Commvault Cloud Rewind alternatives (2026)
The highest-scoring alternatives to Commvault Cloud Rewind on this site's weights are Firefly (73.5), Arpio (71.1) and ControlMonkey (66.3). Cloud Rewind scores 70.7 and ranks 3 of 8. 2 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 Cloud Rewind alternatives?
These points come from Cloud Rewind's own public pages and our score reasons, not from user reviews.
- There is no public price: it is Contact sales or a cloud marketplace listing.
- No RTO or RPO figure is published on the product page.
- Drift detection against a known-good state is not published, and neither is a Terraform export.
- Cross-account recovery steps are not detailed on the product page.
Source: Cloud Rewind pricing · Reviewed Sep 2026
Which Cloud Rewind alternatives score highest?
01 Firefly 73.5 Infrastructure recovery platform
Scores higher than Cloud Rewind on: infrastructure coverage (86 vs 84), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (82 vs 78), drift and change history (92 vs 50), restore as code (94 vs 60) and pricing transparency (55 vs 25)
Cloud Rewind scores higher on: recovery automation (88 vs 84) and data protection (80 vs 30)
02 Arpio 71.1 Cloud DR orchestration
Scores higher than Cloud Rewind on: recovery automation (90 vs 88), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (90 vs 78) and pricing transparency (90 vs 25)
Cloud Rewind scores higher on: infrastructure coverage (84 vs 72), drift and change history (50 vs 35), restore as code (60 vs 25) and data protection (80 vs 78)
04 ControlMonkey 66.3 Configuration backup and recovery
Scores higher than Cloud Rewind on: infrastructure coverage (86 vs 84), drift and change history (88 vs 50), restore as code (85 vs 60) and pricing transparency (45 vs 25)
Cloud Rewind scores higher on: recovery automation (88 vs 76), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (78 vs 70) and data protection (80 vs 20)
05 Cohesity 59.0 Data security and backup platform
Scores higher than Cloud Rewind on: data protection (92 vs 80)
Cloud Rewind scores higher 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)
06 Veeam 52.0 Cloud data backup
Scores higher than Cloud Rewind on: data protection (94 vs 80) and pricing transparency (70 vs 25)
Cloud Rewind scores higher on: infrastructure coverage (84 vs 35), recovery automation (88 vs 62), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (78 vs 60), drift and change history (50 vs 15) and restore as code (60 vs 10)
07 HCP Terraform 41.7 IaC baseline
Scores higher than Cloud Rewind on: drift and change history (80 vs 50) and pricing transparency (60 vs 25)
Cloud Rewind scores higher on: infrastructure coverage (84 vs 40), recovery automation (88 vs 45), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (78 vs 50), restore as code (60 vs 30) and data protection (80 vs 5)
08 StackGuardian 39.8 IaC codification and governance
Scores higher than Cloud Rewind on: drift and change history (80 vs 50), restore as code (85 vs 60) and pricing transparency (50 vs 25)
Cloud Rewind scores higher on: infrastructure coverage (84 vs 30), recovery automation (88 vs 35), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (78 vs 30) and data protection (80 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud Rewind (this page) | 84 | 88 | 78 | 50 | 60 | 80 | 25 | 70.7 |
| Firefly | 86 Higher than Cloud Rewind | 84 | 82 Higher than Cloud Rewind | 92 Higher than Cloud Rewind | 94 Higher than Cloud Rewind | 30 | 55 Higher than Cloud Rewind | 73.5 |
| Arpio | 72 | 90 Higher than Cloud Rewind | 90 Higher than Cloud Rewind | 35 | 25 | 78 | 90 Higher than Cloud Rewind | 71.1 |
| ControlMonkey | 86 Higher than Cloud Rewind | 76 | 70 | 88 Higher than Cloud Rewind | 85 Higher than Cloud Rewind | 20 | 45 Higher than Cloud Rewind | 66.3 |
| Cohesity | 55 | 70 | 65 | 30 | 55 | 92 Higher than Cloud Rewind | 20 | 59.0 |
| Veeam | 35 | 62 | 60 | 15 | 10 | 94 Higher than Cloud Rewind | 70 Higher than Cloud Rewind | 52.0 |
| HCP Terraform | 40 | 45 | 50 | 80 Higher than Cloud Rewind | 30 | 5 | 60 Higher than Cloud Rewind | 41.7 |
| StackGuardian | 30 | 35 | 30 | 80 Higher than Cloud Rewind | 85 Higher than Cloud Rewind | 5 | 50 Higher than Cloud Rewind | 39.8 |
When should you stay with Cloud Rewind?
Stay with Cloud Rewind if you already run Commvault, need Google Cloud as well as AWS and Azure, or want data and configuration recovered together in one automated step into the production VPC or an isolated recovery environment.
Frequently asked questions about Cloud Rewind alternatives
What is the best alternative to Cloud Rewind?
On this site's weights, Firefly (73.5). The better fit depends on the gap you need to fill: Cloud Rewind's lowest score is pricing transparency (25), and the highest-scoring alternative there is Arpio (90).
Is there a free alternative to Cloud Rewind?
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 Cloud Rewind 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.