Best Disaster Recovery Software in 2026
Updated
In short: Veeam Recovery Orchestrator is ranked #1 of 15 as of 4 October 2026, ahead of Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes and AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery. The best-ranked option with a free plan is Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes. The lowest first paid tier on this page is AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery at $0.03/mo.
When systems are disrupted, disaster recovery software can help teams coordinate the work of restoring workloads. Compared on deployment model, supported workloads, and RPO target, these options also differ in failover and failback orchestration, recovery runbooks, and test failover. Free-plan availability and paid-from pricing give you additional points to weigh. Veeam Recovery Orchestrator, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, and Zerto are among the named options, alongside Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes and NAKIVO Backup & Replication. Consider which workloads you need to bring back, how tightly recovery timing matters, and whether your team needs to rehearse procedures before an actual disruption.
15 disaster recovery software ranked on what their makers publish — plans and prices, free tiers, platforms and the facts on their own pages.
Recognised 40% · Phone app 26% · Documented 20% · Free plan 14% of the score
- 1 Veeam Recovery Orchestrator No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 8.1Free Failover orchestration: YesDeployment model: on-premisesSupported workloads: VMware vSphere VMs, Hyper-V VMs, Veeam agent backups, CDP replicas, storage-replicated VMs, Microsoft Azure recovery workloads
- 2 Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 7.1Free Failover orchestration: YesDeployment model: hybridSupported workloads: Kubernetes applications, containerized applications, virtual machines on Kubernetes, AI workloads, relational and NoSQL systems
- 3 AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 7.0$0.03/mo Failover orchestration: NoDeployment model: hybridSupported workloads: physical servers, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon EC2, other cloud infrastructure, Windows and Linux applications, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, SAP
- 4 Zerto No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.8
- 5 NAKIVO Backup & Replication No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.8
- 6 VMware Live Site Recovery No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.7 Failover orchestration: YesDeployment model: hybridSupported workloads: virtual machines
- 7 NetApp Disaster Recovery No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.7$0.03/mo Failover orchestration: YesDeployment model: hybridSupported workloads: VMware virtual machines; Kubernetes clusters
- 8 Unitrends Backup No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.4
- 9 StorPool Disaster Recovery Engine No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.9 Failover orchestration: YesDeployment model: on-premisesSupported workloads: KVM virtual machines
- 10 JetStream DR No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.8 Deployment model: hybrid
- 11 Axcient x360Recover No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.7
- 12 Awanio Disaster Recovery Manager No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.5 Failover orchestration: YesDeployment model: on-premisesSupported workloads: virtual machines (VMs)
- 13 Capacia Disaster Recovery Platform No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.4 Failover orchestration: YesDeployment model: hybrid
- 14 Disaster Recovery Linux Manager No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.1 Deployment model: on-premisesSupported workloads: GNU/Linux systems, including physical and virtual systems
- 15 FailZero No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 4.8 Failover orchestration: YesDeployment model: hybridSupported workloads: Files, shares, databases, containers, virtual machines, Docker/Compose apps, LAMP/LEMP, SMB/NFS
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Questions about this list
Which disaster recovery software is ranked first on Samsung Mobile US Press?
Veeam Recovery Orchestrator is ranked #1 of 15 with a score of 8.1. Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes is second and AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery third.
How many of these have a free plan?
2 of the 15 on this page publish a free plan on their own pricing pages.
Which is the cheapest paid option?
On this page, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery has the lowest first paid tier we found: $0.03/mo.
How is this list ranked?
Ranked mobile-first: a phone app alongside the web or desktop product, a free tier and the depth of its documentation. Paid placements never change a rank.