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DATTO ALTERNATIVE

Every other Datto alternative is just another subscription.

Datto used to be the name MSPs trusted for backup. Then Kaseya bought it. Here's a way to stop renting your BCDR stack from whoever owns Datto this year — and own the system instead.

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No per-seat fees, ever

Your code and data, fully yours

Up to 70% less than your software bill

BUILT FOR BACKUP & RECOVERY

MSPsBCDRBackupDisaster recoverySaaS backupInternal IT

THE PROBLEM

If you've gone looking for a Datto alternative, you already know why.

“We were early Datto adopters... It just never delivered... After getting tired of dealing with it we built out a Veeam cloud solution and haven't looked back.”

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“After the Kaseya acquisition, was nothing but double billing, USD invoices (we are CAD), invoice contract numbers that are not ours…”

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“I use Datto products… since the take over, Datto has gone to s**t. I thought to myself, no way they'll ruin Datto. The joke is on me.”

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“All Kaseya contracts have a "high water mark"... They promised they would get rid of high water mark at DattoCon, but it's still written in every existing contract.”

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Bought, then broken

The backup tool you trusted got acquired, and the quality dropped with it.

Billing you can't trust

Your invoice doesn't match what you agreed to — and fixing it drags on.

Locked-in spend

A multi-year contract holds your spend up, even when you need less.

THE SHIFT

Renting Datto vs. owning your backup stack.

No high-water mark. No billing surprises. Just a BCDR stack that's yours.

Datto logoOld model — Renting Datto
  • Datto's quality and support have slipped since Kaseya took over.
  • Billing errors — double charges, wrong currency, contract numbers that aren't yours.
  • Multi-year contracts with "high water mark" pricing lock in your spend, even if your needs shrink.
  • You're renting infrastructure from whoever owns Datto this year — and you don't control what happens next.

New model — Founding.dev

  • You own everything — code, data, and infrastructure
  • One flat price. No per-seat.
  • Change how it works anytime
  • Bank-level security, built in.
  • We build it, and we can run it for you, too

HOW IT WORKS

A proven head start, then it's yours.

Real engineering behind it. Your choice: hands-on or done-for-you.

1

Start from the right base

Start from a proven template with Datto's core features — one of ours, a proven open-source base, or built from scratch. An expert-built head start, not a blank page.

2

Make it yours

Customize it to your exact workflow — build the features yourself in plain English, or hand it to our engineering team. Either way you get engineering support along the way.

3

Own it for good

The finished software is yours — code, data, and a setup built around your workflow. Customize it anytime, and we can keep it running for you.

BUILT FOR HOW YOU RUN BACKUP & RECOVERY

Shaped around how you protect your data.

MSPs running BCDR

An MSP running BCDR for multiple clients.

Internal IT

An internal IT team backing up SaaS and endpoint data.

Stuck mid-contract

A team stuck mid-contract while quality drops.

Datto alternative — your questions, answered.

It comes with you. We migrate your existing backup data and history into a system you own, and we can run old and new side by side until you're confident nothing is missing. Your data is yours to keep, hosted wherever you choose.
No. You start from a proven template our team already built, and we can host and maintain it for one flat monthly fee. There's no engineer to hire — you own the result whether you run it yourself or leave the upkeep to us.
That's exactly the risk of renting — Datto got bought and the quality dropped, and you had no say. When you own your software, an acquisition can't change your price, your product, or your access, because the code, the data, and the infrastructure are already yours. Nothing about your setup depends on who owns us.
Fill out the short form on Get started — who you are, your company size, the tools you want to replace, and a bit about how you run backup and recovery. With that, we line up a base template that fits before we talk. On the call, we walk you through that template, look at your current stack, and show what replacing Datto — and anything else you're overpaying for — would look like.

MORE ALTERNATIVES

Other tools you can own instead.

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STOP RENTING. START OWNING.

Own your backup and recovery stack.

Tell us which tools you want to replace, and we'll show you what you'd save.

See how much you can save