Afi.ai vs Druva

Afi.ai is a cloud-native backup and recovery service for Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Kubernetes. It protects mailboxes, drives, shared drives, calendars and contacts as well as Teams and SharePoint data, and it was built from scratch as a SaaS product rather than adapted from on-premises backup software, which shows in its quick setup and modern interface.

Backups run automatically on a schedule, with unlimited storage and unlimited retention included in a per-user price. Restores can be granular (a single email, file or folder) or cover a full account at a chosen point in time. AI-driven monitoring flags unusual activity such as mass deletions or encryption patterns that suggest ransomware, and a multi-tenant console lets managed service providers run backups for many client organizations from one place. Kubernetes cluster backup is priced separately on a custom basis.

Afi fits IT teams and MSPs that want SaaS backup without managing storage or legacy agents, especially organizations on Google Workspace, where fewer strong options exist. It is a younger and less known vendor than Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Backupify or Spanning, and it does not cover Salesforce or other SaaS apps, so companies that want one vendor for every cloud application may prefer broader suites such as Druva or Own. For pure Workspace and 365 protection, transparent pricing and fast restores are its strongest arguments.

Druva is a cloud data protection company founded in 2008 in Pune, India, by former Veritas engineers Jaspreet Singh, Milind Borate and Ramani Kothandaraman, and now headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Its Resilience Cloud is delivered as a fully managed SaaS service, so customers back up laptops, SaaS apps, servers and cloud workloads without buying or running backup hardware.

Coverage spans Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce and Dynamics 365, endpoints, VMware, Hyper-V and Nutanix VMs, SQL and Oracle databases, NAS, AWS and Azure workloads, plus identity data in Entra ID, Active Directory and Okta. Security features include anomaly detection, a quarantine bay, curated recovery after ransomware and managed data detection and response. Plans are per user (Enterprise and Elite) or bundled for SMBs, and prices are quoted rather than published.

Druva fits IT teams that want one console for endpoint and SaaS backup with eDiscovery and legal hold, and mid-size companies that prefer no backup infrastructure at all. It is overkill if you only need to protect a small Google Workspace domain; Spanning and Afi.ai are lighter for SaaS-only backup, and Backblaze is cheaper for simple file and server backup.

Recent development: in early 2026 Druva launched Threat Watch for continuous threat detection, added DruAI agents that compress forensic reporting from days to minutes, and extended protection to Azure Government. Its plan pages now also list AI data such as Microsoft 365 Copilot and Claude as protected workloads.