For MSPs weighing a move

Looking at a Datto backup alternative?

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.

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✦ Migration Rescue: 30 days free, then 50% off for 60 days with code RAMPUP. No annual contract, ever.

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The comparison that matters

What actually changes when you switch.

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.

Flat wholesale pricing

$7 per workstation, $17 per server 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.

Month to month, in writing

No annual commitment and no auto-renewing term to calendar-watch. If we stop earning the business, you leave. That should be table stakes; we make it the contract.

Your brand, not ours

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.

No appliance dependency

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.

The whole stack covered

Servers, workstations, Microsoft 365, VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, disk image, and databases from one console. The full feature list is here.

Humans who ran an MSP

Phone, chat, and email, 9am to 9pm EST. Small enough that the founder still picks up, and support quality is the thing our reviews mention most.

The honest fit check

Who should switch, and who shouldn't.

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.

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What switching MSPs get

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Published flat pricing, margin on top

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Month-to-month terms, cancel anytime

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Full white-label console, agent, and reports

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Immutable, AES-256 encrypted backups

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30 days free + 50% off 60 days to cover the overlap

Run us side by side with Datto.

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.

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