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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Magnus Box at a glance
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$7 per workstation, $17 per server

Published MSP wholesale pricing. Your margin on top.

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1 TB per workstation, 3 TB per server

One pool across all your clients. Extra storage is $8 per TB.

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Month to month, no contract

No annual term and no partner agreement to sign.

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White-label console, agent, and reports

Included in the partner account, not a paid tier.

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Data in Canada, the US, or the EU

Immutable, AES-256 encrypted, with an optional local copy.

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 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.

Month to month, no contract

No annual commitment, no auto-renewing term to calendar-watch, and no partner agreement to sign. If we stop earning the business, you leave.

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, answered by people who've run an MSP. Small enough that the founder still picks up.

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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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.

Sources for the comparisons on this page

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.