# SnapShooter

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

Scheduled backups for servers, databases and DigitalOcean resources, billed by how many resources you protect.

## Who it suits

Protecting a handful of servers or DigitalOcean resources without paying for a platform: $14 a month covers three, with daily runs, 10 GB included and unlimited bring-your-own storage on every tier including the free one.

Consider something else if You need backups encrypted or rotated. Backup encryption is listed from the $79 Business plan and weekly and monthly retention from $39, so the entry tier keeps daily copies in whatever state they arrived.

## iScore

84 / 100 (80% interval 79–89), rank 5 of 5 in backup.

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/snapshooter/alternatives/

- Price: 81 (75–88), 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: 66 (45–87), 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, gdpr_data_residency, hipaa_eligible, pci_dss, soc2
- Evidence: 84 (84–84), weight 14%, 4 of 4 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://snapshooter.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- What the free plan includes: One backup job, daily, with daily retention and 500 MB of included storage. The card is titled Free and its call to action is Register rather than the Try for free used on paid cards — but it also prints $14 a month, which is the Lite price, and the page shows Lite at both $14 and $13 elsewhere. Recorded as printed; the $14 on a plan called Free is not resolved here. ([source](https://snapshooter.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Entry paid plan: $14 a month for Lite, covering up to 3 backup resources with 10 GB of included storage and daily runs. ([source](https://snapshooter.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Pricing model: Per backup resource — 3, 20, 50, then 250 — with included storage at each step and unlimited bring-your-own storage throughout. As with SimpleBackups the tier also buys frequency, from daily to twice daily to every 5 minutes, so the plan is really priced on how much you protect and how recently. ([source](https://snapshooter.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)

### Data

- Backup retention: Daily only on the entry plan; daily, weekly and monthly rotation from the $39 Startup plan upward. Retention rotation is a paid feature rather than a default. ([source](https://snapshooter.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)

### Compliance

- Encryption at rest: Listed as a feature of the $79 Business plan and above, so the two cheapest paid tiers do not name it. ([source](https://snapshooter.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)

## Compared with

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