Comet Backup 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Comet Backup

4.7

(74)

Pricing

Starting at $19.00 per month

About Comet Backup

Comet is a fast, secure all-in-one backup platform for businesses and IT providers. Our backup software supports businesses across 120 countries in 13 languages. You choose your backup destination, server location, configuration and setup.

Comet can back up: Windows, Linux, MacOS, full computers, disks and partitions (bare-metal recovery), files and folders, Microsoft Office 365 & Exchange servers, Microsoft SQL servers, Hyper-V, VMware, Synology, MySQL & MongoDB databases, Program Output, Windows Server System State, Windows System Backup, and Application-Aware VSS.

Backup to your own storage/location, SFTP, FTP, or cloud storage provider (Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure, Backblaze B2, Wasabi, or other S3-compatible cloud providers).

Comet’s modern ‘chunking’ technology powers client-side deduplication with no full re-uploads after the first backup. Backups are incremental forever—your oldest backup can restore just as fast as your most recent. No need for differentials or delta-merging. Data is compressed and encrypted during backup, transit, and rest.

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Comet Backup Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $19.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Starter

$19.00

per month

Plan includes:

1 Self-Hosted Management Console License included
Starting at $3 / endpoint / month
Backup to cloud or on-prem storage

Growth

$49.00

per month

Plan includes:

2 Self-Hosted Management Console Licenses included (Primary + Replica)
Starting at $2 / endpoint / month
Backup to cloud or on-prem storage

Professional

$49.00

per month

Plan includes:

1 Comet-Hosted Cloud Management Console License included
Starting at $2 / endpoint / month
Backup to cloud storage

Advanced

$99.00

per month

Plan includes:

5 Management Console Licenses included (Comet-Hosted and/or Self-Hosted)
Starting at $2 / endpoint / month
Backup to cloud or on-prem storage

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Comet Backup Features

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Compliance Management
Data Import/Export
Data Migration
Data Recovery
Data Retention Management
Disaster Recovery
Document Management
Full Text Search
Match & Merge
Multimedia Archiving
Storage Management
Version Control
More features of Comet Backup
Access Controls/Permissions
Active Directory Integration
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Escalation
Alerts/Notifications
API
Archiving & Retention
Automated Scheduling
Automatic Backup
Backup and Recovery
Backup Log
Backup Scheduling
Bare-Metal Restore
Cloud Backup
Compression
Content Management
Continuous Backup
Customer Database
Customizable Branding
Customizable Reports
Dashboard
Data Capture and Transfer
Data Replication
Data Storage Management
Data Synchronization
Deduplication
Differential Backup
Document Storage
Duplicate Detection
Email Alerts
Encryption
Event Logs
File Management
File Transfer
Filtering
Graphical User Interface
HIPAA Compliant
Incremental Backup
Local Server Options
Monitoring
Multi-OS
Multiple Data Sources
Multiple Format Support
Policy Management
Real-Time Monitoring
Real-Time Notifications
Real-Time Reporting
Remote Access/Control
Remote Monitoring & Management
Remote Server Options
Remote Update/Installation
Reporting & Statistics
Role-Based Permissions
Scheduled/Automated Reports
Scheduling
Search/Filter
Secure Data Storage
Secure Login
Self Service Portal
Server Monitoring
Single Sign On
SSL Security
Status Tracking
Task Scheduling
Third-Party Integrations
Two-Factor Authentication
User Management
Virtual Machine Encryption
VM Backup
Web Access/Restoration
Whitelisting/Blacklisting

Comet Backup Integrations

DigitalOcean

Klips

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft SQL Server

MongoDB

MySQL

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Comet Backup User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

77%

19%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.5

Value for money

4.7

Customer support

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Michael D.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

Comet Backup is my GoTo for backup products

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Inexpensive, good features, remote control

Cons:

If it were integrated with my Datto CRM and RMM product, it would make things somewhat better.

Reasons for switching to Comet Backup

Cost. It cost me more in one month with N-Central than I pay in a year using Comet Backup.

Matthew T.

Verified reviewer

Information Services

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Reviewed February 2025

Comet is good with a steep learning curve.

3/5 stars. It is easy to manage customers from the back end, easy to deploy and set up a schedule for backing up files, but time-consuming to restore or teach a client how to restore a file. BMR is unusable in my experience.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to deploy; user interface is intuitive.

Cons:

Restoring isn't user-friendly. Baremetal recovery is terrible. Documentation is not good for this task. Support very poor.

Reasons for switching to Comet Backup

price increased at idrive. Started looking for another service.

Manish M.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2021

Good Backup solution

Overall really good for MSP customers.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The file backup part is really good. All the options for backup is really good. The features are a must. Work really smooth once its is setup

Cons:

Storage vaults is bit confusing. Local vault and UNC file might have a problem connecting.

Matthew C.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Reviewed February 2025

CometBackup is great for MSPs!

Absolutely amazing - this is a great piece of software and as a backup solution works great for us.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

So easy to setup - extremely easy to use interface and even the whole server setup is easy

Cons:

Not much we didn't like about it to be honest - we used to use ahsay and cometbackup so much better!

Reasons for switching to Comet Backup

We needed a newer and more modern approach to backup solutions.

Rene N.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2024

Great backup good price

The support team has been great and will even schedule a zoom to help you sort out your issue, they keep adding features and functionality so it just keep getting better, I feel like there are better solutions on the market but not at the price point.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Central cloud backup Server with options to and onsite backup servers too. Linux option for the backup server reduces our cost. No cost to run the backup server only cost per client device. Support for most types of storage. DAS, NAS, S3 and more.

Cons:

Restores can be slower then some competitors, no option to live mount the data found in some of the competition. Storage locking can be a challenge.

Reasons for choosing Comet Backup

The price point was good and it included re branding and one of the biggest things was the image backup that did not rely on windows built in backup.

Reasons for switching to Comet Backup

Pricing given to use when joining and used to price our product to clients changed and it became unfeasible for us to continue, their sales team did not care and made excuses as to why they could not honer the original price, there were a few other issue with the software and support response was also poor.

Denis S.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2024

Comet after a year.

So far, so good. It seems to be reliable for the most part. Would like some more in depth reporting and monitoring features, but for the price, it's been very good value.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Quite easy to set up, inexpensive pricing.

Cons:

Need to be able to back up MS365 data without relying on a dedicated endpoint at the client end. We can't use it for MS365 backups without that feature and are using another backup tool for that side of backups.

Reasons for choosing Comet Backup

Pretty much it came down to price. Veeam and Cove were both more mature platforms, and had more features, but Comet ticked our boxes at a better price point.

Reasons for switching to Comet Backup

Pricing and feature set. Comet had more features for the price. We also loved the idea of self hosting the server and using Wasabi / S3 as a storage target.

Michael M.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2023

Working great so far.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I found it simple to set up the server. I like that it's pretty customizable and the one time I did contact support, they were friendly and helpful. It's just worked since I got it installed.

Cons:

Not sure, maybe wish there were slight discounts on the per seat licenses or something when self hosting, but really, I don't think there is room to complain about pricing right now, it's a significantly better deal than something like Veeam when you just need something simple. Maybe some kind of automatic backup verification that can reload backups into VMs, check they boot and such and then delete similar to what bigger backup software have, but that's a big feature. Oh, and maybe an obvious way to use your own SSL certs instead of LetsEncrypt.

Reasons for choosing Comet Backup

Pricing largely, and in the case of UrBackup, it was just too complex for me to get set up and working right.

Raymond J.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2021

Excellent backup software

We have used a fair number of backup software, all with some challenges. With Comet we have no issues at all.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Backup servers are available for Windows and Linux. Installation and configuration is very easy. Setup and executing backup jobs works perfect. Restore also no problems. They make new versions very regular, so many new features over time.

Cons:

Overal the product works great. For virtual machine backup we use different software. If at some point this could be integrated in Comet backup, that would be excellent!

Reasons for choosing Comet Backup

No alternatives were considered.

Reasons for switching to Comet Backup

We did have a maintenance contract with Ahsay. But then they decided that if you wanted to go to the latest version you had to buy it again. A company this unreliable is not a company we want to be in business with, so we switched to Comet.

david s.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed February 2025

the best backu psolution I have found to date

I have used comet backup for several years and it ticks all of the boxes - it is easy to use, supports all different client scenarios and can back up data, sql databases and so on. It is centrally managed which is great, it backs up data very efficiently and the thing I like most about it is that you have the option of using their fully managed backup servers OR installing the software on your own infrastructure and using your own servers for the backup sets. Many companies dont offer this and it often makes backu very expensive, whereas with comet backup I can use my own affordable infrastructure and be in control of everything myself.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I love comet backup because it is easy to use, feature rich and also gives me the option of managing my own infrastructure for both the server application and the backup storage. It is the best backup solution I have found in this respect.

Cons:

The only bad thing I can think of is that restores take quite a while and it doesnt seem to save on transfers when some or part of the files being restored already exist locally. But that is me being very picky and overall I love comet backup.

Daniel S.

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed February 2025

Gets the job done