Veeam alternatives (2026)
The highest-scoring alternatives to Veeam on this site's weights are Firefly (73.5), Arpio (71.1) and Commvault Cloud Rewind (70.7). Veeam scores 52.0 and ranks 6 of 8. 5 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 Veeam alternatives?
These points come from Veeam's own public pages and our score reasons, not from user reviews.
- The product is built around workload data. Amazon VPC and Azure Virtual Networks are listed, but configuration-level detail is not published.
- There is no drift detection, configuration change history or infrastructure-as-code output.
- Identity and DNS are not listed among protected services.
- Software pricing varies; only the SaaS rate ($42 per TB per month) is published.
Source: Veeam pricing · Reviewed Sep 2026
Which Veeam alternatives score highest?
01 Firefly 73.5 Infrastructure recovery platform
Scores higher than Veeam 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)
Veeam scores higher on: data protection (94 vs 30) and pricing transparency (70 vs 55)
02 Arpio 71.1 Cloud DR orchestration
Scores higher than Veeam on: infrastructure coverage (72 vs 35), recovery automation (90 vs 62), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (90 vs 60), drift and change history (35 vs 15), restore as code (25 vs 10) and pricing transparency (90 vs 70)
Veeam scores higher on: data protection (94 vs 78)
03 Commvault Cloud Rewind 70.7 Cloud application recovery
Scores higher than Veeam 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)
Veeam scores higher on: data protection (94 vs 80) and pricing transparency (70 vs 25)
04 ControlMonkey 66.3 Configuration backup and recovery
Scores higher than Veeam on: infrastructure coverage (86 vs 35), recovery automation (76 vs 62), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (70 vs 60), drift and change history (88 vs 15) and restore as code (85 vs 10)
Veeam scores higher on: data protection (94 vs 20) and pricing transparency (70 vs 45)
05 Cohesity 59.0 Data security and backup platform
Scores higher than Veeam 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)
Veeam scores higher on: data protection (94 vs 92) and pricing transparency (70 vs 20)
07 HCP Terraform 41.7 IaC baseline
Scores higher than Veeam on: infrastructure coverage (40 vs 35), drift and change history (80 vs 15) and restore as code (30 vs 10)
Veeam scores higher on: recovery automation (62 vs 45), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (60 vs 50), data protection (94 vs 5) and pricing transparency (70 vs 60)
08 StackGuardian 39.8 IaC codification and governance
Scores higher than Veeam on: drift and change history (80 vs 15) and restore as code (85 vs 10)
Veeam scores higher on: infrastructure coverage (35 vs 30), recovery automation (62 vs 35), cross-region and cross-account rebuild (60 vs 30), data protection (94 vs 5) and pricing transparency (70 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Veeam (this page) | 35 | 62 | 60 | 15 | 10 | 94 | 70 | 52.0 |
| Firefly | 86 Higher than Veeam | 84 Higher than Veeam | 82 Higher than Veeam | 92 Higher than Veeam | 94 Higher than Veeam | 30 | 55 | 73.5 |
| Arpio | 72 Higher than Veeam | 90 Higher than Veeam | 90 Higher than Veeam | 35 Higher than Veeam | 25 Higher than Veeam | 78 | 90 Higher than Veeam | 71.1 |
| Commvault Cloud Rewind | 84 Higher than Veeam | 88 Higher than Veeam | 78 Higher than Veeam | 50 Higher than Veeam | 60 Higher than Veeam | 80 | 25 | 70.7 |
| ControlMonkey | 86 Higher than Veeam | 76 Higher than Veeam | 70 Higher than Veeam | 88 Higher than Veeam | 85 Higher than Veeam | 20 | 45 | 66.3 |
| Cohesity | 55 Higher than Veeam | 70 Higher than Veeam | 65 Higher than Veeam | 30 Higher than Veeam | 55 Higher than Veeam | 92 | 20 | 59.0 |
| HCP Terraform | 40 Higher than Veeam | 45 | 50 | 80 Higher than Veeam | 30 Higher than Veeam | 5 | 60 | 41.7 |
| StackGuardian | 30 | 35 | 30 | 80 Higher than Veeam | 85 Higher than Veeam | 5 | 50 | 39.8 |
When should you stay with Veeam?
Stay with Veeam if you need the widest listed cloud data coverage in this ranking, with always-immutable backups and a published SaaS rate. Add an infrastructure recovery tool for the configuration, network, identity and DNS layers that Veeam does not itemize.
Veeam has the highest score in this ranking on data protection.
Frequently asked questions about Veeam alternatives
What is the best alternative to Veeam?
On this site's weights, Firefly (73.5). The better fit depends on the gap you need to fill: Veeam's lowest score is restore as code (10), and the highest-scoring alternative there is Firefly (94).
Is there a free alternative to Veeam?
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 Veeam alternatives publish prices?
Arpio publishes all three tiers, from $12k a year single-cloud. 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.