Datto built good hardware and a big ecosystem. It also doesn't publish its prices, and independent reviews consistently describe it as premium-priced. If this year's renewal quote has you shopping, here's the honest shape of the alternative, from a vendor that prints its prices on the site.
✦ Migration Rescue: 30 days free, then 50% off for 60 days with code RAMPUP (paid accounts only).
Published MSP wholesale pricing. Your margin on top.
One pool across all your clients. Extra storage is $8 per TB.
No annual term and no partner agreement to sign.
Included in the partner account, not a paid tier.
Immutable, AES-256 encrypted, with an optional local copy.
We're not going to pretend to be a 1:1 Datto clone; we don't sell appliances and we don't want to sell you a suite. Here's the honest shape of the trade.
$7 per workstation with 1 TB and $17 per server with 3 TB of pooled storage per month, published right on the site. Datto's pricing is quote-based through sales and the Partner Portal; ours never needs a phone call. Your client pricing and margin are yours to set on top.
No annual commitment, no auto-renewing term to calendar-watch, and no partner agreement to sign. If we stop earning the business, you leave.
Full white-label on the console, agent, and reports. Datto's own documentation describes logo-level branding on portals and reports, with the product staying Datto-branded. With us, your clients see only your name.
Direct-to-cloud backup with disk image and bare-metal restore to physical, virtual, or cloud targets. Nothing to rack, RMA, or ship back when a client offboards.
Servers, workstations, Microsoft 365, VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, disk image, and databases from one console. The full feature list is here.
Phone, chat, and email, answered by people who've run an MSP. Small enough that the founder still picks up.
Based on publicly available information as of October 2026. Verify current Datto terms directly with the vendor.
Yes. $7 per workstation with 1 TB and $17 per server with 3 TB of pooled storage, per month. That's the whole base pricing model, published on the site. Datto doesn't publish partner pricing; it's quote-based.
Not directly. Datto's local BCDR appliances offer instant on-box virtualization that cloud-first backup doesn't match. Magnus Box is direct-to-cloud backup with bare-metal restore to physical, virtual, or cloud targets. If your model depends on local appliances at every site, we won't pretend to replace that.
Magnus Box gives you full white-label on the console, agent, and reports. Datto offers branding on portals and reports; check with the vendor for current details on what carries your brand and what stays vendor-branded.
Yes. No annual commitment, no auto-renewing term, and no partner agreement to sign. If we stop earning your business, you leave.
Yes. Start a free trial, deploy it to a test client from your RMM, and do a real restore. The trial is a working environment, not a demo. Code RAMPUP gives you 30 days free and then 50% off for 60 days to cover the overlap if you switch.
If your model depends on local BCDR appliances with instant on-box virtualization at every site, keep that piece; we won't pretend cloud-first covers it. Plenty of MSPs run Magnus Box alongside a shrinking appliance footprint.
If most of your fleet is servers, workstations, and Microsoft 365 that need reliable, restorable, white-label backup at a predictable price, that's exactly the shop we built this for.
The seven questions to ask any vendor →Start a free trial, deploy to a test client from your RMM, and do a real restore. If we don't win the restore test, stay put; you'll have lost an afternoon. Code RAMPUP covers the overlap if we do.
Datto is a trademark of its owner. Magnus Box is not affiliated with or endorsed by Datto or Kaseya. Statements about competitors reflect publicly available information and public MSP reviews as of August 2026; verify current terms directly with the vendor.