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Comparison

Cohesity vs restic

On the evidence we track, restic leads this comparison with a composite score of 42/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Cohesity full profile →restic full profile →
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Cohesity32
★restic42
Score
vioscaleAI score
Cohesity32 / 100high · 77%
restic42 / 100high · 78%
Pricing
Free tier
Cohesity✗
restic✓
Model
Cohesitycommercial
resticopen_source
Price level
Cohesityunknown
resticfree
Transparent
Cohesity✗
restic–
Integrations
Count
Cohesity5
restic2
Security
Fedramp
Cohesity✓
restic–
Gdpr
Cohesity✓
restic–
Iso27001
Cohesity✓
restic–
Scorecard
Cohesity–
restic7.3
Vulnerabilities
Adoption
Dependent repos
Cohesity–
restic2
Github stars
Cohesity–
restic36,570
Activity
Commits last 30d
Cohesity–
restic19
Release
Cadence days
Cohesity–
restic77
History
Cohesity–
restic20 items
License
Spdx
Cohesity–
resticBSD-2-Clause
Language
Primary
Cohesity–
resticGo
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Cohesity6 items
restic6 items

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
resticOn prem
Multi tenant msp
Cohesity✓
restic-
Deduplication compression
Cohesity-
restic✓
Licensing model
Cohesity-
resticOpen source

What each one is

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

Cohesity

A data protection and management platform that consolidates fragmented backup, archive, file, and analytics infrastructure into a unified, cloud-scale system. Provides disaster recovery, snapshot-based protection, and multi-cloud data tiering for enterprises and managed service providers.

Independently observed

restic

Leader

A command-line backup utility that emphasizes speed, security, and efficient storage through data deduplication and encryption, with support for Linux, macOS, Windows, and various storage backends including 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

Usage-based

Consumption-based pay-per-use subscription model; customers pay monthly for services used

as of verify ↗

restic

Leader
Open source
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✓

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

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