing questions
- How much does Paragon Backup & Recovery cost?
- Paragon Backup & Recovery publishes a single tier, Community Edition, at $50/year.
- Does Paragon Backup & Recovery have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Paragon Backup & Recovery is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- Which backup tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 backup tools listed alongside Paragon Backup & Recovery have a free tier: Velero, Portworx Backup, Trilio, Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes.
- What am I actually paying for with Paragon Backup & Recovery?
- The record lists 11 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for full disk and partition backup on windows, bare metal recovery from an image, scheduled incremental backups for a home machine.
- Does Paragon Backup & Recovery 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 Paragon Backup & Recovery 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 Paragon Backup & Recovery against before paying?
- The closest backup tools in this directory are Velero, Clumio, Portworx Backup, Trilio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Paragon Backup & Recovery covering price, platforms and features.