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CloudCasa

SaaS Kubernetes backup and migration with published per-node pricing

As of 1 September 2026, CloudCasa has a free plan and paid plans start at $69/month. Kubernetes backup delivered as a service, free for up to five nodes and $69 per node per month above that. Softwr lists it under Backup. CloudCasa is made by Catalogic Software, available on Kubernetes, Web.

Overview

What CloudCasa does

CloudCasa, from Catalogic Software, backs up Kubernetes clusters and cloud databases from a hosted control plane. An agent in the cluster reports to the CloudCasa service, which schedules backups, stores catalogue metadata and coordinates restores. It captures Kubernetes resources and persistent volume data, supports cross-cluster and cross-cloud restore, and covers managed services including EKS, AKS and GKE alongside self-managed clusters. The commercially useful fact is that it publishes prices. The Basic tier is free for up to five nodes with daily backup schedules; CloudCasa Pro is $69 per node per month. In a market where Kubernetes data protection is otherwise quoted, that gives a buyer a reference point to hold every other vendor against. It also makes the per-node economics visible: a fifty-node cluster is roughly forty-one thousand dollars a year at list, which reframes whether Kubernetes-specific backup is worth buying separately at all. Buyers are teams running managed Kubernetes who want backup without operating a backup system. The trade-off is architectural: the control plane is SaaS, so backup scheduling and the catalogue live with the vendor even though the data typically goes to your own object storage. Organisations that cannot have an external service holding cluster metadata need the self-hosted alternatives instead.

What people use it for

  • A team wanting Kubernetes backup running this afternoon without deploying and maintaining a backup server
  • A small cluster of five nodes or fewer that needs real backup at no licence cost
  • An organisation running Velero already and wanting a managed control plane and catalogue over the top
  • Migrating workloads between EKS and AKS where the tool must restore into a different distribution

The honest half

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about CloudCasa.

  • At $69 per node per month, a fifty-node estate costs over forty thousand dollars a year at list, which is more than many teams expect from a product marketed on its free tier.
  • The control plane is SaaS, so cluster metadata and backup catalogues sit with the vendor, which rules it out where policy prohibits external services holding infrastructure detail.
  • Per-node pricing punishes clusters built from many small nodes, so the licensing metric can push architecture decisions in directions the platform team would not otherwise choose.
  • The free tier stops at five nodes with no intermediate step, so growth from five to six nodes moves you from nothing to a full commercial rate.
  • Catalogic is a much smaller vendor than Veeam or Commvault, which matters for procurement risk assessments and for long-term support commitments on a system you may depend on for years.

Cross-shopped

What people choose instead of CloudCasa

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

Pricing

What CloudCasa costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Basic

Free

  • Up to 5 nodes at no cost
  • Daily backup schedules for clusters and namespaces
  • Basic and advanced restore options
  • Community support

CloudCasa Pro

$69 /mo

  • Per node per month
  • Advanced backup policies
  • Application-aware backups
  • Cross-cluster and cross-cloud restore
  • Migration and disaster recovery features

Enterprise

On request

  • Volume pricing negotiated
  • Dedicated support and SLAs
  • Custom retention and residency arrangements

Capabilities

Features

  • SaaS control plane

    No backup infrastructure to deploy, an in-cluster agent reports to the hosted service

  • Free tier

    Up to five nodes at no cost with daily backup schedules for clusters and namespaces

  • Cross-cluster restore

    Restore a namespace into a different cluster, cloud or Kubernetes distribution

  • Managed service support

    Covers EKS, AKS and GKE including cluster configuration, not just workloads

  • Bring your own storage

    Backup data written to your own S3-compatible bucket rather than vendor storage

  • Velero compatibility

    Can manage and import from existing Velero deployments rather than requiring a fresh start

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

What does it cost?

Free for up to five nodes. CloudCasa Pro is $69 per node per month. Enterprise arrangements are negotiated.

Where does the backup data go?

Typically to your own S3-compatible bucket. The vendor hosts the control plane and catalogue, not necessarily your data.

Does it work with Velero?

Yes. It can manage existing Velero installations, which makes it a lower-friction upgrade than a rip and replace.

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Softwr does not host reviews and shows no star rating for CloudCasa, because a rating we did not collect is not ours to publish. What is here is the pricing and platform detail from the vendor’s own pages, limitations we could state concretely, and alternatives a reviewer confirmed people weigh against it. Tell us if any of it is wrong.

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