Afi.ai vs Veeam

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.

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.