The main OwnBackup alternatives are Flosum, GRAX, Odaseva, Gearset's backup product, Salesforce's own Backup & Recover, and general-purpose backup solutions like Commvault.
Flosum is a strong pick for predictable pricing and one platform across backup, DevOps and security. GRAX suits data reuse; Odaseva suits large, heavily regulated enterprises.
That's the short version. The rest of this page looks at where each option fits, how they differ, and why they’re strong options for teams re-evaluating Salesforce backup in 2026.
Why are Salesforce teams looking for OwnBackup alternatives?
Own, formerly OwnBackup, has been one of the best-known names in Salesforce backup for a decade, and it earned that. What shifted recently is the market around it, not its reputation.
Salesforce announced its agreement to acquire Own on September 5, 2024 for approximately $1.9 billion and completed the acquisition on November 18, 2024. Own, which launched as OwnBackup before rebranding to Own, is now part of Salesforce's data-protection portfolio and wider set of Salesforce products.
Some buyers evaluating alternatives raise cost as a concern. Pricing can vary by contract, so check the current quote and starting price for your own environment before you decide whether or not it’s cost effective for your organization.
The second question is independence. Some buyers want to weigh whether the company that owns the Salesforce platform should also own the tool that protects data on that platform.
Salesforce's ownership of Own makes that a legitimate architecture and vendor-risk question for teams that care about supplier concentration, data protection and cyber resilience. It isn't inherently an argument against Salesforce; it's something each organization needs to weigh against its own risk model.
There's also movement elsewhere in the market. For instance, GRAX now markets data protection beyond Salesforce, including Veeva, and puts customer control of backup data at the center of its offering.
None of this means you should leave. It means the market is worth a fresh look. If you're trying to compare OwnBackup with its competitors, the differences in architecture, recovery and control matter more than the length of any feature list.
What should you look for in a Salesforce backup tool?
Before you weigh names, get the criteria straight. These are the questions Salesforce teams raise most often when they shop for backup solutions, and they decide the outcome more than any feature checklist.
Pricing model: per-user, per-data, per-storage or consumption. Whatever the model, understand how the bill changes as your org, users and data storage needs grow, and model two or three years out, not just year one.
Architecture and storage: where does the backup application run, where is the recovery copy stored, and who controls that infrastructure and its encryption keys? Those choices affect your security review, data-residency posture, cloud environments and ability to recover independently of the system you're protecting.
Recovery confidence, not just backup speed: a fast backup means little if you can't reliably restore the data, metadata and relationships you need. Ask each vendor how it validates backup completeness, preserves data integrity, supports granular restore or point in time recovery where required, handles dependencies during recovery and demonstrates that a restore has landed correctly.
Storage and overage: know what's included, what archiving costs, and whether you can push aging data to a cheaper data storage tier instead of paying premium rates to store records nobody touches.
Security-approval path: understand where Salesforce data is processed and stored, which additional infrastructure enters scope, who controls the keys and what your security team actually has to approve.
Vendor independence: who owns the vendor, where is your backup data held, and does that matter to your risk model? For some regulated buyers it does.
One platform or best-of-breed: backup and recovery unified with DevOps and security can cut the number of tools you maintain and connect related workflows. Separate specialist tools give you focused capabilities at the price of integration work, and neither is automatically right.
If you want to build these into a written policy, our guide to Salesforce data backup and recovery strategy walks through the full framework.
Should you actually stay on Own?
For some readers, the answer is yes: buyers we speak with often credit Own with simple disaster recovery, and that remains one of the clearest reasons teams stay with it.
If your contract is mid-term, your costs work for you, and its DR workflow suits your team, staying put can be the right call. Switching backup carries its own risk, and if the product is still meeting your backup and recovery requirements, there may be little reason to introduce change for its own sake.
Own's recovery technology also continues under Salesforce. Salesforce now describes Backup & Recover as "formerly Own Recover" and offers automated backups, including daily and on-demand backup, search, recovery and retention capabilities.
Best for: teams that value proven, simple disaster recovery and aren't affected by the pricing or ownership questions above.
What are the best OwnBackup alternatives?
Flosum
Flosum is a strong independent alternative, and it's the one this site is about, so weigh what follows accordingly. For a head-to-head view, see how Flosum compares with Own.
It offers several ways to deploy and store backup data, so organizations can match the architecture to their security posture rather than the other way around. Flosum supports Salesforce-native, Flosum-hosted cloud and customer-hosted deployment options, allowing organizations to choose how much infrastructure and cloud control they want to manage themselves.
For Backup & Archive specifically, Flosum supports customer-controlled storage alongside Flosum-managed options. With its customer-hosted deployment, organizations can also keep the infrastructure and encryption-key material under their own control.
Flosum positions its pricing as predictable and quote-based. Backup also sits alongside DevOps and security products in the wider Flosum product portfolio, so one vendor can cover all three areas and integrate backup, deployment and security management.
Flosum Backup & Archive can move older records into lower-cost storage while keeping them available for compliance, audit trails and reporting, alongside granular recovery for Salesforce data and metadata.
Its recovery capabilities are designed to help teams restore the records and metadata they need rather than treating backup as a one-way replication process. That becomes particularly important when data loss affects individual records, custom objects or connected metadata rather than an entire Salesforce environment.
One caveat: don't read predictable pricing or included capabilities as "unlimited". Ask Flosum to size and quote against your actual Salesforce data, files, retention requirements, usage and expected growth before comparing it with another vendor. That also gives you a clearer picture of how the solution will scale if your storage and recovery requirements change in the near future.
Best for: teams that want predictable pricing, flexible storage options and one platform across backup, DevOps and security.
GRAX
GRAX's angle is ownership and reuse of your data. Instead of treating backup as a vault you open only in an emergency, GRAX is built so your backed-up Salesforce history can live in cloud infrastructure you control and remain available for other uses.
GRAX Backup & Restore supports customer-controlled cloud storage and positions ownership, access and reuse of historical data as core parts of its offering.
GRAX also supports using backed-up and archived data for downstream analytics and data platforms rather than treating it solely as recovery media. Its broader data lifecycle platform is positioned around making historical SaaS data available for recovery, analytics and other downstream use cases.
If all you need is "restore when something breaks", that's more than you need. If you already want your historical Salesforce data working elsewhere, it fits well. GRAX's pricing page lists three packages (Standard, Business and Enterprise) but no dollar prices.
Best for: teams that want to own and reuse backed-up data downstream, not just restore it.
Odaseva
Odaseva is aimed at large, heavily regulated Salesforce estates, with enterprise data management and compliance and data-governance tooling. It says companies representing 10% of global market capitalization trust it with their data.
Its public materials focus heavily on security, regulatory compliance, data residency and enterprise-scale Salesforce data protection. Odaseva's data-residency offering is specifically aimed at organizations dealing with geographic and regulatory controls over where Salesforce information is stored across cloud environments.
For a global enterprise with complex residency, retention, audit trails and compliance requirements, it belongs on the shortlist. Smaller teams should check whether they need that depth.
Best for: very large, heavily regulated global enterprises with complex compliance needs.
Gearset backup
Gearset is best known as a Salesforce DevOps vendor, and it also sells a backup product. Gearset Backup & Recovery runs automated daily backups of the whole org and hourly high-frequency backups of the most critical objects.
It stores backup data off-platform in AWS, on data servers independent of Salesforce, and Gearset says its restore tooling supports hundreds of Salesforce metadata types. That gives teams granular restore capabilities across a wide range of components.
The obvious case for it is consolidation: if your team already runs Gearset for deployments, adding backup keeps you with one vendor and one set of tools, which keeps setup simple for teams that already know it. This is an off-platform recovery architecture, though, so weigh whether that model suits your own security, compliance and data-residency requirements.
Gearset publishes backup pricing per Salesforce user: $2.75 a month on Starter and $3.50 a month on Teams, each with a monthly minimum, and Enterprise by quote.
Best for: teams already standardized on Gearset for DevOps who want backup from the same vendor.
Salesforce Backup & Recover
Salesforce sells Backup & Recover as part of its current data-protection portfolio. Salesforce describes Backup & Recover as formerly Own Recover, so in 2026 it isn't a wholly separate alternative to Own in the way an older Salesforce backup product might have been.
The product provides automated daily and on-demand backup of supported Salesforce data and metadata, with search and granular recovery capabilities. Salesforce also advertises configurable retention policies, including 99 years of retention by default.
Architecturally, Salesforce's documentation explains that Backup & Recover runs on the Own from Salesforce platform as a separate application, with that platform performing and storing the backups.
For customers evaluating key features, the main questions are how quickly they can locate affected records, restore individual records or larger datasets, preserve data integrity and complete rapid recovery after data loss. Salesforce says Backup & Recover pricing varies according to customer requirements.
The myth to retire is that running your workload on Salesforce means you don't need to think about recovering your own records after a bad deletion, a broken integration or a runaway update. Under the shared responsibility model, backup and recovery remains something the organization has to plan for.
Best for: teams that like Own's recovery approach and want it within the Salesforce product and support ecosystem.
Commvault
Commvault, through Commvault Cloud, backs up many systems and offers Salesforce backup with granular recovery capabilities. For an organization that wants one backup standard across its whole estate, that breadth is the point, and it's a fair reason to pick it. Commvault lists Salesforce backup at $3.60 per user per month, with unlimited storage included.
Commvault supports Salesforce restore operations across records, objects and metadata, giving customers granular restore capabilities within a broader multi-system backup and recovery platform. Its Salesforce capabilities also include sandbox seeding, which can be useful for teams that need to create or refresh non-production environments as part of testing and recovery workflows.
Whichever tool you choose, test recovery against your real environment rather than judging a product on backup completion alone. Testing should include the records, metadata and dependencies your business would actually need to recover.
Best for: organizations standardizing one backup tool across many systems, where Salesforce-specific recovery is part of a broader enterprise backup strategy.
How do the alternatives compare at a glance?
Here’s a quick side-by-side comparison of the main OwnBackup alternatives and OwnBackup's competitors, including how they’re priced, where backup data is stored, and the type of team each solution is best suited to.
Pricing and features checked October 2026 and subject to change.
How do you switch off Own without a coverage gap?
The biggest reason teams stay on a backup tool they've outgrown is switching risk, not price. You can take most of that risk off the table.
Skip the big-bang cutover. Run the new tool in parallel and keep Own live through the transition, so there's never a window with no backup or data protection at all.
Start with backup alone, prove your restores land the way you expect on real records, then grow into DevOps, automation and security later if the platform supports it. And keep your existing Own backups reachable until you've proven the new tool on an actual recovery, not a demo.
Testing individual records, custom objects, metadata and connected relationships can also help confirm that a new solution supports the granular recovery your organization expects before you complete the switch.
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