Best Virtual Machine Backup Software in 2026
19 virtual machine backup software ranked on what their makers publish — plans and prices, free tiers, platforms and the facts on their own pages.
| # | Platform | Score | Why | From | Free plan | Paid from | Hypervisor coverage | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bacula Enterprise | 8.1 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | No | — | — | View |
| 2 |  Xen Orchestra | 7.4 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $83.33/mo | Yes | — | — | View |
| 3 | SEP sesam | 7.1 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 4 | Veeam Backup & Replication | 7.0 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | — | — | — | View |
| 5 |  Iperius Backup | 7.0 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 6 |  Vinchin Backup & Recovery | 6.8 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 7 |  NAKIVO Backup & Replication | 6.7 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | — | — | — | View |
| 8 | Unitrends Backup | 6.3 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | No | — | — | View |
| 9 |  Infrascale Backup and Disaster Recovery | 6.2 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | — | — | VMware vSphere ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM | View |
| 10 |  Uranium Backup | 6.2 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | €18/mo | Yes | — | — | View |
| 11 | Ahsay Backup Software | 6.1 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $1/mo | No | — | — | View |
| 12 | Proxmox Backup Server | 6.1 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | €46.67/mo | Yes | — | — | View |
| 13 | Hystax Acura | 6.0 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | — | — | VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Xen, OpenStack, oVirt, OpenNebula, KubeVirt, OpenShift Virtualization, Virtuozzo | View |
| 14 |  Quorum onQ | 5.8 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | — | — | VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Oracle VM, and other hypervisors | View |
| 15 |  XSIBackup | 5.4 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | VMware ESXi 5.5–8.0 | View |
| 16 | Asigra Cloud Backup | 5.3 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | — | — | — | View |
| 17 | Zerto | 5.2 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | No | — | — | View |
| 18 | JetStream DR | 5.1 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | — | — | VMware vSphere 7 and 8 | View |
| 19 | Rubrik Security Cloud | 4.7 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | — | — | — | View |
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Questions about this list
Which virtual machine backup software is ranked first on Inferse?
Bacula Enterprise is ranked #1 of 19 with a score of 8.1. Xen Orchestra is second and SEP sesam third.
How many of these have a free plan?
8 of the 19 on this page publish a free plan on their own pricing pages.
Which is the cheapest paid option?
On this page, Ahsay Backup Software has the lowest first paid tier we found: $1/mo.
How is this list ranked?
Ranked on what each maker publishes, open and connectable first: a public API, open-source code, the depth of its documentation and a free tier to try it on. Model lists are sorted by the figure in their title, exactly as each provider publishes it. Paid placements never change a rank.