Looking for a Cove Data Protection alternative?
Magnus Box is channel-only, white-label backup for MSPs. The partner account is $45/mo and includes branding, support and your first 3 licenses. After that, it's $7 per workstation (1 TB) and $17 per server (3 TB), with the storage pooled across all your clients. It's month to month, and the 14-day trial needs no credit card. Cove publishes no prices on its pricing page; you request a quote. If Standby Image to Azure is central to how you sell DR, Cove may still suit you better.
Cove gets a lot right: direct-to-cloud backup, servers, workstations and Microsoft 365 in one console, and cloud storage included in the price. Where it differs is in how you buy it: quote-based pricing, fair-use storage limits, and renewal terms worth reading before you sign. Here's the side-by-side, checked against N-able's own published documents.
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✦ Migration Rescue: 30 days free, then 50% off for 60 days with code RAMPUP, plus hands-on help moving your clients over.
Includes branding, support, and your first 3 licenses free.
Published on the site. You set your own margin on top.
One pool across all your clients.
No annual term.
Your brand on the console, agent and reports, included in the partner account.
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Cove is a solid product, and we won't pretend otherwise. The differences come down to pricing transparency, how storage is counted, and contract terms.
Our pricing is on the site: $45/mo for the partner account, then $7 per workstation and $17 per server. Cove's pricing page describes a flat rate per device and per Microsoft 365 user, but it lists no dollar amounts. It sends you to request a quote.
Under N-able's fair-use policy for the Data Protection Plan, each Cove server license adds 2 TB and each workstation license adds 500 GB of "Selected Size" to a pooled allowance. Without the Data Protection Plan, N-able's base policy lists lower limits. Our pool adds 1 TB per workstation and 3 TB per server, and extra storage is $8 per TB.
N-able's Software Services Agreement says fixed-term orders auto-renew for a year unless cancelled through N-ableMe at least 30 days before the end date. Renewal pricing can rise by up to 5% plus CPI, plus the value of added features. Our terms are month to month, and you can leave whenever you want.
Cove's custom branding documentation covers the report sender address, header text in the console and Backup Manager, colors, the header image and the favicon. With us, your brand goes on the console, the agent and every client-facing report, all included in the partner account.
We sell only through MSPs. We never sell to your clients.
Real people answer the phone, chat and email. "I've run an MSP since 2010" — Mike Slodowski, founder. Magnus Box is bootstrapped and based in Merrill, Michigan.
*Based on N-able's publicly available documents as of October 2026. Check current Cove terms directly with N-able.
It's 14 days with no credit card. Deploy our backup agent to one test client from your RMM.
Before you move anyone, test the restore types you rely on: files, bare metal, Microsoft 365.
Keep Cove in place while new backup history builds up. RAMPUP covers the overlap: 30 days free, then 50% off for 60 days.
We'll help you plan the order of clients, set retention and set up branding, so the cutover is predictable.
If you're on a fixed term, check your Sales Order's end date. N-able requires cancellation through N-ableMe at least 30 days before that date.
Note: backup history doesn't transfer between vendors. Keep your Cove restore points until they age out of your retention requirements.
Yes. The partner account is $45/mo, which includes branding, support and your first 3 licenses. After that, it's $7 per workstation with 1 TB and $17 per server with 3 TB, pooled across all your clients. Cove's pricing page asks you to request a quote.
Under N-able's fair-use policy for the Data Protection Plan, Cove adds 2 TB per server and 500 GB per workstation of Selected Size to a pooled allowance. Magnus Box adds 3 TB per server and 1 TB per workstation to one pool across all your clients.
Yes. There's no annual term. N-able's agreement says fixed-term orders auto-renew for a year unless cancelled 30 days ahead, with renewal increases of up to 5% plus CPI.
Not like for like. If continuous standby VMs in Azure are a core part of your DR offering, Cove has a strong feature there. Magnus Box focuses on reliable, restorable, white-label backup.
Yes, and we recommend it. Run both side by side until your new backup history meets your clients' retention needs. RAMPUP gives you 30 days free, then 50% off for 60 days, to cover that overlap.
You choose Canada, the US or the EU. Backups are immutable and AES-256 encrypted.
Yes. Your brand goes on the console, the agent and client reports, all included in the $45/mo partner account. We're channel-only, so we never sell to your clients.
Yes. The 14-day trial is a working environment, not a demo, and needs no credit card. Deploy it to a test client and do a real restore.
If Standby Image to Azure, Hyper-V or ESXi is central to how you sell disaster recovery, Cove is strong there, and staying may be the right call.
If what you want is white-label backup with a public price, a bigger storage pool and month-to-month terms, from people who've run an MSP, start a free 14-day trial.
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Cove and N-able are trademarks of their owners. Magnus Box is not affiliated with or endorsed by N-able. Statements about competitors reflect publicly available information, including N-able's published fair use policy and software services agreement, as of October 2026; specific partner terms may differ, verify directly with the vendor.