Comparison

Kopia vs restic

No leader: the top candidate Kopia 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.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Kopia50
restic40
Score
Vioscale score
Kopia50 / 100low · 28%updating
restic40 / 100low · 28%updating
Pricing
Free tier
Kopia
restic
Model
Price level
Kopiafree
resticfree
Integrations
Count
Kopia5
restic3
Adoption
Dependent repos
Kopia39
restic2
Github stars
Kopia13,968
restic35,740
Activity
Commits last 30d
Kopia38
restic20
Release
Cadence days
Kopia21
restic77
History
restic20 items
License
Spdx
Language
Primary
KopiaGo
resticGo

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

Kopia

Open-source backup software that creates encrypted, deduplicated backups to your choice of cloud storage providers. Offers both a graphical interface and command-line tools for Windows, macOS, and Linux systems.

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.

Kopia

Open sourceFree tier
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
macOS
Kopia
restic
Windows
Kopia
restic
Linux
Kopia
restic
CLI
Kopia
restic
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Kopia
restic
Self-hosted
Kopia
restic

Integrations

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

In common (1)
  • Google Cloud Storage

Kopia

5 total - 4 not shared
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Google Drive
  • Pushover
  • Webhook
Independently observed

restic

3 total - 2 not shared
  • 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.