Acronis vs Veeam

Acronis is a Swiss-headquartered cyber protection company founded in 2003, known for its True Image disk imaging software and, today, mainly for a multitenant platform that managed service providers use to back up, secure and manage their clients' systems. EQT agreed in 2024 to take a majority stake, and Acronis says more than 20,000 service providers and 750,000 businesses use its platform.

The business offering, marketed as the Acronis Cyber Platform and sold to service providers as Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, combines backup of servers, PCs, VMs and Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace with disaster recovery, EDR and MDR, email security, data loss prevention, patching, RMM and PSA-style billing and service desk tools. MSPs pay per workload for actual usage; IT departments buy one to three year terms. The consumer line, Acronis True Image, is sold per year: Essentials for local backup and cloning, Advanced with cloud storage and anti-malware, and Premium with 1 TB or more of cloud storage.

Acronis fits MSPs that want one console for backup, security and RMM, and home or small-office users who need full-disk images and cloning. Backblaze is simpler and cheaper for plain cloud backup, Afi.ai focuses on SaaS backup for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, and Veeam is the usual choice for large virtualized data centers.

Buying tip: True Image prices rise with each extra computer and terabyte, so a 3 or 5 computer pack is better value for households. MSPs should check which security modules they already license elsewhere.

Veeam is a data resilience vendor founded in 2006 by Ratmir Timashev and Andrei Baronov, originally known for backing up VMware virtual machines. Insight Partners bought the company in 2020 in a deal valued at about $5 billion, and it is now headquartered in Seattle. Veeam says it protects data for more than 550,000 customers, including 82% of the Fortune 500, and IDC ranked it first in worldwide data protection software market share for the second half of 2025.

The core product, Veeam Data Platform (version 13.1 at the time of writing), backs up and restores VMs on VMware, Hyper-V and Proxmox, physical Windows and Linux servers, NAS and cloud workloads in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Editions stack: Foundation covers backup, immutability and instant recovery; Advanced adds monitoring and AI threat detection; Premium adds orchestrated recovery and compliance reporting. Veeam Data Cloud is the SaaS line for Microsoft 365, Entra ID and Salesforce, Kasten protects Kubernetes and Coveware handles ransomware response. A free Community Edition covers up to 10 workloads.

Veeam fits IT teams running mixed on-prem and cloud infrastructure who need reliable restores and ransomware-ready, immutable backups. Acronis bundles endpoint security for MSPs, Druva is fully SaaS with no servers to run, and Keepit focuses on SaaS app backup. Veeam is the most complete, but it needs infrastructure skills to deploy well.

Recent development: in December 2025 Veeam closed its $1.725 billion purchase of Securiti AI, adding data security posture management, privacy and AI governance.