What is Carbonite used for?

Carbonite is a cloud backup service for personal computers and small businesses, now owned by OpenText, with separate personal and professional plans. It is a good fit for protecting a home computer from data loss and backing up small business servers.

How much does Carbonite cost?

Carbonite is a paid product with no free plan. Promotional prices of $6.40, $7.15 and $8.77 per month for Basic, Plus and Prime billed annually; 30-day money-back guarantee.

Is Carbonite open source?

No. Carbonite is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Carbonite include Duplicati, Kopia and Backrest.

What are some alternatives to Carbonite?

Carbonite competes with Backblaze Computer Backup, CrashPlan and Acronis Cyber Protect. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Carbonite alternatives.

Carbonite: features, pricing and alternatives

About Carbonite

Carbonite is a cloud backup service that automatically copies the files on a computer to an encrypted online store so they can be recovered after a failure, virus or other loss. It is sold to individuals and to small businesses and is now part of OpenText.

The personal Basic, Plus and Prime plans offer unlimited encrypted backup storage with one-click file restoration, and higher plans add a computer plus an external drive, antivirus from Webroot and optional courier delivery of recovered files for an extra fee. Professional solutions address compliance needs such as HIPAA, FERPA and GLBA, backup for servers and managed backup policies.

Carbonite is proprietary and delivered as a hosted service. During a promotion its homepage showed Basic at $6.40 per month, Plus at $7.15 and Prime at $8.77, billed annually, and a 30-day money-back guarantee is advertised for new customers.

Key features

Automatic encrypted cloud backup
Unlimited backup storage per plan
One-click file restoration
External drive backup on higher plans
Server and compliance backup for businesses

Good fit for

→Protecting a home computer from data loss
→Backing up small business servers

Tags: cloud-backup; backup; data-protection; opentext; ransomware-recovery; small-business; consumer

Carbonite: questions and answers

What is Carbonite used for?: Carbonite is a cloud backup service for personal computers and small businesses, now owned by OpenText, with separate personal and professional plans. It is a good fit for protecting a home computer from data loss and backing up small business servers.
How much does Carbonite cost?: Carbonite is a paid product with no free plan. Promotional prices of $6.40, $7.15 and $8.77 per month for Basic, Plus and Prime billed annually; 30-day money-back guarantee.
Is Carbonite open source?: No. Carbonite is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Carbonite include Duplicati, Kopia and Backrest.
What are some alternatives to Carbonite?: Carbonite competes with Backblaze Computer Backup, CrashPlan and Acronis Cyber Protect. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Carbonite alternatives.