Competitive Analysis: Ahsay VS Carbonite

August 14, 2025

Backup users will compare different backup and recovery solutions before making a subscription decision. For backup users’ reference, 
we've created an Ahsay and Backblaze B2 backup and recovery service comparison on pricing models and features.

Ahsay provides valued add features you can take advantage of. We support:

  • Unlimited devices/endpoints
  • Bring your own disk plan
  • AES 256-bit data encryption
  • Immutable backup
  • Backup Linux
  • Backup PostgreSQL
  • Backup FreeBSD
  • Backup Synology NAS
  • Backup QNAP NAS
  • Backup Android
  • Backup iOS

 

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Service plan comparison as below.

 

Ahsay

Carbonite

Pricing Models

Backup as a Services - Monthly payment

Backup as a Services - Monthly payment

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✘
- Subscription payment renews yearly

DIY Backup - self hosted - (storage based model)

DIY Backup - self hosted - (storage based model)

✔

✘

Low cost storage based on pricing model

Low cost storage based on pricing model

Powered by Microsoft Azure

Powered by Carbonite

Backup Features

White label for MSP backup

White label for MSP backup

✔

✔

No limits on backup file size

No limits on backup file size

✔

✘
- Individual files are limited to a maximum of 4GB file size (excluding .PST files)

Unlimited devices / endpoints

Unlimited devices / endpoints

✔

✔
- Carbonite Safe Basic plan only supports 1 device
- Carbonite may support a maximum of 25 devices only, only available on premium plan

Cloud storage included

Cloud storage included

✔

✔

Bring your own disk plan

Bring your own disk plan

✔

✔
- Only available on premium plan

Automatic backup

Automatic backup

✔

✔

Unlimited retention period

Unlimited retention period

✔

✔
- Carbonite Safe Basic only offers 30-day retention period
- Unlimited retention period only available on premium plan

Immutable backup

Immutable backup

✔

✔
 

Backup Data Validation

Backup Data Validation

✔

✔

AES 256-bit data encryption

AES 256-bit data encryption

✔

✔
- Only offers 128-bit encryption
- AES 256-bit data encryption only available on premium plan

Account security protected by 2FA

Account security protected by 2FA

✔

✔

Backup Solutions

Microsoft 365 (Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Public Folders)

Microsoft 365 (Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Public Folders)

✔

✔
- Public Folders not supported

Google Workspace (Gmail, Drive, Shared Drive, Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, Chat, and Meet)

✔

✔
- Chat is not supported
- Meet is not supported

  • Lossless backup of Google Workspace documents (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and Drawings)

✔

✘

Operating Systems

Windows

Windows

✔

✔

macOS

macOS

✔

✔

Linux

Linux

✔

✔

Synology NAS

Synology NAS

✔

✔
- Only available on premium plan

QNAP NAS

QNAP NAS

✔

✔
- Only available on premium plan

FreeBSD

FreeBSD

✔

✘
 

IBM AIX

IBM AIX

✔

✔
- Only available on premium plan

Databases

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server

✔

✔
- Only available on premium plan

Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange

✔

✔
- Only available on premium plan

Oracle

Oracle

✔

✔
- Only available on premium plan

MySQL

MySQL

✔

✔
- Only supports 5.x and 8.x versions
- Only available on premium plan

MariaDB

MariaDB

✔

✘

Tibero

Tibero

✔

✘

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

✔

✘

Virtual Machines

VMware

VMware

✔

✔
- Only available on premium plan

Hyper-V

Hyper-V

✔

✔
- Only available on premium plan

Proxmox VE

Proxmox VE

✔

✘

Bare Metal

Windows System

Windows System

✔

✘

Linux Bare Metal

Linux Bare Metal

✔

✔
- Only available on premium plan

Backup Mobile

Backup Android

Backup Android

✔

✘

Backup iOS

Backup iOS

✔

✘

Others

Cloud file

Cloud file 
Ahsay supports Microsoft Azure, OneDrive, Microsoft 365, Amazon S3, AWS S3 compatible storage, Wasabi, Google Drive, Google Cloud Storage, Dropbox, Dropbox for business, OpenStack, Rackspace, Backblaze, FTP and SFTP backup.
 

✔

✔
- Only available on premium plan
- Carbonite supports Dropbox
- Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure are also supported, but only for replication, and not for backup & restore (only available on premium plan).

Windows System State

Windows System State

✔

✔
- SYSVOL and Cluster database are not included
- System State backups are advised to not be run at the same time as Microsoft SQL Server backups
- Only available on premium plan

Microsoft Exchange Mail Level

Microsoft Exchange Mail Level

✔

✔

Note: Comparison was based on Carbonite Safe Basic plan. Other information acquired from different plans offered at a higher price

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