How much does Restic cost?

Restic publishes a single tier, Free, at Free.

Does Restic have a free plan?

Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers content-defined chunking, encryption, multiple backends.

Which backup & disaster recovery tools can I use without paying?

3 of the 8 backup & disaster recovery tools listed alongside Restic have a free tier: Apple Time Machine, AOMEI Backupper, Amanda Enterprise.

Does Restic 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 Restic 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 Restic against before paying?

The closest backup & disaster recovery tools in this directory are Backupify, Apple Time Machine, Altaro VM Backup, AOMEI Backupper. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Restic covering price, platforms and features.

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Restic pricing

Restic publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the backup & disaster recovery tools listed alongside it.

Entry price: Free
Model: Free
Tiers: 1
Free tier: Yes

Restic 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.

Restic pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Free	Free	3	Entry tier

Where Restic stops being free

Free, Free

Content-defined chunking
Encryption
Multiple backends

No paid tier on record

Restic lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.

What the product covers

The full Restic 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.

Core

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

Integrations

AWS S3
Azure
Google Cloud
Backblaze B2
SFTP
REST server

Platform

Windows support
Mac support
Linux support

People bring Restic in for encrypted deduplicated backups to s3, b2, sftp and local disk from the command line, scripted server backups with snapshot retention policies. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Restic are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Backup & Disaster Recovery

Too few backup & disaster recovery 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.

Restic entry price against other Backup & Disaster Recovery tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Restic (this page)	Free	free	-
Backupify	$29/month	-	-	vs Restic
Apple Time Machine	Free	free	-	vs Restic
Altaro VM Backup	$595/perpetual	-	-	vs Restic
AOMEI Backupper	Free, then $40/year	freemium	-	vs Restic
Arcserve UDP	$25/month	subscription	-	vs Restic
Acronis Cyber Protect	$68/year	-	-	vs Restic

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 Restic badges page.

Before you pay for Restic

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.

Restic runs on windows, mac, linux, and is published by Restic Contributors of Open Source Community. The full record is on the Restic review, and the rest of the category is under best backup & disaster recovery tools.

Restic pricing on the vendor's own site

Restic pricing questions

How much does Restic cost?: Restic publishes a single tier, Free, at Free.
Does Restic have a free plan?: Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers content-defined chunking, encryption, multiple backends.
Which backup & disaster recovery tools can I use without paying?: 3 of the 8 backup & disaster recovery tools listed alongside Restic have a free tier: Apple Time Machine, AOMEI Backupper, Amanda Enterprise.
What am I actually paying for with Restic?: The record lists 15 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for encrypted deduplicated backups to s3, b2, sftp and local disk from the command line, scripted server backups with snapshot retention policies.
Does Restic 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 Restic 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 Restic against before paying?: The closest backup & disaster recovery tools in this directory are Backupify, Apple Time Machine, Altaro VM Backup, AOMEI Backupper. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Restic covering price, platforms and features.