💾 Best Cloud Backup Solutions 2026
The 10 highest-rated cloud backup solutions tools, ranked by community rating and review count. Updated continuously.
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BorgBase provides managed backup repositories specifically designed for BorgBackup and Restic. Append-only repos, alerting for missed backups, and EU/US storage options.
Best for: Sysadmins, freelancers, and homelabbers running BorgBackup or Restic who want append-only offsite repositories with missed-backup alerting and honest per-GB billing.
- 2
Backblaze B2 offers S3-compatible object storage at $6.95/TB/month (raised from $6/TB in May). Free egress up to 3x stored data for all customers, unlimited free egress to partner CDNs/compute.
Best for: Backup targets, snapshot archives, and asset storage where low, predictable cost beats global distribution
- 3
S3-compatible cloud storage priced at a flat $7.99 per TB per month with no fees for downloads or API requests, widely used for backups.
Best for: Backup, offsite copy, and media-archive storage where data is written once, kept for months or years, and read occasionally — especially at 500 GB and above
- 4
AWS S3 stores and retrieves unlimited amounts of data via a simple web interface. Built for developers, enterprises, and anyone needing reliable, durable cloud storage with pay-as-you-go pricing.
Best for: Teams building on AWS who need durable, API-stable object storage for backups, data lakes, static content and archives — and who value tooling compatibility over the lowest per-GB rate
- 5
MSP360 (formerly CloudBerry) provides backup for Windows, macOS, Linux, and VMs to any cloud storage: AWS, Azure, GCP, Wasabi, B2, and more. Used by IT service providers.
Best for: MSPs and IT departments managing mixed Windows/Linux/macOS backups across many clients and multiple cloud storage backends
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BorgBackup is a free, open source, deduplicating backup program for Linux/macOS with compression, encryption, and deduplication. Pairs with BorgBase for managed repository hosting. Our long-standing pick for self-hosters.
Best for: Technical users and self-hosters who want deduplicated, encrypted, versioned backups to storage they control, without per-gigabyte vendor fees
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Arq Backup sends encrypted backups to your own S3, B2, Wasabi, or Google Drive. No subscription to Arq cloud — you own the destination. One-time purchase for macOS and Windows.
Best for: Mac and Windows users who want a one-time-purchase backup app sending encrypted, versioned backups to their own cloud or NAS storage
- 8
Hetzner Storage Box
From $3.2/moAffordable managed online storage with SFTP, rsync, WebDAV and Samba access
4.1 (0)Hetzner Storage Box is a managed online storage service offering 1 TB to 20 TB capacity with access via SFTP, SCP, rsync, Samba/CIFS, WebDAV and HTTPS, plus native BorgBackup, Restic and Rclone support. Built for developers, small businesses and content creators needing cost-effective backup and file hosting.
Best for: European teams and developers who need cheap, predictable backup storage or file hosting over standard file protocols, especially as a Borg/Restic target for Hetzner workloads.
- 9
Duplicati is a free, open source backup client that stores encrypted, compressed backups to local drives or cloud storage (S3, B2, Google Drive, OneDrive, and more). Web-based UI.
Best for: Home users and small businesses wanting free, encrypted, bring-your-own-storage backups with a GUI and a scriptable CLI
- 10
Backblaze Personal Backup offers unlimited computer backup for $9/month. Backs up your Mac or PC continuously in the background. No file size limits, no throttling.
Best for: Individuals and home workers with one data-heavy Mac or PC plus external drives wanting set-and-forget unlimited backup
What "best" actually means here
There's no single "best" cloud backup solutionsprovider — only the right one for your workload, region, and budget. The list below is sorted by community rating and review count, weighted toward providers that have been verified by real users rather than scored by a marketing team. We never accept payment to bump a placement, and we don't hide low-rated options just because they paid for an affiliate program — if a cloud backup solutionstool has the highest community confidence, it ranks first, regardless of who's paying us.
To get on this page at all, a cloud backup solutionsprovider needs a 4.0+ community rating and enough reviews to clear our noise threshold. That filters out brand-new entrants that nobody has actually deployed yet — useful for keeping the list honest, occasionally frustrating if you're evaluating a hot new launch. For the broader catalog (including unrated and newer entries), see our methodology.
How to read the 10-tool list:rankings are the headline signal, but rating alone doesn't tell you whether a provider fits your stack. Check the "best for" line on each card to see the workload pattern the provider is strongest at — long-running services, burst compute, edge deployments, regulated workloads, and so on. If you see two providers with similar ratings, click into the comparison view to see pricing per region, control plane, and benchmark results side by side.
How we maintain this list
This page refreshes hourly as new ratings, reviews, and pricing changes land in our catalog. The rating-basedordering is recomputed automatically on every rebuild — we don't freeze rankings or grandfather in providers whose ratings have decayed. Last refreshed: 13 November 2026 (UTC).
Our full ranking methodology, including how we weight ratings vs. review count and how we handle disputed entries, is documented on the methodology page. If you spot a missing provider, an outdated price, or a placement that doesn't match your experience, submit a correction — we read every report and update within 48 hours.
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