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.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for backup recovery. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
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.
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.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
Cohesity
- Pure Storage FlashArray
- Amazon Web Services
- Google Cloud
- Microsoft Azure
- Pure Storage FlashArray//M
restic
- Google Cloud Storage
- Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
- SFTP
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.