# SimpleBackups

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/backup/simplebackups/

Managed backup automation for servers, databases and storage, billed by the number of backup jobs.

## Who it suits

Backing up many different things on a schedule you choose and being told when one stops working: 5 jobs at $49 a month rising to 100 at $299, with unlimited storage of your own alongside whatever the plan includes.

Consider something else if You protect one or two things. The free plan allows a single job with 1 GB, and the next step is $49 — Snapshooter covers three resources for $14 and five times that for $39.

## iScore

85 / 100 (80% interval 79–91), rank 4 of 5 in backup — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every backup peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/backup/simplebackups/alternatives/

- Price: 81 (74–87), weight 36%, 2 of 2 criteria scored
- Capabilities: 100 (94–100), weight 29%, 0 of 1 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: mfa
- Trust and compliance: 73 (48–99), weight 21%, 1 of 6 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: customer_managed_keys, encryption_at_rest, gdpr_data_residency, hipaa_eligible, pci_dss
- Evidence: 84 (84–84), weight 14%, 4 of 4 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://simplebackups.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- What the free plan includes: The Basic plan at $0: one backup job and 1 GB of included storage, with your own storage connectable without limit. ([source](https://simplebackups.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Entry paid plan: $49 a month for Lite, which includes 5 backup jobs, 50 GB of storage and a floor of 12 hours between runs. ([source](https://simplebackups.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Pricing model: Per backup job, in plan-sized blocks of 1, 5, 20 and 100, with storage included at each step and unlimited bring-your-own storage alongside it. The tier also sets how often a job may run — 12 hours, 1 hour, then 5 minutes — so the plan buys recovery point objective as much as it buys capacity. ([source](https://simplebackups.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)

### Data

- Backup retention: Customer-defined on every paid tier, described only as flexible retention and schedule rather than as a fixed number of days. ([source](https://simplebackups.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)

### Compliance

- SOC 2: Listed as a feature of the $299 Max plan rather than as a property of the company, which is an unusual way to present an attestation and is recorded as the page frames it. ([source](https://simplebackups.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)

## Compared with

- [SimpleBackups vs SnapShooter](https://inetgeek.com/compare/simplebackups-vs-snapshooter/)
- [SimpleBackups vs AWS Backup](https://inetgeek.com/compare/aws-backup-vs-simplebackups/)
- [SimpleBackups vs BorgBase](https://inetgeek.com/compare/borgbase-vs-simplebackups/)
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