We Tried to Price Eleven M365 Backup Vendors. Eight Would Not Say.

We needed current US list pricing for Microsoft 365 and Entra ID backup, from primary sources only — each vendor's own published page, quoted exactly, with the date we read it. No review sites, no aggregators, no estimates.

The exercise turned out to say more about how this market sells than about any individual price.

What was published

**Veeam** publishes a full ladder. Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 Foundation runs $3.50 per user per month at 10 to 50 users, $3.15 at 51 to 250, and $2.63 at 251 and above, billed annually. Advanced is $3.33 and Premium $7.00. Entra ID standalone is $1.08 per enabled member user per month. Storage is included, subject to a fair-use policy. This is the most transparent pricing we found.

**CodeTwo** publishes a per-licence annual ladder through a calculator on their site: $14.70 at 10 licences, falling through $10.19 at 100 to $7.88 at 500. Minimum ten licences.

**Afi.ai** publishes $3.00 per user per month, or $36.00 per year, from five users, with unlimited retention.

**Microsoft** publishes Microsoft 365 Backup at $0.15 per GB per month of protected content, with restores free and a one-year retention period. Entra ID P1 and P2 are $7.00 and $10.00 per user per month on annual commitment.

**AvePoint** publishes on Azure Marketplace — $3.00 per user per month for M365, $12.00 per user per year for Entra ID — while their own site is quote-gated.

**Barracuda** lists Cloud-to-Cloud Backup at $3.40 per user per month on AWS Marketplace. Their own pricing page footnotes a published US list price, but the figure is injected client-side and renders empty, so we cite the marketplace listing.

What was not

As of 14 August 2026, we could not find a published price on the vendor's own site for: **Acronis** Cyber Protect Cloud, **Datto/Kaseya** SaaS Protection, **Keepit**, **NinjaOne SaaS Backup** (formerly Dropsuite), **Hornetsecurity** 365 Total Backup, **Cayosoft** Guardian, **Semperis** Directory Services Protector, and **AvePoint's** own site.

Each showed a contact-sales form, a demo request, or a pricing page returning a 404. Several are excellent products; this is an observation about how they sell, not about what they do.

Gated pricing is a legitimate commercial choice. It is also a real cost to an MSP: every quote is a call, every renewal is a negotiation, and you cannot model a margin on a number you do not have.

Three traps worth knowing before you compare anything

**The headline is often the volume floor.** Veeam's widely-quoted $2.63 is the 251-plus tier. A 40-seat client costs $3.50. If a vendor quotes one number, ask for the ladder.

**Identity is usually a separate purchase.** Veeam, AvePoint, Barracuda and Keepit all sell Entra ID protection apart from M365 backup. Price the pair.

**Do not trust a search summary for a price.** An AI summary of one vendor's page reported $53 per user per month; the page itself said $3. That is an eighteen-fold error on a number someone might have put in a quote. Every figure here came from raw HTML or a rendered page.

Where we stand

We publish every price, on the page, without a form: Kapsul8 Microsoft 365 backup from $0.79 per user per month falling to $0.59 at volume, and VentraID identity protection at $49, $99, $199 or $349 per tenant per month.

We think that is the right way to sell to MSPs, whose entire business model depends on knowing their cost base before they quote. You should still check our numbers against the page rather than against this article.

Sources and method

All figures retrieved 14 August 2026 from: veeam.com purchasing options; codetwo.com pricing; afi.ai pricing; learn.microsoft.com Microsoft 365 Backup pricing; microsoft.com Entra plans and pricing; Azure Marketplace listings for AvePoint; AWS Marketplace listing for Barracuda. Unpublished findings evidenced by the vendor page showing a contact form or a 404.

Vendors revise pricing without notice, and several in this market repriced during 2026. Verify before quoting a client.