Comparison

Cohesity vs restic

No leader: the top candidate restic has only 0.28 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Cohesity29
restic40
Score
Vioscale score
Cohesity29 / 100low · 42%
restic40 / 100low · 28%
Pricing
Free tier
Cohesity
restic
Model
Cohesitycommercial
Price level
Cohesityunknown
resticfree
Transparent
Cohesity
restic
Integrations
Count
Cohesity4
restic3
Security
Fedramp
Cohesity
restic
Gdpr
Cohesity
restic
Iso27001
Cohesity
restic
Scorecard
Cohesity
restic7.3
Adoption
Dependent repos
Cohesity
restic2
Github stars
Cohesity
restic35,740
Activity
Commits last 30d
Cohesity
restic20
Release
Cadence days
Cohesity
restic77
History
Cohesity
restic20 items
License
Spdx
Cohesity
Language
Primary
Cohesity
resticGo
Market
Availability

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for backup recovery. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capabilities
Backup method
CohesitySnapshot
restic-
Immutable storage
Cohesity-
restic-
Air gapped copy
Cohesity-
restic-
Dr orchestration failover
Cohesity
restic-
Instant recovery
Cohesity
restic-
Ransomware anomaly detection
Cohesity-
restic-
Granular item recovery
Cohesity-
restic-
Kubernetes backup
Cohesity-
restic-
Multi cloud support
Cohesity
restic-
Deployment model
CohesityHybrid
restic-
Multi tenant msp
Cohesity
restic-
Deduplication compression
Cohesity-
restic-
Licensing model
Cohesity-
restic-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Cohesity

A centralized data management platform that combines backup, recovery, and security analytics to safeguard diverse workloads—including 1,000+ types spanning cloud, on-premises, and SaaS applications—while providing operational visibility and threat detection.

Independently observed

restic

Free and open source backup program supporting Linux, macOS, Windows and other systems, with ability to store backups to multiple backends including self-hosted and cloud services.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Cohesity

Subscription

Pay-per-use consumption model; no fixed commitment required

as of verify ↗

restic

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Cohesity
restic
macOS
Cohesity
restic
Windows
Cohesity
restic
Linux
Cohesity
restic
CLI
Cohesity
restic
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Cohesity
restic
Self-hosted
Cohesity
restic
On-premise
Cohesity
restic
Hybrid
Cohesity
restic

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Cohesity

5 total
  • Pure Storage FlashArray
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Pure Storage FlashArray//M
Independently observed

restic

3 total
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
  • SFTP
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.

Cohesity vs restic: an evidence-based comparison · Vioscale