Comparison

Druva 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.

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Druva36
★restic42
Score
vioscaleAI score
Druva36 / 100high · 76%
restic42 / 100high · 78%
Pricing
Free tier
Druva✗
restic✓
Model
Price level
Druvaunknown
resticfree
Transparent
Druva✗
restic–
Integrations
Count
Druva6
restic2
Adoption
Dependent repos
Druva–
restic2
Github stars
Druva–
restic36,570
Activity
Commits last 30d
Druva–
restic19
Release
Cadence days
Druva–
restic77
History
Druva–
restic20 items
License
Spdx
Druva–
Language
Primary
Druva–
resticGo
Market
Availability
restic–
Content
Faq
Druva5 items
restic6 items

Capabilities

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

Capabilities
Backup method
DruvaAgent
restic-
Immutable storage
Druva-
restic-
Air gapped copy
Druva-
restic-
Dr orchestration failover
Druva✓
restic-
Instant recovery
Druva✓
restic-
Ransomware anomaly detection
Druva✓
restic-
Granular item recovery
Druva✓
restic✓
Kubernetes backup
Druva-
restic-
Multi cloud support
Druva✓
restic✓
Deployment model
DruvaSaas
resticOn prem
Multi tenant msp
Druva-
restic-
Deduplication compression
Druva✓
restic✓
Licensing model
DruvaPer TB capacity
resticOpen source

What each one is

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

Druva

A fully managed SaaS service providing backup, disaster recovery, and ransomware defense across multi-cloud environments using consumption-based pricing.

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.

Druva

Subscription
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
Druva✓
restic✗
macOS
Druva✗
restic✓
Windows
Druva✗
restic✓
Linux
Druva✗
restic✓
CLI
Druva✗
restic✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Druva✓
restic✓
Self-hosted
Druva✗
restic✓

Integrations

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

Druva

11 total
  • Splunk
  • Oracle
  • Oracle Enterprise Manager
  • VMware
  • vCenter
  • Microsoft SQL
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Amazon EFS
  • Amazon FSx
  • Ansible
Independently observed

restic

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