Veeam vs. the Competition
Say no to limits with the most complete and proven Microsoft 365 SaaS backup
Veeam Wins With:
- Cost control and predictability
- Data sovereignty
- Data and identity protection
- Fast, scalable recovery
- Investment safety and no lock‑in
- Veeam Software vs. BaaS Competitors Executive Brief
- Veeam Data Cloud vs. BaaS Competitors Executive Brief
- Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 Overview
- #1 Microsoft 365 Backup Interactive Demo
Veeam vs.
Microsoft 365 SaaS Backup Vendors
Gain peace of mind with Veeam
- Reduce and control costs with true all‑inclusive
licensing - Comply with data sovereignty requirements
- Protect both Microsoft 365 and Entra ID data
- Avoid vendor lock‑in
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Reasons to Choose Veeam Over Microsoft 365 Backup Competitors
| Feature | Veeam Benefits | Competition Limitations |
| Recovery | ||
| Search |
Find specific items in large amounts of backups effortlessly Centralized search across mailboxes, OneDrives, sites, or Teams easily narrows search results thanks to 50+ search filters per Microsoft 365 service and search filter combination. |
Take more time and manual work to find specific items to recover due to competitors’ limited search capabilities. For instance, vendors can rarely search for items across users or sites (search within one user at a time) and offer only a few basic search filters. |
| Bulk recovery |
Recover numerous users at once With bulk recovery, you can restore many users in a single job (there is no need to manually create an individual restore job for each user). |
Lose time during recovery by creating individual restore jobs for each user, since few competitors can restore multiple users in a single restore job. |
| Self-service restore portal |
Delegate restore tasks to end-users or restore operators An out-of-the-box self-service restore portal for end users and customizable role-based access control creates global data protection administrators, backup administrators, recovery administrators, and more. |
Complete all recovery tasks yourself instead of delegating, as half the competition lacks a self-service recovery portal or customizable role-based access control. |
| Backup | ||
| Data loss |
Reduce data loss Run backups as often as three times per day for a recovery point objective (RPO) of eight hours. |
Lose more data since many vendors run backups only once a day for an RPO of 24 hours. |
| Architecture | ||
| Data sovereignty |
Store backups in any region around the world Since Veeam Data Cloud can store Microsoft 365 backups in any Microsoft Azure region of your choice. |
Other SaaS backup vendors offer only a handful of cloud-based regions, limiting storage options and limiting compliance and flexibility. Other vendors regularly do not offer more than six regional options worldwide. |
| Speed and control |
Achieve fast, scalable, and flexible recovery Veeam Data Cloud Premium integrates Microsoft 365 Backup Storage to deliver rapid performance at scale and provide minimal downtime regardless of data volume. Fixed per-user pricing maintains costs at a low level. |
Lack the backup and recovery speed you need at scale, since most competitors do not integrate with Microsoft 365 Backup Storage, and the few competitors that do charge considerably more than Veeam, as they price their premium offering per capacity, not user. |
| Costs | ||
| Licensing |
Avoid unplanned costs and hidden fees Veeam’s truly all-inclusive per-user licensing model includes unlimited storage and capabilities like advanced search and self-service restore, all at a fixed price. |
Face unpredictable costs, as many other vendors charge for additional features and based on consumption, where base plans only cover limited capabilities and storage up to 50 GB per user, leading to unexpected expenses and higher total costs in the future. |
| Exit strategy |
Avoid long-term vendor lock-in while protecting your investment in backup Veeam's free search and recovery tool lets you keep and restore data to Microsoft 365, even after ending your subscription. |
Keep paying or lose your backups, due to lock-in with other SaaS Backup vendors, as vendors rarely let you get backups out of their cloud. If you retrieve backups from a vendor’s cloud, restoring them to Microsoft 365 later is difficult. |
| Data | ||
| Data and identity coverage |
Protect critical workloads and identities With Veeam, you can cost-efficiently protect the broadest scope of Entra ID objects and attributes thanks to Veeam’s bundle user licensing* (Plans are priced by Microsoft 365 users. Additional Entra ID users are free). |
Rely on partial coverage focused solely on Microsoft 365 data, lacking coverage for identity management, ultimately leaving critical gaps in protection despite higher costs. The few other vendors that protect Entra ID do not protect as many objects or attributes as Veeam or require more licensing. |
