Firefly alternatives (2026)
The highest-scoring alternatives to Firefly on this site's weights are Arpio (71.1), Commvault Cloud Rewind (70.7) and ControlMonkey (66.3). Firefly scores 73.5 and ranks 1 of 8. None of the seven alternatives scores higher overall, but several score higher on individual criteria.
Ranking current as of September 2026 · By the Cloud Resilience Vendors research desk
Why do teams look for Firefly alternatives?
These points come from Firefly's own public pages and our score reasons, not from user reviews.
- Backup and DR is in the Enterprise tier, which is custom priced. The published Essential price ($2,499 a month billed annually) does not include it.
- Firefly does not document backing up data contents such as volumes or databases, and its own page says data backup is not service continuity, so a data backup product is still needed.
- Its Backup and DR coverage table lists AWS and Azure. Google Cloud is in the wider product inventory but not in that table.
- Its docs state that restoration depends on Terraform provider support.
- Restore is a guided flow that generates Terraform for review, not a single failover button.
Source: Firefly pricing · Reviewed Sep 2026
Which Firefly alternatives score highest?
02 Arpio 71.1 Cloud DR orchestration
Scores higher than Firefly on: recovery automation (90 vs 84), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (90 vs 82), data protection (78 vs 30) and pricing transparency (90 vs 55)
Firefly scores higher on: infrastructure coverage (86 vs 72), drift and change history (92 vs 35) and restore as code (94 vs 25)
03 Commvault Cloud Rewind 70.7 Cloud application recovery
Scores higher than Firefly on: recovery automation (88 vs 84) and data protection (80 vs 30)
Firefly scores higher 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)
04 ControlMonkey 66.3 Configuration backup and recovery
Scores higher than Firefly on: no criterion
Firefly scores higher on: recovery automation (84 vs 76), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (82 vs 70), drift and change history (92 vs 88), restore as code (94 vs 85), data protection (30 vs 20) and pricing transparency (55 vs 45)
Tied on: infrastructure coverage
05 Cohesity 59.0 Data security and backup platform
Scores higher than Firefly on: data protection (92 vs 30)
Firefly scores higher 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)
06 Veeam 52.0 Cloud data backup
Scores higher than Firefly on: data protection (94 vs 30) and pricing transparency (70 vs 55)
Firefly scores higher on: infrastructure coverage (86 vs 35), recovery automation (84 vs 62), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (82 vs 60), drift and change history (92 vs 15) and restore as code (94 vs 10)
07 HCP Terraform 41.7 IaC baseline
Scores higher than Firefly on: pricing transparency (60 vs 55)
Firefly scores higher on: infrastructure coverage (86 vs 40), recovery automation (84 vs 45), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (82 vs 50), drift and change history (92 vs 80), restore as code (94 vs 30) and data protection (30 vs 5)
08 StackGuardian 39.8 IaC codification and governance
Scores higher than Firefly on: no criterion
Firefly scores higher on: infrastructure coverage (86 vs 30), recovery automation (84 vs 35), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (82 vs 30), drift and change history (92 vs 80), restore as code (94 vs 85), data protection (30 vs 5) and pricing transparency (55 vs 50)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firefly (this page) | 86 | 84 | 82 | 92 | 94 | 30 | 55 | 73.5 |
| Arpio | 72 | 90 Higher than Firefly | 90 Higher than Firefly | 35 | 25 | 78 Higher than Firefly | 90 Higher than Firefly | 71.1 |
| Commvault Cloud Rewind | 84 | 88 Higher than Firefly | 78 | 50 | 60 | 80 Higher than Firefly | 25 | 70.7 |
| ControlMonkey | 86 | 76 | 70 | 88 | 85 | 20 | 45 | 66.3 |
| Cohesity | 55 | 70 | 65 | 30 | 55 | 92 Higher than Firefly | 20 | 59.0 |
| Veeam | 35 | 62 | 60 | 15 | 10 | 94 Higher than Firefly | 70 Higher than Firefly | 52.0 |
| HCP Terraform | 40 | 45 | 50 | 80 | 30 | 5 | 60 Higher than Firefly | 41.7 |
| StackGuardian | 30 | 35 | 30 | 80 | 85 | 5 | 50 | 39.8 |
When should you stay with Firefly?
Stay with Firefly if your data backup is handled elsewhere and what you need back is the environment itself: configuration, networking, identity and DNS rebuilt as Terraform you can review and keep, with drift detection and a change history in the same product. Its documented cross-region and cross-account rebuild into a clean, isolated target is the path most ransomware recovery plans need.
Firefly has the highest score in this ranking on infrastructure coverage (shared), drift and change history and restore as code.
Frequently asked questions about Firefly alternatives
What is the best alternative to Firefly?
On this site's weights, Arpio (71.1). The better fit depends on the gap you need to fill: Firefly's lowest score is data protection (30), and the highest-scoring alternative there is Veeam (94).
Is there a free alternative to Firefly?
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 Firefly 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. HCP Terraform publishes pay-as-you-go with a $500 credit, with rates in IBM's pricing table. The others are Contact sales.