Best Backup & Recovery Software Pricing 2026

Backup and recovery software automatically copies and stores your data—files, databases, servers, and cloud workloads—so it can be restored after accidental deletion, ransomware attacks, hardware failures, or disasters. Modern solutions offer cloud backup, instant recovery, and automated testing to ensure business continuity.

Backup software ranges from $7/month for personal use to $50+/server/month for enterprise. Backblaze Personal is $7/month for unlimited backup of one computer. Business plans start at $100-$500/year per server for Veeam and Acronis. Cloud-native solutions like Druva cost $3-$10/workload/month. Storage costs are typically separate and scale with data volume.

Veeam is the market leader for virtual machine and enterprise backup with superior VMware/Hyper-V integration, instant recovery, and ransomware protection. Acronis ($50-$120/workload/year) combines backup with cybersecurity (antivirus, EDR) in one agent. Choose Veeam for pure backup excellence; Acronis for combined backup + security in smaller environments.

Hidden costs include: cloud storage fees ($0.005-$0.025/GB/month), data egress charges for restores ($0.01-$0.09/GB), per-VM or per-workload licensing above included counts, premium support contracts ($2,000-$20,000/year), disaster recovery orchestration add-ons, compliance reporting modules, and bandwidth costs for initial full backups of large datasets.

Backblaze B2 ($6/TB/month storage) is excellent for cost-effective cloud storage and backup targets but lacks the enterprise features of Veeam or Acronis—no VM-level backup, no instant recovery, and limited orchestration. Backblaze Business ($9/computer/month) provides unlimited backup for endpoints. It's best for small businesses and as a secondary backup target for larger organizations.

A rough guide: 1-2x your source data size for basic backups, 3-5x for versioned backups with 30-90 day retention. A company with 1TB of data should budget 3-5TB of backup storage ($15-$125/month at cloud rates). Deduplication and compression typically reduce actual storage by 40-60%, but plan for growth of 20-30% annually.

The 3-2-1 rule means: keep 3 copies of your data, on 2 different types of media, with 1 copy offsite. Modern updates include 3-2-1-1-0: add 1 immutable (air-gapped or locked) copy and 0 errors (verified through automated restore testing). All enterprise backup solutions—Veeam, Acronis, Druva—are designed to implement this strategy.

Druva is purpose-built for cloud-native backup of AWS, Azure, Microsoft 365, and SaaS applications with no infrastructure to manage. Veeam Backup for AWS/Azure provides deep cloud-native integration. For Microsoft 365 backup specifically, Veeam, Acronis, and Druva all offer dedicated solutions at $2-$4/user/month since Microsoft's native retention is limited.

Yes. Cloud providers operate under a shared responsibility model—they protect infrastructure, but you're responsible for your data. Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Salesforce all have limited native retention (30-90 days). Accidental deletions, ransomware, and malicious insiders can all destroy cloud data. Third-party backup for SaaS apps costs $2-$5/user/month.

DRaaS replicates your entire IT environment to the cloud so you can failover in minutes during an outage. Unlike backup (which restores data), DRaaS restores entire running systems. Veeam, Acronis, and Zerto offer DRaaS at $50-$200/VM/month. It's essential for businesses with RTO (recovery time objective) requirements under 4 hours.