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SimpleBackups vs SnapShooter

SEPT 2026 audit

A comparison of SimpleBackups and SnapShooter built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.

Updated 7 criteria comparedSources last checked

The short answer

Choose SimpleBackups if…

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.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose SnapShooter if…

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.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • SimpleBackups: 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.
  • SnapShooter: 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.

4 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionSimpleBackupsSnapShooter
Pricing
Free tierYesYes
What the free plan includesThe Basic plan at $0: one backup job and 1 GB of included storage, with your own storage connectable without limit.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.
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.
$14 a month for Lite, covering up to 3 backup resources with 10 GB of included storage and daily runs.
Pricing modelPer 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.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.
Data
Backup retentionCustomer-defined on every paid tier, described only as flexible retention and schedule rather than as a fixed number of days.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.

Only criteria both providers publish appear here; a tinted cell marks a real difference. Criteria only one of them documents are listed below, and an absence there means we found no source — not that the feature is missing. How we source this.

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02.

Where they differ.

What the free plan includes

SimpleBackups
The Basic plan at $0: one backup job and 1 GB of included storage, with your own storage connectable without limit.
SnapShooter
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.
Sources (2) →
  • SimpleBackups Pricing ↗

    “Included Storage (SimpleStorage) 1 GB 50 GB 200 GB 1 TB”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

  • SnapShooter Pricing ↗

    “1 backup job Backup daily Daily retention Unlimited bring your own storage 500 MB included storage”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

Entry paid plan

SimpleBackups
$49 a month for Lite, which includes 5 backup jobs, 50 GB of storage and a floor of 12 hours between runs.
SnapShooter
$14 a month for Lite, covering up to 3 backup resources with 10 GB of included storage and daily runs.
Sources (2) →

Pricing model

SimpleBackups
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.
SnapShooter
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.
Sources (2) →

Backup retention

SimpleBackups
Customer-defined on every paid tier, described only as flexible retention and schedule rather than as a fixed number of days.
SnapShooter
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.
Sources (2) →

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03.

Documented by only one.

These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing.

SOC 2SimpleBackups: 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.
Encryption at restSnapShooter: Listed as a feature of the $79 Business plan and above, so the two cheapest paid tiers do not name it.
04.

Questions this comparison answers.

Entry paid plan: SimpleBackups or SnapShooter?

SimpleBackups: $49 a month for Lite, which includes 5 backup jobs, 50 GB of storage and a floor of 12 hours between runs.

SnapShooter: $14 a month for Lite, covering up to 3 backup resources with 10 GB of included storage and daily runs.

Should I choose SimpleBackups or SnapShooter?

Pick SimpleBackups if 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.

Pick SnapShooter if 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.

Provider pages

SimpleBackupsManaged backup automation for servers, databases and storage, billed by the number of backup jobs.SnapShooterScheduled backups for servers, databases and DigitalOcean resources, billed by how many resources you protect.

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