Cohesity alternatives (2026)
The highest-scoring alternatives to Cohesity on this site's weights are Firefly (73.5), Arpio (71.1) and Commvault Cloud Rewind (70.7). Cohesity scores 59.0 and ranks 5 of 8. 4 of the seven alternatives score higher overall.
Ranking current as of September 2026 · By the Cloud Resilience Vendors research desk
Why do teams look for Cohesity alternatives?
These points come from Cohesity's own public pages and our score reasons, not from user reviews.
- Cloud Rebuild is stated for select AWS workloads in Terraform-provisioned environments, so estates outside AWS or without existing infrastructure as code are not covered by it.
- There is no public price; Contact sales.
- Drift detection and a configuration change history are not published.
- Cross-account recovery detail is not published.
Source: Cohesity pricing · Reviewed Sep 2026
Which Cohesity alternatives score highest?
01 Firefly 73.5 Infrastructure recovery platform
Scores higher than Cohesity on: infrastructure coverage (86 vs 55), recovery automation (84 vs 70), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (82 vs 65), drift and change history (92 vs 30), restore as code (94 vs 55) and pricing transparency (55 vs 20)
Cohesity scores higher on: data protection (92 vs 30)
02 Arpio 71.1 Cloud DR orchestration
Scores higher than Cohesity on: infrastructure coverage (72 vs 55), recovery automation (90 vs 70), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (90 vs 65), drift and change history (35 vs 30) and pricing transparency (90 vs 20)
Cohesity scores higher on: restore as code (55 vs 25) and data protection (92 vs 78)
03 Commvault Cloud Rewind 70.7 Cloud application recovery
Scores higher than Cohesity on: infrastructure coverage (84 vs 55), recovery automation (88 vs 70), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (78 vs 65), drift and change history (50 vs 30), restore as code (60 vs 55) and pricing transparency (25 vs 20)
Cohesity scores higher on: data protection (92 vs 80)
04 ControlMonkey 66.3 Configuration backup and recovery
Scores higher than Cohesity on: infrastructure coverage (86 vs 55), recovery automation (76 vs 70), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (70 vs 65), drift and change history (88 vs 30), restore as code (85 vs 55) and pricing transparency (45 vs 20)
Cohesity scores higher on: data protection (92 vs 20)
06 Veeam 52.0 Cloud data backup
Scores higher than Cohesity on: data protection (94 vs 92) and pricing transparency (70 vs 20)
Cohesity scores higher on: infrastructure coverage (55 vs 35), recovery automation (70 vs 62), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (65 vs 60), drift and change history (30 vs 15) and restore as code (55 vs 10)
07 HCP Terraform 41.7 IaC baseline
Scores higher than Cohesity on: drift and change history (80 vs 30) and pricing transparency (60 vs 20)
Cohesity scores higher on: infrastructure coverage (55 vs 40), recovery automation (70 vs 45), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (65 vs 50), restore as code (55 vs 30) and data protection (92 vs 5)
08 StackGuardian 39.8 IaC codification and governance
Scores higher than Cohesity on: drift and change history (80 vs 30), restore as code (85 vs 55) and pricing transparency (50 vs 20)
Cohesity scores higher on: infrastructure coverage (55 vs 30), recovery automation (70 vs 35), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (65 vs 30) and data protection (92 vs 5)
How do the alternatives compare criterion by criterion?
| Vendor | COV · 20% Infrastructure coverage beyond data | AUTO · 16% Recovery automation | XREG · 14% Cross-region and cross-account rebuild | DRIFT · 12% Drift and change history | IAC · 10% Restore as code (IaC generation) | DATA · 18% Data protection depth and cloud DR track record | PRICE · 10% Pricing transparency | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cohesity (this page) | 55 | 70 | 65 | 30 | 55 | 92 | 20 | 59.0 |
| Firefly | 86 Higher than Cohesity | 84 Higher than Cohesity | 82 Higher than Cohesity | 92 Higher than Cohesity | 94 Higher than Cohesity | 30 | 55 Higher than Cohesity | 73.5 |
| Arpio | 72 Higher than Cohesity | 90 Higher than Cohesity | 90 Higher than Cohesity | 35 Higher than Cohesity | 25 | 78 | 90 Higher than Cohesity | 71.1 |
| Commvault Cloud Rewind | 84 Higher than Cohesity | 88 Higher than Cohesity | 78 Higher than Cohesity | 50 Higher than Cohesity | 60 Higher than Cohesity | 80 | 25 Higher than Cohesity | 70.7 |
| ControlMonkey | 86 Higher than Cohesity | 76 Higher than Cohesity | 70 Higher than Cohesity | 88 Higher than Cohesity | 85 Higher than Cohesity | 20 | 45 Higher than Cohesity | 66.3 |
| Veeam | 35 | 62 | 60 | 15 | 10 | 94 Higher than Cohesity | 70 Higher than Cohesity | 52.0 |
| HCP Terraform | 40 | 45 | 50 | 80 Higher than Cohesity | 30 | 5 | 60 Higher than Cohesity | 41.7 |
| StackGuardian | 30 | 35 | 30 | 80 Higher than Cohesity | 85 Higher than Cohesity | 5 | 50 Higher than Cohesity | 39.8 |
When should you stay with Cohesity?
Stay with Cohesity if the data is your main exposure. It protects EC2, RDS and S3 self-managed or as a managed service, offers a clean room to investigate an attack before recovery, and adds Cloud Rebuild for select AWS workloads that are already in Terraform.
Frequently asked questions about Cohesity alternatives
What is the best alternative to Cohesity?
On this site's weights, Firefly (73.5). The better fit depends on the gap you need to fill: Cohesity's lowest score is pricing transparency (20), and the highest-scoring alternative there is Arpio (90).
Is there a free alternative to Cohesity?
Firefly offers a 14-day free trial with all capabilities, no credit card. ControlMonkey publishes a free resilience assessment for up to 50,000 cloud assets, with detection-only drift. StackGuardian publishes a free tier with no credit card. HCP Terraform offers pay-as-you-go with a $500 credit. None of these is a full recovery product at no cost.
Which Cohesity alternatives publish prices?
Arpio publishes all three tiers, from $12k a year single-cloud. Veeam publishes its SaaS rate of $42 per TB per month. Firefly publishes its Essential tier at $2,499 a month billed annually, but Backup and DR is in the custom-priced Enterprise tier. HCP Terraform publishes pay-as-you-go with a $500 credit, with rates in IBM's pricing table. The others are Contact sales.