Best Cloud Backup in 2026

Backblaze Computer Backup is the original product of Backblaze, a remote-first company listed on Nasdaq under the ticker BLZE. The service backs up a Mac or PC automatically with no limit on data volume and, according to the pricing page, no restrictions on file type or size. Backblaze states that it serves 500,000 customers in more than 175 countries and that 188 billion files have been restored. Personal backup costs US$9 a month, US$99 a year, or US$7.88 a month on a two-year term. Version history is 30 days by default, one year at no extra cost if enabled, or unlimited for US$0.006 per GB per month on files older than a year. Data is encrypted with an AES-128 key protected by a 2048-bit public/private key pair, and users can add a private encryption key. Large restores can be shipped on an encrypted USB drive that is free if returned within 30 days, and web restores are delivered as zip files of up to 500 GB per request. A Business tier adds multi-user administration, and Enterprise Control adds OIDC single sign-on and restricted restore access. The service backs up whole computers rather than SaaS accounts or servers, which separates it from the business-platform entries below.

IDrive is a backup service run by IDrive Inc. that lets one account protect multiple PCs, Macs, Linux machines, iPhones, iPads and Android devices, plus external hard drives. Unlike unlimited per-computer services, IDrive sells storage pools: a free Basic plan includes 10 GB, IDrive Personal starts at 5 TB and runs to 100 TB, and Team and Business plans scale to hundreds of terabytes. The client performs incremental, compressed backups, provides snapshots for point-in-time recovery and retains up to 30 previous versions of each file. Files can be encrypted with 256-bit AES using a user-defined key that IDrive states is not stored on its servers. The IDrive Express service ships physical storage for backup or retrieval, which the company says takes less than a week. Beyond computers, the same subscription family covers Microsoft 365, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Dropbox and Box backup, servers such as SQL Server, Exchange, Hyper-V and VMware, and Synology or QNAP NAS devices as an add-on. A "true archiving" option keeps deleted local files in the account until the user runs a clean-up. The breadth of the feature list means the interface is denser than single-purpose services.

CrashPlan is an endpoint and server backup service for businesses. It began as a product of Code42 and now describes itself as an independent company; its separation from Code42 Software was announced in August 2022, in a release headlined as an acquisition by Mill Point Capital. CrashPlan today sells Small Business plans for organisations under 250 employees and Enterprise plans above that threshold. The Small Business endpoint plan covers Windows, macOS and Linux with unlimited cloud storage and unlimited versions, and lets users restore and migrate devices without an IT ticket. Separate plans cover Windows and Linux servers with 250 GB of pooled storage per server, and Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace with 50 GB per user. The Enterprise tier allows customers to store backups with CrashPlan, Azure, AWS, Wasabi, Backblaze or their own S3-compatible storage, and adds single sign-on, delegated administration, immutable copies, legal hold and audit logging. CrashPlan is also marketing a transition plan to Code42 Endpoint Backup customers, whose product it says shuts down at the end of 2026.

Carbonite is an online backup brand that has belonged to OpenText's cybersecurity business since 2019, alongside Webroot, MailStore and Hightail. Its personal plans back up one computer with unlimited, encrypted, automatic cloud storage for a flat price. Three tiers are offered: Basic, which covers one computer; Plus, which adds one external hard drive, automatic video backup and Webroot antivirus; and Prime, which has the same device coverage as Plus. Courier delivery of recovered files is available for an additional fee. Carbonite states that customers who are infected can call support within two weeks to restore pre-infection versions. Clients run on Windows 7 or later and OS X 10.10 or later. A 15-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee are offered. The published prices are introductory: Carbonite states the discount applies to new customers only and not to renewals, and the list prices shown are 25% to 40% higher. The plans page is internally inconsistent on encryption strength, quoting both 256-bit encryption and "128-byte protection", so buyers needing a specific cipher should confirm it with the vendor.

Acronis True Image is the consumer backup product of Acronis, a Swiss company founded in Singapore and headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Acronis's main business is selling cyber-protection services through more than 21,000 service providers to over 750,000 businesses; True Image is its retail line. The product combines full disk-image backup to local drives with optional cloud storage and security features, and each subscription protects up to five PCs or Macs plus an unlimited number of mobile devices. Three annual tiers are sold. Essentials does not include cloud storage at all, so it is a local backup tool rather than a cloud backup service. Advanced adds 50 GB, 250 GB or 500 GB of Acronis cloud storage, and Premium offers 1 TB up to 10 TB. The combination of local images and cloud copies follows the common recommendation to keep more than one backup copy, and it allows a full system restore to new hardware, which pure file-backup services do not offer. The purchasing page does not explain how prices change with the number of computers selected, so buyers should check the basket before paying.

Arq is a backup application for macOS and Windows that separates the software from the storage. Arq 7 is sold as a perpetual licence that the buyer keeps, and it backs up to storage the user configures: many cloud providers, an SFTP server, an external drive or a NAS, including several destinations at once. Data is protected with end-to-end encryption so that, in the vendor's words, it is readable only by the owner. For users who do not want to manage storage, Arq Premium bundles the app for up to five computers with 1 TB of Arq-managed cloud storage and web access to backups. This model suits technically confident users who already pay for object storage, such as Backblaze B2, Wasabi or Amazon S3, or who want a local and an off-site copy from one tool. The trade-off is that storage charges, retention settings and the integrity of the target are the user's responsibility when Premium is not used. Arq offers a 30-day free trial, and the vendor listed version 7.51 for both platforms, released on 5 November 2026. Updates after the first year cost US$25 per computer per year.

SpiderOak One Backup is a backup and sync service from SpiderOak, which says it has been protecting data since 2007 and serves users in 77 countries. Its main distinguishing feature is client-side, no-knowledge encryption: files are encrypted on the device before upload, keys remain with the user, and the company states that it cannot read files, view metadata or access passwords. Every plan allows an unlimited number of devices across Windows, macOS and Linux, and plans are priced by capacity per user, from 150 GB to 5 TB. A 21-day free trial is available on every plan without payment details. The privacy model has practical consequences: because the provider cannot read the data, it cannot reset a lost password or recover files for the user, and server-side features such as content search or previews are limited. The vendor's privacy claims appear on its own page without links to independent audits or certifications, which buyers in regulated sectors may need to request directly. The service has moved to the spideroak.one domain; the former product address on spideroak.com redirects there.

pCloud is a cloud storage service operated by pCloud International AG, which cites Swiss privacy law in its marketing. It is primarily a storage and sync product rather than a dedicated backup service, but it includes automatic backup of a phone's photo gallery and of desktop folders, and a third-party backup feature for copying data from other services. pCloud is unusual in selling one-time lifetime plans: 500 GB, 2 TB and 10 TB tiers, plus a 3-in-1 bundle that includes pCloud Encryption (its client-side encrypted folder) and the pCloud Pass password manager. Family plans cover up to five users, and a separate business offering exists. Because pCloud is sync-oriented, deletions and changes propagate across devices unless recovered from its trash or file history, so it is weaker than dedicated backup services as protection against ransomware that encrypts a synced folder. Client-side encryption is not included in the standard plans; it is part of the bundle or sold separately. Prices on the pricing page are in euros and, when consulted in November 2026, a seasonal promotion was displayed beside the list prices.

Synology C2 Backup is the cloud backup service of Synology, the network-attached storage manufacturer, and sits within its C2 family of cloud services. It backs up Windows PCs to Synology's C2 servers, either selected folders or the entire device, and the entire-device method can include external drives when the option is enabled. Subscriptions come in three capacities, 500 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB, billed monthly or yearly, and customers choose data residency in Europe or North America. A 30-day free trial is available. The pricing page computes VAT from the billing address and showed no fixed prices when consulted, so this list does not state them. The service is most relevant to existing Synology customers who already use the company's management tools, and to European buyers who need data held in an EU region. Compared with unlimited services such as Backblaze, its capacities are small, and the 2 TB ceiling rules it out for large media libraries.

Keepit is a backup service for software-as-a-service applications that runs on data centres it owns and operates rather than on a public cloud; the company states it uses no third-party subprocessors for data processing. It protects Microsoft 365, Microsoft Entra ID, Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Azure DevOps, Salesforce, Google Workspace, Zendesk, Confluence, Jira, Okta, Docusign, BambooHR, Miro, GitHub and monday.com, among others. Backups are kept as four copies in two separated data centres within the region the customer selects. Pricing is seat-based and includes unlimited hot storage with no fees for data ingress, egress, restores or transactions; the per-seat price falls as seat count rises, but no prices are published. Three editions are offered: Core Continuity with recovery for up to five years, Business Resilience with up to ten years and Microsoft 365 multi-geo support, and Enterprise Resilience with a dedicated customer experience manager. Keepit's site displays an ISO/IEC 27001 certification badge. The independence from Microsoft and Google infrastructure is the main argument for Keepit over native tools, since an outage or account compromise on the source platform does not reach the backup copy.

Druva sells data protection delivered entirely as a cloud service, so customers do not deploy backup servers or storage. Its catalogue spans data-centre workloads (virtual machines, files, NAS and databases), public-cloud workloads, productivity suites (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, endpoints and Microsoft Power Platform), identity systems (Entra ID, Active Directory and Okta), CRM (Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics 365) and what it calls AI data, naming Microsoft 365 Copilot and Claude. Licensing options include individual workload tiers, a SaaS Universal License that covers all SaaS and identity workloads under a unified per-user licence with dynamic pooled storage, and an Essentials Pack for small and mid-sized businesses that adds VMware, Nutanix, Hyper-V, Proxmox, SQL, Oracle, Azure and AWS workloads. Druva says it is trusted by thousands of enterprises but does not publish prices; a free trial can be started online. Compared with Keepit, Druva covers on-premises servers and laptops as well as SaaS, which makes it a candidate for consolidating several backup tools; compared with CrashPlan, it is aimed at larger IT teams and has no self-serve price list.

Microsoft 365 Backup is Microsoft's own backup service for OneDrive, SharePoint and Exchange Online data, sold on a pay-as-you-go basis of US$0.15 per GiB per month for all protected data, with restores free of charge. Billing runs through an Azure subscription rather than per-user licences. Backups are created within the Microsoft 365 trust boundary and stored in append-only form, so existing backup content cannot be overwritten until it is permanently deleted. Microsoft quotes restore speeds of up to 1,000 average-sized OneDrive accounts or SharePoint sites at a median of 1 to 3 TiB per hour when express restore points are used. A backup policy can contain up to 100,000 items, and larger organisations are told to contact Microsoft. Microsoft also exposes the service to partner products that integrate it. The service's strength is restore speed for large-scale incidents such as ransomware across a tenant; its limitation is that the backup copy stays inside Microsoft's own environment, which some compliance frameworks and risk teams treat as insufficient separation, and it does not cover Teams chats, Entra ID or non-Microsoft applications according to the workloads listed.

Own Company is a data protection and data management vendor focused on SaaS platforms, especially Salesforce. Salesforce signed an agreement on 5 September 2024 to acquire Own for approximately US$1.9 billion in cash, net of the roughly 10% of shares it already held, and completed the acquisition on 18 November 2024. At announcement, Salesforce said Own was trusted by nearly 7,000 customers and had been a Salesforce AppExchange partner since 2012 and a Salesforce Ventures portfolio company. The Own Data Platform provides backup and recovery together with data archiving, sandbox seeding, security and analytics capabilities. For Salesforce customers, the acquisition makes Own a first-party option, which simplifies procurement and support. The same fact cuts the other way for buyers who want a backup held by a vendor independent of the source platform, the argument made by Keepit and others. Pricing is negotiated with Salesforce and was not published on any page consulted for this list, so it is listed as quote-based.