Comparison

NAKIVO Backup & Replication 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.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
NAKIVO Backup & Replication12
restic40
Score
Vioscale score
NAKIVO Backup & Replication12 / 100low · 15%
restic40 / 100low · 28%
Pricing
Free tier
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
restic
Model
NAKIVO Backup & Replicationcommercial
Price level
NAKIVO Backup & Replicationunknown
resticfree
Transparent
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
restic
Integrations
Count
NAKIVO Backup & Replication18
restic3
Security
Scorecard
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
restic7.3
Adoption
Dependent repos
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
restic2
Github stars
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
restic35,740
Activity
Commits last 30d
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
restic20
Release
Cadence days
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
restic77
History
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
restic20 items
License
Spdx
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Language
Primary
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
resticGo
Market
Availability
NAKIVO Backup & ReplicationAvailable worldwide
restic

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Agentless backup solution designed to protect virtual machines, physical servers, cloud instances, and enterprise applications. Offers automated protection policies, point-in-time recovery, multiple backup destinations, and built-in safeguards against ransomware.

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.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Hybrid

Subscription and perpetual licensing available. Free trial offered. Trade-in pricing from $180 per socket.

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
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
restic
macOS
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
restic
Windows
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
restic
Linux
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
restic
CLI
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
restic
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
restic
Self-hosted
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
restic
Hybrid
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
restic
Air-gapped
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
restic

Integrations

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

NAKIVO Backup & Replication

18 total
  • VMware vSphere
  • Proxmox VE
  • Hyper-V
  • AWS EC2
  • Nutanix AHV
  • Microsoft Office 365
  • Oracle
  • Amazon S3
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Wasabi
  • Backblaze B2
  • S3-compatible cloud platforms
  • NEC HYDRAstor
  • HPE StoreOnce Catalyst
  • QNAP NAS
  • NAS
  • SMB/NFS file shares
  • Tape
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.