Acronis Cyber Protect vs Duplicati
Acronis Cyber Protect and Duplicati are both backup software. Acronis Cyber Protect is a commercial product from Acronis. Duplicati is open source under a license set out in its repository, with 15k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Acronis Cyber Protect when
- An MSP or small IT team wants backup and endpoint security from one console.
- Pick Duplicati when
- You want scheduled encrypted backups of a PC or small server to cheap cloud storage with a point-and-click interface.
Side by side
Backup and recovery combined with anti-malware, patch management and endpoint management, sold heavily through managed service providers.
A backup client for Windows, macOS and Linux that makes encrypted, compressed, incremental backups to S3, B2, Google Drive, OneDrive, SFTP, WebDAV and many other destinations, managed through a web UI.
Bundles many modules, so licensing is confusing and the agent is heavy.
It spent many years in beta and its local database has a history of corruption and slow repairs, so test restores regularly; part of the code is under a proprietary licence.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service, self-hosted server and desktop app
Desktop app, command line and self-hosted server
Not published
C#, .NET and JavaScript
Closed source, sold by Acronis
Open source, license unclear on GitHub
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
GitHub could not read the license. Check it in the repository before reusing any code.
No Wikipedia article of its own
15k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 12 years ago, latest release v2.4.1.0_stable_2026-10-29.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.