CrashPlan vs Wasabi
A detailed comparison to help you choose between CrashPlan and Wasabi.
Quick Verdict
3.7/5
CrashPlan
0 reviews
4.0/5
Wasabi
0 reviews
Wasabi is rated higher (4.0 vs 3.7). CrashPlan provides unlimited endpoint backup for businesses. Deploy to employee laptops and workstations centrally. No file size limits, unlimited versioning, and forensic restore capabilities. 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.
CrashPlan Unlimited endpoint backup for businesses | Wasabi Hot cloud storage at cold storage prices | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.7 (0 reviews) | 4.0 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $7.33/mo✓ | From $7.99/mo |
| Best for | IT departments at businesses under a few hundred employees that want centrally managed, unlimited-version endpoint backup with self-serve restore | 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 |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ✓ | |
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | CrashPlan cloud; enterprise can use Azure, AWS, Wasabi, Backblaze or their own S3 | 16 regions: US (N. Virginia x2, Texas, Oregon, California), Canada (Toronto), Netherlands (Amsterdam), Germany (Frankfurt), UK x2, France (Paris), Italy (Milan), Japan x2 (Tokyo, Osaka), Singapore, Australia (Sydney) |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | team features | s3 compatibleeu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenterapi accessgdpr compliant |
| Visit CrashPlan → | Visit Wasabi → | |
CrashPlan
Pros
- + Endpoint backup at $7.33/user/month (annual) with unlimited cloud storage and unlimited versioning — retention length and restore count do not change the bill
- + Published small-business pricing with self-serve signup, 14-day full-function trial, and no per-server license on the enterprise tier
- + Long track record: continuous product since 2007 (ex-Code42), 900+ enterprise and 120,000+ small-business customers cited at the 2022 carve-out
- + Enterprise tier supports bring-your-own storage (Azure, AWS, Wasabi, Backblaze or your own S3) plus SSO, legal hold, immutable copies and audit logging
Cons
- - Vendor pages contradict themselves on endpoint storage ('unlimited' on the plan page vs 50 GB pooled in the pricing FAQ) — resolve before rollout
- - Cost scales per user and the governance features (SSO, legal hold, immutable copies, dedicated CSM) sit above the 250-user / quote-only line
- - No personal plan, no free tier, no published uptime SLA, and endpoint deleted-file retention caps at 90 days
- - Server tier's 250 GB pooled storage with $90/year per 250 GB add-ons is stepped pricing that grows quietly with data volume
Wasabi
Pros
- + Flat $7.99/TB/month with zero egress and API request charges — bills are predictable to the dollar
- + S3-compatible API with broad backup-software support (Veeam, rclone, Synology, MSP360 and others)
- + 16 regions with per-bucket region pinning, covering US, EU, and APAC data-residency needs
- + Credit-backed 99.9% uptime SLA with a published error-rate measurement methodology
- + No cold-tier latency: everything is hot storage, so restores are immediate
Cons
- - 90-day minimum storage duration — early deletion or overwriting incurs Timed Deleted Storage charges
- - 1 TB minimum monthly charge makes small datasets uneconomical
- - Fair-use policy implicitly caps monthly egress near stored volume — not a CDN origin play
- - Single storage tier only; no cheap cold class for rarely-retrieved archives
- - Basic support only on Pay-as-You-Go; Premium support is tied to Reserved Capacity contracts
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